The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-04-28
TUESDAY, APRIL 2s, 1896,


ton and tobacco. But, no doubt, the gen.
tleman concurs with Mr.. Secretary Walk
er, who tell us, in his free trade report,
which has so delighted England, and no
wonder it has, for he there says we must
take more British goods, because, if we
do not, ,"England must pay for our .bread-
stufs,' in specie and "nof having ii TO
spare, she will bring down to even a
greater extent the price o our coffon.'-
Yes, sour cotton"-there is the rub
The North, and West must quit works.
nothing, and bring every thing from Eng
land, and send them our SPECIE as long as
ii lasts, so that England may have "specie
TO SPARE" for Southern cotton-that's
the plan this openly and boldly proclai-
med by the Secretary and his followers.
We Of the North and West must send
our last dollar to England TO buy bread
and meat, and grass, in the form of iron
and cloth, to increase the price Of soUR
COTTON" We must be ''hcwers of wood
and drawers OF water" for Great Britain
-paupers, slaves, and beggars. that Eng
land may have "specie 10 spare "for South
ern cotton. This is the undisguised pol
icy and purpose of the Treasury Report.
But Mr.. S. would say to these Southern
gentlemen: don't be afraid. You will have
your cotton market still. England must
have your cotton-she can't do without
it at present. But beware; the time may
come when England would not want
"oUR COTTON" and the South, in turn,
would cry out for protection. But the
gentleman congratulates the West with
the prospect of an early repeal of the corn
laws. But, in his opinion, if the corn
laws were repealed, the people Of the
West would scarcely get bushel Of their
grain into Engl md on any terms.
Mr.. Bayly. Do you mean what you
say, that not one bushelwill go there!
Mr.. Stewart / will answer the gen.
tleman, by giving him Lord Ashburton' S
speech in the House of Lords few days
ago. He states that nine-tenths of the
grain now imported in Great Britain is
supplied from the north of Europe, al
though they pay tax Of fifteen shillings
the quarter; while that from Canada and
the United States, passing throrgh Cana
da, pays but four shillings. Repeal the
duty of fifteen shillings, and will they not
supply the whole! Most clearly they
will. The fact is notorious, that most of
our grains and flour now goes to England
through her colonial ports, and a. colonial
duties, thus evading the operation of the
corn laws, while the grain and flour from
the north Of Europe must always pay the
highest duties imposed by the corn laws.
Hence Lord Ashburton very justly argues
! that we must be overwhelmed if the corn
laws are repealed; and this great advan-
tage, now enjoyed by Canada and the u
nited States, of importing -four and grain
at abont one-fourth of the duty paid by
the importers from the Baltic and Black
sea. Repeal the corn laws-put them
on an equal footing with US, and is not
the question settled, and the market lost
to our grain and flour in all time TO come!
Nothing can be clearer. And yet gen
tlemen exult in the prospect of the repeal
Of the corn laws, and are ready to sacri-
| fee the whole of our manufacturers and
home markets to bring it about. Such
will be the operation of the repeal of the
corn laws on American Agriculture, and
such is the statement Of Lord Ashburton,
who, perhaps knows as much about the
matter as even the learned gentleman
! from Virginia. But this is not all. This
opinion of Lord Ashburton is sustained
/ by the most intelligent merchants in Great
Britain. Such is the uniform tenor of the
testimony recently taken before a select
committee Of the House Of Commons on
this subject: HENRY CLEAvER CHAP
MAN, one of the witnesses, and one of the
most intelligent men in the Kingdoms says:
''Repeal the corn laws, and the growing
trade with Canada and the WESTERN
STATES OF AMERICA will be crushed by
the cheaper productions Of the Baltic and
the Black sea, consequently" he adds,
"AMERIcA. Canada, and British shipping
wonld receive a eand decisive blow
by the repeal of the corn laws. Bnt still
the gentleman from Virginia exults in the
prospect of the repeal oil the corn laws
and boasts Of the markctit will open to
our Western farwers, to whom, however
he will not give one dollar for their rivers
and improvements-not a cent-but Is
anxious to seduce them into this British
free trade TRAP; but he would say tc
the West, sstimeo danaos," trust your
friends. and beware of YOUR enemies.-
Look at the boasted foreign market, wha
is it' Comparatively nothing. Look a
facts. The agricultural productions OF TIT
United States, exclusive of cotton and to
bacco, is estimated at one thousand mil
lions per year. Our exports to all tn
world amounted last year to $ll, ,l95,5l5
OF this, Great Britain took about two ant
a half. All the rest was consumed a
J home. So the foreign markets of the worl