Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-09-09
" Effects of the Tariff

Uuder this caFsion, Bos,oa paper states he
fact rha, one of their Iron Works had given an
order for $4,000 tons Of Pictou Coal-abous
two and a half per cent, on the probable anlhra-
cite trade for the year ls47 ! further scru-
tiny will show that rhe above scheme of Polk.
Dallas and Walker is now silently, but rapidly,
working the downfall Of American industry
Among the items of British imports, we find in
the single article Of calicoeS printed and plain.
an increase of 8 ,00o,O 900 yards over those Of
1916; being than three fold the entire
quantity received last year, under the Tariff of
1912. Nor is this all. The same suicidal act
admits so many foreign fabrics, such as aIpacas,
mouselines de laine, ginghams &c. &c. 10 in
terfere with The products of our own mills. for
the special benefit of the miIlionaires of Man.
chester that it is rapidly driving our small man
ufaciurers out of The home market, and lessen
ing the number of operatives employed in the
larger establishments
Again-n iron of :" light draugh,," (small ST.
yes, whose value consists chiefly IN labor) the
import of New York alone, last spring, was
$4,000 tons, being an increase Of 800 per cent;
thus destroying the home manufacture Of those
! indispensable articles But for the railroad ma
MIA now raging in England, by which rails are
kept at very high price there, as TO permit
ou! own manufacturers 10 retain the home mar
ket for that article al present, the iron trade of
The United States must have suffered the fate
so clearly demonstrated in our columns last
year, by Mr.. Cresson, in his letter TO Hon. L.
Butler King, OF Georgia. From the united Op-
Grafton of excessive importalions (uhe two items
just alluded TO adding five millions TO the i'm
ports of lS4S) and the Sub-rreasury, there is
but TOO much reason 10 apprehend the near ap-
proach of another crisis, similar 10 that from
which we were so happily relieved by the Whg
tariff Of 1912 From the present complexion
of The U. S. Senate. there is no hope that re-
peal of the ruinous policy of The PlacquemIne
/ President and his sa,elllies could be success
/ ful, even if carried by The Wing House of Rep
resentailves. Let, then, every sincere patriot
evince determination TO sustain home indus
Try, by giving decided preference To he pro-
ducts of the American loom. We have Ia.elv
seen many beautiful specimens of the various
American fabrics of COTTON, wool and silk, whlch
for color, finish aud durability, will uccessfu-
ly compare with the bes; manufactures of Eu-
rope. Even the rabid politicians of the South
will, ere long, thank US for such consistent pa
triolism /; for we observe by late advices that
England, determined at the earliest period 10
prove her holy horror for American slavery, is
projecting new schemes of colonization, with
the avowed purpose Of excluding from her mar
kel the blood stained products of the guilty
Soulh." Where then will our cotton growing
neighbors find sale for their grea, staple, if, in
their hostility to the " cotton lords of Lowell
las Mr.. Nc Duffie sneeringly calls their best
cuslomers--lhey destroy their home market
North American