Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1846-07-31
VOLUME XLIEI.-NUMBER p.


engaged in the culture Of The earth. Without
any pIetenson 10 strict accuracy, but as a rea-
sonaoe approximation 10 truth, il has heen esti-
mated that the labor OF one aeticuurisl will SUI
ice Tor The support often manufacturers. How.
then, when The agricultural must far exceed the
manufacturing classes, and the disproporlion be-
tween them, by natural increase is daily enlaDc-
ing, is il possible 10 conceive that The home mar.
ket Of The manufacturers can seriously d.
minish or absorb the products Of the aeri-
/ culurlss Reference 10 The statistics fur
1 nlshed 10y Lie returns 10 The Secretary of
the Treasury in 1910, and the report Of
Tench Coke, already alluded 10, as conlrasled
7 Ni!h The results Of The census Of 1910, conclusive
I ~ establishes the Jolly oi looking 10 The home
/ market OF the protected classes. Since 1913 not
%ithsianding all the slimulanls OF thirty years Of
nearly uninterrupted protection, manufactures
have advanced less Than 10 per cent. in annual
YIELD while The products OF agriculture have been
more IMAM trped, and very nearly quadrupled.-
I how long will II be before, az this rale OF CON-
! paFatlve progress, the manufacturers shall al
lord home market 10 The surplus production OF
The agricullurisls, | submit 10 The ingenious ca
sustIy 81 such pretectionlsts as, emboldened by
their frequent argument, that The competition OF
one country exceeds The competition Of that and
all others besides, or, in rlaner language that
The part is greater than The whole, may leel dis
! posed To sisnalize themselves by establishing
! that The less contains tie greater. No, sir; lei
4 no pent up uiica c0Ltne our powers The
expansive energies and enlarsins products OF our
agricultufS,s demand the markets Of the world
As il now is, under he operation al your unwi>e
7 restrictions, they suffer enormous exaclions a,
ncme, and d; Ike same time have their resources
dried up al The fountain b. depression Of prices,
/ and their iighIlul avenues 10 sainful exchanges
and enlarged Consumption, from their best Gus
TONERS, blocked up or sensibly narrowed. While
so suffering, they are, in insult 10 their inieli-
| gence or derision oi their wrongs, sought 10 be
sooihed by lullaby promises that they also re-
ceive protection. Well may they reply. I'VE
need no protection, and least Of all, such as you
/ will give Us"
Tie oppressive operation ii The system on The
commercial and navigating Interests 0. the conn
ny are apparent 10 the most superficial observa-
,on, tbonah their extent IS perhaps not in general
dolly aprrec iaed. With the cutting oil OF imports
and he decline Of exports the very elements Of their
sustenance and prosperity are Withdrawn. The
gains OF commerce are naturally greatest, as like
wise The employment Of capital, ships, and sail
ors, in the most extended foreign exchanges. The
carrying trade between distant countries, and es-
pecially OF the great products OF southern regions,
has ever constituted the prime sources Of wealth
and power In all history, whatever nation has
mos. largely enarosscd il, has for The time been
the seat Of riches and dominion OF refinement,
the arts, and all The concomilanls OF difused in
r!lieence and advanced civilization. To this
Tyre, bat city On piers, owed The magnifcence
and wealth which Jnstiticith The description ot Ilo-
II VIII, laai her merchants were princes and her
;ra.;c-fs the honorable ot tie earth" With il
Carthage 20 long sustained with The concueIors
of,be oden world her renowned struggle Tor mas
lcrv and empire. In the glory OF lis transient
possession, Venice was hailed the bride of the
seas, and a city OF lasunes and swamps shone re-
splenisnt with palaces and temples, and almost
alone breasted and broke The advancing tide oil
Moslem tanaIicism, before which all Chrslen.
