Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-04-12

tage that makes her fisheries more productive than
even those of Massachusetts, in proportion to the
number of men employed? Is ii anything that
heaven has done for her, and denied us, that has
produced all these splendid results? is it only the
character of her people that makes her what she is
first IN every thing that can give honor TO state
and prosperity to its people. In heavy manufactures
indeed, Massachusetts little exceeds her producing
Tor her S5OOO artists an average OF 5000 3d. and an
aggregate of fifty.two millions of dollars, while Con-
necticut produces but 1881 per Blu, in lighter
manufactures, the results OF cheap labor and small
proportionate outlay of capital, Connecticut is unr
vailed She beats all others in making something out
OF nothing Look at her immense business in straw
work-the stock costing absolutely nothing. Look
at her clock trade, her chair seats &c.-to say moth
ing OF he wooden nutmegs and horn gun fnts. Look
at the cheapness and variety of the productions Of her
book makers, and see her pedders proverba for their
shrewdness from Maine 10 Georgia. have been told
by gentlemen who have travelled much a, the south,
that Connecticut pedder was grea eye sore to
the planters of Georpl, and South Carolina as were
the onion patches of Plquag 10 their Dutch neighbors
IN days lang syne."
New England mus, be the workshop of America
and Ma, sachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
are now the work shops of New England. Massa
chusets employs more than half her population in
the arts and fisheries; Connecticut more than one
third of hers, and Rhode Island exceeding them both
employs but 10000 in agriculture to 2 900 in the
arts, to say nothing of all her Sailors
II we look back for Is years, and note the change
IN our manufacturing interests, now honorable TO
people and how glorious to our country. Then we
mad British ministry to dictate TO us, and say you
shall not manufacture hob nail" and now in many
things we rival England herself Could our manu-
featuring prosperity have been attained without our
political independence, should not hesitate to say
that our country was as much indebted 10 the one as
to the other for the means of supporting in comfort
and happiness large population. SO far as England
is concerned. think, wihou, doubt that she had
more cause oil alarm when cotton goods were sent to
London at profit than she had at the result Of the
war of the revolution. Then she only lost few col
on!es and Haned a world of better customers Great
Britain can afford 10 lose a battle now and then, or
even an army ;-she has plenty more panpers at
home but she cannot afford lose her customers,
or be deprived of her manufacturing profits
"Touch mans family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hand ont of his breeches pocket"
The first invoice of manufactured goods shipped from
the United States, at profit, was the Lexington and
Concord of glorious revolution in the real indepen
dtnce and prosperity Of our county,
The one thing which above all others Vermont
needs is the doing away With the barter and credit
system OF deal, and having II superseded by cash
circulating medium, so that every thing shall have n
cash value. But so long continue to spend
hall crown ont OF slxpence day." we shall never
have cash currency; and Vermont will continue to
be the paradise OF usurers, where money will let for
" per cent. on good security" 1t is now, and
always wlil be TIL we sell more or buy very much
less OF the latter have hone, unless begin to
make some OF the things we now buy. Trade, as
now carried on among u.s. except that with the mer-
chants reminds ME OF story familiar to you all, Of
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in two puppies at $50 each. The farmer pays the me
chanc IN nothing that the merchant ,rH take ofhim,
and what he does let him have, he charges at least
% per cent noref for than II is worth. The mechanic
returns the iavo as to price, SO far he and
thus every thing comes 70 have prices by which
jockes buy cheap, and honest men pay dear.
