Indiana Palladium, Volume 3, Number 40, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 13 October 1827 — Page 1
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EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow,
Volume III.
LA WRENCEB URGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1327.
Number 40.
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AjY address From the Administration Committee of Hamilton County to their fellow citizens. At a general meeting of Administration Committee of Hamilton County, held at Reading on the 27th Sept. 1827, the following Address was Unanimously
ndopted, and three thousand copies of
the same, ordered to be printed for cir culation. WM. RUFFIN, Chairman. B. Drake, Secretary.
The Administration Committee of
Hamilton county, believing that the prosperity, freedom and happiness of the people of the United Slates, mainly depend upon a perseverance in that course of policy, emphatically denominated the American System; and believing also, the mare corrpctly that system is understood, the more numerous will be its friends; respectfully submit to their fellow citizens, a few facts and statements, to which they earnestly invite the attention, and serious consideration of all parties, and especially the farmer", manufacturers, and mechanics of the country. It is a truth, universally admitted, that it is bad policy for a nation to depend upon a foreign country, for articles indispensably necessary to the comfort and happiness of it3 citizens, when such nation possesses all the means for furnishing the same article from its own resources. It may bo said with truth, that when the Agriculture of the country is in a flourishing condition, that country is prosperous; hut no permanent prosperity can be enjoyed, when agriculture languishes, and the farmers are poor. What is the present condition of the Agricul
ture of Ohio? are our farmers rich? or are they likely to become so under the existing stale of things? no intelligent
man will answer in the affirmative. A
more delightful region cannot be found
than that known as the Miami Country,
as it regards either its fruitfulness, its climate, or the hardy, industrious, and enterprising character of its inhabitants;
and yet with these blessings and advan
tages, the farmer is compelled to toil from year to year, for a mere subsistence for himself and familv: And this must continue to be the case until a home market, shall enable the Agriculturalist to dispose of his surplus produce at a price which shall compensate him for his labour. Any other than a home
market, to any useful extent, will be
sought in vain. The policy of Great Britain shuts out from our ports every
article of our products which she can
obtain elsewhere, and her policy will not
be changed For our benefit.
The United States imported from Great
bntam, during the year ending on the
30th September 182G, of goods, wares, and merchandize; 26,131,969 And exported tn that country in the same period, 20,113,217 Making an excess of im-
ports ot 5,718,752
This sum of 20,413,217 of exports, in
cludes the following items:
1 8,357 his of Flour,, worth,
124,770,915 lbs. of Cotton, worth, Tobacco, worth, Other articles not named
7 3,34 G
Bv this statement it
15,829,651
2,774,443
1,735,777
20,413,217 mnr ha comi
relative superiority, 1 cannot entertain
a doubt. The home market is first in order, and paramount in importance.
I he object of the Bill under consideration, is to create this home market, and
to lay the foundation of a genuine American policy. It is opposed; and it is in
cumbent on the partizans of the foreign
policy (terms which I shall dse without any invidious intent) to demonstrate, that the foreign market is an adequate vent for the surplus produce of our labour.
But is it so? Foreign nations cannot if
But if they could, they will not. The policv of all Europe is adverse to the re
ception of our Agricultural produce, so
far as it comes into collision with its own:
and under that limitation we are abso
lutely forbid to enter their ports, except
under circumstances, which deprive
them of all value, as a steady market.
The policy of all Europe, rejects those
great staples of our country, which con
sists of objects of human subsistence.
I he policy of all Europe, refuses to receive from us any thing but those raw
materials of smaller value, essential to
their manufactures, to which they can
give a higher value, with the exception of rice and tobacco which they cannot
produce.
This being their policy, what ought to
be ours? Seeing that no foreign market
can be obtained, it is clearly our policy
to create one at home, and this is to be
done by manufacturing for ourselves, in
stead of importing from foreign countrie!
such articles as our wants demand, and
to the production of which we possess
every necessary material.
In the language once more of the
great Champion of domestic industry, we must adopt a genuine American poli
cywe must counteract the policy of foreigners, and withdraw the support which we now give to their industry and stimulate that of our own country. On this subject, some remarks from the York Recorder, upon the 'American System,' are worthy of perusah They are a3 follows:
"There are persons who feel an interest
in endeavoring to persuade the farmers, of this neighborhood, that the protection of Domestic Manufactures, is to them an
unimportant matter; a subject about which they have no cause to give themselves any concern. To meet this fallacious doctrine, it is necessary only to state a single fact. There were imported into Boston alone, during the last
year,for home consumption, 209,704 bar
rels ot flour: Of these 119,202 barrels mjch more than one half, went from the port of Baltimore, which is the principal
if not the sole market, for the (lour produced in York county. During the same year, the whole of the exports of
this article from the United States to Eu
rope, amountea to out oo,wo barrels. The demand for flour, created by the
Manufacturing establishments ot New England, is therefore of the utmost im
portance to our farmers. One single
distr.ct in New England, takes from us three times more flour, than all Europe together; and the whole amount taken
by the Eastern States, exceeds 628,000
barrels. Annihilate that demand, and would not the farmers of this country feel the effects in all their operations? Great
! clamour is attempted to be raised against
Mr. Adams administration, because through the perverseness of the British
Ministry, our trade with the British Co
munity from adoption and enforce-! amounting to nearly 20.000. Thi
ment of the American System."
