Public Leger, Volume 4, Number 45, Richmond, Wayne County, 30 April 1828 — Page 4

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is not ungi

ststcnt cannot

be really

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all: whvarenot these nentlemen consis

tent enough to ask, at once, for a repeal of the-duties on cotton, sugar, indigo, rice and tobacco, and a repeal of the foreign tonnage duty? The. reasons arc the same that induce them to oppose the extension

of protection to the noithcrn farmer and I manufacturer: they are afraid it may in i some measnre affect their own peculiar interests. This is the tru secret of ther Icondtct and their doctrines, cs is indeed very plainly avowed in the document of S which we are speaking nearly one half ; of which is taken up in endeavoring to ! prove that for the people of the U itcd i states to manufacture such articles as they : want, instead of importing them, would injure the inter sts ol the importer and of the-cotton grower. ( But although wp do not intend to take ' a detailed or a connected view of the pi -: sitions and arguments presented in this document; yet there are a few points about it to which we are induced to devote ! a passing notice. ! The report of the committee is a very tart, if not an indelicate, attack upon those j views of the effect of protective duties which the Secretary of the treasury took ; in his Inst annual report. Considering the body from which it emanates, the sarcasj tic tone and the sneering aspect of their i report Oas not only uncalled for by the occasion, but is extiemely undignified. Take the fallowing for an example: 4Vhcn linanci is and statesmen at the head ot affairs, are found gathering up and appro- . . . . i i i r i ... I. ..l.

t nriatinc me c-xpiouca orrors oi ices cuniiu-

We fcnow not who isthe author of tho following linev but we iloiknoMT that we have seldom perused any more full of ik v ferlinj; ami jut seutiiacnt enersjeticiHy :ml happily expressed. LIXF.S WRITTEN OIC THE INLAND OP ELBA. The heart that ftclsas I have iVlt, When forced from kindred hearts to sever. The idol-home when youth has dwelt To leave, and Icate perchance forever, Although no sigh may tell its wo, Will throb with sorrow's deepest throe. A father's burning hand I wrung:; I kissed a mother's pal'r d check; But not a word escaped 1113 tongue I feel too much toomm h to speak I That parting hour, that sad adieu. Words would not tempt tue to renew. My foot is on a foreign strand But let me wander where I will, My thought? are in my native land My heart is with my kindred still: My tlrtams by nij;ht my thoughts by day, Are of the hired ones far away. Whrn Vesper lights h r evening star, And sirigitii Zt h r curl the waves. Memory recalls the sc ne afar, Where t rst 1 followed to the grave, With bursting heart, and I urmng eje, Two sifter?, early doeuied to die ! 1 think of year? too u wasted. When Learning called me to her bowers, Cut ah, the cireean-cu: 1 tasted Maddened my brain uun rred my power?, And Uarninc's call was iliobeyed: I soRiicht for pleasure, found a shade! I think of herwhese hart of truth Is crumbling now to kindred clay, Eliza torn in in!t ?? outli Frin me and Irou. the world awny ; Upon these lips, my lips have prtt, The fe-U ni.c wuriu is coiled to rest. The ee thr-.t heam d wher.'er w met, The cheek that hlu-hed when love was j oken, The pice that bade r' not forget: Koi?t the! No! my heart is hrt ken, Iiutiuisul the ruin of that heart, W hile jet it throb, there tLt re thou art! Thine eye isipienchid, thy cheek is cold, Aud in a fir, i..r crti- thou'rt sleeping Tet oft, iu fancy I behold, And o'er that timtle-s crave lie weeping: In ain I strive thi :rief to hu b, The buruinr tears that u-tt r gush.!. I've left my land, I've left thj crave, All that I h.vein life or death, AVi.y am 1 o'er the h a ins; w a ve ! !; t srk I hcrt? f in.e's l!t tinj breath! A crowd's applause, a transient name? This isle fM:bt teach how pr.r is fame. The pri'on isle of him whoe c,l:i;ice Seut awe thuu -J.rnt t! c world around, Who o'er the hrow i.f fallen ri;.t:cc A sun -burnt wreath of 2'orv bound, A coronal of crown-, enrhceia Souue cciiCj'itred nation' tliudrui. Come hither, Fenant! tell roc, v. here Is he who tlvvelt 11 3 "ie.br vale? 'f ejiior, 1 never kuo.v nor care, ile e;tti; , te 'sgmie: tho' thorl the talc, ''lis all 1 have to teiP Hj came: lie's gone! cdiyes! tl i, t!i is fame ! We have at last, found time to glance IfAIKl'i I lip ri'lifil I r I llifi fr 1 1 . rt 1 i I

4 c w t i ' . !. 1 1 . i their duty, by touching t!e same sul j'Ct: tec ol Ways and Means, it is a labored , 3 J J . A , . 0 .. . f ' 1 . ,f .1 . . 1 1 1 tve do i-ot see but his around lor so doini doi mnent 01 tliirt iivcpntiis, olulKl ... , 7. , to ii . . A.iM.fA 1 . i. I ould be as cood, and his conduct as corthirtv two are demoted to an attack upon! . 1 1 i- . i 1 .1. ....1 r, .,r ,1,, f 1, reel and delicate,as theirs have been.

