The history and topography of the United States of America . the colonies. Theywere willing the poor colonists should reduce the iron ore, with which their land abounded, into pigs., and evenbar iron, and that the same be brought to their doors, duty free, provided they could monopolize the manufac-ture of it beyond this incipient stage. In the year 1750, parliament permitted pig and bar iron to be importedfrom the colonies into London duty free, but prohibited the erection or continuance of any mill or otherengine for slitting or rolling iron, or any plating forge, to work with a tilt hammer,
The history and topography of the United States of America . the colonies. Theywere willing the poor colonists should reduce the iron ore, with which their land abounded, into pigs., and evenbar iron, and that the same be brought to their doors, duty free, provided they could monopolize the manufac-ture of it beyond this incipient stage. In the year 1750, parliament permitted pig and bar iron to be importedfrom the colonies into London duty free, but prohibited the erection or continuance of any mill or otherengine for slitting or rolling iron, or any plating forge, to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace for makingsteel in the colonies, under the penalty of two hundred pounds. More effectually to carry this act intoexecution, every such mill, engine, plating forge, and furnace, was declared a common nuisance, and thegovernors of the colonies, on the information of two witnesses on oath, were directed to cause the same to beabated within thirty days, or to forfeit the sum of 500/. — Pitkins Civil and Political History, vol. 101, I THE UNITED STATES. «17 impulse to the manufacturing principle, and left the states no longer dependent onBritain for several of the minor articles of manufacture. On the return of peace,in 1783, says Mr. Everett, in his admirable address before the American Institute,Oct. 14, 1831, the influx of foreign goods, in many respects prejudicial to thecountry, proved in the highest degree disastrous to its mechanical and manuflicturingindustry. The want of one national government, and the division of the powers ofgovernment among thirteen sovereignties, made it impossible, by a uniform revenuesystem, to remedy the evil. The states generally attempted, by their separate navi-gation laws, to secure their trade to their own vessels; but the rivalry and selfishpolicy of some states counteracted the efforts of others, and eventually threw almostthe whole • navigation of the country into foreign hands. So low had it sunk inBoston, th
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