Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-06-18


lind and produce. A corresponding effect Is |
seen at home. The receipt Of American pro-
duce on the Hudson in lo43 was 10 900 tons |
in 1916. it was $4,000 tons-an increase of
1900 tons. In 1913, it was 40 900 tons IN
1851 1t was 81 600 tons--a decrease OF 10000 /,
tons-thls IS IN the last three years of each
system. Our wheat is selling lower than it did
years since, and the quantity sent to market, Is
less than in 1915. We are sending less abroad,
and using less by our manufacturers at home.
1t was supposed, when the present system
went into operation. that the continent Of Eu-
rope would buy largely Of our products. - hat
is the result? When you take ont rice, which
they cannot raise, the other articles Of food all
told, down to the last pee; of potItocs, and the
last dish ofmcal they have taken lu5, amounts
to el7004, Very important surely. Build
your railroads, call in your shipping from the
fishing grounds, from the coasts OF Ophlr, and
from every ocean--they will be needed. For
1 what y, ny. there Is gentleman here who
dweiis hard by the Atlantic, and catches he
first sound from across the waters, who tells
the farmers and mariners Of this nation. that,
within twelve months, the whole continent of
Europe will want $l7,00l worth Of our agr-
cultural products
In every yard Of broadcioth, worth SO the
American farmer loses the sale Of at least 81
50, which GOES to make It's value. Our lnpor-
talon of wooden goods s about SIG COO co ::
and the farmer loses the sale of Sl3 5000 y of
products in that single article 1t Is nearly the
same on cotton, and greater on IRON. Tie raw
matcnal-and that is our own, lying useless,
costs not TO exceed : per ton in the nanufac-
ture of non; this country has consumed one
million Of tons otlron in year. Suppose you
break down the manufactures, and bring il all
from abroad, you deprive the farmer Of u mar
ket to full three tourths of its cost at least
$le,000,000. The farming interests of this
county East and West, are beginning to feel
the effects OF this system, and We fear they are
destined to tecI it more heavily in time to conc.
The farmers have more interest in protection
tnln any other class There are hundreds; of
small pcrishble articles, sold at manutaclu ing
establishments, that could not be transported,
even if there were market abroad bot they
30 to the support and comfort Of lie laborer,
and to increase the gains of the flriler The
American doctrine should be to Diotect it, own
laborers, and It should be carried out through
the whole. Every village and town. and coun-
", and tate, should sustain It's own mechanics,
and farmers, and merchants, who are then
selves supporting ,h1 institutions Of society in
which they live. But TIE tendency Of the
t present tine IS 10 60 abroad Somewhere; tC
find ont some foreigner. NJ matter where lie
lives, or what viii be the cost 81 transporting
to hun the equivalent OF yoT purchase, Pre-.
. vided You gct The credit o. buying cheap and
that tendency has Ito sane hon. i not its orrn
IN the policy Of the Government. Four fljhs
Of foreign manufactures are imported by for.
; e.gners, and on foreign account. They Dc
= not pay, by twenty-five per cent, a5 hlgn or
the invoice OF foreign manufactures as Amer.
cans. They pay about three pr cent. Interest
= on capital, while American merchants pay, o.
: the average, mEc per cent Ihe result OF suct
. a course no one can doubt. n hle We are, a.
e we ought 70 do. stimulating agriculture, by Sc!
y ling lands cheap ana giving bounty lands an
t Tree lands, we are pursuing course that Wi
deprive those, and al occupants OF lands, til,
}, means Of exchanging their produce for thu
! manufactures necessary for wear and use.
!, We are now sending abroad all the proluct
j we can sell ; we are sending our United States
- stocks. our State stocks, our city stocks, aut
= railroad bonds, and every other badge OF bon
>. dage, and then pay las in 1871 twenty-nInt
>, millions and halt Of gold to make the balance
II of our imports. In lcjl Our imports OF manu
featured and manufactured iron, wool, an(
I. cotton was so 000000 our exports Of AMI
:, nal and vcgetablc food 1000 600 bulunct
y against us in those articles, SO coo 600. The
prospect for this year is stIl worse. The Ma
/ tionu Inleligencer gives the imports and eX
j ports for February 1852:
= Imports o; Merchandise, sol392S;
o Exports, = 3J67 40
! Excess Of imports over exports, Sjl1l,52
Exports of specie, s355l,54;
:, Imports, HOPS;
g Excess export over import ofspcc,o, 33,44l25(
& A. that rate per month, the difference IN cx
}, ports will make Us deb ors $6!0j PIP eacl
g year. and our goid must 90 abroII At the rat,
It of : / ,2J5.00 annually.
!, now tins does not alarm the gentleman
n from Massachusetts. lie thinks that " it woui
e be the creates, of calamitics + the gold shoul
|. remain here that "lf we could succeed II
If keeping at home SlC0GC0 eco year, tn
Il country would see Il crisis ON tremeulou
it sale, altogether beyond the case of lS3!.'-
d Fealul as the warning Is, confess that wis
n to see the experiment tried. am for progress
Il and wish to sec something new. In the LIS
n Sky wears we have had some eight or ten crl
:, ses by ovpr-importatlOn from abroad, and eN
IS haustlon of oar means to meet the bills. As
J friend Of domestic manufactures, wish to 81
n one homemade crisis, got mp by keeping on
l. OF debt and keeping our money at home b
70 employing American labor in manuticturn
Ii and paying that labor in American produce an
II American gold.
e What is the meaning Of crisis "a word tha
n we have imported with o'hcr foreign article.
i In It's motheranA, believe it meant the dec
:. ding tn turning in Of disease, whentIe p.
n icn, was balancing between life and death.
IS Here we use tha.-as other thm.s-to scrv
III various purposes. Among thcs', to signify
$, state Of financial distress; IN polite phrase, I
n say an unpleasant thing, that wc clnuot pa
our debts. For the sake Of variety, wlsl I
Il s,e Il crisis got up on the gentemin's rheor,
ic II it is not pleas1n', do not try 1t bat once.
Is What disease will it bring on nation,
OF which crisis can occur, unless It is plethora
That Is certainly dangerous IN the human cor
he stiiution, bu, has never been considered mort
, ; or alarming in pccuniary AT IRIS. Try yo,
III experiment first on an individual; f II hur;
4 stop there. Try It on a Vermont farmer
e, viii risk h m-he owns his fIrn and stock,
Of free from debt, raises abundance 10 support h
O. family, to pay the mechanic Tor every manufl