Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-02-11
LETTER FROM ANDREW STEWART.

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We find the following letter from Hon. Andrew
Stewart, Member of Congress from Pennsylvania
in the Uniontown Democrat. Mr.. Stewart was
lately in Lowell, and his impressions Of that city
and Yankee land generally will be interesting to
our readers.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 18th, 1916.
DEAR SIR Il had delightful trip to new Eng
| land. The Yankees a wonderful people 1t
would take volume to give you even a sketch of
what saw and learned in that world of wonders.
will avail myself of some leisure hour to give you
some of my emotions" of the Yankees as well as
OF the yankee potions." | soon discovered how
ever, that Brother Jonathan was great man, and
hadn't half his growth" The tariff of '46, us
said last winter, instead of destroying monopoly.
has established it in New England-it has checked
investments every where else, broke down the
weak. and stopped the new beginners in the Mid
die, Southern and Western States, where they
must have protection to help them forward. But
in New England, where they have uubounded
wealth, skill, capital invested and machinery i'm OPP
Grafton, they can and will go and perhaps there
never was time when more capital was being invest
ed in manufactures than there is at this moment in
New England-,hey areerecting them not by the foot
but by the mile. saw whole city building up
I'm the midst OF snow stornl-not 4 hand stopping
or descending from the house tops. Three or four
Incorporated companies, with three or four millions
OF capital, all at work erecting factories by the do
zen and houses by the hundred-one machine shop
1000 feet long, and single factory the floors of
which would cover seven acres Of granddaughter
which will consume the wool of 100000 sheep az
nually, and one of cotton which will employ $500
glrIs-and countless others going up or co,nmencinu
in this new city, on the Merrimac, half way be
tween Boston and Lowell, not vet named In
Lowell they are opening new race OF canal at a
cost of half million to drive new set of facto-
rles built and building, perhaps equal in power and
extent to those already In operation there. | saw
In one factory 1870 beautiful girls, with cheerful
ness. happiness, intelligence and contcntmcnt legi
Oily written on every countenamce. In another,
WOODEN factory (Samuel Lawrence's) in looking o.
yer the payroll or book which accidently picked
up from the table, found twenty seven cousec.
utive pages, containing 500 signatures, nearly all
girls, but single one that made mark or x, all
written in good, and many of them in a most ee-
giant hand. The clerk observed to me that Lord
Morpeth, when on visit to this country some years
ago, happened to be present yday, and with some
surprise inquired ''What |! do your operatives
writeF Certainly sir,'' said the clerk, 1.-THE A.
mercans all write" Directly there cane in man
who made this mark. ''Ah!'' said his lordship with
a smile, II thought you said all wrote" .sAn
americans, your lordship--this is an Eitglisbmon
Whereupon his lordship ''grinned CHASTITY sme''
How Is 1t, L inquired OF one of these manulac-
turers, that you thus increasing your investments
under the tariffo 1876? The answer was. .sJust
because yon passed that tariff, and thereby stopped
Investments and manufacturing every where else
lf you will force u monopoly upon us, we will not
refuse it. The demand for goods must be supplied.
and we are preparing to supply it. One of our
girls with the aid of machinery, will pay for the
labor of forty men working without it. If you WILL
instead of manufacturing for yourselves, send us
your wool, your flour and meat, we will work it up
into cloth and send il back to you at two dollars for
one. We will give you two dollars and take one
We are working spndles and looms against
your ploughs and hoes-the forty man power a
ga'nst the one man power" And this is the great
secret of the wealth and ascendency Of New Eng
land over the other States of the Union They
talk of millions of dollars as Familiarity as we talk
OF hundreds yet originally their country was a
land of barrenness aud steriliy, without coal, min
erals or soil, not equal in fertility and productive
ness to our mountains between Unontown and
Cumberland. Yet. this country of rocks and SAND
banks is now the Eden of the world, enjoying more
wealth and intelligence, refinement and happiness.
IN proportion to It's population, than any other por
ton of Gods earth-and ali this is the result of
industry and The arts. BY the aid of labor saving
machinery, their productive industry is executed
with forty-fold power.
With these advantages, what would be the
wealth and power of Pennsylvania and the West
with an eXuberant soil, tecming with all the pro-
auctions of agriculture, Astounding in coal and ore
Limestone and water power, with meat. flour and
vegetables at half the price paid in Massachusetts
Yet they are rich, and we are comparatively poor
Depend upon it. all this is the result of her i'm
menSe labor sdcing machinery, which gives her III
dustry foriy-fo9 power over ours, of which the
tariff of '46 will, if unrepeaed, secure to her
monopoly for many long years to come. The efforts
of the South and West to destroy New England
by the tariff Of 1876, has in fact strengthened and
enriched her, aid weakened and Impoverished
themselves by destroying competition and nanuf;ac
lures Just commencing under the protection OF the
tariff OF ~, in their own country. What laws the
world under contribution to Great Britain, maxine
her the richest and most powerful nation on earth
1t is her labor saping machinery and nothing else
paying dollar for cotton and selling it TO us
again for ten. VIII we never learn wisdom from
experience? The result Of the late elections in
Pennsylvania, New York, sc. afford some evidence
that we shall. They arc cheering signs. and must
fill the heart of every true lover OF his country
with patriotic eXultation and delight
Yours, respectfully.
A. STEWART.
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