New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-16

product. But why England will b able h
draw 80 little from that country, is declared
! TO DO no mystery, and two reasons aN gvep
in explanation:
"Whsn Lancashire has free scope TO place the ptodue
It's looms and spindles In composition with those ats &
doc the native consumption will die ns'uTa death Lane,
shire desires nothing better than such an opportunity ba,
hitherto It has been vonchssfed to her, AT the outset IN
impossible obstacle presents itself There no gesin,a
the people who shoui be customers. In Ola H. "spss
extent country without Communications We could hr2y
have stronger proofs Of this Afforded co0Esa
with the recent famine While certain districts ere Ssssi
with more than usual abundance OF food in ovu, not
mile, distant the people psrishina by tsOus
Of hunger and thIr.t And II neshbonng population fomd
Intercourse impossible when the hrss aecenss
Of life were Ia question, what must oe tue dcas IN As
way of en- Interchange OF manufactured Tor anmanuac,7a
cotton ~ go
Thus the purpose is deliberately avowed Of
causing the native industry OF India to die
natural death, just as our own has been stunted
for half century, so that Manchester and
Bolton might grow rich. Now that our Slave.
holders Rebellion has cut of the cotton supply.
this savage object will be vigorously pushed.
The difficulties of free intercourse are being
grappled with. Tramways, railroads, and canals
are being built by British capital to carry co...
ton to the seaboard and British manufactures
TO the interior. The Reporter, true to il,
crushing free-trade mission, complains Of tAs
duty levied on British manufactures impcrt4
into India, and, with coId-blooded seGshnSs
rarely equaled, says the Government shields
the native manufacturers from the Onslaughts
of British looms, Gas if desiring to maintain
lingering existence" for the former. We know
that Indian cotton can be manufactured IN
Lancashire reconyeyed in its new shape 70
India, and there sold at price which dis
places the twist and cloth made m the cotton.
field itself. Heretofore. it was done to limited
extent: hereafter, it will be done upon scale
large enough to pauperize all India. The Re.
beion has precipitated this calamity upon her.
Manchester will fix the price Of her cotton, m
il did 80 long for ours. Driven from market
here, England will recuperate in India, but
only by impoyerishing her.
These are two of the most quickly coming
changes in human affairs produced by the lie.
belhou. II mas alternately embarrassed and
excited all nations, civilized and savage But
no one has it utterly rniDed but the region In
which it originated. Powerful as its influence
has already been upon tie North, changes are
70 cone over our future as remarkable as thoSo
we now see taking shape in England and India.
The supply of fabrics for our own consumption
is TO be hereafter manufactured among our.
selves Ia Gods own coed time, the nation
will be at peace. For the first time 10 our ais'
tory, consumers and producers viii e7ery~hers
stand side BY side. In ten years OF peace. the
prosperity OF this country will De mistaken ior
vast speculation. Absolute Protection, under
the pressure OF great national debt, VIII 20
deeply fix the foundations of or manufacture
iuc industry. that home competition viii so re-
duce the price Of al manufactured products
that foreigners will be unable to contend againH
us. Protected at toe outset, they VIII thence
forward be able to protect themselves. BrlnS
statesmen do not fail to realize tho present a.
utuds of this question, and to prognostcate
the future They are wisely adapting thelr
policy to the great crisis 80 suddenly io'eea
upon them. Hence the effort now being made
to compel India to fill the void created IN
America. But while thankful at escaping from
the destructive operation of Free Trade upon
our own industry, it IS painful to see that Inc
stead of the whole system beng abandoned, to
blasting presence is only To be transferred irom
tAs country to another. Yet even rebellion
seems TO have It's COMPOSITIONS.