The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-12-27
The True Policy of the Union


of a nation.
The True Policy of the Union.
BY HENRY G. CAREY, LID.
Five and thirty years since, the internal
relations and the policy of Germany on the
one hand, and of these United States on the
other, differed toto Gallo, the one from the
other. The first presented TO view con
geries of disunited States, each having its
separate custom-house, and each jealous OF
its immediate neighbor, while well disposed
to court connections with communities
abroad. As consequence Of this, manu-
features had scarcely an existence; WOOL
rags, and food went abroad, to be paid Tor
in the cloth and iron of Belgium, France
and England; the people were poor and un-
instructed and the nation at large was lit
tie more than an instrument in the hands
of Russia or Austria, France or England
Directly the reverse of this was then the
state of affairs on this side Of the Atlantic,
the union of the States having then been per
feet the revenue system having then been
uniform throughout the length and breadth
of the land; full and complete protection
having then been accorded to the farmer
in his effort to draw consumers to his side !;
the internal commerce and the revenue from
customs duties having been great beyond
Ill fha al
having been then SO active as largely to
stimulate immigration and the power OF
the nation having been so great as fully to
warrant General Jackson in saying to the
government of France that the day had at
length arrived when claims for spoliations
must be settled, as settled they soon after
were.
Starting thus from opposite points, the
course of the two nations for nearly all the
time that has elapsed, has been as directly
opposite; Germany having then soon after
been united in the establishment of a COM
mercial system which gave protection to
the farmer and the laborer, while we aban-
doned protection and re-estabished that
British free. trade system under which, but
few years before, we had so severely suf-
fered. The policy of the former has through
out the whole of this long period, look ed
to the creation of perfect internal COM
merce as the basis of a great external one
and how well it has in this succeeded is
found in the fact that whereas, before the
formation of the Customs Uuion, Prussia
had but seventeen vessels in her merchant
service the Prussian flag now floats over
more than ten thousand ships
The policy of the latter has with slight
exception. been based on the idea of sacri-
fcing the internal commerce, in the hope of
thereby obtaining large external one
What has been its success is shown by the
facts that throughout the last few years, the
Stars and Stripes have been almost driven
from the ocean and that even now, with
peace restored, nearly all our intercourse
with the outside world is carried on through
European ports, nearly all our commerce
with those ports being maintained by means
of foreign ships
With the growth of German domestic
commerce there has been a growing tenden-
cy toward the establishment of political un-
ion, the result now exhibiting in the facts
that the great disturbers of German peace,
France and Austria, have recently been
driven from the field, and that Northern
Germany now for the first time stands be-
fore the world united nation numbering
thirty millions, and exercising an amount
of influence greater than that of either France
or England. The greatest work ever yet
accomplished on European soil has been
thus achieved, and by means of measures
SO generally peaceful and profitable that
the period of war scarcely extended beyond
by which to meet its cost that the whole
amount of loan asked for by the Prussian
Finance Minister was less considerably
than $50, 900.
With the decline of American domestic
commerce and corresponding growth of de-
pendence on foreign markets, the course of
things has here been directly the reverse of
all that has been above described the ten
dency to disuni on, the belief in the divine
origin of human slavery, the love of slavery
and the slave power having grown with
every step in that direction. Sectional
feeling grew steadily, until at length it ri
pened into a rebellion that has cost the
Union, North and South, more than ten
thousand millions of dollars of property,
and mole than half milliod of human lives
the whole of this great mass constituting
the price we have paid for following in the
direction indicated by those British free
traders by whom the first and greatest of
all the commandments is found in the ira
der's maxim, ''Buy in the cheapest market
and sell in the dearest one"
What, however, is it that they need to
buy Is it not raw materiaIs-tbe things
we have to sell That it is SO is certain.
and that their pecuniary interests are pro-
NOTED by increasing competition for their
sale, is equally certain.
What as it they desire to sell Is it not
iron and cloth-the things we need to pur
chase That such is the case is certain, and
equally so that their pecuniary interests are
promoted by increasing competition for
their purchase
The more they can crush out foreign man
facture, the greeter must be the competition
for the sale in British markets of all the
products of the earth the lower must be |
their prices; the poorer must be the men
who have thenn 70 soil ID A. !