The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-14

sumed in 1913, but one-sixth were imported ana
along with this vast aggrandize cement OF inanuiae-
| turing industry and commerce, there has been a
steady increase Of both imports and exporis as wei
| as of revenue from customs. The increase III IN
ports has consisted of articles of luxury and raw
materials for manu- fncture. Ind, asst TO ledus me-
thing tranting the dsmonstration the increase 81
srports has constantly included and more Of the
products of agriculture. THUS in this empire we sec,
| what we must always under an adequate and
judicious system OF protection, that proper taIi
not only improves, refnes, and diversihes The ia
| Dor Of country, but e'iarses as commerce. IN
croases the prosperity Of its agricultural popu''
ton, renders the people better and better able 70
contribute to the support of the Government and
raises the nation to position OF independence and
| real equality among the powers OF the globe All
this is individually proved by the example OF Rus
STA, for there protection has been steady and adc
quate, and the consequences are what we have de-
scribcd."
We beg our readers now to read the follow
ing sketch from the same source OF the present
position Of Russia, the land of protection, and
much of it the frozen land, and To compare
it with that which we 50 lately laid before
them Of Turkey, emphatically Tie land OF Brit
ish free trade, blessed as the latter is with
ton:
| Russia, we are told ia triumphant in the Great
Exhibition. Her natural products excite interest
and admiration for their variety and excellence;
| her works OF art provoke establishment for their
richness and beauty. Her Jewellers and gold work
carry off the palm from those OF Paris Her
satns and brocades compete with the richest
| tributions of Lyons. She exhibits tables of mala
cbte and cassets Of ebony, whose curious richness
| indicate at once the lavish expenditure of u bar
barrie court, and the refinement and taste OF civil
| izaton. Nor do we deem it of much account that
her part Of the exhibition is not exclusively the
work of native artisans. Her Saline arc none the
less genuine product Of the country because the
| lovehest were woven by emigrants from the CfoiT
Rouse or the Guilotiere, seduced by high wages
| from their SUMMER home in order to build up the
industry Of the Great Empire and train the grand
sons Of Mongol savages in the exquisite mysteries
of French taste and dexterty. 1t matters not that
the exhibition offers infinitely more than fair il
ustraion of the average capacity of Russian labor,
II il the lese true that people who half cen
tury ago were without manufactures of any but the
rudest kind, able by means to fur
nish forth an unsurpassed display, though all the
world is there to compete with them
"We no lover of Russian power, and have no
wish to exaggerate the degree of perfection to
which Russian industry has attained. We do not
doubt that any cotton factory in the cnyirons OF
| Moscow might be found imperfect when contrast
/ ed with one of Manchester or Lowell We are
| confident that the artisans Of q New England vii
! age very far surpass those Of Russian one in
most qualities Of intelligence and manhood. In
| deed it is absurd to make the comparison; il is alb
surd to do what travellers insist dong-that is 10
| Judge every nation by the highest standard, and
| pronounce each n failure which does not exhibit
| the intellect Of France, the sodity and power Of
| England, the enterprise, liberty, and order Of
the United States, All that should be asked lie,
whether people has surpassed its own previous
condition and is in the way Of improvement and
progress. And that, in respect Of industry, at
east Russia is in that way. her show at the Enhi.
biton may safely be taken az n brilliant and con
elusive proof"
Russia is powerful, and is becoming more So
daily. And why is it so? 1t is because her
/ people are daily more and more learning the
advantages of diversiication of labor and con
tinuation Of oNertion, and daily more and more
improving their physical and intellectual con
dition-the necessary prelimnaries To an inn
proyement Of their political condition. Tur-
key is weak And why is she sol Because
among her people the habit Of association is
daily passing away as the few remaining manu-
features disappear, and as the English bagman
supersedes the resident shopkeeper.
| We are told that the policy of Russia is ad-
verse to the progress Of civilization, while that
OF England is favorable 10 il. aud that we should
aid the latter in opposing the lonner How is
this 10 be proved Shall we look TO Ireland
for the proof2 II we do, we shall meet there
nothing but famine, pestlence, and depopuls-
ton. Or TO Scotland, where men, whose an
ceslors had occupied the same spot hundreds Of
years, are being hunted dozen that they may
be transported to the shores Of the ST. Law
renee, there TO perish, as they are now doing,
Of cold and Of hungerl Or to India. whose
whole class of small proprietors has disap
peared under the blighung influence Of -she
British system, aud whose commerce dimin.
ishes now from year TO year, Or to Portugal.
the weakest and most wreiched of the com
munites Of Europel Or TO Chns, poisoned
with nuggled opium, that costs the nation
annually little less than forty millions Of dol
lars. indispensable for the support Of British
government in India. and without which the
control Of Britain over that country would come
to an endl Look where we may, we see bar
barsm following in the wake Of British doni-
nation; and therefore do we doubt greatly II
Europe would be likely to profit greatly by
any movement tending 10 its extension or per
petuatiOn.
We are told that Russian policy is unfavOr-
able to our commerce; but what Is lis real tenden-
Cyl Is 1t not TO the establishment Of direct in
tercourse with the wordl So long as Russia
exports only food and hemp, she must iradr
with Brazil for sugar. and with Carolina ioi
cotton, through u,e medium ot British ships
Britisb parts, British merchants, and BritiJ
. loOms for she can need no raw cotton, nor car
Carolina need hemp or wheat; but nth The or
D tension of manufactures Russia needs ra'r cotton
,rhich she can drd,r directly from The planter
' paying him in Russian iron, by AID q