The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-02-27

former aim at m~onopoliziug the markets
Of the world with the products OF their
manufactures. 1t is said that the mOnoP.
olisls Of Manchester, England, last De-
cember, cunniDgly designed TO draw from
Mr.. Lawrence, the American Minister
something that would favor their free
trade system, but he sadly disappointed
them and humbled them with the per.
tinent advice. educate your W people
befnre you come to teach u.s." We find a
condensed accouRt of an Article from the
London STANDARD in the Cincinnati Gaz
cite, which should cause the American
people to ponder over this subject, aud
when our Locofoco friends again raise
the cry of British Gold" point them to
this allegation in an English journal.
The London Standard Of January 81,
has a long editorial denouncing The ''ar.
rogant and attrocious" attempt of the
Manchester Free Trade manufacturers.
to cheat Mr.. Lawrence into giving Official
sanction 20 their m~onopolizing schemes,
and a laudatoly notice TO the American
Minister for his intelligent foresight and
considerate patriotism in detecting their
selfish purposes, and exposing their Free
Trade falacies.
The Standard thinks Mr.. Webster.
will successfully guard his native land
against the meditated invasion of the
British manufacturing monopolists; and
that Mr.. Corwin, by carrying out his re.
concentrations. will checkmate their de-
signs and protect the home market and
home industry Of his own country from
the r%uinous results of Free Trade.
Suppose (says the Standard the Unit.
ed States were to adopt the advice ofthe
Free Trade manufacturers Of England
and destroy all their rising manufactures
Of cotton, wooden, linen and iron, would
not the Manchester manufacturers then
make them pay any price they like to ask
for the supply furnished? Certainly they
would. 1t is protection to all native in
dustry amongst nations, that secures that
competition, which eau alone insure
cheapness, yet remuneration, in either
home or foreign trade. But British Free
Traders seek that monopoly which Sc.
cures to them, and them only. the whole
trade at whatever price they may choose
to exact-They belong 10 that class o.
men, denounced by the prophet Isaiah
"Woe unto them that lay house to house,
field to field. till there be no place, that
they may be placed ALONE in the midst Of
the Earth" They imagine that they
can work for the whole world, or that
the world will permit them-but. %contin-
ues the Standard, the American people
will be greater dolis than we take them to
be, if they arc either led, or misled by
their counsels.
But, says the English Journal, let the
American Government aud the Ameri-
can people too, beware of reacherous foes
among themselves. We tell them, and
tell them truly, that very large subsclip-
tons have been made, and are at present
going on in this country amongst our
Free Traders. to remit to the United
States, to buy opposition to their Govern.
ment on the proposed alteration of their
Tauf-and they sag Mey hare AS mem.
bers Of Congress at their command.
This foreign interference, it regards as
deserving a more severe castigation thar
Mr.. Webster gave the Austrian Charge
d'Ahairs. And the American authorities
are advised to catch and expose the a
gents of the British monopolists. STAMP
their offence ON their forehe ads, and send
them back to England with a bundle oI
American cotton spindles in one hand
and a bale Of American cotton goods in
the other.