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of our own and British tariff laws. We shall see. [We 

 think our correspondent has slightly misapprehended the 

 tone of our article. We simply congratulated the Ameri- 

 can people, and those of Great Britain and Ireland, upon 

 the repeal of the odious duty on corn. In stating the ad- 

 vantages of enlarging a foreign, we said nothing of the 

 home market, of the importance of which no one has a 

 higher estimation than ourselves ; and we would do every- 

 thing which we thought just and honorable to extend it. 

 Do we understand Reviewer to assert that enlarging the 

 foreign is likely to curtail the home market? If so, we 

 should be pleased to know how this is to be accomplished. 

 We are of opinion that taking off the late duty on corn, in 

 Great Britain, will add at least five cents per bushel to 

 its average value in this country, for the next ten years to 

 come. Admitting the product now to be 400,000,000 bush- 

 els, this would be a gain to the country of $20,000,000 per 

 annum. Previous to the duty being taken off of cheese, 

 in Great Britain, in 1841, we exported to the United 

 Kingdom next to nothing ; and the price had got down in 

 our own. country to 3 and 4 cents per lb., for a prime arti- 

 cle, thus making it a losing business to the dairyman. 

 Now that same article is worth fully 7 cents, and up- 

 wards ; and one million pounds of it were exported, dur- 

 ing the last week in October, from this port (New York) 

 alone. Would Reviewer leave us to infer that this was 

 going to benefit the pauper population of England, to the 

 injury of the American dairyman? No; we will do him 

 the credit to believe that he would draw no such conclu- 

 sion; and yet we are sanguine in the opinion that corn 

 and cheese will prove a parallel case.] 



Foreign Cattle. — I agree with you most cordially, neigh- 

 bor Bement,^ that we have imported enough at present. 

 If we rightly improve those we have, we might better be- 

 come e.rporters than importers We might just as well 

 import our wheat and potatoes, as any more cattle. Many 

 now have learned to think that nothing American is good 



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