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if V -v :-X Every Thursday ling, by AT TklRCE DOLLARS W AC& ' 1 'fl It. T. PEA, Pl)1 ' per square f sixteen' llhesM lor me first, 'and tlurijy cents fbr ea cceeding in. sertion. ?. r aJuriorder arid Judictcf&pert'nt -will lib ched ieaiifew 1- hi8hf lhanf ihefatea HppcifiedfcJ; anl yearly adrcftiifemenu, fAtrfy fAra U f Per eeotJtower. . I - i ; n t "! - H3 Unpaid letters, addr to the Edit or bn'butinecs co not, in any case it w , , j;- nDlJ nlF ' ' i " j 1 " j - . ; - i t. rl'.:,. .;'rv-'r ' 4' a 1 1 I. ... . rr-t V-'V it r -1 I t "V. 1 1 i ..... '-'.-J jfy - 1. - I WDHfla Ho. 4BLJUST. AND FEAR NOT ! LET AU. THE ENDS THOU "AIM ST AT, BE, ';.'.....'.'.:'......,--. ,- '"..4 r experience. onnected w i paper, will tiettaken(regPotffiec , j: nr 1 $PEECHI Of Ms. Evans, in revlv tcIT Mcuume, o, 'cLth r?,.t? tvn i hi illftfr. Peltier- ttl in fe Senaleloftke Urt -l fitrteJan tiory 22 ant 23, 1841 tluded ' 4 lic'ftt "'thfie!Fact in j Lher--i point .'pf iiiwii Much a GreatfBriU n nanulacturea, we take ten million., . orrn tt ,ha,r ?ut ?C fbr oiher .tiation., she roai ai iciure. roorc ior, Iheweir, Ul fier .nanuiacmrcr, doe. h ti nd red and sixty thll.Itiij'i w.ho r Hint lht rrrent ntfrtf3da of her it 4c to;, kec jup price ; arc to de per Vainly on " two not see mat the gre tifacttirers, mus home!;?! H for od in her r supply, when 'prlceij W(f high there, greatest' and best ir i pny hiiiK . . r . - Wljep they, are ,!, we s man- at er must be inundated i T. ' ons. ? rricc. V'.'with the surplna of her pro r will be prrpe.tualjy Hucltuat7 Butjjsir, fr lhmve. tvaried:the . Se 5fW dellin .llbion'ithis .'bj-anrh of JsubjecU T di-cuia it as it ouht'to be. i Hissed, woul require much in rW time t in iiiaiirv nrh ennclusion. ' W w , w -: .. They are all the other way. v The honorable Sena tor' great purpose is to increase the pVici of cotton, and to dimin- .proper Per me utWer any rrrcuiii.i.t., -i a . J- m rta iJlfom lha Sen- ate ; jand 1 - i ia annthlr proceei., .increip ;v topirj v t ". ; . . t't ; :( 'r . ' The Senator from South)Cn:nr, atiri- lutcB;iothp rariff jaa urieqiuj-.f 1 unjo.tope. ration on chllrseciionpfjihe founiry. He .ityn : VVI.il.i ii impost iWrdena on the people of t be whole country mmposes them on the people cli 1 South hnl untlue degree, and tj such nrt .uni-qu.il exte MlP'1 nR Ci,Bnot but h)ok on thi;aovernnient iinbre iiiiqiii- tous, ur.j.is nnd uiisastro.uv .foi lhat section ish the price of rrianofactures. .These are what he desires. Does the honorable ; Sena ator suppose that it lie can enhance the pfice of cotton, other things a re no t to rise ajso ? Are they todecliner whilecoitffofa J Iiyh,fir$ p!actrlHt;maa iarem of cotton mast. rise. -The -fabrics With which cotton manafactnres come in competi tion will Viae Nklad woolens, ; "ilks, Jine&8, and , othe.r manufactured articles. What does the honorable Senator, gain by that ? He sells higher, but he pays , higher. How is the conanmer benefited ? In the honora ble Senator's theory, these commodities are chiefly to come from abroad Our own pro ducers are to have none of the benefit of this irhproyement in price?,'' because if they sup ply the dvtnand the additional forty millions will jiot be, imported ; and if not "imported cotton will not advance. That is to be effect ed only by increasejJ importations, taking the productions. . Senator argues that nhe are the great exporting that the burden fulls upon them. He assumes that there in no difference between levying the duty upon the exported and the imported irticics j in either, case, h fall4 upon the exponer. I hardiy know wheth er it it worth while to stop to consider the argument that ihejSouth'h the great exprrt- ing section ol the cbuntry. Thai it produces plaee of, domestic The honorable Southern Slates S?Mtes, and hence if o i its soil, and much he largest portionof our exported pro admit It furnishes the ar-' tit Who expo-Is them ?, At whose