The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-01-13
For The Cecil Wing.
NEiard Times" and Free Trade.

Mr.. We see through Tie papers
that there is much distress amongst mccI,an
i"s and lahorc,S of every employment, IN
GLIDING the builders of New York, notwih-
standing that city is the great emporium of
Foreign Importation. And to remedy the
evils brought about by Free Trade, mass
meetings lave been held by the unnnploych.
and petitions signed praying The City Govern,
mcnt TO urge forward some projected public
work with view to give employment TO
portion, at least, Of those now idle.
Now would suggest that the unemployed
Of New York and of all other cities should
send up petitions, not to their respective City
governments, but to the Congress now i'll
session, demanding it to stop that eternal
dram of specie 10y passing such protective
laws as former experience has shown would
give permanent employment 10 every branch
of trade in our common country. Have the
working people of New York, and elsewhere,
so soon forgot how the trades of the country
were depressed in 1851, when Free Trade
was at its lowest under the Compromise Of
1852, and how rapidly trade of every dcscrip-
ton improved Immediately after the passage
of the protecting act of 1872; how that IN
stead Of sending of the specie at the rate of
over 81, 0GO per week, as we have done un-
der the British protecting tariff of lS46:-
that in the first nine months of the tariff of
1912 our Imports of specie, above expectation
had amounted to over so ,C0O.000.
Do the builders and other manufacturers of
this Union not know that 5000, 900 of ieo.
pie, in England alone, are subsistcd on, or,
by thc cotton trade. Now as that cotton
grows here, and that as we arc the best GUS
toners England has for the article when
manufactured, would it not be well for us to
manufacture all the cotton IRE gror! This
would give permanent employment to almost
countless thousands of American frecmcn
who are now idle, and in many cases, ac-
tually suffering, whilst Congress are now en-
gagged in raising their own per d,ems and the
salaries of every officer Of the Government,
besides giving the public land to every for
eign convict and paupcr who can cross the
Missouri without detection.
| The 5000, 900 of persons now engaged in
the cotton trade of England. if employed in
this country, where they should be. would
increase our population one. fourth, and would
require twelve such cities as New York was
in 1850 to accommodate then. Then there
would be employment for builders and every
| kind Of operative for all time as the country
would increase. 6OO0 900 of people, or one
fourth more Of population would consume
that amount more brca'lstuifs and provisions
Our average cops of breadstulls are about
one thousand millions COO, GOO o0l an
nunlly. Six millions Tor one-fourth) addl-
tional population would give us a market fol
one fourth more, or 250000,0 900 bushels OF
brrads;uhs and proportional amount o
other provisions. The farms now under cul
tivation in the United States are valued al
over (S3 600 900 ,000) three thousand six
hundred millions, and eight hundred millions
would be added to their value. The annual
vegetable products Of our farming land is now
50 GOO ,0O0,0 600 and would be increased to
-, 800 600 900.
| Here see the contrast. Instead Of having
u llo,ne Market ior 250,C00,oo0 bushels Of