| dom tlembed From Portugal 10 Spain, from
Spain 10 Holland, and finally 10 England,
as this trade has passed, il has borne on its
crest the scertre Of the seas and brought in lis
wake all the most valuable resources II power,
wealth, and progress in the arts and rehnemenis
II lie. Among the youngest nations OF The
| earth from ciadle the blood inhs.:,>a n,...-
Inc old sea-liin9e ct The .orth. and stimulated IN
| ill., transmission through tie VEINS oil our parent
country, has displayed Itself, and, from The adj
yan;ages OF our position the genius OF our peu-
| pie the freedom OF our institutions, and through
| our happy union The command OF so many OF The
staple products oil tho earth in its temperate and
tropic climes, we have entered nobly, and with
every prospect Of success, in the race of conpe-
tion with the nations Of The earth for The COM
nsIce Of the world. The struggle is glorious
one, not, trust, 10 DC conducted amid The hun
lcis OF war, and si2IaliZed 1t every step by the
crash Of armamcnls and The 2foans OF the dying
and the dead, but tv the arts Of peace amid The
exchange Of reciprocal benefits ard To le won by
The first IN Tie gifts Of Providence and the mos,
wise to discern ard develop BY casting OF all
l;ammels, The freedom energies .; is people and
the resources Of is position. ! believe il Ia be
our high mission 10 snatch The palm, and in This
i'march upon the monntain wave" TO surpass the
renown and proves even Of AIbiuns sea-sirt
isle and her wori-famed lars. But, 10 do So Ie-
srictions and impo>ilons must be thrown off,
and the wings OF our commerce plumed 10 nv
over every sea, and visit every cline. The petty
coasing trade, oil which your restrictive system
boasts though, il statistics are 10 be credited, err
rnsly even here, 10 substitute 10 your widespread
commerce in the import OF manufactures and
their exchanging exports, creeping, as il must
TO- from shore 10 shore and finding lis fliesl
vehicles in The small craft Of schooners and
boats, can never supply The nurseries OF hardy
>canien, create The fleets al stately merchantmen
and "rch.ircigh'ed argosics," engage the enter
prise and capital or draw The returns in The pro-
ducts and treasures OF every cline, that are
quisile 10 give pre-eminence in the boundless
tracts Of CID oceans realm.
Apart from such al-sigh,ed policy, as simple
question OF national gain in each case, il may be
we'll questioned whether The supply Of any article
Of consumption here had not better be supplied by
commerce from the most distant point than by in
ternal production, provided, as indeed in no other
case i, will be introduced from abroad, il can be
furnished by importation as cheapy. For while,
by The consumption Of The internal producer, you
may give reasonable gains 10 ore person, the pro-
ducrr (or at mos, lotwo, himself and his rc,aiivr,)
by the use OF th- impaired article, you have given
larger gains 10 the foreign pioducer 10 he inter
mediate agents who sell Tor him. 10 The nayiga-
tors who have transported it, 10 he importer and
the retailer While, therefore, The homo con-
sincr receives al the saiie and is no sufferer,
he has hcneiil!ed large number even OF his own
c0nn;rynen, and foreigners besides; and it, in adj
,iiion as 10 considerable extent must be, these
foreigners have been paid b. The products u the
cons umer or his counlrymen, he has gained to
himself, or given 10 some fellow counryman, all
the profits on such sale Of his products In other
words, where The cost CT production is cheaper
abroad, and il can be furnished al The same price
with The internal products, there must be larger
margin Of profit, on which may be written the
name, OF all engaged in ciec,ins Inc exchange,
and likewise lha, oi lie producer o the article,
with which hc ! reign import has been purchased.
With this illustration ol The superior benefits Of
foreign commerce, and how distributed who can
appr, ciate The cxen, and mnn,e number o. losses
sustained 10 the whole nation, but especially The
mercantile ana maritime asses, ~ The prfsIs-
lance ior nearly thirty years, though in IilcIeDt
degrees, in THIS restrictive sys,cml will not
venture to estimate the losses from its sappDg
and insdious influences on either Of The Two great
interests. mercantile and agricultural, lest The
amounts, as we'll Of what has been positively Civ
en- up, as Of what nigh, and would readily have
been realized, should appear 50 enormous as 10
excite incredibly and deter from inquiry. I'm
perfectly and generally, IS only NY lime would
allow, | have sought 10 expose he bane!ul irhuen-
ces Il its insitiols agencies; and only request
he candid bearer, who may he convinced Of The
u.'ice q; mY reasoning, 10 ponder and calculate
TOR himself the risht;ui aggregate Of lis total los
as. lie will DC worse than an infie il he be not
then converted, for he will have care neither for
his people nor his household.
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