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England TO buy bread and meat and gfass and gram
in the form Of iron cloth, TO increase the price Of
| " our cotton." We must be hewcrs Of wood and
drawers Of water for Great Briain-paupers, slaves,
and beggnrs, that England may have specie to
spare Tor southern cotton This is the und guised
policy and purpose of the Treasury Report. But Mr.
8. would say to these Southern gentlemen Don't
be afraid. You will have, your cotton market SUI.
England mus, I've your cotton she cant do without
| il at present. tut beware; the time may come when
England would not want tour COTTON" and the
South. in turn, would cry out for protection. But
| the gentleman cOngratulates the Wet with the pros
rec Of carly repeal Of The corn laws. But, in his
opinion, If the corn laws were repealed the people OF
the West would scarcely get q bushcl Of their grain
into England on auy terms.
| Mr. Bayy-Do you mean what you say, that not
one bushcl will 90 there
Mr.. Stewar-I viii answer the gentleman, by
giving hun Lord Ashburons speech in the House ol
Lords lew days ago He states that nne.tcnhs of
! The grain now imported into Great Britain is supplied
from the North Of Europe although they pay tax OF
fifteen shiings the quarter while that from Canada
aud the Unite States, passing through Canada, pays
but four shlllings Repeal the duty III fifteen shllines
and will they not supply The whoe? Most clearly
| they will. The fac, 10 notorious, tina, most OF our
gram and flour now goes to England through her
colonial ports and AT colonial dics thus evad n. the
operation of the corn laws, while the gam and flour
from the north If Europe mus always pay the highest
duties imposed ly the corn laws. Hence Lord Ash
burton very justly argues, that we mus he over.
whrlned the corn laws repene Il and tins srca,
advantage, now enjoyed by Canada aud the Uniied
States, ot importing our grain al about fourth OF
the duty pad by the importers from The Baltic and
Black Sea. Repeal the c, IN laws put them on an
equal footing with us, and is not the question settled
and the market lost to our grain and -four in all time
to come Nothing can be clearer. An yet gentle
men exut in the prospect of the repeal of the corn
laws, and are rendy TO sacrifice the whole Of our ma
nniactures and home markets to bring about. Such
will he the operation Of the repeal of the laws
American agriculture, and such is the statement of
Lord Ashburton who perhaps knows much about
the matter as even the learned gen, lenan from Virgil
MIA. But this is not all. This opinion Of Lord Ash
burton is sustained by the most intelligent merchants
in trea, Britain. Such is the uniform tenor Of the
les nony recently taken before select committee of
the House Of Commons on this subject. Mr.. Henry
, Cleaver Chapman, Of the Witnesses and one Of
the most intelligent men in the kingdom, says Re-
peal the corn laws and the growing trade with Ca
NADIA and the Western States Of America will lie
crushed by the cheaper productions of the Baltic and
Back Sea consequently" he adds, " America, Ca
NADIA, and British shipping, would receive a severe
and decisive blow" by the repeal Of the corn laws
But still the gentleman from Virginia exults in the
prospect Of the repeal Of the laws and boasts OF
the make, it will open 10 Western farmers TO
whom, however he will not give one dollar fur their
river and lmprovenrnts-uoi a cent-but is anxious
to seduce them into this British free trade trap; but
he would say tn The West, lineo danaos,' trust
your frends and beware Of your enemies. Look at
/. the boasied foreign market wha:lsn Comparatively
= nothing. Look at facts. The agricultural produc.
tons Of the Uied STATES, exclusive If Of cotton an
tobacco. is estimated at one thousand millions per
: year Oar EXPORTS 10 all the world amounted last
year sll MS 57. Ofihis, Gea, Britain took about
{ Nv" and half All the rest was consumed nj home
S, the fore ign markets of the wor Il amounted To II
e millions, and the home market 10 $50 millions. Yet
The gentleman had Just pronounced the foreign mar
kcis everything TO the farmers and the home mar
ke's comparatively nothing. But another fact. Oar
exports of manufactures last wear, including those o
wool, amounted ,o Sl3i29, l66 Assuming. as IN the
. case Of British manufactures that one half Of their
, value l. made up Of Amer can ngrn utural produce
o then we export nearly seven millions ol dollars worth
h OF agricultural produce in the firm Of manufactures
which does not elut inure the foreign markets for
= our Il 'ur and gram, in its original form. To use
!, fam liar illustration Western farmers send their corn
= hay. and oats, thou ands Of dollars worth, every
year 10 the Eastern market, not in its ride and ogna
form, lut IN the form of hogs and horses they Civ,
their hay stacks life and legs, and make them rrci t.
