Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-08
ENGLAND ANb HER COMPETITORS.

In some Of the English Journals apprehet,-
sons are expressed that, notwithstanding the pre-
sent superiority which England maintains in the
cotton manufacture, there is danger to dread the
final ascendancy of the United States in that i'm
portant business. So long as we are the chief
producers of the great staple, so long as British
manufacturers are dependent upon us for the raw
material of their cotton fabrics, SO long we
hold in advantage over them so great tn their
whole manufacturing interest in that article may
be said to depend on our sufferance
The attempts on the part of England to render
herself independent of the United States in this
particular have been frequent and persavering-
but thus far without success. Nor is it likely
that any other source or supply at all adequate to
her wants will be found during this generation
least
The immense public debt of great B itain-
the annual interest of which imposes so heavy
a burden upon her people-the oppressive tax es
which are necessary 10 support her army and her
navy, her eccesiast establishment and the ex-
actions of an expensive aristocratical system
all these are serious impediments to her
progress and give important odds to us in the
career ofindusrial competition. If we would be
as true to ourselves as the British Government is
to its people in respect to the proper policy
OF encouraging domest production, the chances
In our favor would be so augmented as to render
our final and speedy success certain. AS it is
England has the advantag of two systems of
policy-her own and ours; and if one system
be more profitable to her than the other, we think
1t will be found upon comparison that of the two,
ours is the most decidedly SO.
The aid and comfort extended to Englands
manufacturing system by our domestic policy,
winch sacrlflces our own manufactures for her
benefit, enable her to stand up under the burdens
of her debt and taxes. The American people, in
TACT, pay a large portion of England's taxes by
enabling her own people to do it out of the means
we furnish.
Still our country advances. Such are the en-
ergles pertaining to our national vitality, such the
activity of individual enterprise set free from re-
straints such the abundant, the boundIess resour-
ces of this magnificent land which Heaven has
given us for heritage and for the abode of Free.
dom, that in spite of what the Government may do
or may not do, our progress is onward, ever on
ward. The stately fabric of our nationality rises
higher and higher as its broad foundations stretch
from ocean to ocean-and so it must 90 on until
the stars that glitter on its banner shall mingle
with those of the Skies The eyes Of the world
from every quarter are turned towards this won
derful phenomenon-this Hercules among En-
pres, that has already strangled dragons in its
cradle. Across the Atlantic and across the Pa
clflc, from Europe and from Asia, the tides of i'm.
migration set thitherward-as though the popula-
ton OF world deluged elsewhere were seeking
the ark where alone they could hope to find safe
ty. Where is all this to stop2 says the London
lines. Significant question! But lot us hear
he Times n its own words:
"Ihere is no appearance whatever of Tagging in
that great human tide which flows in so dense
stream across The Atlantic, and difuses itself over SO
large surface on the opposite shores. Who say
whec and where this secession ofthe people will cease.
numbers olacces xuf boh ind ,xybo
portion will go with the crowd, what portion will
cleave to the soil There certainly is point
beyond which it would be ruinous for the present
deportation to continue. What land what is wealth
what are cities, and the vast material apparatus of this
empire, without the human laborer? With a greatly
diminished popuation--a result now brought within the
pounds OF moral possibily-there will be Jess produce
ton, and less expenditure, while the national burdens
will press with greater because less divided weight
Thee are, OF course, many whose persona stake in
the country is great that nothing would induce
them to sacrifice it. But that is not the case with the
vast majority of the people. They are thrown on the
world, and it matters little on which side OF the Attain
TIC they have to follow their star We say it, then,
with confidence and earnestness that the only way to
sci this house In order is to reduce taxation and dmn
ish the public debtdong both, if possible, but by no
means emitting me latter The great race OF nations
has scarcely yet begun, for competition we have
experienced Is equal to that which is to come. The
people which at large will range themselves under the
more promising competitor and, ii we are resolved that
England shall challenge the whole world, should she
persist in entering the lists with her huge debt her
shoulders, she will too find that her sinew and
bone have deserted her for less encountered rivals.
These expressive words are wrung from unwilling
ps they exored by the pressure OF fearful re-
alty which, formidable is in It's present aspect, is
sill more omnious because like memorable Fate it
points steady finger TO the Future. Who can doubt
but that strong protective Tariff that would secure
the possession of our market to cur own manu-
facurers and arzans would have the effect transfer
the commercial and Industrial supremacy among ma
tons from Eng and to his Republic Let the North do
fu justice TO the South and may hope the
Enlistment of such Tariff, upon basis which might
be permanent.-Bat. Aaner.
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