Indiana Palladium, Volume 3, Number 47, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 1 December 1827 — Page 1

ummmuiMaMWim1!' I lint EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN.-Bariow. Number 47. Volume III. LAWRENCEBURGII, INDIANA; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1827

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well as those of lesser magnitude, which I have not mentioned, Ohio receives no inconsiderable proportion, since our population is very large, and more or less of them is found in every house, and almost about every man's person. Our next inquiry will be, how these goods are paid for. As we have not

manufactured articles to exchange for

them, it must be either with money or

some of the productions of our Agricul ture. Of the latter our principal arti

cles of exportation are flour, Indian corn,

and meal, salted provisions and whiskey

These are our staples. The document

to which I have already referred, shew

ed that of the three first articles, there

were exported to Great Britain, from the whole U. S. within the last year, less thau the value of eighty-six thousand

dollars; of the two next articles, Beef,

uid Pork, less than three hundred dol

ars; of whiskey not a gallon. It thus

lppears mat Ureal britain receives

rom those states, whose productions

consist of provisions, an amount of less

than eighty-seven thousand dollars.

When the consumption of her manufac

tures in those states must amount to ma

ny millions. It this statement is correct,

uid its accuracy cannot be questioned,

is the depressed state of the agricultural

interests of those to be wondered at? I

it surprising that money should he scarce

when we yearly send such large sums

lcross the Atlantic to purchase the man

ufacturesofa nation which takes none

GEN. HARRISON'S SPEECH. The following speech was delivered by Gen. Harrison at a meeting of the friends of thw Administration, held in this city in September last. It embraces topics of great interest and is worthy of a careful and "attentive pe

rusal. The speech was furnished for

publication at the request of the gen tletncu win attended the meeting. Cincinnati Gazette Mr. Chairman Feeling the deepest interest in the sub

ject to which the resolution now under

consideration refers, I trust I shall be excused for troubling this respectable

meeting with a few remarks.

A farmer, having my whole property vested in agricultural pursuits, and rely

ing upon them and them alone for trie

support of a large family, my attention his for a long time been directed to the means of relieving my brethren of that ciiss of citizens and myself, from the distressing difficulties and embarrassments

under which we sulfer. Tile result of

mj deliberations is a perfect conviction thtt wre have no other hope than from th'i adoption of the policy recommended

by the resolution. If any doubts exist of

the reality of the sufferings-of which we complain, an hundied facts can be adduced to show their existence. It is equally susceptible of proof that they are

the result of no want of exertion upon our part, and still less to any providential

dispensation. Our farmers are active,

skilful, and economical. Our youth

temperate, robust, and patient of labour. TheSe, acting upon a soil of unequalled

fe rtility, and aided by a mild and geneal

climate, might well be supposed to pro

dtice all that the cultivator could re

quire. Such in fact are the first results

of these qualities and these blessings.

The western farmer gathers with joy

and gratitude to heaven a copious har

vest into his granaries, of all the articles

ivhich compose the necessaries of life, and I acknowledge, if he could bound his desires to these, under such a govern

ment as ours, he might be happy. B.u

habit, and the manners of the age, have

created a thousand artificial wants, to

the enjoyment of which the farmer is a

liuch entitled as his feflorc orisons" who

fallow oilier occupations. Money for

those purposes, and for 'he education of

children, is necessary, b it where is he

tc procure it. i he surplus poduce of his farm will not command it. His Uirns are filled with grai.i, i ur his cofivrs are empty. Hi utmost hope is confi tod to the support of his family. A provis

ion for his sons and daughters entering

into life, is entirely hopeless. I? has rot keen always so. A few years ago every

farmer in the country was enabled to

lav up something from his annual profit?

for the benefit of his children. You

might see them crowding to the puolit

land offices to procure for their sons and

sons-in-law the enviable situation of

freeholders. This is no longer the case.

Although the price of public lands has

been so much reduced, thrre are few

vouug men who can procure the means of nurchasing; a bare support is all that

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the laboring man can expect trom luss mtnern stale?, louoii, ionaia.u .mu

of our productions in return?

