Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-02-01
VOL. XIII, NO. 12.---wHoLE NO. 22o7. .

long as / am able to clothe myself by wool
of my own flock, by means of household
manufacture. The idea of Yankee con-
verting cotton into good and substantial
woolen flannel, Broadcloth and Kersey-
meres at the rate of thirty to forty-fve per
cent, and selling the same as all wool, is
no small business. If it is fact that the
said goods are as substantial and durable as
all wool, it will greatly enchance the con-
sumption of cotton, and have tendency TO
lessen the annual consumption of sleeps
wool.
The time is now at hand when we far
mers will be considered fools to raise fine
wooded sheep, shearing only two and one
fourth or two and one-half pounds EACH
We shall, by means of this improved ma
chinery, be led to believe that it is to our
advantage to raise that species of sheep that
produce the longest and finest wool--sheep
that will average four, four and one-half or
fine pounds per head. From one hundred
pounds of this kind of wool when properly
cleansed, pass it through this machinery,
draw such as is long enough to draw forty
or fifty pounds to the hundred the remain
der is worth more that common full blooded
merino in the fleece. The wool which is
too short to draw by machinery will make a
superior article; this species of wool felts
better and takes better finish that por-
ton which is drawn, if fine enough, for
most purposes for fine worsted goods is oil
greater value
Brother farmers, what are we to do 7 Are
we to fold up our arms and fling ourselves
into the hands of the skilIful artzan, me.
lob nd
ertion! For one, | say, No, gentlemen, no
This, as Green Mountain Boys, we will not
do.
have long reflected upon this subject
and become satisfied that the manufactured
with ordinary machinery establishes the
price of raw material, and the price of la
Dor. The manufacturer with perfected ma
chinery establishes the price of the manu-
featured article in market. Admitting tina
there was a tariff of fifty per cent. on The
imported raw material, or manufactured ar
tice-I ask in candor which class is mos
benefited by said tarlf--the producer of the
raw material, the manufacturer with ordi
nary machinery, or the manufacturer will
perfected machinery. | must acknowledge
in my humble opinion, the manufacturer
with perfected machinery derives the great
est benefit. Three new chapters on politi
cal economy are yet to be written upon thi:
subject.
l recommend that this Society appoint
committee to memorialize the General As
sembly Of this State, requesting that sal,
Assembly appoint Commissioner to repor
hereafter as to the agricultural, mechanical
and manufacturing interest of this State =
vis it cic
States, for the purpose of acquainting him
self with the great variety Of improved ma
chinery, not only for the purpose of manu-
featuring wool and cotton, but for the max
ing of boots and shoes, ploughs, wagons ant
carts, sleighs, &c, and to learn upon wha
terms the right to use that machinery III thi
State can be secured as common stock, 70
the benefit of the whole. Our water power
land and materials to build with, are cheal
far cheaper than on the sea board; vet i
is waste Of property to encourage tn
manufacturing of wool, at this period, wit
no other but ordinary machinery.
Had we sufficient machinery of the mos
perfect kind, in the State, we could CON
pete with many portions of our country
The manufacturing of our wool for our ow
supply would more than treble the value c
our wool in the hands of the citizens ofthi
State. 1t would offer an opportunity 70
those OF our citizens who are now abroad
employed in the manufacturing business, t.
return with the skill they have become mas
tiers of, and greatly to the interest of tn
State. To multiply our flocks for no othe
f purpose but to exchange their heeces 70
the manufactured article on the sea-board
ic ,ub ,,,;n hr,r
poverty to the door of every husbandman
History gives us no account Of a communi
ty of farmers who, for any period, retained
a specie currency, who exchanged the raw
material for the manufactured article. Al
agricultural community without the me
Echanic and manufacturer, are like farmer
without tools Every prudent farmer pre-
pares his field for a crop, and applies n
seed either wheat, rye, barley oats or corn
but what is of the most perfect kind, fire.
from smut or blight. In this perfected
state he applies the seed to the soil, hoping
that he will reap an increased quantity an
of as good quality. This policy as farmers
we are all agreed in, and have every reaso
) to expect that we shall be rewarded for on
labor, Why not be as well agreed and a
, particular i'll selecting candidates for publ
office, on whom we expect to bestow on
, sullrages, to make our laws and administe
them! We may pillow, manure and plant
, or SOW our numerous fields, and multipl
our Aocks and herds, yet if the policy pun
+ sued by government does not protect tn
, farmer, the mechanic and manufacturer, Ia
Dor and production fall at a very low price
, Far better for the husbandman TO SOW smut
: ty wheat or blighted and with an expecto
/ ton of a corp, than to bestow his sufirag
upon a sham patriot without knowledge O
skill-one whom he would not trust to mar
age his private affairs. Such however is to
frequently the case.
The true character of the Green Mour
tain Boys during the American Revolutlo
can be summed up in a very few Words
They were attached to no party or faction
but to things-to truth, to justice, to llbel
ty, to virtue, to their county They wer
attached to men who were attached to these
, They were attached to them no longer thai
| they were attached to these. Unawed b.
power or menaces, they were attached t
these, not acting like drones, to reap wha
others SOW, but cheeriully acted their par
in society.