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

cotton. our -four, rice, corn, beef, pork,
as well as our iron. Were we TO man
ufacture our whole production of cotton
and necessary supply of WOODEN goods,
iron. leather, hats &C, within the seven
tears, we Farmers would be obliged 10
work two or three hours more each day,
and much harder in order TO be able TO
TO produce supply of necessary Prov
sions to board sufficient number oil Ia
borers to make the iron, erect the nee
essary buildings, make the machinery,
and the operatives to convert our pfoduc-
ton of cotton and supply OF wooden
into necessary manufactured articles for
consumption and for export. am in
clined to believe that the average quaint
" and value of all eatble productions OF
the United States which have been ex-
ported for the las, seven years, will fall
for short of supply for eight or nine
months per annum. Possibly, by extra
exertion on the part of the Farmers
full supply of provision, might be pro-
duced TO supply the laborers, and opera
tivcs while they were converting said
materials into manufactured articles
At the end of seven years, and thereafter,
there would be exported from the u.
States annually from five TO seven hun
dred millions of dollars worth, of domes-
tic manufactured cotton and wooden
goods, in lieu of sixty or seventy, or say
ninety millions of dollars worth of the
raw material cotton.
However, there are demagogues, sham
patriots and political thinkers that pretend
10 believe that by manufacturing the sta
Piles of our own production, consume our
own eatable productions, we shall ruin our
commerce, and bring the whole people
TO the very brink of ruin. Such doctrine
is without foundation, and not worthy of
belief The history of the world, as yet,
gives no account Of a commonwealth that
produced the necessary materials, and
converted them into necessary commodI-
ties for consumption equal to full sup
ply, and for export. that by so doing,
have essened their commercial interest.
1t belongs TO the people of the United
States, for at east thirty years to come,
TO establish the price Of cotton manuiac-
tured goods throughout the world, as well
as the price Of cotton. am inclined to
believe that the United States now, ex-
ports at least, nine-tenths of all the cot
ton that is exported from cotton grow
ing countries. am well aware that
when II is expected that the United
States are about TO manufacture their
own productions of cotton, by so doing,
cotton will advance in price, equal to
what il will cost to produce IT, by free
and intelligent laborers in foreign coun-
tries. At present the slave laborcrs IN
the United States, produce cotton at SO
low price, they have virtually broken
down all other cotton producing coun-
tries in the world. The Parliament doc
uments of A. ID. l841-S, bear full and
ample testimony that cotton cannot he
produced in their East lndia possessions
by free and intelligent laborers for les:
than from % to 81 l-2 cents per pound,
to average the season. | say elevate
the price OF cotton of our own production
to that price AT which it can be produced
by free laborers in all cotton producing
countries. BY SO doing, we greatly en-
nance the value of cotton of our own
production, or in other words, elevate
the price of slave labor to that of free
men. BY elevating the price of slave
labor to that OF freemen, of our OWL
al th., ,f laka,
in oil cotton producing countries. If il
is advisable for the United States tC
establish the price of cotton, and il
manufactures for her own advantage,
for at least thirty years, or al; least for
such length of time ms will enable, OF
rather compel England and other for
elgn governments, who have colonle,
calculated TO produce cotton Tor a suppl,
or buy the manufactured articles OF US
! lament the hopeless condition of moth
er England, after stealing from their IA
therland the colored man and transplant
ing INN 10 their then American colonies
as slaves. Now TO be dependent upon
the descendants of those very slave,
for staple, which they now consider on
Iy second TO food. Our commercial
tonnage is now almost equal to Engand's
including her colonies. Admitting thai
within seven years, we manufacture all
OF our productions of cotton aud wool,
our Tonnage would equally increase, and
within from fifteen to twenty years, the
American tonnage, would be more than
all the world beside, and in the mean
time, as have said, command the com
merce Of the world. am decidedly OPP
posed TO what is termed intervention,
except by multiplying our school-houses
academies aud colleges, and 10y SO doing
we multiply our artisans, mechanics, man
ufacturers, and reward the inventors, aud
by giving this class of worthy citizens
iull employment in converting all our
staples into necessary manufactured ar
iicles, in the course Of events, the Uni.
ted States will soon direct your com
merce, the commerce of the world
have long since quit talking about 36
80 or 81 40. go the whole figure,
and do believe that providence designs
that within % years, the American
Continent IN pppctiftata ana Dant,blto