Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-01

~ The New Orleans Bulletin of the 10th
ut. contains the proceedings of meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce of the great
manufacturing town of Manchester (Eng.)
to concert measures, and to petition govern
ment for repeal of the duty tax on raw
cotton. All parties are represented as hav-
ing combined to effect this object. The
following is the conclusion of the memo
rial to the lords of the treasury:
GAS in iuxtaposition to the tax upon raw
cotton, when compared with wages, is
most grievous and oppressive in the coars-
est yarns spun, so in the consumption and
weaving of manufactured cotton goods,
this tax presses with the most unjust Sc
verify upon our own working classes, and
upon the least wealthy members Of the
community. Your memorialists therefore
submit to 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 10 the well being OF
important sections of the community, en-
gagged in the cotton trade, it will be found
TO be an impolitic, unwise, and suicidal
tax, and ought to be forthwith repealed; to
promote which, your memorialists pray
your lordship's powerful aid"
Should the object of the memorialists be
effected, land it ultimately will be,) this
will constitute an important step in the re-
covery of the lost rights of mankind-Free
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 manufacture
ing cotton, would be incalculable. How
many honest operatives are now oppress-
ed-how many laborers 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 its repeal!
The awakening interest felt in these sub
jects in England, is the fruit of the efforts
of the powerful league of Free Trade asso-
Citations, whose labors are marked with an
unsleeping energy and devoted zeal wor-
thy of the great cause in which they are
engaged. What man who loves his spe-
cies, who has heart to eympathize with
doWn-trodden humanity, but will bid them
God speed in uprooting the cunningly de-
vised system which, in those countries, has
so long robbed labor of its reward, and
clothed it in rags-aye, so reduced it that
absolute pauperism decimates the popuIa-
ton. And who would not hail the over
throw Of this system, in its stronghold, as
the beginning of 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-
Der? Such results would follow the estab-
lishmont of universal Free Trade.
But while we thus record the progress
of the principles of Free 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 infu-
ence by means of monopoizing laws
where the arts of life are most perfectly
known, and the light of science blazes
with focal intensity-there should vet be
found large party, respectable minority
of our people, CabOring We must suppose
under some mental hallucination, J ready tc
aid aninterested few in our land of euua
rights. equal laws, and progressive i'm
provement, in retarding the establishment
of free trade among nations. While its
advocates in monarchy are spending then
time and talents, and using the weapons O
truth, with increasing effect upon public
oPinion--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 enlisting " all parties
IN powerful district in demanding a re.
peal OF the duty on our great staple-we
are advised to fetter trade in his country.
and whigery 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 y
which the protective policy is designed to
roo' and at last to pauperize; and the de-
leated monopolists, maddened at the fail
ure OF their hypocritical 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
thls country; and that in other countries
where the blight of its unequal operation
mas 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 hrnm,,-u,he