New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-14
which were necessarily repeated up to the period Of
our revolt. The fears AID Jealousy that provoked
them. especially as to manufactures. present their

the especially as to manufactures. present their
authors in ludicrous and pitable lsht. Spies
were secretly at work a. all times to report the set
ting up of sry branch Of manufacture, aid even the
Royal Governors were themselves the objects Of
similar espionsse. Jealousy and rapacity pervaded
eyery branch Of the Administration. Printing
presses were prohibited, AID in l67l the Governor
Of virginia thanked God that be had neither free
schools ror printing. The Bnssh statesman VITO
declared that the colonies should no. be permitted
70 manufacture even hob nail, INDUCED in no idle
remark. As early as 1929, Parliament declared
that No wool yarn. or wooden manufactures Oh
4" their American plantations, should be shipped
thence. or even laden in rider TO be transported
{" TO any place whatever" Twenty years later, it
resolved that the creating manufactures IN the
50 colonies terded 10 lessen their d.perftnce upon
4" Great Britain" In 1891, they directed the Board
of Trade to inquire and report with respect to the
laws made. manufactures set up, or trade car
d" red on, detrimental to the trsde, navigation or
manufactures Of Great Britain" The Board
reported that Ma sachusetts had passed an act to
encourage the manufacture Of paper, which law
:. interferes with the profit made By the British
merchant on paper sent thither.' They COM
planned that New England, New-York, Pennsyl-
yanis and Mary land had fallen into tie msnuiac-
ture of wooden cloth ard linen cloth Osher ian-
KEGS were denounced because they made brown
holland for womens wear, which lessons the i'm
operation of calicOes' The people of New York
and New Jersey manufactured great quantities OF
" hats, of which the companies OF hatters IN
" London have complained Parliament the same
year prohibited the expectation of hats from the
colonies, forbade any master having more than two
apprentices, stopped the teaching of trades to ne
groes, and inflicted heavy penalties for exporting
certain coonis manufactures. 10 1850, the re-
pressve policy was intensified by an attempt to
crush out the whole iron manufacture at single
blow. The Board of Trade had discovered ak FORCES
ard 1ireteen furnaces. Parliament pronounced
them public nuissnces, and the Governor was re-
qured 10 suppress them all within thirty days, I'M
der the penalty of $500. 1t prohibited the cree
ton or continuance of any mill or engine for rolling
or oil til iron or any forge for iron or STEEL under
the penalty of 1900. 1t subsequently prohibited
the expectation TO this country Of the tools to make
iron. All these iniquitous measures to compel the
colon-ts 70 become heplessly dependent on In
gland for the prime necessares OF ife-deprvns
them, in short, of all protection for their labor
we're Potent amorg the numerous causes which pre-
cipitated the Revolution. The palsy which then
destroyed the public industry originated in des-
potsm abroad. 1t now springs from despotism
at home.
As Evelyn declares that go early as 1910 the
Council of Charles III. was agitated with fears that
the colonies would throw off their aes glance, saying
that 1--WE understood they were people almost
on the very brink Of renOunciUg any dependence
" on the Grown" so these apprehenslons contin-
ued to increase. The Government refused to ac-
quiesce in scheme for coalition of the colonies
for common protection against the French and
Indians, and with cold booded elaboration left them
to protect themselves. The plan of colony 10 Ohio
was discouraged and defeated, and the Board of
Trade formally determined on a system Of combining
the settlements to such a distance from the sea-
coast as to keep them within the reach of the trade
and commerce of England. They were left on
most occasions to defend themaelves against all
hostile attacks, yet relied on to contribute vast
numbers of lighting men in aid Of the foreign wars
in which England was constantly engaged. Their
energies received no kindly stimulant in English
sympathy. Repression only seemed TO be the
moving impulse of the Crown. Though Louisburg
fell beneath the proves of New -EDgIand troops
and though Canada was another trophy of their
devotion to the royal cause, yet it will hardly seem
credible that the British earnestly debated, during
the negotiations for the peace Of 1863, whether
Canada should not be restored to the French, and
Guadeloupe retained in preference. The future
security of the coonists from French and Indian
butchery was no part of the British plan. England
stuffed protection for herself but none for Us.
Her eminent writers promulgated the devilsh sen
timent that the colonies were already large and
be left in North America to prevent their increase,
lest they should become not only useless but dan
gerous to Great Britain. The danger OF Canada
being restored became 80 imminent as to enlist the
pen Of Franklin in opposition, and the execrab.e
project of checking the growth Of the cOlonsts by
numbering their wives aud children was abandoned
not from motives of humanity, but because the
speculative spirit Of the British politicians in
the undsputed sovereignty of the entire American
continent field for enterprise and commerce such
as never had been opened for their grssping amb
ton. More money could be made BY 10 logger
suffering the colonists TO be bu.chered, than by
giving them up to the Indians scaping knife. OF
all the black phases which British dominion over
the colonies ever assumed, this policy, long and
ably advocated by some Of the sblest Of her people
is perhaps the most Infamous 10 the long catalogue