Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-11-19
FROM THE NATIoNAL INTELLIGENcEK.
COTTON ON THE RIGHTS OF LABOR

This admirable production, which fully sustains
Mr. CoLToNs high reputation as writer, ought
to be in the hands Of every farmer and workinpman
In the nation 1t clearly demonstrates the great
truth that our farmers, mechanics and laborers are
more interested in the maintenance of .'the protec
tive policy" than any other class
Mr.. c. demonstrates his positions not ONLY by ar
guments OF his own, but by copious extracts from
the speeches of Messrs. Clay, Webster. Stewart.
and Others II is due, however to truth to correct
an error into which Mr.. Cotton has accidentally fall
len, by which he has robbed an american and riv-
en- to an Enghstnan the credit of what he calls ga
ne,O dscorery in political science of sufficient i'm
portance to 'slgnallze an age or century" The
credit Of this important discovery Mr. Cotton as
crlbes TO civilian Brown, ESQ., of England and
gives long extract OF letter ne wrote last ,cinter
to MIR. Rolf in which he demonstrates that Great
Britain is ''the greatest grain-exporting country in
the world" by showing that manufactured goods
are nothing but agricultural produce, raw material
and breadstufs, converted and worked up into poDds
sent and sold abroad in this disguised form to the
people OF the United States and other countries
Mr. Cotton then goes to say: compressed with
this great ,dea, the Hon. Mr.. Stewart of Pennsyl-
vanla, his speech the protective policy of Nav
1910, employed it with irresistible ellect' and al
ter Introducing long extract from Mr.. Stewards
speech on this matter, he remarks: every Amer
lean laborer will be able to apply this gredt truth
stated by Nh Bro,Oa the English merchant. and
so forcibly illustrated by Mr.. Stcwan to his own
case. Mr. Cotton again, at page %, when allu-
ding to this subject, says: "We arc indebted to
British free trader for The lucid Development Of
ti's Stupe"dons practical huth." Now, to show
that an ,4mer,cdn, and not an EngliSh,nan, is emit
tied to the credit Of the first discovery and develop
ment OF this ''great idea' this ''new discovery
IN political science, it is only necessary to state the
fact That Nh Brown wrote the letter referred to
last year, whereas Mr.. Stewart, on the lst Of Feb
rWry, loH|-more than nineteen years ago--iu a
speech delivered in Congress, introduced and devel-
oPcd this whole matter, and has since frequently
employed 1t in his speeches, delivered in aud out Oh
Congress, to show our farmers '"the great truth
that, when they are purchasing foreign goods. the,
were IN TACT purchasing foreign agricultural produce
in disguised form, when, perhaps, they had ne
market for their own. Mr.. Stewart. in his speech
of February LIST, 1897, (see Congressional debates
says What is the importation of cloth but The
importation Of agricultural producer Is not clott
the product of agriculture? Analyze it; resolve
~ INTO It's constituent elements and what is il P
lpoos Gnd nbor. What produces the wool 3
Grass and grain. And what supports the labor bu
bread and meat2 In Europe it got no more, anC
scarcely that. Thus cloth is composed Of the gras
and grain that feed the sheep, and the bread an,