profit 1 No incon-. of the Union, anj to ita coiiefcip, said.lhoth.l Thh. hdnprao : ocnaior m. bothl i will en'Icnjvpr to hoy the reverse that jVdoe nt opcrato inji Hotisiy in either . way.! If the price of article'' purchased has been tenhanred, jpointua tp the instance. When and where;, ahd tf fnt commodity, I haithi been the jeae?; 'Exhibit' the' -proof. Shdi uh the price curren , It ik quite h6 torioos (hat the greaimjo iy. oC imported merriinndise hnf j der lined ix frit-e. Wheth er the act ef 1S42 has occas Jpeii ' it or not, in point of f ruth anjl fact a rectrion in almost all article -olcopsumi tion,it!jether import ed or made, here, hs'. sirwc taken place. - The grievance i is not, therlfcre, in the en hance nrjee of commodities "fhich the South hae to buy. Oh he other . rrndj the price of thcslaplc export, of-the Siuth has nlao in cfeated-l I give the fact, l.foi at the price of last 1 year. A newspafFpublished at New! Orleans has been haijltil to me this MftVniin'tr Tivinff tne nriceauireni at tins timcj! , Infer on.l in JiinU.irv last Vf iU t ! . . . - r J - (If Prices of Jan 1S43. Frfces bfjan 1844. if 7 to HV j 8 to Si ! n In Ql .i - j pi to 97-8 ioh iof for and exported If every hale is ,sl does the South- 1 than all lU nl.liic nn.l r 1 1 1 wl. r re 1 1 l C V e T inteSteu . the-, ocean.- j .- I V Y i' ." ' " ; ; NoW, sir the act ofhS4:,fahd the policy V ; ' of wjiicjr il l is a: part,icao ' affecithe. d - ( " :r . I I lt A I I t h I isouiljiin one. ol tivo ways. " v fan only ope- wo4ijr tA,i rate miuciously bt nliancinrthy.. nrire of the TttiT arMcestiieyconume-orb) taxing the II. TMr. M.cDulIie e ittiporis winch them.' WelJ, f ir, upon the Senator isj any ground of as a universal pr upon any article, by that arnounu or the exporter, I upon his exrori ? hanced in price. of the imports ; i per cent., accordi hance their price the importer com person who pure more mong xr. broacJ. 1 halg price. , ready cc uot consume the wliole.; The; eighty -bales l14wanl' showing, are worth as much us the one hun. dretl would have been.f, ' " ' r'l i Mr. McDurriE :: We consume than we import - That may be so. So does every" otheF section of the countf ejbgim entei loglhto thegenera country, are a "mere Tract ion of the wiblej Do not the Northf and' the vWest coiiVurne more thari th6y 'import and far beyond the vaIueoall their exports ? If an such test as thia be applied, it will be found that the South pays much less than its proportion o the revenue. ?H v " ' ' I. The . hor'able Senator has said, that: the imports, which are the returns of our exports are as really and truly the products of Amer ican labor, as the same, amount and descrip. lion ol articles which are manufactured in this country -and hence; thai it is altogeth er a fallacious idea, that there is any compe tition between American labor and foreign labor in the production of them. There-can '.oy : : laborers in 'addition tov rr- ly, jc-inobtcntihr .aj a-. ' ' or I cari obtain thsm a , w nftoy the fbreinersC :zi T cau3ybu cqtls ct i n i :r cf fsfiia I harn- nl- pay them (heir "wages; which they. carry home to expend in advancing their comforts. In the roea time, my neighbor's lia ve been rhnrkers. and "carry;. ort"t heir na'iural -.rrnde. onobstructec!. However desirable that r 7 be to thet South-whethe or un fortunately fc? hfr,Jt.carinotlbfte n eft' U not th3 basis ' L c f wh icli 0 oe th dr ! .ir..