Treasury and an argument against protective 'lutiCS. To a document of this nature and of this extent, it can hardly be expected that we should devote the time, the labor or

. r.iifWHo 50 per cent on the I of reciprocity, why ,j Tir. ,

ratefulrantllhatnlHC s incon-. arc -Jr afsum8 lhit 12 per cent northern staphs cur ''Z

well be reascnaoie. 1 H W'--' " t.. .ttn This fct stutls and our l,..M,n ...t"' ",r J,

impolitic and iijurious, as they is to beaooea ;u- bul north purcliagc ai5U t '

it is to levy protective duties at aionew. nlurii.dv amount of tbrir V

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v7ould ever be practically, 1001 -import them under a tariff whose minimum tvasSOcents. This very cinimum yva? fised in order to give to ourown .manulactuiers the makin-of these very toarse and low priced coatings; but the wise committee on manufactures, aHer fixing the same minimum for these ooolens, have propo sed a duty on wool of the description oi which alone they aie made, which will totally prohibit their manufacture. Yet the Committee of Ways and Means give a decided preference to their recommendations, over those of the Secretary! After running up a parallel between the two scales, as proposed by the committee on caiiufacfjre3 and the Srcretaiy, after their own peculiar and very lair manner, and finally coming to the conclusion that the difference between them is "merely a nominal one," and that they arc both e ffectually prohibitory;" they ntsl "propose to enquire into the extent of this

j prohibition, and to trace its opt ration up- : on the foreign commerce and upon the

revenue of tbe country." And nere mey commence and, to tbe end of the report continue, a series of the wildest deductions

i and the roost sophistical arguments foun

ded on the most untenable assumptions that we ever recollect to have seen crowded into the same space in any cCicial document which has fallen under our no-

lice. We hope that our leisure may here-

I tr-ncd a"cs, and recommending?, as imans i alter permit us to analyze them in detail.

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or incrcasn g me national vm ami .mu itt ime', a polity that will inevitably destroy the annual income, directly and indirectly derived from a single staple, to the i x tent of more than thirteen nvllions of dollar?, it is difficult to avoid exclaiming, ii I the language of of a wie man of jan other ' f'liiintrv. wilh how little wisdom the

world is governed!7' How modest! r ( it assumes of ccur-c that our statesmen; at the head f afftiis" are net only "galh- , ' rrinis up and appropriating the exploded,

errors of les! enlightened .I'je.s but tnat S j .',000,000, tor tbe benefit ot tbe manu-

and tbe '; f.iciureis ot woolen and cotton troods, in

Such a sen- addition to what they will ttill ray, on im-

tenc rnigfit have ('one very well in a j ported cotton and woolen goods, fur the i flunw oration of Mr. M'Duflie to his con- suiiort of novernmeiit." 'i hev Lret at this

At nrfsent we must restrain oursHves ti

a pas-ing nptice of one or two points only. One assumption fo theirs one upon which by a process peculiarly felicitous, aryi remarkably rational they found u conclusion that they intend shall be decissive ol the whole question, is that the ef feet of adopting the proposed tariff will be to enhance the price of clothirg, one of the primary necessaries of life, to a point involvi; r an increase of the annual expen

diture of the people f r that objectj of

ment oi iiie committee

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, wnt re uiey say : uio cotton of ' "

try that'will take her inaniifartuiJ '

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i hen, by party

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that to us of then, rtb, tbe ro, of any body who will take our stav be cheaper to us than ihose 0f j; who will not take them. But even if? tact were true in its fullest extentBritish do buy our raw cotton b. r.' "E buy it back of them in the mam.r... Z:

i article how much do wr fr .i,. i... u

eration : vv o. tmv. nr

ue:ii'i iiiiuiriir imp amnui.t .r

ii 1 LOlin VfrJ, annually consumed in this country cause we do not know the amcuM ef is annual home manufacture. In i'0-r t Z ever, our import of tbe article hZqZ Brit ain alone, exclusive ci what we in ted from all other parts of the world, Z whnt ve made at home, nrnn.ru! led ""C. more than ten millions oi dollars. presume therefore that it will be vrr moderate to estim?ite our annua! cj.iZvJ. tion at thirty million?. But th-? c hit . tee themselves say, pago 20 -it j. Z. mateJ bv Mr. Huskisson, that tho rw

terial constitutes only one tilth of tii - v ;.