But it mav be asked, if the source of put it into that oj anothn

our difficulties is so obvious, why has not

the National Legislature, to whom the

constitution has delegated the pow er, so

regulated this commerce, as to preven

the evils ot which we comnlam? 1 Ik

cra,hav and other food, which the an-l Great Britain, arises principally ,'om!i, aPPea,ri .to me there has been a afthaields it "a T of the lahorjthe immense capital Jl.icl. our nvaU studied design upon the part of many of wto'ch LZlt "Z article, of tha, have employed, fv which they are ena- the Mic , print. J to keep -;,he peop e

led to work at a cheaper rate man our oi me u eMcu. iuumij, u manufacturers can afford. It is evident ledge of the real state of this question,

produc

which manufactures it, and of the beef

pork and flour, which sustains the van-

ous descriptions of persons who are em

ployed to give it the shape which it lasi r- i . i . i

assumes." In every varaoi ciom, men

which comes into the country, we import

corn, cras, hay, pork, beef and flour.

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w hen we have an immense amount ot

those articles, rotth g upon our hands; and we employ furrigi ers to labor for us

at a high price, when thousands ofyoung

men in our own countn are w ithout em

ido ment.

Ii may be usUed, why is legislative in

terference necessary to produce the

change which we desire? there is no

prohibition to an one manufacturing

what he pleases, and every arm le pro

duced in America, is already protected

in a manner to give it the advantage

over that which is imported; the foreign

article too, has to pass through several

hands before it reaches us, each of!

whom mut have a profit upon it. If

then4 with all tin se advantages, our manufactories cannot enter into a successful

competition with those of foreign coun

tries, it plainly shows that we are not in a situation to become a manufacturing

nation. To rxi ludc foreign goods from our shores by hign duties, is giving an

exorbitant premium to the manufacturer at the expense of the consumer: or, to

use the hackneyed remark of the day, it

is taking money from one mans pocket, to

1 Lis reason

mg is more specious than soiiu. I nav

only to he convinced that the proposed

change will create a monopoly m favor

of tin manufacturers, at the cxnense of

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man

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o mhlishment ivhich Droduces and to conceal the source ironrvv nun me

tnnrt ,.nr,ta rloth ner week can afford principal opposition was made and is still

I JJJ 1IH v.. I. mm . . , to 11 it for a smaller profit than one to be expected. If the opposition to the

which makes only a tenth of that quanti- bill upon the part oi tnose who sun pro--tv That thisis the principal reason, is fessed to be favorably disposed to tho evident from the fact, that all the articles principle of the Tariff, was confined to w ft.rmprlv received from Great, its details that of the whole mass ot the

Britain, and which can be advantageous southern delegation was directed against

Ivmade with small capital, are now ai-nne enure measure, ui tvciy ovrlnsivlv m:ide in our own coun- under any modification.

.. v Tho domestic, articles having driv- The ardour and violence which were,

en the foreign ones from the market, manifested by them, have perhaps nevec

Although our capital is far less than that been surpassed on any lo.mcr occ.mon, . Great Britain has at her disposal, we and it is greatly to be lamented lhat it have still enough to accomplish the ob- has rather inrrraed than dimu ished i.. . nt. A tPmnorarv protec- since the adjournment ot Congress. In

the great body of the community nt ence

Journals of Congress for tlie last eight or to abandon the measure, but my rea-

nine years will shew what efforts have son, and the experience of other nations,

been made to have a course of policy adopted which would have the tffeet of transferring our workshops from Europe to America. Great talents & much zeal have been manifested in this cause, but they have been opposed by equal talents i!)d by a degree of violence which caree any other occasion has elicited. I a country so extensive as ours, differing so materially in climate and soil, and of course in agricultural products, colli sion arising from a real or supposed difference of interests must be expected. It unfortunately happens that in the pro-

i-ct for encouraging our manufactures

by increasing the duties upon those ot foreign countries, our brethren of the southern states see not only a violation

of their rights and an injury to their interests, but an alarming exercise of power, not delegated to Congress by the Constitution. Whilst we deny both these propositions, we admit that the proposed measure is not called for by

itnv actual state of suffering similar to

ours, upon the part of the southtn: states: nor by their;imu.ediale ai d separate interests, unconnected with those of the nation at large. By a recurrence to the document, which I have before

quoted, it will be seen that there were exported to Great Britain, within the

last year, of the three great staples of the

audiudeed of our own, convince me that

the rrse.it will be very different.