-u beneatli its geniaL skies. duct ions, I freely ticljfts of export, b whose risk ? Fori sidernhie proponiba , is purchased-and pnitl ky agents ol foreign man- ufactprers and foreign houses themselves. ipwrecked. on the voyage, ose it f tint l omit inai mutte.r. Tiie honorable Senator says, prac tically the exports of the South p;ty the du- bej j he says, no conptiii n betivcen the manufacturers of Manchester and the maiiu tacturers of Lowell. ' The competition ta"-e place only when the foreign fahr.c has 1 e crnie Arnerican property by.being exchang. ed for American piodujctions, and tliat it is a 'competition entirely between American la bor employed in the manufactures and A' mcrican labor employed in p'ariting he 1 ween one kindot" industry and anot'ier kiml ThtSjil more specious than solid." In order to ottttin eightybales of foreign merchan dise,! the. honorable Senator is .'Obliged to em ploya considerable: amount of foreign labor. He hires' and' pays-; -ihe- laborers of 'another, country, uitteau .01 nis own. it is.tme they lake the Iruits of hU industry," which they want,-in exchange. The opeialionis high ly Keneflcial to them. But if he would ob tain! (be came nmouht of American' produc tions, in exchang .for the fruits of his indus tryif he would hire aul pay A ii.cricarr la borers for the same work, would he not ben- Xjoits, are tndtaxing the returned 1 for , I do n.t know f this he so qwn argument that there complaint He contends. ! j inciple, if a duty'be levied its price ia raised- exactly VV hat is it to the planter hen, if you do levy a tax, When it! reaches Liver pool or nVnchester, it goes into market en- The- purchaser pa's the duty, and- nobody but he can complain'. "So 'you levy" a duty of forty lg to the Senator, you en- briy per cent. What can plain of? j Nobody but the bases of the importer . is taxed, if the. honor able -Senator's doctrine be souud. In other words, the burden falls on the consumer. If? so, does the burden of our revenue fall on the South ? Do thev consume beyond tiable imports oil H8 ha 50 per cent ve been in- 11 ior - w Ordinary 4$ to 5 Middling i 5 to 5j MiihljinglairSi to 6 Fair I 6 io Gj. Good (air 6$ ,to 7 , Gool anl fine 8 AoJ9- Thus it will, be seen, thf jon the Inferior 'dualities, prices.havc advar4d at New Or , leans since last January, 75 rrf 80 per cent., on the middling qualiiiep, 4j and on the best 20 to4 SO. i formed that at j this mom ht,s6me pr the j manufacturers itj MnssaehtHc its are paying "50 per cent more than thepsid last year ; j so that it will not be extrntrtlinary if there should be a rise ih the price manufactured rfabrjes. I believe such ab alyance has actu- r ally taken place; K ?" PJf li not ,f be set' down to the prohibit j character of ihe adt. but to the true cai sV the increase in the! price of cotton. tThe same js true al so, though notjio so great arf extent, in re gard lo fohacco.j ' ' ' , (Mr. E. read jthe prices it iJew Orleans, In Jarjuary, lS13,nd Jnmryj IS44 1 j The advance is small to te ure, but it is heir proportion of the du the country ? Certainly not, sir ; and considering the character and wants of a j considerable part of its popula tion, probably the f South does not consume an equal proportion according to' its numbers. . I admit, , if the South were the exporters of all that we send abroad, and were the im. - . i- porters of all that we bring home and were moreover the consumers of all that is import ed, the burden would fall upon them, and it would make very little difference whether the revenue was raised by f a duty oh exports or on imports. There is still, however, f some dirternce. The article upon whihh he duty is laid, goes to the market burdened with that duty,and, naturally sinks in price-and it is bet ter that the article Which you buy should sink; than that which vou sell. If the honorable J - ' - I ... i i . ' S Senator exports :otton, and import, cloths in exchange, iit it Jar better for him to sell his coiton at prices not depressed by duties and to purchase Hot hs which are thus de pressed, thah to pell low and pay high. It would-be easy to I illustrate t-.e ditH-r-'hre to tho exponer, whether the duty is laid upon o! e or the other, but t hve not time to pur: sue it." The question Is, whether the South pays an undue proportion of the revenue de rived 1 rom the customs. Let it be granted, if the Senntor plea asee, that the South does tdfeirTTbey haye earned' nothing; j and if they complain ; to :l me, it" say to-them, there' has been no con; petit ion bet