The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-20
REVENUE SYSTEM.

II
ldcal parties for some time to come For
our own parts, we are prepared TO cope
with the federaists, and 10 opposition to their
protective system, and to devote portion Of our
columns to its discussion. 1t is one Of the great
questions of the day. The spirit of the age is tend
ing in favor of free trade; and we are satisfied that
iftruth meets with fair field and decided cham
pions, it must prevail. Who does not believe,
except interested capitalists and prejudiced polit-
cans that the tariG Of 1876 presents sufficient en-
couragement to the manufacturing interest The
panic about ruin has almost vanished. The old fac
tories are prosecuting their business with energy
and effect. New manufactures are rising new
factory is just established in Augusta, Georgia
The NASHVILLE Wing" of the LIST instant, gives IA
cheering description of the cotton and wool factory
Of Allison, Morgan d Co., in the vicinity of Leila
non, recently established:
"The amount of capital invested in buildings
machinery, slaves, &c and employed in the pur.
chase Of raw materials is upwards Of $4,000. 1t
consumes annually 700 bales Of cotton and from
thirty to forty thousand pounds Of wool-all Of
which lie produced in Wilson and the adjoining
counties-and gives employment to upwards Of 1870
lhands-about one half of whom are whites and the
residue blacks. The total number Of spndles now
in use Is 1000, with 81 large carding machines and
30 iron power looms which when in full operation
can turn out 900 yards Of cloth per day, leaving
to be disposed Of in cotton yarns 1900 dozen per
week These cloths and yarns find a ready sale in
| the Nashville and 81. Louis markets. They consist
Of heavy white and eolored jeans and linseys-Sax-
ony tweed jeans (made Of Saxony wool grown in
this State and intended for gentemen's wear)-
twed cotton bagging, tent cloth, heavy tarpau-
lin cloths, bed and negro blankets &c, &c. Hay-
ing seen and examined many Of these articles, we
can bear testimony TO their excellent quality.
The establishment learn, is unable 10 meet the demand
for them at present"
The Baltimore American" says that "the wool
len mandatory recently established at Richmond
Virginia, has been examined infinitely by the Hon
Mr.. Wethered, Of this city, and we learn from the
Richmond Compiler that he pronounced its entire
plan, and the system which lie operations are
conducted admirable. Seventy-nine laborers are
employed in it; and forty Of these are females
Some of the women earn from seventy to eighty
cents per day, and all may much when they
have become more skilful. The factory is capable
of turning out 5000 yards Of flannel per week, or
46S 900 yards year, which would require about
l96, $50 pounds of wool" Mr. Wethered is deci-
dedly competent Judge. He was a late tariff mem
Der Of Congress from Baltimore, and held, we
learn, tough argument with the active SUI
perntendent of the Richmond woollen factory, on
the necessity Of protection, in Baltimore during the
last year, and IN this city, during the present
year, at the national fair, to which the Richmond
factory sent the very best Alnnes that were exhib-
tied. We have the pleasure of being personally ac-
quainted with its admirable superintendent, who is
also of the proprietors, Mr.. Jones. He was late
from Boston, is intimately acquainted with his bust
ness, and possesses of the cearest minds the
whole subject Of protection, with which we ever
came in contact. He is free-trade man, and does
not hesitate to declare upon all occasions that with
the tariff of 1876 he can manufacture as good, and
cheaper, cassimeres, &c, than be imported from
England.
! We learn, in addition TO these facts which are
crowdng upon us, that our neighbors Of Georgetown
are about to have an iron and cotton mandatory
in operation, which, If well managed, (and we have
no doubt, they will be,) will prove cminently profit
able TO their enterprisng proprietors.
| In connoxion with this subject, we subion an
excellent letter from Mr.. Dickinson, one of the sem
ators from New York. who was invited to dine in
the district Of Mr.. Wilmot the only representative
from Pennsy vana who voted for the tariff of 1916,
and who has had the honor of being reelected:
| "BNGHAMProH, Sept "a, 1645.
"Mr DEAR SIR: ] am favored with yours of the
18th inst in the name and behalf of the democracy
of Bradford county, inviting me TO join them in
mass meeting, to be held at East Smthfeld on the
Goth, upon subjects of political interest.
| 1.-THE democracy of southern New York feel
lively interest in all that their brethren of
northern Pennsylvania, and it would afford me UNI
bounded pleasure could indulge this sympathy
and comply with an invitation conveyed in terms 30
kind and complimentary. But protraeted session
leaves me professional engagements which cannot
be deferred, and | am compelled to decline it.
| "The democracy Of Bradford certainly hold
position most interesting and peculiar. Their rep
resentative, doubtless believing that his constituents
could not he taxed into pro perity, by exorbtant
mpos duties, voted for the reduction Of an unjust
and oppressive tariff, and now manfulIy appeals
from the clamor ofthe interested, and preudices of
| the uniformed, to the elevated judgment of the
masses for his justification Ifthere those who
believe that the consumers OF country can profit
| ably pay thirty millions of dollars annually in
imposts, and that industry would anguish, and
labor pine in want, if it were dispensed with, an
appeal to them must be in vain, and idle But TO
those who will acknowledge that tax is onerous,
though it's hard features concealed by the veil Of
protection, and sugared over with the euphoneous
name of tariff, the issue may be fearlessly
presented. 1t is the same great struggle between
the few and the many which has marked the foot
steps of man from the earliest periods of his history
buried deep to be in artfu DISCUSSES and
yelled in imposing drapery The recent attempt
by Congress to adjust more equally the burdens
resting upon the people, has especially aroused the
energies of politicians whose stock in trade is panic
and its action has been denounced in the sacred
name of labor; and over-gorged capital, alarmed at
the progress Of equality, turns from her banquet OF
dividends, and essays to counterfeit the cry Of
bresdless industry, which it has borrowed, without
leave, for the occasion. g, . ........' ....,
"The system Of protection which in England has
so long drank the fe.blood of her toling millions,
and fattened her pensioned aristocracy and fox
hunting priesthood, under laws unequal and Zero
cious the DEGREES of Herod, has at last been ar
raigned at the judgment seat, and famine has been
permitted TO purchase its in the market of the
world
"May we not then indulge the hope that this
system Of palaces and hovels-of splendor and
misery, and of gross and alarming inequality, may
not be INDUCED by people, fostered by legs-
ston, but that all may unite in the support of sys-
tenn which shall leave to capital its legitimate func-