The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-16
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or a!mpst forty pr cent and yet that period we
doubled the production Of cotton and woollen
CLOTH and trebied that of coal nj iron; nd hence
twas that the country was go rapidly restored to
prosperity alter the dreadful crash produced by
the working of the revenue tariff of lsal-2
IL IS asserted 10y the partisans OF Britain and the
advocates of British free trade that we cannot
make a home market for our vast product of food
Our orator, however, assures that We did ma he
such mar ket, for he that we exported lii.
tie food; and, as ii certainly consumed il ia
quite clear that If IL did not go the foreign mar
ket. II must have been absorbed at home IL ia
further asserted that exports OF food tend To
increasc tn quantity aud uoiue, as indeed they
should do, now that no means of employ yment arr
open to our people except agriculture; but the fac
Id otherwise, aud the honorable gentleman has
been deceived by the ingenious person who fab.
ricatcd the statements he has made.
The iood supplied to the world by the Union il
all OF It from Virginia or the States north of il.
with the exception OF RICE which as the only pro-
duct Of that kind furnished exclusively by the
SJu'h, we now proceed 10 consider by itself with
view TO determine the correctness of Mr. Ran
tours statement that price, bad risen. notwith
standing yosttncrease in the quantity exported.
La lo3S-9, at which time the compromise hsd
made but small reduc ton in the amount Of duty
the quantity exported wac as follows:
Tierces, 80 800 Val. So 400 Oos Per zee. "a 60
In ls4l-2, when the revenue tariff hSd almost
annihilated the manufactures Of the country it
iollowR:
Tierces, li4,6I7 Val, s. ,si7 900 Per tee, IS 10
Quantity had increased. but ms usual, value had
fallrn and far less now obtained for the large
quantity than had before been obtained for the
small one.
In the four years which followed the crops were
large, and the xport averaged nearly one hundred
aud thirty thousand tierces; and yet in the yrnr
lsss, with an export in that year Of one hundred
and twenty four THOUSAND the amount rose "a
S2.5e@ 900, and the price per uercc to $50 90, or
nearly onc-tbird more than had been obtained L,r
The small quantity in the period Of BritiA free
trade.
In the three years from ls47-s to 1880 the
average export was but one hundred and nineteen
thousand tierces; aud yet iud the value of that
Of the 0st Of those years TO have been only
S263l 900. giving $40 50 as the price per tierce;
and thus we have, under British free trade, dimi
mutton Of quantity and reduction Of price In the
last fiscal year this is exhibited on a still more q.
raordinary scale, the export having been only one
hundred and FIVE thousand five hundred and nine.
~ tierccs, yielding S2,i70927 or 800 81 pcr
uercc and thus we see that. while under the tariff
Of lS42 there was a large augmentation Of export
with tendency upwards in prices, there is under
that OF 1876, steady downward tendency in both
quantity and price, in direct opposition 10 the
fraudulent statements that the honorable neuhey
has permitted himself TO be prevailed upon to en-
dorsc.
In a statement Of the exports from the mort of
New York in the fret quarter Of the present 6seaI
year, VIC find still further difference Of price and
quantity, az Is here shown in contrast with the last
quarter Of the year lsi5:
lst5, tierces exported, san; value s2e5 aof.
1851, tieIees exported, a,a25 value, s9i.5l5;
per uetce, $40 10.
With view that our readers my understand
accurately the movement Of tho whole period, VIC
odcr them the following diagram:
ls3s-9-Protection. 1s45-6-Proteciion
Price. s2t 90. Export. $4,000. Price, $50 90.