Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-16
MR.. CLAY AND NEW ENGLAND.
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Those folks who live down East, where it
IS said they occasionally heave up the sun on
foggy mornings, have certainly peculiar gen
Jus for advertising. It is not unusual to find
in that department of Northern paper, great
er display of talent and human knowledge
than in any other The Yankee trader is al
ways &C cute" and often understands the ap-
petite of the public, better than the editors.-.
1t is absolutely impossible to avoid reading
their advertisements If man is curious, his
eye is dazzled with an imposing array of
g startljng developements,' &c strange discove-
ry," and sc wonderful inventions,' until he
feels compelled per force to sit down and read
with the most intense interest, the last cure
effected by Brandeth's wonderful pills, or the
ing. Be he avaricious or testy, his attention
is attracted by some $500 reward for the dis
covery OF an imitator of Smiths Bug Bane; or
the account of &c wanton and unprovoked
INSULT offered to the proprietor of a Hat from
Legrands! 0 wonderful people, and wonder
full country, where wooden Clocks and wood
en- Nutmegs seem to grow spontaneously and
upon one tree. Delightful Yankeedom! with
its Springs, its Hotels and watering places of
all sorts, and for all sorts.
These remarks are induced by the pc
rusal of the most marvellous of all these
advertisements in the form of certain
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letter from Mr.. Clay, lately published by the
proprietor OF Carpet mandatory. So much
ingenuity in putting his wares, certainly de-
servesthe mention of the mans name and res
ldence, and we would gladly give them both
if they were attainable at the moment; but it
IS the letter that we have to do with Just now,
and time will not allow us to supply the de-
fects of memory. Mr. Clay has been writing
so many letters of the same sort, and utterng
Sc many similar predictions lately, that proba-
bly, we had better give these to which we have
now reference entire, but we have only room
for an extract:
&C confess that seriously apprehend great
injury to the general business in the country,
and ultimately to the Government. If there
shall be large addition in the amount of for
elgn lmportations, the Treasury must expe-
rience large deficit. If there should be an
addition sufficient to compensate the reduction
OF duties the increase must be paid for by an
equivalent in the value of our exports, or the
balance must be adjusted in specie | have
not the remotest expectation that we shall be
able to effect the payment by additional expor-
tatlon of the products of the country We, in
| n haI1 hot tbo
the British system of restriction is going to
, create any considerable demand for the sur.
plus of our agricultural produce. We shall
| fear, be constrained to resort to the othel
alternative, in the event of an excess of i'm.
portatlons, and pay for them in the precious
metals. | need not dwell on the commercial
disorder, the embarrassment in every depart
ment OF business, the widespread ruin which
would be occasioned by constant expectation
OF specie In large amounts. We have expe
; nenced enough of these fatal consequences
whenever protection of our own industry hai
p been inadequate"
Now, it so happens, that unfortunately fo
! the positions here assumed, the very contrary
is the truth, and notwithstanding all the pre-
science of the late Embodiment, and his anus
. ing devotion to the interests of the Northern
people, the prices OF American produce ar
4 steadily on the increase. With every success
sive arrival from Europe we have account
OF an increased demand for the productions O
a the West. No one blunder, even of Mr.. Claws
: was ever more palpable, or more fatty disprov
g ed by facts than that s'the relaxation in tn
: British system of restriction would not "creat
e any considerable demand for the surplus O
! our agricultural produce" There is not far
e mer, or whaff-laborer, in the whole country
e that could not give the Carpet manufacture
y better information. The transactions in Ney
/ York, for the week ending the 18th. Septen
/ her, will prove this most conelusively, Dul