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The above amount is the foreign valuation fixed for 

 exportation and to avoid duties, and must be quite or 

 fully doubled to represent the true value in our mar- 

 kets ; which shows an importation to the value of 

 eight hundred millions of dollars, of products that 

 can be as well produced in our own country as on any 

 other portion of the globe. There are other articles 

 not here specified, but of large importance. 



Whilst we are making these vast importations, the 

 product of the slave and pauper labor of other coun- 

 tries, we have millions of our own people who are suf- 

 fering every distress, even to death itself, for want of 

 the very work of which they are thus robbed. This 

 is the whole matter in a single paragraph. Is it not 

 clearly a case of that monstrous madness of which 

 only an American politician and the popular political 

 economist are capable ? 



Add to these facts that other which is equally po- 

 tent, viz. : That the production of these various 

 articles at home, by our own people, and of every 

 other that can be here produced, would increase the 

 amount of trade incident thereto to a degree at least 

 ten fold greater than is now derived by us from their 

 importation, puts the folly, the criminality, of our 

 present policy in still stronger light. 



Whilst our markets are open to the products of the 

 slaves and paupers of the world, there can be no im- 

 provement with us ; we are brought into direct com- 

 petition with them, and our people are forced to their 

 level. The weight of the world's poverty is more 

 than we can carry. Left to ourselves, giving that pro- 

 tection to all interests, without exception, that will 