That the American System ought to
be persevered in, is clearly proved not on
ly by the success in every branch of
manufactures, which has received ade
quate Legislative protection, hut also b)
the reduced price, and superior quality of the American fabric. For the prooi of this position we need make but a hi.gle reference. Every one will recolki;
the slazy hum hums which we formerly
imported from India at 2 and 3 shillings
per yard; in place of which, we have now, in our domestic cottons, the substantial product of the American loom at
from 12 to 20 cts. per ard, of which val
uable article, there are now exported
about six millions of dollars annually.
iRllf ttlic ' Sn ta Innml'iiro ff IV 1 r. IT
arva. til nit l(tllU(l-- AMI. HIJII-
Kins, "is said to be the growth ot Legislative hot houses, in violation of sound
economy. Let us then abolish it again,
import hum hums Irom the other side of
the globe, and for the benefit of our south
ern political economists, let them send so much more cotton to England and try
its eliect upon the price."
That those manufactures which have
received adequate legislative protection
are in a flourishing condition throughout the union, is undeniably true. The fol
lowing list of manufacturing establish
ments, principally tor cotton, taken from
Niles' Weekly Regit.r, speaks volume?
upon this subject,and must be highly gra-
titying to every Iriend to the prosperity
ot nis country. "There are between 30 and 40 Cottoi Factories in New Hampshire.
The capital invested in Manufactures
in Massachusetts may be estimated at
between twenty-five and thirty millions
ol dollars.
In Khode-Island there are about 90
Cotton Mills, and new ones are building.
In iNew-York trom 15 to 18 million?
ofdollais are employed in manufactures..
At Patterson, New Jersey, there an 15 Cotton mills, requiring 1,500,000 11
of Cotton annually to supply them, w ith
OO power and hand looms. In the littl
county of Delaware there are 157 mills
and factories; five of the factories em
ploy 1,038 person?, one of them has 200 power looms.
l our thousand weavers find employ
ment in 1 hiladelnhia.
Delaware has many valuable Cotton Mills. In Maryland, in the counties of Cecil. Baltimore, Frederick, and Washington, there are many large and important factories. The entire number of persons employed in all the different manufactories in the United States cannot be less than two millions."
It is manifest that the woollen manufactures throughout the United States
do not enjoy that prosperity which attends the manufacture of Cotton; and
this must be attributed to the want of
equal Legislative protection; for with such protection, there can be no reason
assigned, why they shovld not prosper as well as cotton manufactures, and others which have received such aid. The farmers of the United States, but more es-
year the quantity of wool in the county
is greater than the last, but the price n.uch lower. For the same kind of wool
that I bought last year at 1 8 cents, I nowpay but 12 1-2 and 13 cents, and for the
finest, I pay but 50. This great depres
sion in the pric e, arises from the want of
a market. There is now 1 believe more
wool grown in the United States than there are manufactories in operation to
work it up: So that if foreign wool
should be entirely prohibited at once,
no benefit would result to the wool growI 11 ill a'
er, unless ne could at tne same urne,
have an increased consumption of the ar
ticle at home. I was in Philadelphia and New York last February, while the
woollen bill was under discussion in
Congress; it was then the general belief
that the bill would pass: the manufac
turers were waiting to know the certain
ty of its passage before they could buy
wool, and I was also anxiously looking
for its passage, to sell."
Here let us pause and inquire how it
happened that this bill was lost? And
whence came the opposition to it? It is
time these matters should be investigated, and that the people should know
their friends from their enemies. 1 he
following is a correct statement, and will
furnish to every candid man, a conclu
sive answer to these enquiries. It isde
rived from an address of Judge Beatty,
a highly respectable and intelligent
member of the Kentucky Legislature.