ween your . labor aiid foreign ' labor". These crops are ray property, paid ..'for' by Jmihclustryand the only competition ia be' ween you and me. II the fbreigjier8 have carr ied ofif my . money, I have erot their labor in exchange. ! I doubt whether they would be perfectly satisfied. that they were just as well off as if they had done the labor, and obtained the money, or ihalihey would belisve there ia no competi tion when they were starving, and the for eigner was uasting. If there be no' compe tition, why are foreign nations so anxious to do our work Is it not because it is valua ble t to theml Doe's- it hoc add to the, com forts, the advantages, ithel gains of their, la borers, and tlie wealth ol the nation? But a word or two more in regard 10 the effect of the tct of iS42 on'.the; r ice of "cbri. ! Hp w does that act 'diminish tfie,';kdemandj for;. this stao!e. or what ia the same thing, the con sumption of cotton fabrics in all the'coun4rn?s of the world? ' The price of cottonj like eve- CXTl rr" fi f e f at T -I rot the competition really beiween tlie mamilac" turers of Lowell and the mnufacfurers o Manchester; who shall do the labor which is required, and who shall be paid for it ? If I employ a tailor in London to make my co;'t or a boot maker in Paris to make mv boois . . 1 I"! - . i A ' '-,' instead of the mechanics of my. own village, do t not really and truly give them' employ? ment in preference to my ncighhors ? Do they, not feel tlie Inconveniences of that pre ference 1 ! I may answer them indeed, as the jljonor.-ible Senator has answered these clothes and boots" are my own the fruit of my own industry. They are really and tru ly American productions, Kecause they have beep received in exchange for American pro ductions there is no competition therefore, between you and the foreign mechanic. It is b et ween you and me. ! They would be qui e iiJcely to reply to this : we do not dis pute!that the coat and the boots are your own 1 property, but you hired strangers to make them instead of us. You paid them in articles which we needed, for ourselves and our families, and should have been glad to have obtained in exchange for our work we wante.l the employment and the profits 1 of it, but you have given it to others, and not withstanding all you say we cannot help feeling that it is foreign labor, and hot Amer ican, which baa come in competition with our own. I I think, Mr. President, they would have rat her tlie best of the argument. s..l$. The honorable Senator, I will suppose sends abroad one hundred bales of cotton to be manufactured, and the value of it is tb .be returned in ihe fabric which is made from it Is he aware of thei miiiene amount of human labor which must be employed, before it is returned in the finished form,? . It is increas ed in value ten foldt wenty fold,, and in some instances one hundred fold or more. Now if the Senator, instead of sending it in the raw suite, had employed 1 the . laborers in his neigiiborhood in advancing.lt onhone stage in tliis process of increase if he h id hired it Fpun into yarn, and exported in that slate, he would have added greatly to its vahie he would have 'incorporated with : the.value of the raw; material, the value of., the labor of hundreds of his neighbors, giving them em ploymen remunerating them for their labor, lirig" eU'e, is governed by the" demantl h exists for the manufactured article, th'c supply of the raw material. . So far le policy of that act promotes our own industry", and rewards jour own laborers, it adds to their ability to consume, as I have already shovvrahd a portion of this increas ed capacity wpl bi exercised: in tne consump tibn of cotton. I This country consumes al ready, 1 think, about one-quarter of all the productions of the planting States or nearly so.' I The aunual product is about two hiill- ohs-"ofjrja!e. 2,400,000 balei.l ; ; 1 v e r h a ps s o. jrT h e a v e r age, however, of a years pasT, is not uir irom.iwo miiiion The exports last yVar were 1,6CO?000 bales. If the Senator from Arkansas is right its to the quantity ppdiiced, it would leava for home consumption 800,00Q hales, I which is not pro 000 qm few thiUthsrjCiiiUjfcrTip: cf u- :lll'r;C ':-Vrf'novuni--T--p ' ' 1 - - - hat i ' V'co:-: .