The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 5, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 May 1828 — Page 2

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A ii a i- i#c fVr'iro lias been to uie a subject oi the, uGGpc. Tm5 i, „e oI: he No: HiWes(pni i.tcs ore

Ac i,,«the mterestoi iu before congress

of hope or pp. Y'—

is the more

necessary, smce it appears lo

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tire measure, in every snaps, i!»pin have-Tier-he ardor and violence which were man.lested b) Inem havfrper^

£&aps never been surpassed on any since the ad*"4)o lamented that it has rather increased th feverish joun.ment of Congress. 1" ray

unmasked and undisguis

woollen bill

alone

the avowed

friends

This

principle

procure protection

mode

0 -ingredient-, is certainly new.

I do not attribute to them a design so absurd. Tlve rea authors of this scheme, (notcitizens of Ohio perfectly understand their game. 3 I is not the first time that the same object-was attained by pursum^ «poaientlv opposite means-v The-Southern men wish to defeat the fa- •^\,,:o!fens" Bill, and they march directly to their object, Ruppoitin„« ^.•n Jackson, the

whole

ivliom they

believe,

the Middle and the Western Stales, dare not

gratify

proceedings

th.at the

How

*. evtremity of the state,-bccame acquainted with the sentiments of thtwliole

trust,

ii0'r, adhere to tiie resolution which we are now considering. As ontanust be right and the other wr-eng, and as it is important that we should rf"' adopt the right and reject the wrong, I will brietiy explain the reasons. .'LCui, imlu'ceMne. to prefer the resolution to the memorial

A'cuNory examination would induce a belret that there was really Tio'mateiial -ilillerencc between us, since'I believe there is nwt an in r- dividual who'will'Strpport five rcaahititwtiiat will 4iot subscribe to the general conditions-advanced in the memorial. It would, therefore, 'teem that. um-ein' in the principles, we only differ as to the in-ser-tiou IfSiofsome articles which appear to'require.protection as well as wool and ft®|woollen goods. 1 do not view the matter,in this light. On the con/Itrary, I consider the memorial, whatever might be the intention, if ^generally adopted in Ohio, as calculated to give the death blow to vlery prospect of obtaining reliel for the Western farmer since it.propo ses to sacrifice a *eal attainahU, substantial good, in an attempt .to succeed in that which is of doubtful attainment, and if attained, of greaf'*7 v. ,lv ir,feriorimportance. To support these propositions, I will explain "the causes which have giveu a preponderance to the interests .concern--rtt»cd in the protection of wool and woollen goods, and then briefly show their importance contrasted with those articles which it is proposed to

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^•excitement has. been produce hovpver, to those-who have •Wul consequences-It is.a consolation

ylthfi misfortune to differ with the poll

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that there has

been a stu-

If Hie opposition

1C1 1

'hast'en

the mijst

that they

delegation of whose sta'e thev aiu!

individual!y". to be opposed to it. His trienil* in

openly

so loudly cal'.cd for bv the interests of tl o»e states. ^:.fStili the iKive/ lur.ite with their^Soufiiern fiends. This-is-a sad dilemma but r.o without a remedy It is an old

triek

»»ut secret enemies, to lo.idabill -with matter for tiie very-purpose o. defeating it. I am asked to account for the very singular circuin--fcfance ot men who were originally warm advocates lor the tariu, pui •suing 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, 1 have no (iHFiruiiv in saying,that it is lor the purpose of securing the election Gen". Jackson to the Presidency. And nowsinceieiy wish that I could add that it was attachment to the General a 'iom w!uf actu then conduct. In that -case the nobleness the motive would t.cu-e error. -15'it I am persuaded, fcn, that a 8trw.'.»er passion than !ov: is at the bottom of tins business It is implacable hatred to the -Administration. The well known strong arid just attachment of the nation to G"n. Jackson is used for the purport jf ratihing t'.ie most malignant and undeserved enmity. Its mvetei'ficy is the stronge-t evidence ol its injustice^ Hatred without a c-iU ie, ftis always most violent and implacable its violence serving to cover ir

dis-

ri'ncrisy

Nation are weed, which do not nourish,n a ijg.n^ ^XTopenfy *, warfare of stratagem & fhe constitution'