"On the taiilTof 1818 the votes of the
House of Representatives stood thus:
I he 7 northern States, for. azainst.
including New York 44 The Southern States, includii g Tennessee, 3 The four middle States, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, 29 The 5 Western States
(excluding Tennessee)
14
46
8
12
89
71
All six votes from Tennessee against the Tariff" of ISIS! On theTariifof 1824 the votes of the House of Representatives stood thus: for against. The 7 northern States, 41 31 The 8 southern Slates, 1 C4 The 4 middle States, 34 7 The 5 western States. 31 00
187
102
The whole seven votes of Tennessee
against the Tariff, and all the votes of
Kentucky for it. On the Tariff of the last session the votes of the House of Representatives stood thus:
The 7 northern States, The 8 southern States, The 4 middle States, The 5 western States,
what share Ohio, and the other grain
growing Stai, possess of the benefits ofilonies is turned aside from a direct to a
trad', with Great Britain: cotton and tobacco alone, forming more than ninetcnlJis of the amount of our whole ex
ports to that country: of the remaining tenth, rice and other articles, the pro
ducts ot the Southern States exclusively
amount to 4 or 500,000 dollars, leaving
for Omo and the slates Eat, West, and North of her, about 1,500,000. It may be asked where shall a market be found for our surplus produce? In answer to this question the following extracts are made from a speech, delivered by Mr. Clay, in the House of Representatives, on the 30th and 31st of March
1824, in support of an 'American System for the protection of American Industry. The entire speech, cannot be too often
read by every friend to the true inter
ests of his Country. Mr. Clay says, "The greatest want of civilized society,
is a market for the sale and exchange of
the surplus of the produce, of the labour of its members. This market may exist at home or abroad, or both; but it must exist some where, if society prospers; and wherever it does exist, it should be competent to the absorption of the entire surplus of production. It is most desirable that there should b? both a home and a
foreign market, but with respect to their
for 61 1 25 19 106
asrainst.
9 62 12 11 94
All the votes of Tennessee, except one absent, against the bill. Upon the same bill in the Senate the votes stood thus:
for
The 7 northern States, 1 1
circuitous channel, and the farmers are
told, that in consequence, they are suffering greviously. Our produce still finds its way to the colonies, because the planters cannot do without it: but if the
trade were totally lost, of what conse
quence is that boasted mart, in compari
son with that otiNew England ? 1 he colonies take from us 114,000 barrels: New
England takes 628,000 barrels. The colonial trade is fluctuating and precarious; that with New England is steady and sure. The former depends upon the caprice of a foreign government, and we can be debarred from it without no tice or ceremony. The latter rests on
the broad basis of national policy, and if
the people are true to their own interests, in fostering effectually and wisely
me domestic inuusiry ot tne country, it
will be permanent as the union, and in
pecially the farmers of Ohio, are deeply
interested in, and would derive greater
advantages from, the success of the wool-'
len manufactures than from any others.; The 8 southern States, O
ihe climate of Ohio is admirablyjThe 4 middle Stales, 3
adapted to the raising ol sheep, and the The 5 western States. 6
number of that useful animal within the state, is already immense. In the single
county of Jefferson, there are 25,000
against
0 12 4 4
20 20
absent. 3 4 1 0 8
The hill was lost bv the castincr vote
sheep, -one individual (Mr. Dickinson)'0f the Vice Presidents And thus the
having on his farm about 3 eighths of that
number. But owing to the small de
mands for wool, and the consequent low
price of the article, the raising of sheep
most important bill for the Agricultural
interest of the eastern, western and mid
die states, that ever came before Congress, was reiected. It is remarkable
at the present time is an unprofitable bu-Uhat not a single vote of the Tennessee
sinesc. and like the prowinc of hread stolon tin -oo rrar. Jr. fo... r;K-
stuffs, affords the industrious farmers of, of these three bills. The Tennessee correspond with their own. Had these
m i i . i r . t i . . inpreniia nm rfi Hfipn mr rrvitmonr inev
Uiuo, out a oare sunsisience tor tneir; Senators, also voted against the bill
a . m 1 1 1 . m V w r mi w
families. 1 he establishment ot Wool-last session, and both nf nnr senators.
himself is decidedly hostile to theuAmef ican System." On the subject of Internal Improvement, Judge Beatty says: "I will refer to a few cases, in which the yeas and nays were taken rn the Senate. On a bill authorising a sub scription of stock in the turnpike fnffl Columbus to Sandusky, every senatori al vote from Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia ar.d Tennessee, was against it, except Mr. Eaton who was absent. On a motion to strike out an approprirf ation (in a bill from the House of. Re pre sentatives) for surveys, in aid of Internal Improvements, the same vote was give n as in the last case, including Mr; Eaton and Mr. Rowan in favor of the motion.-
On engrossing a bill for the repair ana
protection of the Cumberland road, ail senators from the states above named,
were against the bill, except Mr. Eaton
Mr. Rowan was absent.
