Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 30, Vincennes, Knox County, 1 September 1827 — Page 1

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WESTERN SUN 8s GENERAL ADYEKTISEJR,

BY EL1IIU STOUT. J VINCENNES, (INI).) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER i, 1837. Vol. is No 30

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IS pubishcd at Two Dollars and FXfTY cents for Fifty. Two jYumbera which may be discharged by the payment of TWO DOLLARS 'at the time of subscription. Payment in advance being the mutual interest of both parties, that mode is solicited.

of much benefit to the woollen manufacturers, themselves. Many believed that tho

featcd by the provisions cf the third. million of dollars which is annually sent

iiic second, section established a mini- ! to Russia, wouid ro into the pockets of

U.U...U, .uu, (.cm) Fci wuiii iur iwrcigu our own larmers nclish nianufa'Miirrr . , a wool, and Hnally wold have raised the ad- We a( a ht tQ ,ha( if ,ceLmoS the r c u'V Yalorcm duty Irom thirty to lurty per cent. fnrm,.r1 . , , m,lm hiri, u'," . .. lm

! t:ZCT daion,. duty poS a,l thevuoMen CU ! the adduiopa. protection it

j out any f)linUn, not s y that M '0 ; :e r object ,o a sn', " aiMi,io"a' tiu,y ,ji,cn " 1 ,ccl ice,ciy sorr i . . y . ..v... loreitrn smuts and unon lurcimi I I cumstances nrcventrrl m,-

A failure to notify a wish t, U.-omi. J lhus dc: for the b,efi, of icl.ure." Yv, ' , I " in such a banner s hH

this wasno more than a just reciprocity ; wkich I owed to my constituents, deman-

uui we lounu tnat the Kepresentatives of the Eastern Manufactures were of a different opinion.

sob-lie'Y

uue at the expiration of the time scribed for, will be considered a

engagement. No subscriber at liber' y to d; ;rontir,n Tmtt (all arrearages are paid. ! Subscribers must pay the porlagn of' f.heir papers sent by n ai). Letters by mail to the Edi von on hit- j "incss must be paid, or they v. "II nolle j attended to. i

Advkrtisf.mf.nth in ;crtc-'i on the. cmsomary tcrmvJCT Pei sn:s ? ending Advertisements, mvist specify the lumber

of times they wish l;iem !irc tc'L or they

will be continued until oi'U rcI o'jt,

must be naid for r.ccon'.invly

hiding the wool growers. That it would have had this ctfect, however, is almost certain. It is true, that the people ol Europe would not kill their sheep lor the purs jse of sending wool upon the skin to our markets; yet we know that numbers of them are annually slaughtered lor other purposes. Thrse fleeces would all seek

our market, where they would find a most

A motion was made by myself, that the Woollen bill should " be recommitted to the Committece of ManulV.ctui cs, with instructie so to amend the same, us to

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Xficeci of the Ifofi.J.lMHX llUCiUX,4.at the county mveting in Lancast rr, Pa. on the suhicct of the H'oolltn ( Concluded fron our last ) If the Woollen bill lud been confined !oa piotection mcicly, wnicti would have

opciatcd equally upon all classes of socio

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Ciscrinunatiiig duty miheiria ,,,llvL ;"ues on me importation oiler-

vour. In this njanncr a suflicient ciuanti- c,n XV('l'm gotds and ioitirn weoh

ty of foreign wool might hare betn im- whether imported upon the skin or not ; ported at the small additional duty of ten aJso lo incieabe the duty on the importaper cent, to enter into competition with tlon foitign spirits not less than ten the domestic material, and keep down its cc,lls per gallon ; also to increase the duty price. In this manner the hopes oi the OM tne importation ol loreign hemp, not wool growers, from the Woollen bill, Iess than five dollars per ton." would liavo been b!astel. ; No question was ever taken noon this There was another view of this subject ot3on- A member from Nc v Hamp which made a stiong impressiaii upon' my S.,,1IC ros.c a,ld nmcd the previous quesmind : because it immediately interested tlnn' uhich NVa sustained by the House my own constituents. The friends of the ancl Pnt an tn.'' to ali anicnrlmcnt and to

Woollen bill uniformly resisted evciv at- a" (,clKU 1 c vole was 102 to 68.

tempt to afford additional ptoicction to a-

nv other article except wool and woollens.

