The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-07-09

with envy, that New England was enjoy
ing pfollIs of from forty to fifty per cent.
What if she did? Ifshe gave that to S.
Carolina for six cents per yard which
Carolina once could no! get from abroad
under thirty six, the question for Carolina
20 look al was, not what profits New
Eng land made; but what prices she cbGrg
ed her. That gentleman wanted his state
TO go to old Eogland for all she required.
We were all TO depend on Europe for our
manufactured articles. Foreign countries
were to enjoy exclusively the profitable
business yielding forty and fifty per cent,
while we were all TO turn farmers, and
join the gentleman in working, as he said,
for profit Of four and five per cent, and
again give old England twenty-five cents
a yard for what New England now o.
Tered them for six. Was not this patriot.
ic? Was it not noble, an enlarged A
merican policy? England was TO be al
lowed to monopolize all the profitable
business, the result of labor saving ma
chinery, while We were to content our
selves with the plough and the hoe, and
profs at the rate OF five per cent. Was
that the policy for America TO pursue2-
They might be Americans who recon.
mended it, but they were certainly play
ing into the hands OF our Transatlantic CONS
petitors. If manufacturing was such prof
| table business as these gentlemen repre>
scented it to be, why not let Americans
have it rather than foreigners? Why mol
keep our money and our profits 10 our.
selves, Instead of giving both to the labor
OF Great Britain! The profits of manu-
featuring were chiefly owing 10 the use s.
constant Improvement Of labor saving ma
chincry. The saving of, and the increase
Of human power produced in this manner
was almost incaIculable. BY lis aid one
feeble woman was enabled 10 accomplish
more in day than would pay for the
productions of forty ablc-bodied. hard
banded men without it. Did gentemen
desire, and was it their policy, to let Eng
land enjoy all this benefit, and keep it 10
herself as a monopoly2 1t was this, and
this alone, that kept the British Govern
menl from bankruptcy This prolific
source of wealth and power enabled the
British people 10 stand up under debt of
four thousand millions of dollars, and 10
paw taxes to the Government! amounting
TO more than two hundred and fifty mills
ions every year. This was the result of
her immense labor saving machinery
Was it the policy of gentlemen to let Eng
land have this profitable business Of mans
ufacturing all 10 hersef2 That seemed
to be the policy of the Secretary Of the
Treasury. Indeed, he had avowed it in
his report to be his settled policy 10 break |
down the manufactures of our own coun-
try, and derive his revenue from British |
and foreign goods. His policy was to in
crease revenue by increasing importatons
and as he would reduce the average of
dulles to one half, of course, 10 gel the
same amount Of revenue, we must double
our imports. This was manifest and I'M
deniabe. Our present Imports amount
ed to one hundred millions; TO carry out
the Secre,ay's plan we must raise them 10
Two hundred millions. Oar exports were
about one hundred millions, and of course
one hundred millions in specie would be
required annually to pay the baance.--
The whole specie ofthe country had new
er been estimated at more than eighty
millions. How, then, was his policy 10
work? How was he to make up this de.
felt? Not from the banks, for they would
be broken up within the very first year of
such system; and then wha! was Mr..
Secretary going 10 do for his revenue?-
The duty on foreign iron, he tells us, is
now rs per cent. He was for reducing it
TO 80 per cent.-less than one half We (
must, ofcourse, import more than double
the amount Of foreign iron to get the pres
ent amount of revenue, and to that extent
break up American supply. Now, it {
was impossible TO make our people doub>
lie their consumption, and so the result
must necessarily be to get them TO take
foreign goods where they now took do. {
nestle, thus reducing the demand, and OF
course destroying the domestic supply TO
hat extent. Was not all this plain?-
Could any man in his senses deny liz !
And, then, besides, where was the Secre> {
AIRY going 10 get the money to pay Tor all q
hese foreign goods? There was the rub. i
The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bay
W talked abou! exporting potatoes TO lre> \
and. Export potatoes 10 Ireland! He r
would tell that gentlemen that last year c
We imported 2ll,327 bushels, paying a +
Iuly Of ten cents per bushels-l5, Gas from p
Ireland, while Ireland took of all our a
,rain only 700 bushels Of corn, rot bar y
el ofAour, cornmea, or busheI ofgrain d
n its productions in any other torm.-, n
The whole Of our mighty export of bread, II
tufts 10 England, S,olond, and I
Ireland, amounted 10 less than 1924 900, e.
ess than one fourth of million less than 5
ouid be furnished by a single Western o.
ounty, Potatoes were cheaper in lie p
and than in The United States, yet the N
eope are starving, because they have no if