Southern shield., 1851-02-22
MR. CoRWIM AND MANCHESTER.

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 The English newspapers are not at al pleased with the annual report of MT. Secre tary Corwin. They think it compares very unfavorably with the production ot MT Secretary Walker. Our Whig Secretary is especially unpopular at Manchester; ano the Times of that place levels an editora at him of some length, studded with all the choice epithets of vituperation and abuse te be found in the English language. It de. nounces the report as "strange document an ''extravagant piece of special plead -'ncoherent''- -''crude"-" "illogical -"unintelgible"- of "elaborate dis tortions of fact" "exploded fallacies'- transparent tfallacies'-and ''dishonest pre- tences." IL accuses the Secretary of in- sincerely advocating "policy which is known to be as impracticable as it is pre- posterous." All this is ''somewhat i'ratdt- ang," it seems, to the good people ol Man chester, and particularly to the Manchester Times.
 The explanation of all this lies in the compass of a nutshell. Nobody is simple ton enough to believe that our English cousins are so exceeding x ,eRyions on ous account. Manchester is the great seat ol the cotton manufacture, and owes her i'm. mense wealth to the cotton trade. Hel people thrive by carding, spinning, weaving bleaching, dyeing, and printing. Her cot ton manufactories call for machine shops and founderes, and the founderes and ma. chine shops consume the coal which abounds in her rneighborhood. The population, busy in all these vacations, must be fed, and thus establish profitable market for the farmer and grazier, the butcher, baker, and grocer. All the population thus industrl- ously employed at Manchester, and most of those who supply them, are producers, therefore, and are adding daily to the aggre- gate of municipal and national wealth. Manchester likes this state of things. She is naturally disposed to desire its contnu- ance. Naturally enough, therefore, she becomes 'rritated" when she finds a Yankee Secretary lending himself to the circulation of doctrines that are likely to interfere withit. No wonder that she finds all such doctrines "Iogical," "unintelgi- ble," and especially irritating"
 The policy recommended by Mir. Corwin tends to build up miniature Manchesters in Virginia and Georgia, themselves the centres of producing industry, and atfording to their little circles home market for coal and iron and breadstufs. Manchester would much prefer that our coal and iron should rest in their native beds, and that we should exhaust ourselves in non-productive labor, in building and manning ships, and in the carriage of cotton three thousand miles f0 hop hoa throo thousand miles to be consumed. True enough it is that we thus employ millions oi money, and many thousand tons of ship ping, and many thousand men in process that adds nothing to the aggregate of the Ma M9rddisa HMGahesbe lht s therefore if weeI content Therefore it is that Manchester rejoices in MT. Walker, and is read y to erect statue to him.
 A little Manchester in his own neighbor- hood would seem to be better for the Vir- ginan or Georgian. He would thereby save land carriage, wharfage, commissions, freights, insurance, interest, and would fur nish a home market for the coal and iron and breadstuffs of his neighbors; thereby diversfying the industrial, pursuits and en- riching the productive industry of his own vicinage and his own nation. To this ex- tent indeed he would infringe upon the revenues of the English Manchester, and interfere with the splendid incomes of her manufactures. He would thereby, no doubt, in a measure "irrtate" her journalists, who would be shocked at the idea of the reten- ton of what they consider portion of the legitimate spells of their looms and bleache- ries and dye-houses. 1t would be most ''illogical'' and "preposterous" robbery of our transatlantic brethren for OUT own "falla- cious" advantage.
 It would seem that a man with half an eye might discern the operative cause of the indignation which the English press is lavishing upon MT. Secretary Corwin. His policy is calculated 10 increase the produc- ing and consuming power of the United States for her own benefit. It aims at opening our own mines, building and running our own mills, fostering our own industry, adding to our own wealth; instead ofexhaust- ing our faculties in adding to the wealth ot the colliers, and iron-masters, and farm CTS, and manufacturers of a nation three thousand miles distant. The results show that, under protective legislation, we pro- duce more, consume more, import and ex- port "o,o, than under any approxlmate system to free trade; and memorable facts demonstrate, in the teeth of all the theories of recent British economists, that the sys- tenn which MT. Corwin advocates is the system which promotes our national pros perity and augments our national power.
 Washington ReDubL;c.
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