A history of the American people . anagreeable thing that they should usually pull in thedirection merchants would in any case have all products of foreign countries had to bebrought through the English markets and the handsof English middlemen, the duties charged upon themupon their entrance into England were remitted upontheir reshipment to America, and they were often to behad more cheaply in the colonies than in London. In 1699, when the war was over, Parliament laid anew restriction upon the colonies, forbidding them to18 COMMON UNDERTAKINGS manufacture their own wool for exp
A history of the American people . anagreeable thing that they should usually pull in thedirection merchants would in any case have all products of foreign countries had to bebrought through the English markets and the handsof English middlemen, the duties charged upon themupon their entrance into England were remitted upontheir reshipment to America, and they were often to behad more cheaply in the colonies than in London. In 1699, when the war was over, Parliament laid anew restriction upon the colonies, forbidding them to18 COMMON UNDERTAKINGS manufacture their own wool for export, even for exportfrom colony to colony. Good housewives were notto be prevented from weaving their own wool into clothfor the use of their own households; village weaverswere not to be forbidden their neighborhood trade;but the woollen weavers of England supplied more thanhalf of all the exports to the colonies, and had no mindto let woollen manufacture spring up in America ifParliament could be induced to prohibit it. It made. MOALES SKETCH OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, IN [752 no ureat practical difference to the colonies, thoughit bred a bitter thought here and there. Manufactureswere not likely to spring up in America. No manwho can have a piece of land of his own, sufficient byhis labor to subsist his family in plenty, said long afterwards, is poor enough to be ;.manufacturer and work for a master. Hence, whilethere is land enough in America for our people, therecan be no manufactures to any amount or value. I tutthe woollen manufacturers in England meant to takeno chances in the matter; and the colonists did no more[9 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE than grumble upon occasion at the restraints of a lawwhich they had no serious thought of breaking. It was not breaches of the Acts of Navigation andthe acts concerning woollen manufacture that theministers found it necessary to turn their heed to whenthe war ended, but, rather, the open piracies of thesouthern seas.
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