text:  Will it be said that the Indian spinner and weaver by hand could not at the same epoch have produced their wares at one-half the price had not importation with unrelenting jealousy been interdicted? Was the rigid prohibition of the export of machinery no concession all exclusively and prodigiously in the interest of the cotton manufacture to the zealous promotion and ascendancy of which the mining and agricultural interests are unhesitatingly not to say wantonly prejudiced if not absolutely perilled? We say wantonly because the free exportation of cotton yarn tolerated at the same moment was an absurd and mischievous violation of the very principle on which the prohibited exportation of machinery was alone and could be justified