Washington telegraph., 1851-09-03

most provokinglY insulting, and we cannot
eXtenuate the unwise and unjust course
that the conductors of that press have
pursued. We most sincerely lament the
calamity that has befallen them, but they
they have exercised a license by inGis-
criminately abusing individuals, and stig-
matizing them with the most opprobious
terms, which even in this free country is
nothing less than an abuse.
HOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
our many advantages. and superiorities
in a governmental point of view, ours, we
believe, is the only government in which
the wisdom of the policy of fostering
home industry and extending protection
to home products, and manufactures, is
even doubted. We boast it is tue, the
larges: extent of freedom. and there is
something attractive ia the, indepe Hdent
privilege of spending our money as VIC
please, even to the injury of our own
country. But surely an enlightened
policy would dictate different course,
and suggest the propriety of cherishing
and Strengthening our own resources as
a people. when even, individually, in the
end, we would be gamers by it. If we
would be truly independent, we must do
whatever we have the means of doing,
within ourselves, and look to foreign
nations only foE such things as we cannot
produce, without too grea; expense, and
for which we can more conveniently and
cheaply barter our own workmanship or
the productions of our own soil.
The following article presents the SUBJ
ject in forcible light:
RAILROAD IRoN.-About 900 tons of
railroad iron have arrived from Wales for
the Alabama and Tennessee River Rail-
road, and will soon BE shipped to Selma.
Mobile Herald, July 12.
To pay for the above iron $4,000 in
specie had to be carried to England
Every week we notice similar arrivals OF
iron at all the principal ports in the coun-
try, and in connexion with each is SIM
liar export of our specie. And all this
time we have hundreds Of furnaces, and
billions of tons Of iron in our mountains;
we have vast number of but half-em-
ployed workmen, and great scarcity Of
money. Why do we not keep our mon-
ey. employ our own people, ard use our
own iron? Because the mischievous
spirit of Democracy" falsely so called,
has practically established the doctrine
that il is more democratic TO encourage
foreign than home labor.
In the Boston Atlas. which has come
i'll since the above was written, we find
these two items:
Ex-Governor James G. Jones, of Ten
nessee. is about to visit England for the
purpose OF purchasing railroad iron for
The Memphis and Charleston railroad, OF
which he is president.
The steamship Atlantic left New York
yesterday for Liverpool. with seventy
passengers and $l0U,00O in American
gold.
A friend points out to US the following
In the Albany Journal:
Out of the two hundred and ninety
eight furnaces in Pennsylvania, Que hun
dred aud forty-nine Gust one-halO have
stopped within the last eighteen months,
and the workmen thrown ont of employ
ment. And yet every vessel that ar
rives in this country from England is
loaded with railroad iron. So much for
so much.
These l49 furnaces, when in full blast,
employ, Oh an average, directly and M
dlrectIy,) at least SO men EACH One halt
of them would earn SO day; but, for
the purpose of making a low estimate,
we will suppose them all to earn, when
employed, 81 day, the whole number
of men would be 7,45O; at 81 a day,
would earn, per week. $46.7OO. Aggre.
gate annual earnings $2,42e,4oo.