-ty, I should have voted for it,ecn if I had i l5r lormer i'arifjs rested upon broad na

believed that protection to be somewhat i ttc.nal toundations. I hey embraced ev

too great. No slight difference of opin

ion should have separated me from the friends of this bill. Under a system of protection, the woollen mamilactiiic of Pennsylvania, yet, comparatively speaking, in its infancy, would have gradually, grown into importance In its present condition, prohibition would have destroy, ed it whilst it enriched our great eartern capitalists, who own the stock of the manufacturing companies. Upon the present occasion, I shall not 3pcak of the effect which prohibition might have had upon the public revenue ; though this is a view of the subject not to be disregarded, as cur national government is supported b- the duties c ollected upon the importation ol foreign merchandise. I shall now proceed to give a third reason why I voted against tlu Woollen bill. Had it afforded equal protection to the growers as well as to the manufacturers of wool, I should have h it much leys hos tile to its passage. Any measure intend cd for the betufit of Agriculture, 1 shall c.lways view with a fiiendl eye. It is true, that but few of the small and valuab'c plantations ol Lancaster, Cluster and Delaware, can ever be converted into sheep walks; but it is equally cc tain, that in the western part ol our state, main of the fatmeis hsvc embnked largely in ti c growing of wool. Ti.ev mm and ought to be protected. Wc r.t c a'.l mem bjrs of the same political Lunik. a?d should never forget t lie interest and h::ppiness of each other. Did the HVoiien 1 bill sufiiciently protect t ic rrowcrs of v,ool r I "answer confidently, that it did r.ot. In regard to them, it was mere dt -lusion. Indeed the manu'V.ct u ct ?. at first, did not intend that anv add; ionul du

should be ingvsed upon the

'ion oi iorc!gn wool. i o toe ;.:rrii

r,ei severatice of a Representative state. (Mr. Stcvehson, of Pitt d u?

we indebted that any provision Mas m in the bill in favour ol the i-rowet s of w-

cry article which rcquiicd protection

1 he blessings and the burdens of the system were thus diffused over the Union. I hesc examples however, made r.oim pression upon the ftiends of the Woollen bill. In vain did wc inform them, ihat the agricultural interest of the grain growing states was In a suffering condition, and was as much depress, d as the Woollen manufrtCMires of New England. In vain did we inlurni them, that for several

years, the pt ice -d"

ain had been so !

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as scarce lv to uV)iu the farmer a b ti e sn'o sistetice. They were deaf to all our complaints. L'pon a pr;;position to nnpovo addnioTud duty upon the importation of lore!.u;n . sjnr.ts, mt one represeti'atn e Irom New Co. iarnl otcil in theainimativc. I confess I was utterly astoimhid at this revolt. Abhough even y ood mnj m ist deplore the excessive Ub.e of ardent spiiits in this cnitilty, yet it is the clearest dictate ot pol ey, if the ai licle must be used, that ol domestic origin ought to be preferred. In proportion as y'U substitute the use of whiskey lor Ion im .... . - spirits, in the saue proporti-m do you in-

r.ieasc the den and and thcpiice lor th

(led. I was m tlirrlin;. .u , -n

was m committee of the whole, and by the rules ol the House, could not then, either move to amend it, or participate in the debate. Without meaning, in the slightest ccgree, to reflect upon others whose opintons were, no doubt equally honest with my own, I can declare in the most so.emn manner, bclore this meeting that had I voted for the bill, I should have done an act at war with my most solemn convictions ot duty, and with what I firmly believed to be the best interests of my constituents, and of my native state.-! Still it is possible I may have been mistaken ; and lo your candid judgment, I bhall now leave this question. MR. BUCHANAN. To the lulifjr oj the Lancaster J.urnci. The Cincinnati Advertiser was last night placed in my hands by a friend, containing an uddicss from General Jackson to the public, dated on the 1 8th ultimo, in which he announces me to be the member of Congress to whom he had referred, in his letter to Mr. Bevcily of the 5th of June last. The duty which I owe to tho public and to myself, now compels me to publish to the world, the omy conversation which I cicr held with General Jackson, on the subject ot the last Presidential election, prior to its termination. In the month of December, 1824, a short time after the commencement tf tho session ot Congress, I heard, among tho rumors then in circulation, that General Jackson had determined, should he be elected President, to continue Mr. Adams in the ofiicc of Secretary of State. Although 1 fcit certain he had never intimated such an intention, yet I was sensible that nothing could be better calculated both to cool the ardor of his friends, and to inspire his enemies with confidence, than the bt lief that he had al

co to ,uid imru th,. tdf5r;r cowfic titer, for the hicrhrvt ,.f

al;e, r. cxuibiv. .., tha. ihcic is great j cc Nv,l,,in K- I thought General larger of m.gliog. We. shoukfnrc. I Jackrion OWc(J 11 to himsell and to tho

pent as iittie i.utipiuuon lor the conimis- j ca,lsc which his political friends wero sion of tii is cri'ne, as c... iisis with a prop- j c,,V'Si't1' lo contradict this report ; and to ei tegarn for our domestic manufactures, j (,c,fla,c 1 a- llc would not appoint to that The unnecessary ai.d e:Ktrav:onr t A,,;. ufiice the man. however wi rihv m;u

r.vcry Reprc-ientative Irom New England, except one, voted for the picvious question. Only S of the Representatives Irom Pennsylvania voted in favor of it, the reo.ainig 13 voted against it. The friends ot the Woollen bill have or. ten said let us pioteet wool and woollens, and afterwards we will protect other ai ti clcs. I ask, have we any reason to hope, that after we shall b ve alioi ded them the projection which they demand, thty will assist us in obtaining additional duties for the bcncfii ol th grain, and hemp, and manufjciuios of Pennsylvania. If they will not nw vote for aii additional duty upon any of Un i c aniens, w hen they have r.r. tnur.ii at staun will they geneiously and vuaintai i:y give it lo us without any co'.ivaicnt, alter they ha e olvair.ed all thty desuer All one e.spoi ic.ee is at war