ue of cotton manufactures, taki: ,(. ,(V erage of the various qualities." if i;I(.rr. fore we ucted upon the print ij rec ;rmended by this committer, and mavifar. turcd no cotton ioods ourselves. ! i;t irn-

Dorien inern a i rom.i. n ;u si inr t , i

of selling her fifteen miiii

they are ignorant and w.'g

committee wie and right!

stituei.ts; but it is peculiarly undigmlieu and out of pi, ice iu a document which outfit to be o tool, logii r:, in attt r-ol lact, and dispassionate, as a report ot the committee of Ways and Mean?. Kqually uncalled for and ur.diunified, i the implied sensure which they atttmpt to cast upon both the Secretary of the Treasur) and the President, by alloc ting to doubt whether the tia rotary had kept within the line of his official dut in rued- . dlingat all vith the T-.riff question. Suppo?tj the Secre tary should tui n about and question whether the committee of Ways

and .Means have kept within tne line o(

j In discussing the Tariff question upon, ; ns wc suppose they wculd tall it, its merit the cemmittee begin by insisting that the ! interests of foreign commerce have been seriously injured already, by the existing

1 anil, and that the Secretary is utlcrlv

result by calling the duties imposed upon both cottons and woolens 66 per cent, cal ling the whole of it4ior the bent fit of the manufactures" allowing no portion of it for revero, and then assumieg that these articles are to continue to cost more, by h at percentage, if we manuf-iclurc than if we were to import them duty free. It is hut a second e dition of the old bugbear that was cojured up to frighten us when we attempt to protect our manufactures of coaisc cottons. Then, as now, large cal dilations we?. made, has. d upon the tlun ( ost of imported cottons w ith the propose, d rate of dut) superadded; and, in ihb wax it was demonstrated that countr

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worth ol our cotton annuallv, '.ve should r, fact, out of the thirty midnms v.rt!i ton nanufactures wbicli we nun h.istd r.!

her by paying her as profits an ! a

pensation for her labor, the rn.Uv 1

sum of twenty-four millions of delhn-a ear! 'JVul, we had better aoVpt the views of this sage commit'ee, ;nd in the true spirit of thos- views rrjx al rur protcctive duties of all kinds, l.urn our fu!o ries, .'tbandon all our rnanufat ture?, exjiraall our taw materials we can prouurt. p j the foreign capitalist four tiut.drtd xi cent for having them worked up, and thtz Vl 1 1 V I ( f I Imrl 'lifiin it t. a ir,f

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Jllbany

Chroiudc,

from the Charlfstcmn, Vn. Fri.'Trrs. Mr. Uandolph lias lately bee roe theft vorit of a party which boasts o! its xc.usivc patriotism. Let us take a spttiireo of tin' gentlemans patriotic ci.jr?: during the last war and sec bow devitd he wjs to his country and its inter:?!?.The annexed extract i6 fre-m Join Tar.-

dolph's speech, when his tountry washout to resist the encroachment ff land from John Randolph, who is t.;s thc incorrujitible patriot and statesman! Why should words have a specific ratting, since the madness of part) can

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would be ruined by the enhanced price ol r . , , rrr(.:fe : -c A t . .r IC' A John Uarvlolph s Speech on the utcic . coarse cottons, if that taull, of 1SJ1 were t. , ,011 ! , . . i. ' . , .it the stnmu Dec. 0lh 181 1. adopted. It was adopted however; and h J e f r .rrct -4i i. i s 4But f'raiit, fiT a moment, for .ucuu-ci ; what was the result? Cottons whuh arc) I. t. t . n . . lir.spd Uc s

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or.P n-iI viotA. the, M,,,dnrSS of itK an-u. !l mistaken iii supposing that sue h ts not the

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menia, or io: coi iccint-sa oi us coiiciu- n

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ii lb wiiiii vvc uu noi puipusu oeii