MiS^t with'ho Zs^fnoos consequences to them and the oth*.

for a single, article, although

to us than all the others put together but insist upon a revision of the -svhole tariff hat a singular state of things is here presented 1 ho

of Genera! Jackson in the Southern states threaten to withdraw -from the union if we increase the duty upon a singie artic his supporters in the Middle and North Western slates are or adding to that article many others, some even which require no protection at all and •others more offensive to their boutlieru friends than the wool.ens

and

that they oppose

dissimu

-which has for its. object the protection of American manufactures, "IlincLebf dutv upon those of foreign-cmmtr.es. bo strong art-rth.-r convictions of its ruinous operations to them that some oi then politicians have threatened us with a dissolution of the Un.or. if

-5--rsisteu in our design. No better evidence can be ottered oi then Inve'erate hosvility?than that of their having espoused tu* cause of €en Jackson in opposition to the present administration. In no part of the union was the election of Gen Jackson to the chief magistracy the mi ion more severely deprecated than in Wg.n«. pe^S last election One of her most distinguished citizens, (h..r la.t vernor, and now her enalor in ongress.) publicly dec! red the prediction of the stale lor Mr Adams in preference to Gen. Jackson uiitn the sentiments of the former in favor of the tan (I and intei rial im provement systems had been declared. They now

but every other

support

of getting the close swallowed, by increasing the nauseous

the ,e»ei

ot his opposition to these measar .s,

friends of the General in Ohio upon the ground ot h.s beingj favorable to tiiem. lie altogether a tariff man, and tin- id ra THPV disdain to join the rest of their lellow citizens their endeavoi to

more .importance

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oppose a measure

in-legisiation, for professed Inend

this unhallowed passion ol a comparativeij,

few individuals, that the soundesc principles ol policy,-and the iritere of t: people are to be sacrificed 'I he iarifl leaders opposition to c- the Woollens b'ill well know, that though there is a union of interests ii A tavor of that measure, which can perhaps be brought to unite but upo a single other article of manufacture and that by including others in the whole may "be lost.

With these'scniiments, "Mr. Chairman, it was with great regret tha: I saw tiie memorial tf Congress, adopted by a late meeting of tin. fiip»ds of Gen 'Jackson in this city, it is not indeed stated in tin-

to have been a meeting exclusively Jacks:nian, but.siu:1

appears to^he the fact antf a distinguished editor of that party declare

memorial accords with the sentiments of the whole 'Jacks. irtv inf)hi"o, and emphatically calls upon all the friends of the oleini ai in"this county to sif-n it.

the worthy Editor, residing in on

on-this subject, is-it not to be conceived, ihe thing is

therefore, and believe, that he supposed that all

1( the friends of the General would at-once perceive that it had a favoraVe bearing"vipon Uis election^ or that there was one course of poiicv ''which s.uited his friends, and another those of the Administration. lh

Matter itlca is absurd. Tiiey may indeed, differ about the means ol seciwing that interest, as they do about the choice ot Chief Magistrate, am willing to put the most favorahle construction upon the matter. and wiiltlwreforc conclude that the Presidential election has not, as i0JoUt not to have the least influence in the m£ftter,and that however a traordinary the coincidence, all the frjends of Gen, Jackson in Ohio, st.oport the principles of the memorial, whilst those of the Administra

The importance of

ed.

cede the foreign

much

vvill

unite with them, and the particular claimk.which they have at this i»m the favorable consideration ConRres^.i obtained af The Tariff which was ad^teii hy tong^S9_«n KS.4

Cer an ardent contest, in opposition to v* w* Inund

-oulhsrn delegation, and the Commeruia in er

ated. A strong party in the latter interest, at that tim New-England fta.te^ an important change has lately taken ac Che Manufacturing interest has gained the

more correctly, their commercial wn ha*f beco mc

Com.-ncrce is xjiot unfavorably aileoted by a Uouns.ting

*llX tho^WaHia'sesheld'oulty thVParitVot'1824, •itactories were established not Ofvly in New-E.iglan ant

