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tion of less than two millions sterling, were the product of her man- 

 ufactures. This is the mighty engine with which she has, and still 

 intends to control the world. Look at the disparity between the 

 products of agricultural and manufacturing labor. One pound of 

 Sea Island cotton, which produces to the planter 20 to 25 cents, 

 when spun into yarn for the manufacture of lace, is worth $5, and 

 when converted into lace, which is mainly done by machinery, its 

 value is raised to 4 and $500. The' consumption of this article is 

 immense; its amount in the United States we do not know, but in 

 England the annual consumption is estimated at $5,289,600. This 

 is a branch of industry which, under wise counsels, might be intro- 

 duced here, to the annual saving of millions of wealth to the coun- 

 try, besides furnishing employment to multitudes of our own people. 

 But it is deemed wiser to sell the cotton for 25 cents per pound, and 

 pay $500 for it in the form of lace, by way of promoting free trade! 

 Whilst Britain, in the agony of her desire to advance the principles 

 and doctrines of free trade, charges us a duty of 24 cents on 100 

 lbs. of rice, if cleaned, but if in the husk and requires cleaning, she 

 lets it in at 3 cents per bushel, and thus scrupulously protects her 

 own labor! 



Look at the productive industry of Massachusetts, which the tariff 

 of 1846 is aimed at. Mr. Lawrence tells us " that in 1845 she con- 

 sumed of the products of the States out of New-England, $40,000,000 

 in value. These consisted in cotton, lead, wool, sugar, coal, iron, flour, 

 grain of all kinds, pork, beef, lard, tobacco, rice, &c. The flour 

 alone was more than the whole export of the United States to fo- 

 reign countries. These were paid for in the products of her labor, 

 affording a steady and increasing market." We are further told, 

 " that the value of her manufactures in one year amounted to $114,- 

 478,443, giving employment to 152,766 hands. Of this amount 

 cotton was $12,193,449; woolens, $8,877,478; boots and shoes, 

 $14,478,443!!! Boots and shoes alone are nearly equal to the entire 

 amount of agricultural products exported from the United States to 

 all the world, cotton, rice and tobacco excepted." For this lat- 

 ter statement we are indebted to the official returns. 



You all know how very fruitful, in the declamations of the dema- 

 gogue, the slang terms of " monopolists of Lowell," and the horrors 

 of the " cotton mill with its famished operatives," have been, in their 

 crusades against the industry of the country; and yet these tables 

 instruct us, that cottons and woolens, with boots and shoes, consti- 

 tute less than one-third of the annual value of the fnanufactures of 