L.deed, I do not hesitate to say that 1

hae n predd ction for manufactures,

and thai 1 ouid ;ive them no aid bin

lhat winch will ultimately tend to the bunt-fit of that grat interest which is tinfoundation upo i which all the others resl. Our .'Uniry is, and will I trust ever continue to be essentially agricultural. If that interest flourishes, the minor ones cannot lai !ui-h.' But is

ihere any reasoning nore?ary to shovv,j that if the seven millions of woollen,

goods which we now import from Great

Britain were manufactured in our own

country, from our own wool, and the

hands employed in the manufacturing fed with our own pork, flour and whiskey, that the farming interest would be greatly promoted by it? Will not any boy tell you that if one third of the hands

which are now employ ed in agriculture were converted into manufacturer?, that the labours of the two-lhirdi which remain, would produce greater profit? Why is it that a grain growing and graz-

wilt farm in Ohio, is not as valname as

i;, onai.loihnsfl u honossessit clear- my nauve m.uc u.imunuiy, innmi

y to see the advantage to be derived excitement has been produced, whuli from vesting their money in this way, to would seem to portend the most awful enable the workmen to acquire the ne- consequences. t is a consolation how-

ary skill, and to get our people into ever, to tnose w no nave me ....mo. mi.u ip habit ofusincour own manufactuies, to differ with the politicians of that state, ill soon accomplish, with regard to that they display themselves unmasked oollen eoods, what has already been and undisguised. Hy pocr.sy and dn. un

done in relation to those of another kind, ulation are weeos wnu n ao not uouriMi

But a few years since, our cotton goods m a V irgima sou. i nt us is not a wark t. P ... -. T r 4 . (. r I r rv rvirf w4 inn

f every description was hrougtu nom y" ui mi.iu u. u..u UU..1.U.1..U......

abroad. The protection given to me i ney nuvi- n.ut.u.r tTu,; uu. u

manufacture of goods from that material, the tar.n system as ore noi aumonzeu I I . .1.1 . . . . . 1 mrvHK r 1 .lilt 4 -

hv the act of 1821, has produced a- most oy me eonsuiuuuu, uu naugn. w.. ...c

wonderful change. Not only has the most ruinous consequences to mem ana i , ;. . K,or. Mhp olhpr southern stales.

impor lauon or a large ..as? u. mv.... . -- .... , , . . stopped, by our manufactories furnish- It is not the wollen bill alone that they

in-- for the home consumption a oeuer oriM,r, m..: v...... and a cheaper article than that which its object the protection ot American

was formerly imported, but a laige sur- manuiaciu., uy a., .nurr iu uu.j upplus for exportation. There were ex- on those ot foreign countries. So strong ported wiihin the last year, goods of are their convictions ot its ruinous opethat descr iption to the amount of 1,138,- rations to them, that some of their pohti000 dollars, being principally sent to nans have threatened us with a dissoluSouth America and bringing from thence tion of the Union, it we persisted in our gold and silver in return. Is not this a design. No better evidence can be !era sufficient encouragement to goon with ed of their inveterate hostility, than that this nrotectin" policy. And who has of their having espoused the cause of

been injured by this operation? not the gen. Jarkson in opposition to the mes southern planters, sureh, who have thus admn istiatmn. In i o part ot ti e Un

:vi ret opened or their Rreat pvas. u.e nmiui- u. K. .