'fates, but many in Ohio, and several in Indiana !^n..fcej g,,Vjally failed to realize th* profits which

their

eral have been abandoned, and many are kept up only the hope of obtaining relief. I

have

nerpssarv to be more particular in relation to one of them. S»»» after the revision the Tariff in 1814

ict,set.!)emselvesto

once deprived the. American manufacturer ot a ie tne law Of his country intended to give him. The b: 1 the last session was for the purpose ot restoi mg H" which the act of 1824 intended to give, and to protect him a-dtht x'u ic Treasury from the frauds of the importer. '^,mi

encouraging

I a

referring to the amount of those articles which we imported w.th.n the last year. Including carpeting, they amounted to_»eujd} ei.

a a do a O he 4 0 0 0 0 0 a re or s-.mewiut upwards of eight millioos for the «.nS»mpt.o»ofth»eountry. We will now. Mr Chairman, cxa.nine o«r commerce ,n reU.oo to the other articles which it is proposed by the other fi.e^ds ot Jackson to unite with the woollen. They L^iax Silk, and the fabrics made thereof, line Cottons, a»^

I believe that it will not be denied that the operation of 18

upon all these articles has been

The British

Parliament could pass

would ati'ect any of them, and in rehtion to thein

the revenue have been complained oi tbev there o»e, same claims as the woollens to a further extension of protecting duties I am far lvnvever, from being unwilling to give them any ihat may be required two of them, Glass and Paper evi en quire none Ot the latter articles the exports of the last year very considerably

exceeded

the latter is gaining fast upon the foreign.

greater advantage than cau be done in the United

States. The increase of duty at this time appears therefore, to be questionable aud would certainly

words: *r -t

be injurious

er articles which I have enumerated Mr. Chairman, there is one of tne views taken in the memorial which I feel myself particularly

called

always tind tlieiuselves, who first form opinions and then are obliged ro search for reason to support them—In his joy for having found unt: vhich he supposed suitaid. to his purpose, !y which was likely to engage itie public feeling, he seems totally to have forgoiten(that wocdleu good.-, in our climate, to-, ms oiie xd the most essential supplies ot an army ihat the iron articles necessary for an anny ought, and always are provided beforehand, in time of peace and deposited in magaz.iues for any exigency which «iay arise, wiidst from the perishable nature ol woolUu oods this cannot be the case. Upon the heads of that government ruen, who having filled their migazines with arms for a protracted war, nd who neglect to adapt the mesns ot procuring constant supplies ol

C» K00ALra..t- t/i n-.'oo ^1 fa I* flf

a ii-w,«vvv v.. jr.

oths blankets so necessary (ogive enicieocy to their military operaionsougfit to rest all the responsibility for the misfortunes to which it tt'ill inevitably give rise. In no other way can these supplies be placed ieyond the reach of contingencies, than by the raising ol the raw material in every part oftlie country. It is no douat true, Mr. Chairman, mat in the late war, the army of tien. Jackson was at a most critical juncture badly armed It is equally true that the cavalry of the North '•Vestern army were for a tune without sabres, and that the operations of that army wer« for a time arrested for the want of cannon. This was owing, not to the deficiency of arms, but to the improper distribution ol the arsenals, nene of any consequence have been established west ol the Allegheny. But sir, if I should be called upon to declare uoder oath which the North Western army suffered most the efforts of the enemy, or the want of woollen clothing, I would say that the destruction oflifeproduced by the latter was at least Ueublc to that ot the former. t,

This is a subject calculated, Mr. Chairman, to bring to my mind the most painful recollections. What situation can be more distress mg than that of a commander who sees his army daily diminishing by disease, and that disease occasioned by the improvident conduct of the government which it serves? Sir, the scenes to which 1 allude have been described in history by an eye witness of part of thein. The address of the commander of the army to the citizens, to prbcure from them the blankets and woollen clothes which the public stores could not furnish, is to be.found in the old journals of this city. Let the writer of this memorial figures to himself a youth, (perhaps like himself.) drawn to the army by the love of his country, encountering in a cotton dress in the capacity of a sentinel, the rigors of a Cauadian winter. let him suppose that he sees him in a few days without a blanket, stretched upon a bet$4f twigs, the only comfort which h.is comrade* can provide foe hii% lender the effects of a disease which Ilia exposure uuder such aeitctjmst'ancq has produced that he segs-^