--;-t lvc:: t. j 1 ntst". bhol: I - t' r.17 1 r Tcri'-t ti I Ic:.j, ;vh- Isvcr, " Ths v " i 111.3 cny ctl.sr, rndevcry ci: . . grc-'tobs r.:r. ended, ..;?r wncn2versit l.omes n.ce rcjard to pa! lis i...crcsf, j araendif.1' 'Now, sir, what ... - - - gre s to dot What ought i It found the revenue of t! t c i:i expendituresand rapid. crcJUjt '.prostrate business t stand -distress tpreadlng T general cohstsrr.atisn pervr ty; y. Vh-t Vera x;o to dj4 10 r.c: 1 - Ct: : y, : : Cr c i art cf at tiohj io-rt he .whole. shared largely Jn the i -1. 5 outhi Carolina securities of - this Co hasl father- than to t touch a law-e l"on- (wWch had been the cause, ni siituiiorr, and participated in no smalf degree in shaping the policy, which the Government has pursued. Si r; v it is 100, la te no w to re pine; she cannot bejel alone, to pursue her own seperate policy, in relation . to matters which she has confided to s the General r Gtiv- ' ""' I.. ; . " ' .-..,- ernment. The very obiect afid nurwose ol forming ibis Constitution was, that, ho State, should be left alone io pursue. a.svstem of measures injurious to other! States. She came into, the Union for weal orlfof woe. She came into it to share IIntheVdmlnist ra tion of the Government of the whole Union. She has . that .., tight; hut ;he roust submit to the S restraint, voluntarilv assnmpd. n others submit, veQ i : the common good. The interests of the and thejitubiiity, the mb!e. .We! prolably consume from 400- to 500,000 bales. from one fifth to one rter of the. .whole product. iKo.v. the Senator from South Carolinti proposes, in stead of retaining this quantity to be manu factured ; here, to send it abroad, to Liver ool and Manchester.. 'What, is. to be the efr fect on. prices there? Does he not sec that ah export of l,600.C00; bales has very fully supplied, if not over supplied, the foreign de mand? Any considerable addition to lhat supply must inevitaMy reduce the price, "un less the increased demand for the manufac tured article keep pace - with the; ;supply. -What has reduced the price in .Liverpool so low at the last dates, but an over supply. and the expectation of a large crop in this country, yet to bs received ttbere? The price in New work is quite as high, and I believe higher, in factthan it was in Liver pool at the last dates from England Now, although they anticipated a crop of 1,800,000 bales onlyj yet they did not expect much increase in the price, from the4act thai so large a supply was still oh hand, equal lo near four months' consumption. The ' stock in Liverpool in Decemper, was 450,000 bales against 230,000 bales, lha corresponding pe- whole are lengthened; happiness, and the re nown of each are intertvoven with those of the others. The establuhmerit of this Gov ernment was withja view to prevent ;lue very thing which 1 he Senator says he seek to accomplish. It was to prevent the State, or any other State, from, admitting foreign cviiiiuiuuHjc, on terms uinerent irout the oth er &tey M was to establish one uniform policy, pne system, one regulation of trade, tundfcng on te whole. - The want of the "cn- eral controlling power, had been ailended ...:.u .1.L . . . L - - -.. . ' '. tvuu uic moil mischievous corsquences. 1 nereiore it was, sir, that no State u as to be left nlonc,as the honorable Senator now desires Great Britain, arjhat'day, was not regarded as the natural market.