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Jackson to tho

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Nore of these manufactories have ve.t.y utpn-i ut-u ...a.. ..J4...U.,

been established in our section of Coun- penamg me iasi t lecuon. une or ner try , nor do we supply any part of the most distmgushed ciuz-ns, (her late goraw material employ ed in them; but we vernor, and now her senator u Coi gr. ss) acknowledge their beneficial influence, publicly declared the predilection .t the

Mnce every person who has been taken state lor 3Ir. Adams in preierence to gen. from agricultural pursuits, employed in Jackson, until the sentiments of the forthoe manufactures, has cr eated an ad- rner in fav or of the tanfl and internal irrv dilior.al demand for the flour, the pork, prove ment systems had been dt dared, the whiskey of Ohio. In fact the New They now support the general upon the

Kt.'jland States are about the nest, l avowcu pimc.pie eppoMtmn 10

hese measures: the Irienus oi t tie g ne-

ral in Ohio upon the ground of his being

nught almost say our oniy ina.KtL .o. these articles. The tariff of 1824 did not produce an operation so beneficial in relation to woollen as to cotton goods. It caused indeed the establishment of many new manufactories; but the protection riven by it has not enabled them to

wace a successful contest with those of

Great Britain. Various causes have combined to nroduce this result: the

,

one of equal or 1-s, fertility in E,Clamd most prominent are a countervailing law

work. Those who labor on the farm

are often obliged to take a portion of the produce in payment, from the inability of the. farmer to pay them money . Ii is within my own knowledge thai many

young men are prevented from many-! make payment in their own products to i-.rr from the difficulty they apprehendiGreat Britain, for the articles which

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in procuring th" means ot supporting npney receive, irom ner, uui mere 3 a

Rice, to the amount of nearly nineteen

millions of dolla.s, a sum which falls but

seven millions short of the exports to that country of the whole union. The citizens of the southern states not only

familv. ll taese things are tru", and the

cnaiority of those who hear me know

them to be so,is it no' necessary that somes

larere balance remaining. 1 he three ai

tides which I have men

raised in Great Britain, and they can ob

qu

If it is said to arise from the interior sit-, nation of the former, from its distance from the ocean, nicking the exportation of such bulky articles as flour and pork difficult and expensive, I answer that Britain, begirt as she is with the sea, ex

ports none of these articles. She has wisely created for them a market at home. In imitation of her example then transfer a portion of the manufacturers ofGlaow and Leeds, Birmingham and

S!n fiield, to Cincinnati and other towns.

entirely favorable to them. He altcge-

ther a tariii man, and they ultra tariff. They disdain to join the rest of their fel

low citizens rn their endeavors to p re-

cure protection for a single article, altho

of more importance to us than all the others put together; but insist upon a

revision of the whole tarifi. W hat a

ingular state of things is here present-

remedy should be an lJ d o the operes-jtain them no w here so well as irom the scdagr'a u.luraiin est o the eeuntry.'outhern states. The products of Ohio, But before we etk for the remedy,; the middle and north-western states, on tor us correctlv understand the sourceithe contrary , are nearly similar to those

of the disease of which we complain. (raised by the English farmer; they con-

There is, I think, no difficulty in -this. ist of wool, and all the articles which

... ,.;notmn nf fhp fii.noat reoort of! constitute the food ot man. it cannot

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nf Ohio, nod ihP farmers in the vicinitv clearly shown, a Bill was introduced lor

of the latter, will no Ioniser want a mark- the purpose of effectually preventing

which I hnw mention!! rrmnnt hnL. rn, then- products. nese rrauus, anu giving u.e .iCtcS,rJ

ivr...... iiic tinnii i-iit nnd written in F;-i protection 10 mis impoiiaui in.u.u.ai

. Lio (i nnrtrirtpd commerce J tu re. The discussing of this bill in the

An able British writer cf the last century, House of Representatives, occupied no

the secretary of the Treasury, of the etate of our commercial relations with other countries of the world, will at once

be expected that she will take from us articles which her own soil abundantly

supplies. We have therefore, no altem

explain the difficulty. By this docu-jative but to create a home market tor .. ...,ki: -1..1 : .,. ..pJamp tn n.l n nrnd ivrp 'This can onlv hp

that there were imported into the Uniledieff cted by the encouragement of manuState within the year, ending on the factures, that our coats may be made rifh nf Sentember. from the European from our own wool and the manufac-

dominions of the King of Great Britain, tuxer who makes them fed with our own

articles manufactured in those countries

to the amount of upwards of twenty six millions of dollars. Of this enormous en m thp item of woollen goods alone fur