To infant Weakness sijnli the warriors arm,'« The dee£ racking pang, the ghas-dy form, 'live lip pale quivering, and the beamless eye, V, JSo more with frdour bright." 9

t)ie wlu)K

mentioned the causes generally. It will be

ever watchful to promote the interests oi their subjects, and „c Advantages which the American Manufacturers. wouu. derivei from

work to counteract it. lmjwas Jone by takmfe

off almost the whole duty upon imported wool, and .h t^x'uoon other articles used in the manufacturing of clot -.voullen sooils, fixer! by the lav/ uf 1824, was I'^'cate. »P»" -Ante of the lirltish prices, the reduction v/iuch the butmanu er was enabled to make, by -lessening the duties

prel|0m-

me"existed

in the

ai!Jient v|nccci

that

0f^nanu-

un^ver_

ovvnersanticipated bt%

the British

Parliament

llPu"

^yiijcj,

»^rhv

woollen manu ac i.res wi tp

rht millions

favorable as could be expect

countervailing act that

r'1^

the imports, and the American mauutacture ot

ufactured from Silk, there were imported into the nited States, within Uie last year, to the amount of $8,100,000, of which there were reexported to the value of $3,243,000, leaving $4,8j7,0.,0 for the coosumption of the United States The existing duties on these articles is now sufficiently high. We have no manufacture of Si noi we raise any of the raw material However desirable it may be to super-

the various articles man

article by one of domestic growth and manufacture

it is not believed that Legislative interferauce at this time will produce much good.

the

duty would lessen the revenue by check

ing the importation, or unnecessarily raise the price upon the consumer It has long been supposed that our farmers might very profitably turn tiieir attention to raising silk Rut the process of raising lu berry trees is so eatreinelv slow, that there appeals to oe a great backward ness commencing. Of late, however, some public spirited individuals appear to be turning their attention to this article, and tneir example may in time produce much good. 1 he importation ot articles man ufactured from flax and hemp, cordage excepted, amounted tne last ye. r, after deducting the amount of re-exportations to $-',844,OULK Almost every part ..f the United States is suited to the production of hemp and flax, lint the manufacture of those articles does not seenl to progress as fast as is desirable. The reason appears to be obvious -, no machinery calculated for spinning them to advantage, has vet been invented/^Infinitely more manual labor is required in making these goods, than those of which cotton or wool :s tne motive /-h-Y are therefore manufactured in ihe thickly populated countries ot Ger.nony and Ireland, where the poor are forced to be content with a baic^ sub sistence,at

jyith regard to the o».h

upon to notice. It is in the following

31iIy.While we are unwilling to depend upon for^n nations for our clothing, or any4*-, article ot domestic consuasption we are qually unwilling to be dependent on thorn for articles ot nar,.onat deleuce tor iron to supply our army and Hemp to equip our navy** The writer oi this article seems to be under the ilillieuity in which people

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if thp description Sir, of the the British sailors by the poot, is- in

exterminating wars and which have been shed ths choice of a master:

ctill

tny

spect a creation of the fancy, tint which have given^is not an over colored picture of what actually took place in the American

my. And will the signers of the memorial orr. sist in their error? will not they rather talk the converse of their own proposition,

•«ay to Congress: "That as the iron and hemp,

materials for our army and navy, c:\nbe preserved for nn }age uninjured jhut aa wool, len clothes, and blanket^ are indispen&ihlc fnf the public service in war and can only certainly and effectually supplied tnun manufactories established in our own [cauntry, n,at nothing should he suffered to impede or postpone the measures which may he necessary to phce them upon u.secure: and permaneat ba«is."

