The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-18
TIE UNION.

mpou from shs United States if the United States in or
der 10 build up artificial home Market forces Eng and
diminish her exports 10 the United States Our
port is the fund with which we purchase our import
The 10 true Of all other nations Their export is The
fund with which they purchase their import The PEE
cious metals have very important agency in facilitating
this result; but they have but ttIle-we might cay
almost agency in requiring such result Ii follows.
logical consequence from what we have said that if
should. by legislative enactments extend the home
marke, to its utmost possible limits. wo would
al once destroy our importanons, and, as a nat
ural consequence, break down our expectations we
would bankrupt the government. at the time
that we would destroy our commerce. and crush agr-
culture Without an interchange OF commodities there
can be no commerce.; without commerce. the producers
of every nation restricted 10 their markets for
a sale OF their commodities They deprived of the
demand which foreign nations furnish. Is this de-
srable state OF things MIR. Corwin Abbott Lawrence.
and the whole corps OF manufacturers and monopoliss
say. .Yes. 1t is desirable state Of things" Well, sup
pose admit that Mr. Corwin. Abbott Lawrence, and
the whole corps OF and monoposts,
right: what thea II it be economical for the United
States TO build up home market for all it's products,
that il may not sell to any one beyond its borders.
il must of necessity be true economy for every
State Of the conederacy to pursue the course.
II Mr. Corwn's logic is sound when applied to the
Union, it cannot be unsound If applied to each
Of the thirty one separate States which compose
the Union Suppose, then, that South Carolina should
say, 81 will have home market ! will, by taxa
ton, so burden manufactured goods imported from
foreign nations and from the other thirty States that all
the cotton of South Carolina and all the rice of South
Carolina shall linda South Carolina home market !" what
would Mr.. Corwn and Abbott Lawrence say to that |!
Would they adhere to their theory, and sustain South
Carolina or would they desert their theory, and vify
South Carolina These questions are easily answered,
and unhappiIy, have absolute to them Some
Of the southern States have been driven, by the anti
slavery agitation to consider OF Of retaliation 1t
has occurred to the legislators of several Of those States
that they might properly rs,aliats northern abolition
ism and fana,icism by taxing the productions and
features OF northern States As soon that idea was
promulgated the home press loud in condem
nation OF it, urging the same arguments which we now
urge against a restriction on trade.
But if it be an economical thing for the federal gov
eminent to build up home market by restrictions on
importaons it must be desirable object for the State
governments 10 build up home markets for State products
State governments 10 build up State home markets.
il would be sensible in every community Stale
yea in every individual in every community in the State
to follow the logical deduction. Thus we would
have-shouId we follow the reasoning of Mr.. Corwin
and the monopolisis-not only total abolition of all
foreign commerce. but abolition OF all commerce be.
tween the States and not only that but should have
total abolition OF all commerce between different COM
muntes and even between individuals in the same
munty We would then speedily relapse into bar
barism Each would be required not only to pro-
duce the means for his sustenance, but TO make
his Clothes his hat, his shoes. the implements necessary
for HMM fine. to supply all his wants by h's own
labor Barbarsm is the necessary consequence OF such
a state of things.
We have now reduced Mr.. Corwin's idea to its first
elements; and we have shown the lamentable e.
quences which must flow from its full and entire adop-
lion in practice After what we have already said on
this subject is utterly unnecessary for us TO set forth
the true doctrine The intelligent and unprejudced
reader has already performed that task for himself The
division OF labor and the various adaptations OF the diff
feren, soils and climates and conditions of different por
tons OF the world constitute mandate plain, and per-
haps more binding in practice than special revelation
commanding the nations to trade with each other.
We have nearly brought comments the report Of
Mr. Corwin a close. We have selected only its prom.
inent points subjects OF remark. We have something
10 say with regard to the home market; and we
have also something TO say with regard to the OF
the precious metals. and their influence trade and
commerce. and the laws which regulate their transmits
from country to another A, our earliest conve
nience, we will speak Of these matters.
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