Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-01
CAR R0LLT0N:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS !, 1896.


Of the Chamber Of Commerce Of the grea
manufacturing town Of Manchester ENG.
10 concert measures,a and to petition govern
ment for repeal Of the duty tax on raw
cotton. All parties are represented as hav
ing combined 10 effect this object. Thu
following is the conclusion Of the memo
rial to tho lords of the treasury
"Asin iuxtapostion to the tax upon raw
cotton, when compared with wages, It
most grlevous and oppressive in tho Coars
est yarns spun, 80 in the consumption anC
weaving Of manufactured cotton goods
this tax presses with the most unjust &C.
verify upon our own working classes, anC
upon the least wealthy members of tn,
community. Your memorialists therefore
submit 10 your lordships, that the tax upon
cotton wool, whether It be viewed on the
broad principle OF national interest and jus.
tice, or as injurious TO the VOL being o.
important sections Of the community, en-.
gagged in the cotton trade, u will be found
to be an impolitic, unwise, and suicidal
tax, and ought to DO forthwith repealed; To
promote which, your memorlaists pray
your lordship's powerful aid"
Should the object Of the momorialisis DO
effected, land it ultimately will BEL this
will constitute an important step in the re-
covory of the lost rights Of mankind--Freo
Trade. The advantages of the proposed
repeal to the planters in this country--in-
deed to all engaged, whether in producing,
buying or selling, carrying, or manuiactur-
ing cotton, would be incalculabe. How
many honest operatives arc now oppress-
od-how many laborors go half clothed, or
not clothed at all, to place in the British
treasury the amount annually levied by the
tariff on cotton What misery and wretch
edness might not be prevented by itsropeal!
The awakening interest felt in these sub
jocts in England, is the fruit of tho efforts
of the powerful league of Free Trade asso-
Citations, whose abors are marked with an
unsleeping energy and a devoted zeal wor-
thy of the great cause in which they are
engaged. What man who loves his spe-
cies, who has a heart to Bympathze with
down-trodden humanity, but will bid them
God speed in uprootng the cunningly de-
vised system which, in those countries, has
so long robbed labor of its reward, and
clothed it in rags--aye, 80 reduced it that
absolute pauperism decimates the popula-
ton. And who would not hail the over
throw of this system, in it's stronghold, as
the beginning of a new era, the dawning
of better day" when the hoarse dull
drum shall cease to beat"--and when the
great end and aim of all governments shall
be, the greatest good Of the greatest num-
bert Such results would follow tho estab-
lishment of universal Free Trade.
But while we thus record tho progress
of the principles of FREQ Trade in Great
Britain, we are panied at the reflection that
in our own country, where want is as yet
almost unknown to the industrious, except |
in cities and thickly populated sections
where wealth has acquired ruling inlu-
ence by means of monopoizing laws
where the arts of life are most perfectly |
known, and the light of science bIazos
with focal intensity--thero should yet be
found large party, respectable minority |
of our people, llaboring We must suppose
under some mental hallucinalion, } ready to
aid an interested few in our land of equal
rights, equal laws, and progressive inn
provement, in retnrding the establishment
Of free trade among nations, While its |
advocates in monarchy are spending their |
time and talents, and using the weapons of
truth, with increasing effect upon public
opnion--when they have almost over
thrown the great basis of the restrictive |
fabric in that country, the Corn Laws
when las we are told by late accounts, they |
have succeeded in onlsting " al! parties"
in a powerful district in demanding a re-
peal of the duty on our great staple-we
are advised to ietter trade in this country
and whgery sees nothing but ruin and de-
ISOLATION in the certainty that we will here.
after take the lead in the promotion of free
trade. The most direful effects are depict
ed upon the " industry of the country, :"
which the protective policy is designed to
rob, and at last to pauperizoi and the de-
feated monopolists, maddened at the fail
ure of their hypocritcal receptions, vent
their rage in the persecution of those who
were too honest to sanction their schemes.
But we have faith to believe that the reign
of the Protective System is near an end in
this country and that in other countries
where the blight of its unequal operation
has been so long felt it is lettering to its
dissolution. With it will fall many of the
schemes Of successful tyranny which have
so long oppressed those who "eat their
bread by the sweat of their brow"--who