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

ton per head from seven TO thirteen pounds, with
every reason TO expect HAT il would soon reach
twenty ponds, TO the great advantage of the pro-
Queer Of cotton aud the consumer of cloth
I'VE built mills and created machinery that
enabled us, in six yenra, 10 increase the domestic
manufacture Of woo,n cloth from tiity-five TO eighty
five millions Of pounds.
We opened mines and built furnaces that
enabled us to increase the domestic production Of
iron fir m 200 600 to more lhan 600 900 tons, and
TO increase the consumption per head from thirty
eight to nirpty.righ, pounds
We built rolling mills that enabled us to COM
merce the manufacture of railroad iron, and to ex-
tend it in that brief period TO almost 100000 tons
d" " . increased the production Of rad from $50
to 500 coo pigs that OF hemp from II coo 10 CO.
600 bales and that Of WOOL from torty.eight to
seventy millions Of pounds.
" The manufacture Of corn and hay into pork
and beef butter, cheese, and lard, was extending
Itself at a rate unexalnpird in the world and the
value per ton Of the cNI ors fiom the West 10 the
East WINS Steadily advancing.
" We hus made a marke, for more cotton, md
yet hndmore 10 export and the tariff of lci2 tat
found prices lower ihnn l,y had ever been before,
left them already advanced one fourth, with every
reason TO expect that they would soon be p'rma-
nently tlxcI at higher e:andIld than had been
known for twenty years.
/" We thus made domestic market for food, to
be consumed BY the growers Ct wool and OF hemp:
and the producers of clo!h and iron, coal and bead,
10 the annual cX'eit of more than 500 900.
and vet our eXporjs rose from fourteen millions in
! 1s4l. ~ to twcnry.tuur millions in Isis, '46.
"W We consumed more fish and exported more
rice more naval Stores. nnd the prices of all these
! things rose the tariff OF SIP leaving them all much
higher than 1t had found them.
! " We produced more and consumed more of
everything The con ti'.ou of the people steadily
improved III ere lit o: our banks ard that Of the
State and Of the Genera! Government were res
ioreI and here 4 drgrcr OF quiet prosperity
sr"h rs never had heom been seen in any portion
OF The world. COaflcace in the J'uturc prcrdiicL
! throngdout tie wdoio r1ngc Of society.
" Under the tariilo 1916 wc ha closed cotton
mills, and driven down the uanutac ure of cotton
from 600, 900 TO 4G1 900 bales, and have, in the
last three yeas, decreased the consumption Of
cloth foreign and domestic, per head, tpcaty .frc
per cent
I'VE hive closed wo,len mills, and have, in the
last three years, diminished The consumption c!
c!ph. or, ign aHi domes !c twenty per cent
We have closed mines and fuinacre, and have
diminished by fifty per c mt the production OF iron
and the consumption oi.roH, foreign and domestic
LE fallen FROM nineiy-sigA TO seventy poUuds PEI
he id
I've have closnl rolling mill, until we have
almos. anolh.latei IL. minniao'ure Of railroad
iron, ana destroyed ti" coapetiUJn for thr safe vi
AZ nrt-'' necessary or Inc chruy transportation
TO ma ket Of oar proI4cts
We have diminished the export Of lead from
e03U0j 10 5000 o pig, that OF hemp !ronl 60,
o10 o 1900 bales and the pIoduc, Of ooi
leas 1919 Q, 100 pounds.
" The manufacture O. corn and hay into porl
and beef, butter, cSets", and lard, declines daily
AID the value oE eSpor'. from the West 10 hp Eas
has fallen from So lat ton III 1915 TO ST. ?,
ton in 1851.
ave have thus diminished The market for co,
ton, and have p aced Ourselves urIcr the nec~ss:
for exporting NOR, the consequence Of which
seen IN the iact t,at it has fallen even below til
gr.ce Of the rev, nue. talili Of iSl0, '42-lheu th
;. lowest lhat had ever IN hHown with Il certain
! OF grea, further decline, should he crops p!oY
large.
We ha diminished the domestic market 4
: food 10 b co slmcd By IL, g-o~eis OF wool and {
hemp and the producers Ct cCtl and Of IRON, 60 .
= and lead, ami hat dirinuon cannot be estimate
: ct less than hity millions OF dollars per annuu. an
} yet our ability = supply rood 10 be wol..i decline
: from year oy-ar, a. he munuJpciugc Vi com an
r hIy mo pork, beef, butter, cheese ana larl dt
. clInrs, and as We bee, n!P mnre dependrul upo
a foreign nations tor WOOD aid hemp, lead, c 9TH an
iron.
"Thc Import of fish now exceeds the expor
that Of lie has in!cu N boD. quantity and piict
ana that OF naval sores Aas increased IN quaint
: while il has declined in amount
There IS another question that lies back, an
stretches on far beyond all these: What wi
be the effect of the revenue system on the in
forests OF agriculture That is, aud ought /
b., and always will be, the leading interest O
this country. If we were shut up in con
racted island, the mercantile, manufacturing
D and maritime interests might, predomnate
u in ~ 70 b,u
J. and from ocean TO ocean, we ought to as. VII
I viii Contribute mos, h the prosperity Of tn
! great mass who Own AMI till the sol. Are tn
men of this nation to be engaged IN dlggn
: gold, N raising cotton unl wool, and cralf
i and beet, AMI pork, w.th whc 10 pay for tht
: manufactures d; the Ola World II we had Nc
y the natural power, or the materials, or The ski
= there would be Necessity for IT, Bnt wAe
u there Is scattered AL ever the land an abundanc
= OF cold and silver, Of ron and "copper" and lcaC
I and every other metal he. css ~ for the use
:. man; when we have all HE clements OF natura
i ami physical, and political AMI mental power,
Il would seem as lt'thr Creator, in his works an
$ providence, bad Designed to lurnisn one nltio
with the means of entire independence. Sha
we use these means or, Casting rcprOacu o
!; our Creator for making these needless deposI,
; shall we 10 low system sure to render us a
= dependant as five were colonial vaSslls tranir
- inr oyer a barren land Il is Just as certli
S as If declared by Omnlsccncc-an the ev
: deuce is more tangible because II appeals
g the senses-thlt, under our present system, OF
G leading manufactures cnnR0, lice. When ut
Il establishments are crushed, our laborcrs al
: scattered, AMI our skilled hlnds have forgo,te
II their cunning; the augmented prices of Hr
O fish manuta lures VIII bring us to our sense
s know the ready answer Of the gentlcmn
: from Massachusetts: "W hen that time come
J. we will 0 manufacturing again" Who WI
/ do that? Who will relt his shattered ship
:. and put to sea on the faith Of Govcrnmel
Il that has left him prey to every foreign spoller
/ Who, in this or the generation to come, Will II
vest his property or cXpend his labor on Il
d pledge of Government that saw him or h
e fathers diving by slow tortures, and would Il
IS lift hand to he'p him?
n viii now introduce some facts to show Il
) efec, Of oar present system on agrcutur,
n and | will say, frankly, in advance, that 4
a, facts, gathered by the gentleman from Mass
n chusetts, or myself, IN short portion of tim
though moulded into the imposing form
Dr tables, are very liable to miSead. a philos