- of South Carohnn. f A very different feeling then ex isted in; the bosoms of her patriotic ch.zeris a teeiing ol union and j attachment to wards t heir brethren of ol her', sectons fello w la 4ior r 0 4a rid ( e l 1 o w-ufFe re raw it h It b e mlMilh Crt rr " f if eeuom a rui ludependence. f No, sir; if South Carolina, and th ftiiiw planting States; arc laborihff under onnressiA. Psed ..was in no .small degre and -grfevances, theref are abundant causes for .Vency. But (he honorak it independent of the act of 1842, or the policy 1113 Ume t,MS qbcstion was set of -pTotectioh, upon which it sVupposed' to be" nio"isKes the Manufacturers nc founded. I have already alluded te one of them furt,lf r- Sir, they wish it sell -the over production bf cotton. Thfl, mn u.c ci.aior or any oouy else ( casfoned; in a great degree, by the. very state of things which the honorable Senator wants to luring J about again--a iarge increase in its P" New and more fertile lands were bro't into cultivation, ajjd Uld for enormous prices. Speculation ran high1; credit was stretched to the utmost The production of cotton was im- t r much of the m'-hief V b-ennse nominated a coinpremise hnv? the duty of! Congress, in some plifth what has, in fact, been 1 Whether it is attributable to th not, the revenue of the Cover restored - co m in e r cc h as r e v i V t it has been placed on a firm value of labor ancTof property I c6d confidence prevails and may which overshadowed the dispersed."' 'These things have done in some way since the act V e attribute it mainly to tne act We predicted such won quencesV Wc enacted' the such results. And we now sa; turbed let it work out its full c still further experience: and it our confident aniicipatiom, it nough to repeal it when that come manifest. The honorable Senator from admonishes the manufacturer this policy tco far. They will the victims of their own destr they persevere in it any lo'ngc es himself to the manulacturer that they have liad lhe adioit measure upon Congres thr the provisions of the act. No, si It was forced upon us by the i tion of the. country by the ri credit by the kankruplcy cf J The manufacturers indeed ! t for the; monstrous features of ingenuity of thc; minimum pr pi incipfe, if I recollect aright 1 ..-. - ea in tne act or, 15 10, wh icli i ! f If ei g u e o t tt 1 lt -or ator, (Mr. Calhoun,) and as 1 1 v ah - w w ::id, : - n c f IS S f 'n't: v th a T f ive ; . t -'c's I ; ihil i 1 be 1 ire 1 :ri!!od, 1S22, vedj cf en dc ; it was accom- hed. -1S42 or .s been c cred ;n the of dis is been ie, and massed, t that conse view to : undis- st it by - justify irly e- all tc- 'c uhCnrolitirt r.!t to pursue Oime.i .2 pays, :tye f; :fem if j He r Jdress ? ,'Ie r -.-ppcjses to f rce this ey ; ,'ictated id sue. 1 tinner. 1 rcjtrat coruii- )f t!:3 public Trc: :ury. bill for the 1 pie! 1 n Tha-troclu. r says ad- mehsely' increased, which cbuld ' hot last wrecks which it ceive that the South degree, benefitted by pose it is settled.. Who distu news agitation?: It is seltlel. main settled if the honorable who act with him will allow: he and they will allow it . the three years' .experience, he v. to general acceptance and sati If Kltt ir nrlf Akt.n.t I T - Th.s wasa stoteof .hmg LooI( to e)pefencc. . f H 0 u u- j 3 7 let it be settled by the new In elt! behind, who can per- r4 .1 . v d, , from these sources. It can nc nns.nAAn in Inn cnioll.nt " H " MJW -0'uo"wl art lol!n k 1 facts by experience by kno The. honorable Senator inq England wilt do, if South ( fcuth should becone mnnuf and should refuse to sell 1. I doubt whether South Cai ihe high prices which cot ton; attained in those years of enormous specu lation ? Who does nbtjsee that it-is infinitely worse off? But, besides this cause., wliich ap plies to the South, generally South' Carolina, and. the older of the cotton-growing regions, la bor under another grievance peculiar to them selves; and that is, that they cannot come in ffntJ it for her interest torefus competition, in growing cotton, with the more ;on toanybddy who will pay productive and fertile soils' of Alabama and lie New. England hasbiihe Mississippi. These-latter States, by reason bt do that j she will probably ? fresher fields, and a more genial climate, can ing to sell