when that trying moment arrives, and
all will be we'll.
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Nis the favorite argument Of The.
advocates Of high duties on foreign
manufactures. TO point ont England as
indebted for her high position in COM
merce and wealth, to her system Of
Legislative restriction on foreign i'm
portations.-That that country is in
possession Of great commercial pros
perity is universally conceded, but the
champions Of free trade have indubil-
ably shewn that she has attained that
prosperity not by the aid but in def.
ance of her llliberal commercial sys-
tenn, that she is indebted for her
wealth and power and even her Iiber.
~ to her geographical position-to
her many commanding harbors-to
the vast power Of production yielded
by her mines Of coal and iron, inter-
stratiied and conveniently disposed
for cheap use and Transport, and to
the industrious and persevering char
acter Of her people.


The whole of continental Europe
may furnish irrefragible arguments.
illustrative of the pernicious effects
ofthe restrictive system. Let US look
to them, and large volume is unroll-
ed for our experience, as beacons 10
warn US from pursuing similar fatal
policy. The impolicy Of restriction
is glaringly exemplifed in the case
of Austria. The natural resources Of
that country are equal ifthey do not
exceed that Of any other State in Eu..
rope. She might have been preemi>
nent in wealth and power, but she was
scduced by glittcring but mistaken
views Of national advantages TO adopt
a policy which, by its indirect taxa
ton, impoverished the nation, while it
produced an empty and bankrupt
treasury.


Spain likewise presents an instance
upon an enlarged scale, of the perni-
cious and runous effects of system
of commercial exclusion; and in def
ance Of the experience Of the disas.
trous consequences persevered in to
the present hour, Spain is the most
impoverished OF the great powers Of
Europe. France, it is true, fourishes
in spite Of external restrictions, but
her home trade is free, and thirty
years Of peace have developed her
vast resources.


We have before alluded to the i'm.
practicability Of enforcing the prohi.
bitive system, from the organized
smuggling to which it inevitably gives
birth. In defiance Of the Berlin and
Milan decrccs of Napoleon, enforced
as they we're with the most rigorous
despotism, British manufactures found
their way into the heart Of Germany
and Italy, and even in France the
soldiers Of the Emperor were clothed
with the products Of British manufac.
tories. The contraband trade, called
into existence by restriction, is the
worst feature in the system. Snug.
Cling puts an end to all honest and
open dealing. 1t demoralizes peo.
pie to such an extent, that nation of
smugglers can never hope to become
ointment as nation Of merchants,
manufacturers, or improved agricultu-
rists.-Jetersonian.


