Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-04-26
RICE, THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.3


that subscriptions were made in Man
chester and Glasgow Of $50, 900, and
in all not less than 81 100000 were
spent of British money to break down
our tariff in 1916. This was deemed
wise investment if but one per cent. =.
was made on their expectations, and
since they sold more than one hun
dred million dollars' worth Of goods a
year to us following 1S46 over the five
preceding, the return was most salts
factory. HSw much more tempting is
the prize nowl We have added ten
millions to our people and from four
million things have made men with the
wants of civilization. Hungry war
for years has devonred our substance,
and fratricidal strife and slaughter has
lessened our usual production, yet we
have surplus Of so, ,000, 600 bushels
of wheat and 200, 100000 bushels OF
corn waiting for purchasers. An an
nnal importation of 1870, 900 900 in
value of goods fails to glnt the mark
ct, and our bonds, by the worlds judg-
ment better than consois, can be had
for sixty-fve cents on dollar by a
gold standard; and so stands our ma
tional balance-sheet that after export.
ing all our gold and the same amount
of domestic products the present year
as the last, that to protect our bonds
and corporate Indebtedness 5000, ,000,-
600 in value of our bonds would be re-
qnired No wonder that we tempt the
spirit of perfidy and cnpidity, which,
like birds of evil omen during war
lowering, waited for national annihi.
lation.
have before me letter Of recent
date from one of our distinguished cit
izens now in London, from which |
read the following:
"The idea of suppl ying our markets is up
permost in their minds. Their iron-works are
vastly cxtended-one establishment covering
near twenty acres of land. They have no
idea that We have a right to do anything but
raise the raw material and send il to them to
be worked.
u wish every American could hear these
| British talk free trade. They fairly hate lis
| because we have n tariff. A member Of one
! of the largest manufacturing firms in Great
| Britain said they would have our tariff reduced
this session of Congress. They think MORRILL,
ought TO be hung instead of JEFF. Davis
very high compliment.
Our consul at Liverpool warns us
that great effort will now be made by
English capitalists and manufacturers
to induce us to reduce our tariff and
permit them to do all our manufacture
ing. There will be terrible press.
ure put Oh the Government This il
the language Of the London Mining
Journal: ...
| The formal constitution of a free-trade
| league in the United States Is a very hopeful
| sign. The representatives from the South are
| almost sure To vote for it, and il will be
strange if the West does not. Should these
anticipations prove true, we may expect Il very
large trade with that country.
| But on home testimony this sus-
pense is not to be of long continuance
An officer of the league, author of the
Buckeye Abroad" and Of Eight
Years in Congress-" who made in this
house "a strange commingling of fig.
urcs and fiction, takes up the prophet.
ical office in his book of speeches, aud
announces preiatorily that "before
1868, agriculture and commerce, labor
of all kinds, consumcrs of every de-
gree, will join in new band to res
cue iamishing toll from fiscal tyranny"
Such is the strain prophetic taken up
by that Samuel who has not perished
between the temple of freedom and
the altar of sacrifice. Such are the
emissaries who void destroy our do
mestic industry and give England a
| market worth more than the trade oil
her colonies and the Indies. Stern Jus
| tice is the most we owe to that coun
try, aud before asking us to accept oi
the selfish theories of her economists
and bribes of her agents let her make
apologies that in the drear night OF
our war she raised slave-driving trait
ors to the dignity and power of bellig.
crents. Let her atone for masked neu.
trality compounded with the crimes of
pirates, when her hoDored citizens
furnished capital for the fitting ont OF
the Alabamas and Shenandoas t.
sweep our commerce from the Ocean
and meet our claims of millions of dol
lars lost on tue oceans, with which thai
Government is chargeable, then we
may consider the question Of "fam
ishing toll" and whether it shall be
our policy to degrade and oppress la
bor to the foreign standard or invite
the skilled artisans of the Old World
to the comfort and competence to be
found in the New. The question OF
our national independence and readi.
ness TO meet any domestic war or for.
eign invasion l leave to be decided by
the following reflection, which needs
no comment, being both financial
lesson and political caution and
warning:
ECONOMY OF AN gXREBEL.
A sagacious rebel general recently
remarked,
| "We made two great mistakes. Had We
| avoided them we should have conquered you
The first was that We did not substantially de-
stroy the protective features OF the tariff in
the winter session-of l857-5S by an act which
provided a rapid annual sliding scale to free
trade. AS Democratic measure, We could
have passed such law and held il tight OF
you till it had closed the furnaces, workshops
woollen and cotton mills, and steel and ban
aud iron works of the whole North and West
and scattered your workmen over the prairie,
and Territories. When the war was ready foi
you you would not have been ready for the
war. You could not have armed and equip
ped and put in the field a large army nor
built navy. You would have been without
supplies. machinery, and workmen, and you
would have been without money and credit.
Our second mistake was in Withdrawing our
Senators and Representatives from your Con
| gress. Had we lett them there, their vote,
combined with the northern Democratic,
| would have thwarted every military and iinan-
| cial measure necessary to enable you to carry
on the war for a sufficient length of time to
have enabled us to seize the Government, oc-
cupy some of your States, obtain recognition
abroad, and dictate hard terms to you. How
| the - we blundered in these two respects