The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-06-30
From the Daily Union .
EXTENT OF THE CONFEDERACY
rs AND THE TARIFF.

Il
great extent of territory. and IF course. great
variety of soils, climates, productions. employ
ments. and interest. Take the simplest production
Of the earth rs the measure of its capacities
You may begin with Strawberries in Florida in
March. or earlier, and feast upon them in Maine
until July We see the '' New Orleans Picay
une" tantalizing its brother Of the ''Boson Posi''
about fortnight with the promise of as fine
peaches" now ripe in Louisiana, {" as ever blush
ed under the warm kisses of the amorous sun -
In Washington. the peach has not vet pretended
to exchange its brownish green for the blush of
maturity.
What should we think of the wisdom or the
power of Congress. if they were To undertake to
encourage the growth of peaches in Maine by
bounties on lighthouses Cor, still more, to en-.
courage them in the more genial climates of the
sunny South2 To protect them in the South
would be idle and superfluous. To attempt il in
the North would be an extravagant and ridiculous
undertaking. Every climate in our widely ex
tended empire produces what is most suitable To
itself.
1t seems scarcely more pulitic or proper to un-
der'ake the office of protecting and encouraging
manufactures. What climate and soil are 10 au.
riculture, labor and capital are to the mechanical
and manufacturing arts. Let any section of the
country have accumulated capital and abound
with laborers, as well as water powers, its quick
sighted. sagacious, and enterprising people will
be the first to discover the advantages of new
investment. They will of their own accord en-
gage in manufactures. individuals are, in the
general, much better judges of their own inter.
ests than an assemblage of their agents, called
members of Congress. A member of the House
of Representatives might, with as much proprie.
ty, tell each of his constituents how much wheat
he is TO cultivate, or how many pairs of shces he
is to make, or what goods to sell, as the same
member OF Congress and his brethren are to
regulate the concerns Of twenty millions of peo-
pie.
Onr extensive country embraces such a VARIETY
OF interests, that it is impossible for any general
government to reduce them all to the same gene.
raj Procrustean standard. 1t is the more absurd.
too. because we enjoy free Observation-Disclosures
each man ought to be free to select his own EN-.
Payments There should be as little restriction
as possible to cramp the choice or industry of the
people. Happily we free from many of the
artificial regulations of which the economists of
Europe see too much reason to complain We
have no corporation laws or statutes of appren-
ticeship, or any such factitions privileges as Adam
Smith reprobates in England with so much force
We enjoy, too, many advantages over the coun.
tries OF Europe for the promotion of manufactures
Bread is cheap; most of the materials are album
dant and low. AS for labor, we are certainly the
most inventive people in the world ; and more la
Dor saving machines have been invented in this
country than in any other. This praise is not
confined to ourselves
"The London Standard speaking of manu-.
factures. admits that nearly all the recent me-
chanica contrvances introduced into factories
for dispensing with human labor are of Yankee
invention"
These machines require no protection to ami
mate the ingenuity of our people, and encourage
their invention. Whitney invented the cotton
gin without any legal provision to stimulate his
powers. Whittemore manufactured his card
making machine. before high protective ia
riffs ever existed They were wanted this very
necessity operated the mother of invention
particularly in so ingenious and enerprising
country as this. They naturally sprang up like
Minerva, full-amed, from the head of Jupiter.
This free system, too. has the further advan-
tage 0fequalizing, az far as possible, the blessings
as well as the burdens Of our institutions among
all our citizens. But let Government interfere
with its protection to one class or section and i'm
mediately there springs up oppression upon Others.
One section of the Union becomes sacrificed to
another, and one class of the community TO an
other. Now, it is this equality of advantage,
and this sense of justice, which constitutes the
great ligament that binds together the people of
a great country in the strongest bonds of union
Do the protectonists believe that if the abomina-
BILE tariff of 1912 ia kept as il is for some months
longer--if the present session of Congress should
turn an adderS ear 10 the complaints OF suffer-
ing people. they will patiently submit to their
wrongs2 Deeply, awtully, will they find them
selves mistaken Let the example of bold
people in England correct this mistake. They
established the league-they addressed the peo-
ple--they flooded the country with papers and
pamphlets. They attacked the corn. laws with
overpowering zeal and irresistible arguments. -
The minister himself became enlisted in the cause.
The corn-laws probably by this time cancel.
led from the statute book. What has been done
in England will be done here. And Mr.. Owen.
in his capital speech, warns the manufacturers
themselves to save what they can. Our coun-
uymen will never acgaIesce in such system of
injustice which forces nature out of her own
proper channel and taxes ono man. not for the
benefit of his government, but for The benefit of
another man. Relax the rigid rules which the
manufacturers have imposed upon the farmer,
and reduce the Tariff to the Revenue standard,
and a greater floodtde of prosperity, and much
greater content, will rapidly spread over this
great country.
ABOLTTIONISTS AND WINGS.
COL Greene of the Boston Post has the follow
inp hit at the amalgamating wings and abolition