Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-06
EXPLANATION "a the nill 10 Incorporate The
American industrial Agency"
BY DUFF GEEEN

We have seen that the Duke of Wellington. in the
iabate ON the corn laws said that he did not believe
hat their repeal would enable Gnat Britain 10 sell
0 yarro cloth, or pound of iron hur5 IL any part
10 Europe or of the globe over which she does not
exercise control, and that Lord PamerSiOn said.
chat being unable % sell their surplus manufactures
on the continent they must look 10 Africa, and
specially 90 India and To China for a market. We
ire thus referred 10 the relation between Great Br
ttiu aud the countries over which she exercises
control" And lind that Lord Chatham said
that Tue British COloniSt> in North America had no
ght O. mluafaCtCT even nail for horse shoe.
And that Lord Shelf ld said 'flr only use of Amer
-lu colonies or West India lsl4La L. Il monopoly
% their consumption and the carriage q tLtjrr pro-
Iuce." and that accordingly the famous ayIgdlOn
art of 1000 provided that certain specified articles,
-ue produce OF the colonies, should not be exported
directly from the colonies 20 any foreign country,
nut should first be sent 10 Great Britain. and there
f.g upon the yh0re." And. that not content with
compelling the colonies 10 sell their produce eNclu-
,.ve.v iu tL9 British markets, II was ordered that
they should =" Lay sp,s foreign articles as they
might stand IN need OF exclusively from the nIer-
chants aud manufacturers OF England aud that
~uu commodity of the growth, production, or man
uisture Of Europe shall Doe imported into the plan
rttous but such are laden and put on board in
England, Wales or Berwick upon Tweed, and IN
EugIiSh-bU'lt shipping, whereof the master and
three-tourths OF the crew are English.
-Jr,, were brought into England by her Norman
.1uluerog> From them came her civil wars, the
migration of the PlrlJauS, the Subjugation of India,
,t scotland and OF Ireland, the independence Of her
american colonie>-the war with France. the holy
lIl1n,p the jealousy of Russia. her partiripltou
IN the slave trade her desire To suppress it, the eman-
.pltiOu of her West India slaves. and the wars in
the Crimel 10 lqtia and in China. The purpose was
,o increase the wealth, the power the resources and
domination OF England.
Ia 1885 she had aScertaued that the PEOPLE on
.be European continent who had been the CON
>umtrs Ui her manufactures, had become her com.
pettOrs for the markets Of the world She knew that
they had few or no tropical colonies and believed
that she could continue 10 levy tribute upon them
30, tho shane of profits on tropical products the
monopoly Of which she could retain under the CON
.... winch her colonial system would enable her 10
enforce She then believed and argued that free
labor would be cheaper and more productive than
slave labor. few years OF practical experience
demonstrated the faIlacy of that theory and hence
sir Robert Peel in the debate on the Sugar
duties in 1912, said.
Il have NV doubts if a colony in which slavery has
been abolished, eau AZ present enter into success
''' competition with district m which the system
ontinues 10 exist - and Lord Stanley, then MEM
per OF lne British Cabinet said that the prOpretOrs
| ~ s-.N.!-sNo sugar estates who had expended
sl'7IVvo IA their cultivation had lost 1888 OJO--
| '"S ~ LINTON ItReS, commenting on this speech.
| - t'y ..'u' O' abolition IN the West Indies was
inc run OF Ing planters who were compelled to in
, JNI o, ioqrths Of the sum expended in
abolition act i fairly sweeping s,yay' whole class
of men who thought themselves in possession of
comfortable perhaps handsome income. anniIiI,t.
ing or at least rendering unayailng to its owners
The WhoIe mass OF Inc English West India Islands
The inevitable consequence az 81. ti..;
act is to convert the West India Islands int bIacI
.o,Onies because the white man Is not suiteJ -,
Dor in that climate, and cannot resist ts tr,;,I
diseases" The emancipation of the West Ina
slaves having failed 10 give 10 Great Britain tba
monopoly of the raw product Of the raw material
| fcOtton,) because the cheap slave labor of India
under the control Of British masters and British
policy could not compete with the cheaper slave
labor of America, under the control Of the American
master. the manufacturing and commercial interest
OF England under lead Golden and his assoc iate
organized the antcOrn law league and agitated for