Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-08-15

length Of timo they are to 10 published, will bs
continued until ordered out, aud charged accord
insly.
cfss,,een hines or les. make a square.
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labor of collecting them. Not more than cent
OF two, At most. is paid for the best rags, while
in this country they command three times that
price. This, with the low price Of labor, ena.
bles them 10 send their paper here, and derive
a profit aI,er paying q very high duty. Des.
troy, as yon will by this bill, the entire manu-.
hcture nj many kinds Of paper in this country,
and suppose, as the result--which. however,,
do not admit that the prices will be reduced:
| ASK, where is the compensation for the i'm
mense loss the country will suffer in the de-
structiun OF the domestic market for her rags!
Senator's will be surprised when tell them
that the waste articles from which paper is made
in this country amount to eighty thousand tons
per arnum, and that they are worth at least Blk
and half millions Of dollars Let it be re-
membered that this is a mere saving of an
otherwise useless article Experience in this
country proves that when the price is lower
than now paid, the supply of rags greatly d
minishea Materials Of this kind, peculiar to
the southern States, pay for all the paper u.
sed there; and those materials would be entire
ly worthless il our paper establishments were
driven ont Of existence.
In addition 10 The vast expenditure by ind.
viduals, the State Of Pennsylvania has invested,
herself over forty millions of dollars to create
avenues for carrying these manufactures to mar
ket The toll paid BY them in turn enables her
to pay the in,eres, on this debt; the prosperity,
therefore, Of these establishments, is vitality i'm.
! portant to the welfare Of the State ITSELF No
wonder, then, at the anxiety of all her citizens
on this subject. With an increased tax staring
them in the face. to pay the interest on their
State debt, and direct tax to support the gen.
eral government, which is sure to follow if the
free trade notions Of the south are carried out,
| pity the public man, Mr.. President, who shall
call on them after having contributed TO this re.
suit have referred to the internal improve.
ments Of Pennsylvania as State works They
are in truth great national works, made at the
cost Of single State. Three.fourths of the
States of the Union derive immense benefits
from their construction. The national govern.
uent already, in the transportation Of her troops
aud munitions Of war over them, has saved
large sum. She could now transport from Phila-
dclphia to Lake Erie one hundred thousand men
for wha, il cost, during the last war with Eng.
land, to get single regiment there. 1t was no
uncommon price then to pay 1850 ton for
freight from Psttsburg to Erie. BY our canals
ton can now be transported between those
points for FIVE dollarsi and yet the general 60.
vernment would, by this bill, prevent US from
paying the interest upon the debt contracted
for them.
i The advocates of this bill offer US as a RENE.
dy for all the evils to be produced by the de.
struction Of our manufac,ories and our mecha.
mic interest. an increased market for our ngri.
cultural products. lie, ns look into that. The
Hon. Secretary of the Treasury. who should be
good authority, in his celebrated Texas letter
urges the annexation mainly upon the mpor-
lance of securing by il home market for our
. agricultural products In that letter occurs the
following important passage: "The foreign
consumption Of our products is a mere drop In
the bucket in comparison with that of the home
market. Our
exports of domestic products. by The trea-
sury report of 1S4O, amount to Sl03, ,533 500
decuc,ing which from our whole product, Coy
the census of1si0. $959. .6OO, ,s45.) would leave
$3.50, ,O66, $40 OF our products consumed in that
Il year by our population Of seventeen millions,
and The consumption of our domestic products
by the population of the world only amounts to
o SlO3. .533, ,S96." This view taken in that letter
; added greatly to reconcile the people Of the
: NORTH to the snnexation and yet, among the
! first results OF that act is the introduction of
. : policy wholly adverse TO the Arguments upon
which il was procured 1t is well known tha,
: without Pennsylvania the annexation could moi
. have been accomplished. And now we see the
" representatives Of Texas in Congress uniting
in measure which PernsylvanIa deprecates as
a curse, which only her enemies ought, to iniic,
l. Is this the return we had right to expect
u Well may she exclain, "Ssve me from my
i friends!" Bnt TO return. The Secretary was
correct in stating that we must look at home for
i a market The small amount Of exports-lesl
n than ohe-ninth Of the whole amount produced
y in the coun,ry-oueht to be sufficient TO ssisfy
every one the, we cannot rely on foreign mar