we nave seen, II mistake not, satisfactory
for concluding that agricultural exports cannot be
very much increased My own opinion is decidedly Y,
that Vermont has reached the zenith Of her agrcultu-
! raj prosperity, unless she takes some measures to
create home market, so that her surplus produce
may be consumed upon her own soil. We mi hit feed
our own people, were the number double what it is
but we must, IN my opinion, give mp the idea of feed
ing our neighbors. think, without doubt that The
causes which have operated 10 diminish exports,
nave not all reached their full strength; but that
| they will continue TO act with greater and greater
force and that under their operation our exports will
continue to decrease more and more that If our en-
barrassed farmers can sustain their credit while they
live, they will do pretty well; and they die one v
onc, the usnrers will swallow their farms, their sons
go to Michigan and Illinois, and their daughters be
| lett DESTITUTE Our mechanics can faH # there are
any who are not already too Independently poor and
who stand high enough up in the world have Their
fall dignifed with the name of failure.
| Making nothing that can be sent away 10 market
we are shut up here 10 quarrel with each other for the
miserable garbage of home patronage; rivalry de
generating into personal Twill and hate, like pack
of hungry dogs quarrelling bone. Any one, tC
make living IN such circumstances needs to hav,
the uncommon shrewdness of the mans BOYS who
cents each IN swapping lack-knves.
u Vermont has $1,000 persons employed in the IT.
and Connecticut but 10000 and though we produc,
but $3.50 per to their $3.50, yet we must rrmein
her that our nominal prices are much higher thar
theirs; so that we do really make much less and ge
much poorer pay.
Our farmers even buy their own -four. l heard
merchant say n short time since Ii takes all their but
ter to pay for their flour, and they have to run in deb
for their caicoes and ribbons. Farmers and Me
chanics, too, buy almost every article of manufac
ure, for daily use, IN almost every department of life
OF somebody out OF the State; and by slow but sur
process we are draining the State of its money an,
! yearly increasing the cry Of Hard Times.
3 Somebody has said, and believe he was called
wise man for the saying, THAT he who learned wis
dom from the experience of others hdppy man
he that learned II BY his own experience a ,cis
man, but he that could learn it from neither of thes
3 sources was a fooi" Vermont has before her tn
experience OF her eastern sisters, and il is rich in les
sons of wisdom. Our own experience is vet onl
negatives lu it might have taught us before now tina
7 our course was not the right one. The successfu
manufactures of the eastern states of recent orr
/n, the results OF the las, 30 40 years of exper
: ment. Although they were subjected to many losse
from the tickle and uncertain course of our own gov
eminent, and 10 many more from their want of expt
/ renee and the necessary normarlon yet they wer
: not discouraged Many private fortune was los
and many protector, like poor Jack Fitch died ,
disappointment, yet still they pressed on with tn
e words OF Col Miller-"TN try Sir for heir mo-
to. Being aware that England owed much of he
e glory and power TO her giant manufacturing system
and thinking not only that things can he don
q rs well as others" but that they could do Them a
well as others if they only knep ho, thoy rested nc
. until they succeeded, are fast succeeding. The
# were not conIented merely to make things as celi
n they saw the necessity Of making them as CHEAP
n England and, though paying higher prize for abo
Il by superior ingenuity they have succeeded at least
d many articles OF manufacture. Thus they find pent
of employment al home for their sons and daughter
and send to eastern Vermont for help. know eirl
who have gone from CALEDONIA county to Lowell an
' returned with from three 10 five hundred dollars
cash-ihe savings of three four years of ndusrr,
!; But what field Of productive employment is open
: the females of Vermont know of none The dc
:; nestle labor they might do, shy fashion made dsr,
r. putable even IN their fathers house. Men ma
!" smile at me as visionary, or as being alarmed whot
cause, hui say without hesitation, ,re cannot Ion
lire under NE present System of things
j. Industry has no encouragement and enterprise n
Is stimulus Those that have money. instead of en-
y tarkng IT in any scheme Of productive employment
II il in bank or other stocks or keep il to sha,
9 their neighbors with by usury.
Labor s degrading, md no man, much less womn,
Tor lady a should have said) will work for livn
If il can be avoided The artist who produces an art
o Gle necessary TO the comfort Of life is mechanic az
W is despised. because he works for a living and paid
g. that which nohody else will take, But the ma
who goes out of the state and employs foreign arts
n TO make what perhaps we could have done without