New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-10-09
uo,,c and Foreign Markets.

, WHY should these be placed N opposition We
rho advocate the Protection OF Home Industry
never objected TO Foreign Garkets-ncrer wished
to disparage them We say, Let Us boy freely OF
Foreign Nations whatever they can produce and
we cannot unless a; a Disadvantage let them buy
of Us whatever they see fit to do But to send our
Provisions 70 Europe there 70 feed workmen who
are 10 make cur Clothes and Wares for is surely
f thriftless " astelu miserable policy and we are
utterly opposed 20 continuing 1t. Let make AZ
home whatever can be made here with as little ls
Dor as elsewhere-that Is, whatever Nature does
not forbid our nakng-and then let Us buy freely
whatever we may need and sell whatever we have
to spare Wei hold it true, as Gen. Jackson orcibly
urged in bis letter to DR.. Coleman, that if we were
To divert from Agriculture much Labor as IS
necessary to produce tue Wares and abrics we
nov import, it 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 New Tariff should be TO
stop one-haf our factories and machine shops by
underselins their products with those OF Europe,
i, would be impossible to lind market abroad,
even by the help OF an annual Potato Rot 10 make
good to our farmers their loss Hear the Providence
Journal
The foreign market compared with the home mark
cts is M nothing The home trade goes quietly, IN
obrusively through Us regular and accustomed cnsn-
ncls We do not leel ii scarcely see 1t But when
weasel cears Tor foreign port IL II recorded IN tue
newspapers the exports placed under the CONNER
,al head and the Journal Of Commerce p2rades list
of the cargo down the last barrel OF cabin stores and
exclarns-ste wllt EngouG takes Of us and while this
one stately ship departs tor Liverpool nifty sloops anc
srarnbuas are leaving the wharvcs bearing the pro
ducts be distributed through the thou
sand channels OF the home trade. How much we have
heard Of the foreign demand for Indian Corn le tpo
h0use IL his i city n Providence sold more Indian
earn n, auction last gedr on exported all foreign
countries Together and notwithstanding the Increased
demand caused by the failure Of the potato crop and
the acquisition OF new class OF foreign consumers who
have hitherto been uuacquainted with the article on
no erloris for his gc0r do equal hc amount Hhic.
has ben imported this city alone, not taking into tue
account the considerable supplies which aye received
from our and from other parts OF the interior
Not crca, while ago, effort WAS made TO deprive
The Eastern steamboats, OF the exclusive of the pier
which they occupy in Newiork The persons Interested
in keeping these boats where they prepared some
statistics Of the trade which carried on by them
and they showed that 9reder number Of packages rerc
lanGld upon that pier annually hcR rere imported from
LOudOa LiUerp0ol aud Hdrrc. comparison OF this kind
showing the relative extent and importance OF the
foreign trade and the home trade might be carried out
an extent which would asonish even those who are
acquainted with the subject
Such is the home trade compared with the foreign
trade and yet the Frecraders urge us to sacrifice the
FORMER by forcing into the class OF producers
nd tell US tina, we shall md III the increased activity OF
the latter abundant compensation for the injury which
hall