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And is it come to this? In this free country, that a man is to ba denounced because he could not enroll himself in the services of aft individual? Are the authors ot this measure aware of all the consequences which are flow from it? Do they not seejthat it leads, not only to the subversion of aiJ social intercourse, hut to th? destruction of political principles also? Does not aI! history tell us, sat .vhea factious are created solely to support flic interests of .particular men, where i:o principle is involved, that they are more invetrate and malignant in their conduct to each other, than when -they differ on a hunlanental principle of government? l)o the annals of nations exhibit human nature ia nwrc isgustio" colors, than hen they record jllio the torrents of bloovi bv men contending for

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Mr. Chairman, I must ask your indulgence to say a few words on a subject not mimed atelyconnected with the Resolution now under consideration, but which 1 .-have uTicleru^ht before the m^etin". stood is to be brou allude to the formation of a

eting.

ticket for

tate and county officers for the ensuing year. With the deepest regret I have understood that at a late meeting of a committee formed for the purpose?:of promoting the election of Gen. Jackson to the presidency, a ticket gwas formed and recommended to the people upon the principle of excluding ail thosu who differ with, them upon the subject the IVesidcntial election. I mut confess that I have never heard of ameasure more wanton, unnecessary and mischievous in its consequences than this one better calculated 'to destroy all the. courtesies of life, break down all the iiontls of friendship and affection which bind men to. aether every hii g, in short, which makes existence desirable or distinguishes tliccirili?ed man from the savage of the forest. ti the committee not know that upon 'he dential questionthe dearest friends difterin opinion that brother is opposed to brother, and th** son to the father and is interminable war to be waged against parties so situated? Ij th.at man, who prefers Mr, Adams to General Jackson, unworthy of all public trust, and if of all public tru9t, surely of ail private confidence? Also, persons are in future to be selected to fill the public offices, not on account of theirtalents and integrity, for the correctness of their political opinions but solely for •the opinion, which they may entertain fur tU. qualities* of another

Whether he shall bi

Sviia or iMariu", Edward, Richard or Henry. The so! di-ifinction bttween them consisting in the emhlems on'their banners, a red rose ot a whire on?. Are we really

prepared^)

rend upon ground like tins? Have vu'|'f^') ten that we are Republicans and Cbnsfw^i not Monarchists and Maliomedans.

If we abandon our Republican prii.cipies, which teach us to regard measures and nc^ inrtn. who. can define the limits to the u""1 dledfpassio-ns which will succeed?

ftiotib. iadiThis suhservieucy to the cause or vi a is a no a ii of is new at leasf to^tlie protested U'7

of our country, even in the

to inscribe himself with the

individual No! not even with name of the father or his jcoun

but upop the ground of devotion

pies of liberty and the causeso ^sonian.

But MOW) every thing must be a

County Treasurer, ji County

a Township Justice, or Cousta e,.

Jacksonians. I pray ypU»^r'Ml,ch as I

us not imitate tiieir exaBiple-

sire the election of Mr. ^l'amS/'Y

support him at the expense

principle. And I would say tu

con-

minaung war will be waged having

object but dominancy of our

no(,t."

respective

Like tiie war of the two roses, or tliatgw 4j.

waged between the Mahometan ers of Omar and the

noth worship the same God, acknowlei^ am an a 1 a supposes that the caliphate should g'.onta Ali whilst the other -pretension* of Omar..

P^'^'

1 he

between Omar and Ali consists in t"1 ginning his ablution? at the elbows an er at tha tip of the fingers- To

ot to ly and madness will men ar they abandon principle and

themselves under the govti nment

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vllC!l

reas0,1'1^ pi!i

trje,i

t,tnc wl

men's soijls jf the monogram ol vn was to be .found embroidered upon ders of his votaries, no -^inerlc

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rr{oriou»

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times |of Republican purity, '0j- the office sought it the in -ncock mighty names of Washington

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nj63ionef»

Gen. .Jackson, elect him y0il' !unien4BC?.! fair means. If you succeed, ou

will not be changed from y«JJ* |}titi" regard you as friend.s and

which have extended her tM"0

the eaith, and what is ol more ,. jcon which the ,coutiuil»uy« ui

pends

mostgb»

allj

let

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your exertions to ob-tain yoUl A^ei'^orinc!l)'tJ spare vour country1. sp^,e.

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