J. market with the farmers on their backs a laugh
So the British converted their produce not into hogs
horses but into cloth and iron, and send here fo
sale. An viewing the suhjec, in this light, he coulc
e demonstrate that there was moi State in the Unor
that did not now consume fire dollars worth Of British
:. agricultural produce TO one dollars worth she con
,r sun,es of theirs Time would not permit him to q
into details bu, he would furnish the elements from
T. which any could make the calculation Assumin
that the consumption and expectation in proper
ID ton To population, then import 80 millions Of Bri
I. tlsh goods, aud % mill ms, onc-haf is agriculture
,e produce We export 10 England agricultural produc
8, texrudlns cotton and iobacco) - millions Divld
J. these sums % and l2 millions bv 223 the number
represantatve>, and it gives sl 2l0 as their export
Great Britain If agricultural produce. THIS gives tn
ii proportion ten to one Yet gentlemen satisfied
an wish sill further TO increase the import Of Brtis
Is goods and still further PROSTATE md destroy tn
v American farmer and mechanic and nbOrlng man 4
70 favor foreigners. To show the effect upon currency
a. well rs agriculture, suppose the gentleman iro
IS Virginia tMr. Bhyly) wants new cont ; he goes t.
r. n British importer and pays him $40 hard money
g hard TO get. England takes none Of your az money
II a lnu. Away it goes in quick time. We n
IT, more OF it, as far circulation concerned, the ge
e. leman might as well have thrown ii into the fire.
i'll want coat go 10 the american manufacturer an
Or buy $50 worth of American broadc 9th. he wear
,e no oher and he would conp're with the gen
of ileInan on the spo'.) "a nush) Well, the man,
at taciurer, The day t. the farmer for wool
or he .nvr IT, the sh,rnrker, the halter. and black
ur smith they gave II back 10 the farmer for
nv bread, an here II went from one tn anoiher "
of mighI perhaps this busy and bu ting $40 no
re five or six times IN the course Of day. This mac
lis money plenty. But where was the eeneman's hnr
mon'yl Vanished gone To reward aud enrich II
'st wo'.ariwers ard far ne's shoe makers ''ers an
NJ blacksn'hs Of England Now, l go for sipporur
AT The American farmers aud mechanics, and the gee
N. ,cm4n gees Tor the Brtsh-that, the diff renee.
u Can the gentlemen deny ~ There hre' ut ~
ar s. 'es IN this matter. II British AMI the Amcr's
g. side; and the simple qrson Is. which shall TAX,
'y The great struggle is etween the Brush and Arne
H. can firners aud nechlnics for he American mark
u and We must decide which shall have II.
I'D Mr. 5 would here take occas sion to state fact tn
iur would sartle the American people.
~ TIE British manufacturers have, at hi. momer
~" possession Of this Capt. Yes, sir, tell you and
I'd cOunry-one Of The principal committee rooms
" this house Is now. and has been for weeks occ
m, pied by gentleman formerly re- ding IN Manches
ho England, who has vast number perhaps hundrc
OF specimens of goods sent from Manchester (prc
e TO suit the occason) 10 be exhibited 20 members
- Congress to enlighen their dement's and in I
language of his letter OF instruction from Manches
81; of the Sd ofJanuary, 49, accompanying these spe
y MEMS 10 enable them 10 arrive at Just concluso
in regard TO the proposed alterations in Il prese
n tariff Yes sir, agents, specimens and letters fro
' Great li3riialn nstrurng u how TO make inrf
"n suit the British Mr.. 5. here expressed The hope III
IT, the people OF the North would send specimens
nc American manufactures to he also exhibited in
W Capitol not only 10 show their perfection and exie
but correct on the spot the false representations ma
.o by these Manchester men and their agents in reQa
to the character and prices of British and Amerir
70 goods. Speaking Of the Presidents message, d
~ Manchester letter writer cxclans a second Dan
Nv come to judgment, a second Richard Golden !" a
M so delgh ed they in England with Mr.. Wake
nc celebrated fee trade report that il was ordered 10
e printed by the House of Lords After all ihi, hav
me Pres lent and Secretary their SIDE they
us To have been content without sending Their letters
c" Instructions here To direct what kind of tariff II
III wish rs To But If their Chancellor had
~ revenue hill, he could NOT have furnished one
~" s Great Britain better than The one furnished by
49, Secretary of the TIE smv. Parliament wouli p
'u 1t by acca nation. Sir Rober, Peel understands
,"s business, he proposes 10 take the duties of bre
ny stu Is and raw materials of all kinds used by IL
nus manufacturers, and remove every burden, SO as
'E' ena lie them TO and heat us in our avn N
i H." ke's and in the markets Of the world, where Van
w, competition IL eginnIng Ia give Them great unei
No., ness List wear we exported hundreds OF ih' usai
ct d''ars worth Of cotton goods into the British
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