But a proposition, the object of which
was to reduce the revenue, and thereby deprive the government of the means
necessary to make Internal Improvements, very readily meets the support of
Southern gentlemen: ihus, on a preposition, to reduce the duty on foreign
wines, coffee, and tea, every Senator
from the Southern States voted tor the
measure, except four, who were absent
Rowan and Johnson frcm Kentucky, also voted for this measure.
On a motion to strike out wines from the foregoing bill, every Senator tremt the eight Southern States voted against striking out wines, except White trom Tennessee, who was absent. Rowtn and Johnson from Kentucky, also voted against striking out wines." For nearly twenty years the ciuievS of Ohio have been friendly to Domestic
Manufactures, and Internal Improvements, and have on various occasions,
ieclared themselves to beinlaviur of
that policy, which would protect tin i e,
nd promote the other; and it is. beiu vt d,
that no man could have been elected to
represent them in the councils ci the iatiou, if he bad even been sup cu d of
hostility to those important measures. The voice of the State has been too distinct to admit a doubt, whether mai ilt sted in the halls of Congress, in the Siate Legislature, or in smaih r assembles? No man dare offer himself a ca didate
for the suffrages of the people w ho is un
friendly to the American System; a
strong feeling in its favor pervades all classes, and yet we have those among
us, who would blast all the expectations
of its friends, by drivii g from power,
the men who have been its ablest advo cates, and putting in turir places, these
who have been shown to be its most i;w
veterate enemies. It has been Droved
that Gen. Jackson, and his frieuds, in both Houses of Congress, have generally voted with the enemies of every meas ure proposed for the protection ol Amer ican Industry. It has also been shown that with the exception of Mr. Eaton's vote on the Cumberland road bill, they
have opposed Internal Improvements by
voting against the following bills:
1st. A bill authorizing a subscription?
to the Columbus and Sandusky turnpike.
2d. A bill to appropiate 30,000 for
surveys in aid of Internal Improvements.
3d. A bill for the repair and preserva tion of the Cumberland road. And with all this positive proof of their hostility to our interests, staring ub iu the face, we are all called upon to make the Chief of this opposition President of the United States. Gen. Jackson is supported for the Presidency by many western people because, they say, the General is a western man; and therefore, take it for
granted, that his feelings and interests
our population, and the development of
our internal resources. 1 o satisfy them
selves that they have an interest in the
encouragement of manufactures, our far
mers need only enquire who it is that now buys their flour, and what it is that
now keeps up the demand and the price. Such an inquiry will show the immense
advantages resulting to the farming com-
rflrCJO -nv. it.-i iui uiuuicjii, nicy Oil 1 1 . . . . J". 111 . W 1
would nave uiscoverea mat uen. Jack-
len manufactures, would not only increase the price of wool, but also enhance
the value of Agricultural products, by
creating for them a steady market of from Kentucky, in the Lower House.
home consumption. To be in a flourish
ing condition, the Agriculturalist of the
country should furnish to the manufac
turer, the raw material, and also, subsistence for the workmen employed in man
ufacturing it. Every farmer well knows that the raising of sheep would be a pro-
crease with the increase and spread ofjfitable branch of his business, if a fair
price could be obtained for their wool,
and he knows as well, that under exist
ing circumstances, such a price cannot
be procured. Mr. Abishai Way, a gen
tleman largely engaged in the wool trade
in a letter dated Pittsburgh, June 21st, 1 827, says. "Last year I bought in this place about 50,000 pounds of wool, at all
prices, from 18 to 05 cts. per pound.
warm advocates of Gen. Jackson's elec
tion to the Presidency, also voted against
the hill, as did every Jackson member
With the foregoing fact9 in view, can
it be expected that a candidate brought out under the auspices of Tennessee,
originally, and supported by Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and his own State, the whole of whose Representatives voted
against every tariff bill from the year
1818 down to the present time, should
be favourable to the encouragement of
Domestic Manufactures. It is as clear
as the sun at noon day, that throughout every stage of the tariff bill, Gen. Jackson's friends were the enemies of protection to wool and woollen goods, and by a reference to his votes, in the senate, it
will as clearly appear, that Gen. Jackson
son is not a western, but a southern man,
both in feeling and interest. The State
of Tennessee, in which Gen. Jackson
resides, differs from Ohio in several im portant particulars. Tennessee is a Slave State, Ohio is not. Tennessee derives its populatiorr from the Southern States Ohio from the middle and Northern. The great staple of Tennessee is Cotton, which is admitted into the ports of Europe. The great staples of Ohio, are flour, beef and pork, which are shut out of all ports of Europe. Tennessee sends her cotton to be manufactured by English workmen, and uniformly opposes every measure fop the protection of our manufactures at home. Ohio is prohibited from sending any of her great products to England, and is a warm advocate for the American System, which encourages Ameri-