Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-06-17
THURSDAY, JUNE IL, 1852.

when the United States will rule the com
merce of the world. When look back to
the period when the British Parliament pro-
hbited the expectation of sheep, wool or
yarn, to the American Colones-prohbit-
ed the manufacture of iron, and declared
all rolling mills and Sitting mills a nui-
sance, aud required the Governors of their
several colonies to cause them to be de-
molshed within thirty days after notice,
aud ye, permitted the Americans to export
/ pig iron to Liverpool to exchange for Brit
ish manufacture, | ind that the Colonial
Assembly of New Hampshire ia receipt of
this act of Parliament, passed laws design
ad to encourage the increase Of sheep, and
prohibited the killing of eve sheep for five
years; and that that the Massachusett CO.
/ lonal Assembly passed laws giving great
encouragement to the Farmers to increase
/ their flocks Of sheep, aud manufacture the
wool. The Legislature made an appropria-
I ton of s9400 IN addition to large sums sub
scrbed by individuals The Massachusetts
assembly also appointed trustees and estab-
I llshed a spinning school, for young ladies',
in the city Of Boston. BY law the selectmen
of the several towns, were required to VISIT
! the several families IN town aud see that
/ the boys and girls did not Idle away their
/ time, but were employed IN carding and SPIN
ning. Public exhibitions were held on Bos-
ton Common, aud at one time, 500 young
aides were seated by their wheels spinning,
& male weayers weaving, we're carried round
ON mems shoulders. Yes, Ladies aud Gen
/ iemeu, these were the women that refused
/ 10 drink tea; they were the mothers Of our
political Fathers; 1t was these mothers aud
daughters that manufactured clothing for
thelr husbands and sons during the revo-
/ luiionary war. The assembly Of New
/ liamshire, during the revolutionary war,
passed a law making tow cloth a tender for
/ all state taxes. Win but the women paid
/ this tax Among the archives of the State
department not a bill of the purchase out
of the state of wooden blankets is to be
found. Our mothers and their daughters
manufactured for their husbands and sons.
" hen about to leave To lon The army our
mothers would say, Husband, aud you my
son, are about to JOIN the army, here are
my blankets for your comfort; YOU will bear
40 mind that they must be returned Was
not this patriotism, genuine patriotism =
Soon after the close of the revolutionary
NuI uNA kUt INDEPENDENCE VI Aut 1hiAtb
States had been acknowledged, our coun-
Try was flooded by foreign manufactures;
the solid coin was soon exported, and ten
der laws, and appiaisement laws, were pass
ed by the general assembly of tins state
At length our general assembly we're under
/ the necessity, ia order to sustain our public
credit, TO make one more appeal to our pa
triotic mothers. In I7-6 the assembly pass
ed a law, that person who manufactured
tow, or tow and linen cloth, should be cred
tied certain sum per yard on their grand
list Gentlemen, by turning to your pub
/ lie documents, you viii find that between
January l7sS aud October 1892 your Rev
dictionary debt was paid, aud further
sum of $50 900 paid TO the state OF New
York, aud your State Treasurer reported
that he had ON hand Sl4 eco IN solid COIN,
1t was then common saving that woman
who manufactured for her own household,
and one piece of goods to sell, did more TO
retain the solid com IN the state, than all
the banks aud the greatest financiers. am
astonshed when look back 10 the time
that the constitution Of the United States
was adopted and go,erumen, under the
constitution fully organized, and pro-
vision made Tor the public debt, that the
tariff on imports was so very moderate. Had
Congress pursued the policy, long pursued
by Great Britain, in converting the staples
Of the United States into necessary manu-
featured articles for consumption, equal to
full supply and for export, long before this
time, the United States would have ruled
the commerce of the world
Washington, in his messages to Congress,
SAYS in substance, that the invention of any
improvement whereby the raw material was
converted into a manufactured article
should be rewarded from the public treas
ury. aud the Improvement become public
property. Hamilton, in his report as Sec
retary of the Treasury, December 9th, A.
d. 1891 gives us his opinion as to the Iu'-
portance of giving encouragement TO the
artisan, mechanic and manufacturer.
From these various considerations, l
/ have come to the following conclusions
We have our state and other departments,
embracing every interest Why not have
department, embracing the agricultural,
mechanical and manufacturing interests
IL belongs to our farmers TO ask OF Con-
gress the establishment of department,
devoted TO the great interests of our coun-
try. The government, by proper agents,
ought to take the lead in encouraging the
artisan and mechanic All oltheir improve
ments in machinery whereby the raw mate
rial is converted into the manufactured ar
ticle, ought forthwith to become the COM
mon property of the whole union. While
| rejoice at the idea of individuals associa-
ting for the sole purpose of encouraging
the artisan aud mechanic for their private
advantage, this alone ought to induce the
government to pursue the same system for
the benefit of the whole. We want a sys-
TEN of state aud national legislation for
, this purpose, that shall be eiiectual to co.,
/ ect periodically, in any state OF our union,
! and concentrate to one point, at the seat oil
government in each state, and at the seat
4 of national government, precise, accurate,
: authentic and official statistical information
upon all the annual results of the husband
man. mechanics and manufacturer indus
try-showing to any body, at all times, as
! near as human watchfnlness can, upon a
, scale so extensive, all the elements OF both
demand aud the supply of every article OF
= produce and manufacture that enters our
D market.
, With information of this description