it where she finds t raise this gn-at staple very considerably cheap- ket and best price. But, er than South Carolina or Georgia can, and of Englarwl do 7 Why, t?ir, 1 course South Carolina and Georgia must sell best she can. She has been their productions, not at their own cost but at meet all the difficulties which ine cosi oi growing inem m more lavoreu spots. and to surmount them. Nt fer ihz !c ?en . ys snp- r! tribu able to 1 , ana he ! pre; z it any 4 as n.ueh a. " Thry zv.p 3 it ? Vt ho re lid ii -nil re ii!or and tlto.ee t rc::-::if). If n -fit cl' two or inti it fettled tion. Prove fo .results. ji. settled now, ts to be gained r be rcttled by 'J ?ory j but by s v, l.at reV r.)lina or the 1 itFrmfT otaicp, heir cot1 on ? "s mi i i I ever t-ding her cot t it iind 1 be- :jCofn rived to wiM- 1 le riod of' the preceding year. If the hondra- ! At the present prices of cotton, Alabama and had acquired some little plac ble Senator wishes to faiae the price of cot ton jin Europe, the best mode of doing so is to keep back a portion of the crops, instead of sending more. Lei him diminish the sup ply there, and he will do something towards enhancing the price. - But if the honorable Senator should be" successful, if the - price of cotton could be enhanced o what - it was Jn 1835 ami 183, ho w is the South to be perma nent ly benefited? ' W hat, w ill be the final re sult? In the first place, production would be largely stimulated; price of lands and labor ers, would rise, as well as ihe prices of every thing else uecessary; in the cultivation of cot ton,' The planters might obtain more, but he -11 -wloi.ic in show there has been, do . such falling off as the honorable Senator suppos- .'- ;; .'. -: ' ; ' '' . . l ; : 'j' ', ; '"Now, if these facts be so, and I do not see how they can br controverte U how cm it be ' . . .nl LflRi'2 hnsbeen ruinous to .aaiu mat ino..-t the South? They buy cheaper ; they sell dearer. Is that inj-irious? The Senator no - doubtwill sty, 10 fir as this result has been brought ahout, ill is very good; out if is hot "the consequence jof your act ; if that had not passed, we should have done heUer still ; it prevented us from buying stjll lower, and selling, still higher. That can never be known. . It is -ai mere speculation, -1 must 'be allowed, very strongly , to doubt. The honorable Senator's theory, to be sore, 'resds thai way, but I know of no facts, no comes of them ? sutne the whole. consumed in other sections, j If then, by im posing duties on as the Senator . 1 sold the South obi enhanced price which she receives. The Senator says, if So you do ; but if: unless h intends self ; in that case ;Tiie- South does not con 1 A large portion is sold and would be compelled to pay mors.;, He would j enshlmg themjtobuy.and ronsume.more and.lbuy.hja I.tnds and negroesaCirre.aliyiJjiug- woutdsbon bvef supply the wants of the hem, you add 10 their cost, contend c, when they are rams lull indemnity in the he imports one hundred bales of merchanuise,. and you stop twenty of iheni at the custom-house for duties, you leave him but eighty fbr his consumption. this eighty will sell for as much in the market as the one hundred tyould, where Is the, injury to him ? None, ko consume the 'whole bim- i his consumption will, of course, be dimhfiabed. But, the South does f MUhll' ges upon the laborers of other nations Be tween whom, is .the competition 7 Is it not between ihe spinners in South Carolina, and the spirinera its Manchester? He exports the raw material, the very smallest part of the value of the manufactured article. It is re turned, increased in value tenfold." His la bnj is but one-tenth and foreign l.nbr nine temhs of its present value: If the work." had "been done at home instead of: ahroad, tlie whole would have been the produce ol A'",r ican labor, American spinning wheels, A mericah shuttled ami loomp, and the whole profit would have gone into 'American, pock ets. j Pray where is the competition ? Take anotherillusrratibn;;f Suppose I anv residing upon a farm. Ia order to gather my -crop,. world, and rapid decline will be inevitable; and while his productions are thus falling, he will be obliged to retain his lands at the ag gravated price which lie pakl for them. His capital remains fixed. There can be no permanent benefit or security in' increasing the ririce of cotton, unless at the same time you can increase the demand and consump tiorfpf the fabrics made from Tty for unless taese be increased, anv . advance in.it wil: be temporary, and will be follone-1 by a disas trous decline.,. ....' - . ! ' X .The honorable Senator says, ;lhat all,. the South desires. in this -matter lis, to bs let'a lo'nej to be allowed to manage th'iif own'af. fair?, in their own wayi to geek their naturtl iniaoiyyi nuum uc luuBi ubjtci uu auu uuur- tions or tne earth, a grec ishing States, if it were not for the' heavy in- South Carolina raised one r debtedncss which tliey incurred for lands and she had some population In laoor ounng me penoa 01 excessive prices in wea,h. She had commeff e 1835 and 1836. , Jf they had obtained their lands and laborers at any thing like reasonable rates,' compared with present prices, they would now be accumulating wealth, even when South Car olina and the' older States are scarcely main taining themselves.! Arid how far is this pror cess of increasing the production to be carried? What new regions are'to be opened for its cul tivation? If the United States are to stretch their boundaries, not only to tlie Pacific, but, for any thing I know, to the equator, in this growing fust for dominion and territory, what boundless .regions for.the i?rowt li of rtnrLrrill ofho inconsiderable extent, one of the':'mcst elegant a statesman of Great Britain, served eulogium She bega at a very early period. It vears from the landing cf th rock of Plymouth, notwiihs disasters attending their set lhat infant colony had forlj afloat There was noottor. Una then. New EngliSr.id in ulation and wealth without ,i;nys ; 'eadi; . t rimr- tt ;. .ev j will ilo tlie Ue fo far to be l..:et Iter, iru'I :.ad, sir, -; nor..: t he na-4"yhd- before i)d i ;" cotter, 73, . 1 some it-l i" ivigi.tion n h (! uv from pi nr': and t navigation 3 not twenty rgri:--s on th.j ' all ilto ;, before e t g t ! 3 1 Ca re in 2 c t u r i n ( was lib'c ! I rsh: sonical 1 tie- il c to 'be able tbxomjte'witKlIie8e-'rwre fertile fields? , No, sir; she will be obliged to do what' the Senator- supposes she may soon be driven to do from other causes to become a roanu fact u ring State herself. ; Her planters will be compelled to emigrate to more productive soils, or to apply their labor to other and better pur suits' . They can no 'more raise cotton in com peUtion with , their- Southern neighbors, than the Northern States jean how raise it in compe tition with them.- These, sir, are the true cau ses of the depression of industry in South Car olina, if industry is depressed there, as the hon orable Cenator - affirms. Any thing .rwhich he can do, to stimulate the production ofruore .cot- ton, will only add to the deprepba-. wliich it novtrojiersv Tit cr.Iy Io iuoiain tertir. but to fiibi itie battles of the mother country against her ancient enemy, and toconquer for; her no in considerable possessions en this com invid. The blood of New England was poured cut on ihe heights . ot, Mount Abraham, and 0:1 many a battle field besides, in the war of 1750. between France and England. Considering all that she did in her infancy, and ccntras: ing her ability now in her '.'maturity, I do ret know but she might survive the great calam ity, which the Senator supposes would over-, take, her, if South Catolin should become a rival in manufacturing. -Sir, Ibrlieveit would ndd considerahiy to ie -wealth and prospeiiy 'oPEew Ei:-!-.-;:-- if by anuiicturingor by any cthrr cci.:.'
North State Whig (Washington, N.C.)
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