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EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN MANUFACTUREs'
We were amongst those who some years sInce
made an effort to procure an exhibition OF a.
merican manufactures to be held periodically
in the city of Baltimore. We believed that
such exhibitions would prove incentives TO the
exercise of skill and consequent Improvement
in the manufacture; and hence we zeaIously
co-operated in the attemptto open them IN our
own city;-but the effort failed for the want OF
adequate patronage. We are pleased, how
ever, to see it announced, that a National Fair
will be held IN the city of Washington, in May
next, and we have no doubt that the artists
and mechanics of Baltimore will take care to
be duly represented. Under existing crcum-
stances this movement is peculiarly proper, as
Congress will soon have under consideration a
bill so to reduce the tariff as to render the skill
and enterprise of American workmen mea-
surably unavailng. Let members of Congress
have the opportunity Of examining the pertec-
ton to which American mechanism is
brought, and it may convince them of the pro-
priety of continuing to foster and protect it
against the pauper labor of Europe. In the
various mechanic arts we believe that the
workmen of Baltimore cannot be easily excel
led; and as they will have every facility of
forwarding their productions to the contempla-
ted fair in Washington, we hope that they
will not fail to be fully represented We pre-
sumo that it will be splendid affair, and we
should dislike to see Baltimore come off "se-
cond best,n from neglect or inattention.