rect course. We therefore respectfully suggest to you, to take into serious consideration, the propriety of an application to congress, from the manufacturers of the United States, to be heard by counsel, at their bar. The most salutary consequences have resulted from this procedure in Great Britain; and it could not fail to produce consequences equally salutary here; as it must elicit such a mass of information as would destroy the deleterious prejudices, whose operation our country has so much reason to deplore. There is one point to which we invite your serious attention, as of paramount importance. Notwithstanding the ruin that has overtaken so large a portion of our manufactures and manufacturers, there are some citizens, with immense capitals, engaged in the cotton branch particularly, who deprecate the idea of any further protection, and have impressed on the minds of the constituted authorities, that the present duties are amply adequate. This phenomenon in trade-a renunciation of further aid from government, of which the world has never hither to hada parallel case— must arise from such a pure spirit of patriotism, as would reflect honour on Greece and Rome, in the most brilliant period of their history, or from some motive of a very opposite character. It has been successfully used by the friends of the existing system, as an irresistible argument against the host of petitioners, who have besought additional protection. As it has been thus employed, it becomes a duty to investigate it thoroughly, and ascertain, as far as may be practicable, the source from whence it springs. It is asserted, that the proprietors of those establishments prefer, as the least of two evils, encountering the desultory competition of foreigners, whose goods are often of inferior quality, to the steady and unceasing rivalship of a vast number of their fellow-citizens, who, in the event of a full protection to manufactures, would enter the lists, and divide the market with them. On this delicate point we cannot pretend to decide: we merely present it to view, for public consideration. INDEX. Address to the president of the and manufacturers, 144 241 America, future policy of, 233, 233 American manufacturers, con- 21 American manufacturers, diffi- Analogy between Portugal and B Bacon, lord, infatuation of, 15 C Cambric, great advance in the Chatham, lord, hostile to Ame- Commerce, protection of, 242 Coinmerce, prostrate state of, Congress, remonstrances to, 94. Bounties on manufactures, ef- Contrast between the situation fects of, 127, 129 British tariff, extracts from, 36 40 British mercantile policy, ruin- ous effects of, 76; 77, 156 Brougham's opinion on Ameri- can manufactures, 152 of the agriculturist, the manu- Cotton manufacture, extent of Cotton mill, advantages of, 108, Goose with the golden eggs, 156 H Hamilton on manufactures, 101 182 Henry IV. of England dying in- I Importations of the U. States, 237 Imports of the United States, ex- Industry, decay of, 256 Manufacturing establishments Manufactures, progress of in Manufactures, objections to, 58 Maxims of political economy, 22 Methuen treaty, consequences Inventions, encouragement of, Monopoly of domestic market, Machinery of Great Britain, 198 Oneida memorial, 149 107 P Pauperism in England, 60, 197 tribute little to national Smith, Adam, maxims of, 16, 24, Philadelphia, distresses of, 254 Pittsburg memorial, 258 Political economy, definition of, 21 Political economy of Great Bri- tain, 32, 33 Population of Great Britain, 197 Prohibitions of Edward IV., 34 35 Protection prayed for, 155 R Raw materials, exemption of Report on the woollen manufac- Restrictions on importation 27 Revenue, loss of, 58, 71 S Sermon by rev. Mr. Beecher,261 28 Smith's, Adam, maxims, reject- tecting manufactures, 58, 73 Spectator, quotation from, 190 Tables of population and pau- Tariff, American, extracts from, Taylor, John, political economy Tea, duties on, 74, 161 143 Tobacco exported for four years, 203 Tonnage of United States, 164 U United States, calamitous state United States, situation of at the V Vacant lands, objections drawn Votes against adequate protec- |