Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-17
THE HOME AND FOREIGN MARKETS.

Why should these be placed in opposition We
who advocate the protection Of home industry never
objected to foreign markets, wished to dispa-
rage them. We say, Let buy freely of foreign
nations whatever they can produce and we cannot,
unless at disadvantage let them buy of us what
ever they see fit TO do. But to send our provisions
to Europe there to feed workmen who are to make
clothes and wares for US, is surely thriftless,
wastefu, miserable policy, and we are utterly OPP
posed to continuing it. Let us make at home what
be made here with as little labor as else
where-that is, whatever Nature does not forbid
our making-and then let us buy freely whatever
we may need, and sell whatever we have to spare.
We hold it true, Gen. Jackson forcibly urged in
his letter to DIR. Coleman, that if were TO divert
from agriculture so much labor as is necessary to
produce the wares and fabrics we now import, il
would give us greater market land by consequence
better price, for our agricultural staples than all
Europe has ever furnished. And now, if the effect
of our tariff should be to stop onehalf our fac
tories and machine-shops by underselling their pro-
ducts with those Of Europe, it would be impossible
TO find market abroad, even by the help of an an
nual potato rot, to make good to farmers their
loss.-ITibune.
FROM THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL.
The foreign market, compared with the home market,
nothing. The home trade goes quietly, unobtrusvey
through IT'S regular accustomed cnanneIs we 10
feel it scarcely it. But when vessel clears for
foreign port is recorded in the newspapers the exports
placed under the commercial head and the Journal Of Com
parades list Of the cargo down the last barrel
cabin stores, and excaims, See nhat England takes Of
And, while this stately ship departs for Liverpool fifty
soops and steamboats, leaving the wharves bearing
products Of the country be distributed through the thousand
channels Of the home trade. How much have heard o.
the foreign demand for Indian Yet hco houses in This
Hh city Of PrOridsnce said Indian corn al auction last
year than erpoted 10 all foreign countries together
and notwithstanding the increased demand caused by
failure of the potato crop, and the acquisition Of elias:
Of foreign who have hitherto been unacduained
with the article, who exports for This gear do mt egua
HE amount nchich has been imported into this city al,ae
taking into the account the considerable supplies which are
ceived from State and from other parts of the interior
Not great while ago effort made to deprive the
Eascfn steamboats, Of the exclusive Of the pier which they
occupy in New York. The persons interested in keeping
these boats where they prepared statistics Of the
trade which carried by hem and they showed tina
greater number 81 pacFagss ndcd upon thu pie,
annually than ,cere imported from London, LrrpoO ana
HARE. comparison of this kind showing the relative ex
tent and importance Of the foreign trade and the home trade
might be carried out which would asonsh even
those who are acquainted with the subject.
Such is the home trade compared with the foreign trade
and yet the irceaders urge US to sacrifice the former by
forcing consumers into the class Of producers and tell us that
we shall find in the increased activity Of the latter abundant
compensation for the injury which shall sustain.