However, wc apprehend this to be

question of very little importance; for

even if foreign commerce has been injured to an extent as great, or even vastly greater than the committee themselves pretend, still there is no doubt that the taiilf of 1321 has been productive of vast and essential benefits to the great ody of the nation and that, after all, is the true ctitcrion by which to measure its boon of good or ill. They next inform us that the Secretary's views, as they obtained them from him in answer to a letter from the chair-

planter: and they are just ! "m"' ac.c,ord ",C "'e at thef.ien.U of the ci- I Convention, as that he rcron.mi nd the

scaie oi ouues mere proposed. Upon this datum, they furnish a long estimate coppied as wc should think from Mr. Camberleng of"lhe rate of duty ad valorem proposed to be laid on the various descriptions of imported woolen goods'' which "the artilicial and arbitrary scheme of valuation recommended," as they denominate it, will impose. 1'iomisiug that the lowest square yard minimum proposed bv the Secretary, as well as the convention", was 50 cents, wc take ore article of their "anahsis," as a fair sample of the whole. They say, "Coatings, costing from 1G to 0 cents, will pay from 56 to 172 percent; making an average of 109 per cent." But in order to get the lowest rate litre named, they are obliged, contrary to the

very tsrers of the proposed duties which

sions.

to attempt; though we aie far from being deterred by any apprehended difficulty to

be encountered in the task. We did i;o in our hasty glance, detect any thing new in the scope or in the nature of the prominent arguments adduced by the committee. They are just such arguments as the importt rs and the southern growers of cotton, rice and tobacco have always advanced against the protection of Heme Manufactures and a reasonable care of tbe

interests or ihe nor tern farmer, as well as

of the southern such arguments C7

couragement and protection of ever branch ol Domestic Industry accoiding to its relative importance to the national prosperity have often met and answcied. These importers and planters have been fostered and protcttt .i by our governmci t ever since it existed. Hundreds of millions have been paid, by the people of this country, for their niotection. Arid now that otaer classes of the community, more extcn.-ive than themselves and embracing in reality two thirds of the whole people of the United States, ask a participation in the protection and enrourag mcnt which has been so long and so liberally extended to themselves; they are the first, and indeed almost the only one3 to oppose it. Bbcb ccuduct ;s at bast incoutistent, if it

wnai was me rcsuii i voiions wnuu arc ; . worth 50 ,,er cent, more that, these then !!$ako'';M Canadj. ,oa to' imported, ran no be purchased of the A- ij cns ? her (Great L-.tamj-nn..r...i..,.,' . u.c !! f 'cad of removing a clog up

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which the infer hr imported article ther

cost, at d )Ct

the manufacturer

this country

to swell tho coLers of the British canita

or to reword British labor and ingenuity.

And so, if adequately protected for a very few years, it would be with the home n an-; ufacturer of woolens. Experience on this,

as on other subjects, is "the best schoolmaster." But it is at pne IC, that the committee

or rather the 4 southern Jackson men j who, in the name of the committee, alone i adopted the report ghen the cloven footJ nud exhibit the true reasons which have produced their hostility to the tarilT. and !

this er.trcrdit.any report. It is that they imagine the protection of domestic manufactures will injuriously affect their immediate and local interests. Take their own words: "The first great interest that will be injuriously effected, will be that of the agricultural staples of cotton, rice, and to bacco." Aye; "there's the rub." In order however to give any plausibility to even this st ilish argument, they are obliged to assume us true what is notoriously false that the British now buy our raw cotton because we buy their cotton manufacture. The truth is, and it is well known, that the British do not buy a pound of our colton on this account; but they buy it because they cannot supply themselves from any other quarter of the world with that article, of equal quality and at co low a pilCC. f. as the commillrn nnnM .-.

! s believe, they buy it upon tho pricciplc-

1 1 i in 1 1 1 1 iiiiu ru.nv, " v- - of lr patriots, prayed for her defeaj 17 70, so must some of the truest frien their countrv oprccate the slTCES' t '. :... r,ltf rower in

holds in check the arch er.snij

kind."

of c-

A brave soldier in Connecticut, ' ceived a musket ball tbrou-h his bo-j tbe northern frontier, durin- the law . writes to Ih (zizr.l at Vnir11' ' sii g several site cc.vA catr, rr.2n- -rod bv hi --If fellows: .

If vou thin!: proper, pler.ss to . gi J? to Mr Clay. lie is the mr.n IW pend upon, to continue the voU i

prnu upon, . , , -JidC

ahlv bceun. lie 13 cj .

Hi interests oini

ftj i api-' i.' iiiv m m a

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as we ever bad, ana I iru ,-lt

the people will rr.::!:e him sen w a ivUyUrs. As 6r t been heaped epen r'0TZAVrttf' can but thin!: it will turn m Whrn a .y, I chop fit.rJ U rA that hud the most civil crJ '

I bore the best apples!

SUG AU, rliEAT

WANTED at this CC:cc, en

BLAWK D3EDS,