nishes upwards of seven millions; that transportation by land or water of nearly of cotton goods, principally printed, rix four thousand miles, when the material

provisions. How absurd it is to send our money across the atlantic, to bring from thence

articles which can only reach us after a

millions: the various manufactures of

iron and steel, one and a nan millions; :.nd those of earth (china and other-

wares,) one and a half millions. Now it is well known that of these articles, as

of which it iscomposedjis found upon eve

ry farm. "What," as it has been well

asked bv an able advocate of our-protec

tion svstem, "is the component pnrt of a

yard cf woollen cloth ?.. It consists of corn

endeavored to convince his countrymen of the advantages which would flow from it: but he did not succeed. Whether the

principle is correct or not, it is of no importance for us to consider, since we

could not adopt it, unless the nations with whom we trade would do it like

wise. There is no probability that Lug

land will ever materially alter her sys

tem, one which she has preserved and

with so much advantage: which has

poured into her lap the wealth of the world, by which alone she has been able

to preserve her rank among nations, and

with an unequal population to sustain

herself against the gigantic force of her

hereditary continental enemies.

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bo tenacious is sne oi giving protecuon

to her ov.'ii products, that even the starv

ing condition of thousands ot her sub

jects will not induce her to open her r .

ports to the provisions oi otner n.ttions.

The necessity of giving protection to

certain manufactories, to enable them

successfully to compete with those o

of the British parliament, the defects of ed. The friends of gen. Jackson in the

our own law, enabling the importers to introduce a great quantity of fine cloths

under the character of those of a cheap

er quality, and the superior capital of the

British manufacturer which enables him to sell his cloth often at a sacrifice for the purpose of driving his American

competitor irom mc maricer.. iun dence of thoe facts having been laid be

fore congress, and the depressed and

sinking state of American manufactories

inconsiderable part of the whole session

and iteamo-to the Senate so late that 1

could not be acted on, unless it could be

taken up out of its turn, and this the ut

most efforts of its friends were unable to

etfect. Believing, as 1 most sincerely do, that the passage of this bill would have given ver y great relief to the farming interest, its failure has been to me a subject of the deepest regret. As far as the

inieresi, or me iuim- t-s.t.u siu-'

concerned, 1 believe that there is no

measure which has been brought Delore

Congress for many years of so much im-

nortance. Could it have been success

ful, I am confident its beneficial inllu-

ence unon our principal products, our

flour, pork, whiskey and wool, vvouiu ai

this moment have been telt.

If my opinion is correct, it becomes the

duty of the W estern people to inquire into the cause of the failure of this meas

ure, and to know the grounds of hope or apprehension in relation to its future

fate. This is the more necessary, since

Southern states, threaten to withdraw

rom the union if we increase the duty

upon a single article; his supporters, iu

he Middle and JNorlh estern States

are for adding to that article many oth

ers, some even which require no protec

tion at all, and others more offensive to

their Southern friends than the woollens. This mode of getting the dose swallowed, by increasing the nauseous ingredi

ents, is certainly new.

I do not attribute to them a design so

absurd. The real authors of this sclu me, (not citizens of Ohio,) perfectly under

stand their game. U is not the hrst time the same object was attained by pursuing apparently opposite means. The Southern men wish to defeat the wollens bill, and they march directly to their object, supporting gen. Jackson, the whole delegation of whose state they faiozv, and whom they believe, individu-

dly , to he opposed to it. His friends in

the middle and the western states, dare

not openly oppose a measure so loudly

called for by the interests of those states.

Still they never unite with their Southern friends. This is a sad dilemma; but

not without a remedy . It is an old trick

in legislation, for professed friends, but secret enemies, to load a bill with matter

for the very purpose of defeating it. If

I am asked to account for the very singu

lar circumstance of men who were ori

ginally warm advocates for the tariff, pursuing a course at war with their former opinions, and evidently with their own and the interests of the sections of country in which they live, I have no difficulty in saying, that it is for the purpose of securing the election of General Jackson to the Presidency. And I mcst

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