Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-04-11

bankrupt in is4i and 1912 These are the evils
which the proposed policy WILL in my estimation, bring in s
train.
But shall be told that Great Britain has set us noble
example, and we, as free people, should fellow it, But
what the example which Great Britain has set She has
consulted her own interest," and proposes make such
modification of her policy is in the estimation of her Min
y best suited her present condition and the condition Of
the world She that her laws have excluded the
wheat Of Germany and Prussia, and have driven them into
manufacturing She that instead of being her custom
ers, they beginning become her competitors for the
kes Of the world and she wishes to arrest their She
also, in the United States great and powerful rival and
she wishes TO embrace the present opportunity to check
growth and impair prosperity She regards the present
moment peculiarly favorable to strike the fatal blow. She
behods in Chief Magistrate aleaning commercial poll
cy which is well suited to her condition, but lily adapted
She finds in the Secretary Of the Treasury adj
vocate Of her interests and she greets him with we done,
good and faithful servant"
But if gentlemen suppose that Great Britain has any spe-
cal reference the welfare of any other naton them
deceive themselves All her proposed changes have references
to her prosperity. She takes the duty off from American
cotton not to benefit cotton but enable he
own manufacturers to compete successfully with the
manufacturers OF this country for market and the Other
markets into which manufactures have found their way
II she wishes to promote the agricultural interests Of this
try, why does she not abae her twelve hundred per duty
upon American tobacco and suffer il to in at moderate
rate No nation looks carefully to her interests
than Great Britain, and legates UNDERSTANDING
y Her agriculture and manufactures have been carried to
the highest point perfection and seeing herself in advance
Of the nations she proposes free trade with the full
vcton that she will prove than match for them in such
unequal contest She has built herself up by her navga
ton act and other restrictive measures, and she proposes
partial abandonment of that policy and kindly invites other
nations to give up the very policy which has made her what
she is Free trade with such nation would be like inter
course between the wolf and the lamb To the il might
prove beneficial, but to the other it would be DEATH Free
trade, in fact exist between nations situated diff
ferenty the United States and Great Britain. II both
tons should model their laws after the standard
the trade between would not be fIee and equal Her
accumulated capital her low Of interest," the cheapness Of
her labor the advanced state of her manufactures would give
her advantage You must make all things equal
home by equivalents and balances before any two nations
have system of commercial intercourse which will be
strictly reciprocal and equally productive Of the prosperity
efbofh.
do intend Great Britain for the policy
which she proposes She is the guardian Of her inter-
ests and will that they well protected fact con-
slider her example worthy of imitation She conforms
her condition, and becomes to conform to The
cheapnes of capital and the low price Of labor in that king
dom the great CHARACTERISTICS far this question Is
concerned and in order to meet her on equal ground our
independent abore consent to down to the low
standard of the half starved labor of England They must be
content to labor for from thirty to fifty cents day and board
themselves. But they willing to do 1t Win the ee-
born citizens Of America consent to degradation like this
they will not The glory of country consists in the
fact that here the aboer is worthy OF his hire The great
of people born to other inheritance than the
privilege which country holds out to industrious man
of obtaining comfortable living by the fruit Of his own toll
and he is fireman. indeed who is born 10 such patrmony
The consciousness that he sustain himself by his own
hands, and that wedected industry will enable him to pro-
vide for the maintenance of his family and the education OF his
children than any thing else, gives character to
American, and makes him what he designed to be by his
Creator-a man.
But if we are to adopt the principle Of eerade the manly
and Independent character of abores must be given ups
and they themselves with dragging out mise
able existence in poverty and wrechedness This after ALL
the great objection the policy which has been recommend
ed. The rich man needs sympathy. His wealth will
give him consequence any state of society and change,
such freeade will bring upon would increase the rela
tive value of his treasures Bring the laborer down to the
English standard reduce his wages to the low level Of the old
world and you put him completely into the power OF the ca
ptass of the country Such change would break UP
small manufacturing establishments, and turn many honest
laborcr of employ But the Lowell manufactures would
go the price Of labor would be reduced and having
competition, these wealthy establishments would continue
make fair dividends The South and West would suffer most.
Their infant manufactures would be Frustrated but the older
and more skfu establishments of New England would
vve Their currency would be deranged but the accumulated
wealth in the Eastern States would supply them with sound
circulating medium Born to toll the hardy Of New
England would put forth their energy and enterprise and by
that industry and ugay for which they distinguished
they would obtain comfortable livelihood they would have
bread enough and spare while their BRETHREN
other sections of the country, "would perish with hunger
New England desires change. She believes that pre-
sent policy best adapted to the interests of the whole country
Being abores ourselves sympathes with those who
eat their bread in the sweat of their brows We adhere 10
present policy because the interest Of labor requires
because change would fall heaviest upon those who have
capital but their hands But if change comef
the prosperity of the country be stricken down. the
of the Pilgrims enued to toll and familiar with hardshps will
their attention their ice and their granite and
them into bread II folly must prevail in National Coun-
c and the of adversely ensues they viii endeavor
brave the tempest and though they have desire ride
upon the whwnd they will far in them lies d-
rect the storm that its pless pengs may fall upon other
heads than their
INTERESTING FROM EcuADoR.-The following is an ex-
tract from letter received by SAMUEL SwEETzER, ESQ.,,
Consul Of the Republic Of Ecuador, dated Quito April