Gazette Of The United States

Manufactures have heretofore labored under insuperable difficulties in the United States, for want of governmental support and encouragement : In Europe this has not been the case, particularly in Great Britain, where bounties and protecting duties, give their artisans every possible chance of success : Government certainly is bound, on every patriotic principle, to place the manufactures of the United States on such a footing as that those branches, which may be advantageously prosecuted in this country, may not, through the successful rivalry of European artists, be destroyed.

There are many articles which with proper encouragement may be manufactured to great advantage in the United States—nor would bounties bestowed by the government prove eventually a loss ; as when once established these manufactures, besides being sold at a reduced price, may become productive sources of revenue, and in this way refund with interest, the expense incurred by government in their establishment.