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importation, and all facts in favor of a protecting 

 tariff. It would seem that the imposition of a high 

 duty for the purpose of excluding a foreign fabric, 

 and protecting a domestic one, would necessarily 

 enhance the price of the protected article, to the 

 consumer. But how is the fact 1 Cotton goods, that 

 sold for thirty cents per yard before a protecting duty 

 was laid on them, are now brought into the market 

 at twelve and an half cents, affording a fair profit to 

 the manufacturer. Indeed, our cotton manufactures 

 can now sustain themselves against the world, and 

 compete successfully in any market. And what is 

 there, in the nature of the case, to prevent woollen 

 fabrics attaining the same success at home, and the 

 same high character abroad 1 Let the experiment 

 be judiciously made, and who can doubt its result ? 

 American woollens have already attained to high 

 excellence, notwithstanding the grievous embarrass- 

 ments with which they have had to contend. Give 

 them the benefit of a liberal tariff, and a settled 

 policy, and all the arts, and wealth, of foreigners, 

 cannot prevent their rapid increase in number and 

 in excellence. Let the duties, however inadequate, 

 remain undisturbed, as now settled, and confidence 

 in the policy of the government be restored, and 

 the manufacture of woollens can hardly fail to be- 

 come a gainful business. It is the uncertain policy 

 of the government, rather than the insufficiency of 

 protecting duties, that unnerves the arm of the 

 manufacturer, and paralyzes his efforts. Let him be 

 assured of the steady patronage of government, and 

 the difficulties that now embarrass him will soon be 



