North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-03-08

PATRIoTIsM-Two KINDS. You could not worse
insult an American than to tell him his countrymen
could be logged, man to man, by any other people
the face of the earth. Bunker Hill he conside rs
first rate fight Gas it was); the capture of Burg
oyne a magnificent affair; and the victory Of New
Orleans of the most brilliant in the annals of
mankind. That ours is indeed great country, and
our people the smartest. most intelligent, ingenious
and capable of any that live or have lived, is firm
article in the National creed.
But when they come to products and purchases,
they have strange way of forgetting all this Every
body lthat is the great majority act as if Yankee
couldn't possibly be trusted to do any thing requir
ing genius skill. Every sixpenny huckster adver
tises his cigars from Havana his liquors (vil-
famous cutthroat stuff they beg as from France or
Holland; his wares from England or Germany. Iron
must be Swedish or Scotch to pass muster though
all Europe together has various nor excel
lent ores as those of our own broad domain. Our
Cloths must all be British, German French, or
nobody that IS anybody thinks them worth wearing.
! Have you any american cloth % asked lady in a
large dry-goods store of city, few days since,
intending TO buy coatpattern for her husband. 'No,
:. Marm, replied the smiling clerk, ''n gentleman
wears american cloth'' This is the everyday talk
of statesmen, not with regard cloths only, and
body thinks OF getting knocked down for it. Yet let
any speak with like contempt of our National dex-
terlty and efficiency in throat-cutng, and he could
not walk the streets with safety.
Butnot merely do our peddlers of tape and dimity
| commend their goods as Foregn-made that their
price may be enhanced and their sale quickened but
tothis base, blind prejudice in favor of articles dear
bought and farfetched, - though it decree
of fate. We believe there less than Thirty
Millions of Dollars worth of America Products
sold every year to ourown people of foreign ori
gin, with French stamps and jaw-cracking Dutch
labels affixed to fortify the deception. Our Cloths
are exported to the Canadas and sold freely Amer
lean at profit to the maker after paying an equa
import duty with their British competitors; while
on our own side of the border the British cloths
crowd them almost out of market, though ours have
the advantage of duty nomnally thirty per cent
on the importation of Foreign Cloths. Many French
print which has sold readily twenty to thirty cents
is speedily initiated here and sold thirty fifty pc
cent. lower going off brisky SO long as it is sup
posed to be French; but let its American product or
be admitted, and it must fall far lower before it finds
: purchasers. Thus Messrs. Rankin & Ray in the
Bowery extensive manufacturers of very good
and very cheap hosiery; but to Republican
damses oput their feet into their otherwise fautes
stockings, they find it expedient to stamp BIRTHS
crooOn on the upper portion thereof! This is fai
specimen of American servility to Euro pean tast
and fashion. Our dry goods stores full of Ameri
fabrics contrived to initiate and pass for foreg
articles every way their interiors, in the cooni
al ideas of people and the consequent false pre-
lenses under which they submitted to the public
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