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gtain ol the ianner. Most pei-onaiu J"'l'' I'-o.u.u. d.iu's oi Woulltn i ..K muoo, incmostlor. this assemb;y -.viil be astonished to h-ar ,0U;U h' Inc Vv'', '. would proba- j ",ulaljlf Pan' poliiitical enemies, that we import anmiady betv-en5 and i h ' havcSlv ' " to a system of smug- 1 Ji"e being my liuptcssmtis. I addressed 6ti(Ki,0fK) of irailons of fou i-n -nt itv, ' I niyunt; our i evenue might a "cr lo a confidential fiiend in P. nnsylwhich cost between two millions and two'' ve sulTcrcci, and tllc murals of our peo- j a?'.then and still high in office, and ex-

millions and a half of dollars

value of the flour w hich we exported boui this cour.trv, even bclore wc lost the Urnis i West India trade, did not exceed d; ubie. the value of the spirits imported.

It the use of whiskey were substituted

The total p!c liavc becn coriupted

riauos oi anotiier utsci

have sprung Irom this bill

yard ot cloth costing ioi ty cents would have p iid a duty oi oniy U cents and 2 3 whilst if it had cost lortv one rrns. t

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throughout the United States, for that of avc paid a duty ol fifty five cents

loreign spir i: s, it would. open a market for the grain of our farmer s. better than any foreign market in the world. 'H e land of 1 624, which afioided additional protec'ion to almost evciy other inietest in the country, con'aiurd no provision in iavour of the growers of grain. It did not inciease the duty upon foreign fpuil'i. That duly now remains as it was

Tho additional duty upon w c-!lrn.. cstablisr.erl i:y th.e TariiT of 1816. wouhl have taken effect on the 1st August J Th.e fiiends of the Wooden bill, oppoI3:r ; whilst that upon the wool was not j scd with equal vipaurand v cquaUuc to ermmence until 1st June, 13:8, nor to j cess any increase upon tie duty of forattain its maximum until the lot June, ! eign hemp. It is most strange hut it is not LS:?. Although the growth of wcol is in j the less true, that the Amciican Navy a stale of equal depression with its manu- j our bulwark Sk our defence, is exclusivefacturc, yet the wool grower was to suffer J ly supplied with hemp from Russia. We for nearly two years, after the manufactu- j arc the most agricultural p'-oplc upon vcr had been relieved. What would have j carl!:, and yet we depend upon a foteign been the effect of this provision ? The i nation lor the supply of an agticultuial manufacturers would have had sufficient j pioduct, without which our Navy could time, between the passage of the law cu d not exist. For many years it w as'belie vtlic commencement of the additional duty cd, that the hemp of Russia was supuior

on loreign wool, to lay up a stoic oi l!iat m (piality to that'ol tte United States. article, sufficient to last them for years. j This delusion has vanished. It has bee That they intended to adept this course, s asccttaincd that tbeVuffercnce between no man acquainted with the springs of hu- j the two articles is Occasioned entirely man action, and the selfish feelings of our , by the different method?, in which they nature, can doibt for a moment. The re- are prepared for market. The Russia lie!, then, which this bill intended to af- . hemp is water rotted, the A me: ican hemp lord to the growers of wool would have is d.cw rotted. '1 here is no country upon T Kern long deferred. Many of them might earth in w hich gr eater facilities are aff r have becn ruined brferc they cou!J have clcd for water totting hemp, than in Lan been protected ; raster county. If its cultivation were lint the relief which the second section encouraged by the government, the home of the bill purported to extend to them, demand would very soon be supplied with rou!d p; c';ably have been altegeih-rdc- the domestic article; and thus the half

So a square yaid which cost one dollar

and lilty cents, would have paid only fiftyfive cents whilst if it had cost one dollar and filty-enc cen's, it wouhl have paid a.duty ot ninety-one cents and two. thuds. One cent, of difference in value at the mininmms, would have made an enor n.ous incieasc of du y. The tempation to commit fraud upon the revenue, by pcijuiy, would thus have been very great. No man ever would, if he could avoid it, have imported woollen goods into this country which should be valued at a price ,little above any of the mininmms. ,Keiy tffoit which self interest could command, would have been used to reduce their va

lue to the minimum price, or below it.

A dillercr.ee of one cer.t in the price might make a difference of forty cents in the duty. Thus perjury and fraud must have been thcnatutal growth of the woollen hill. If there had been but one minimum, as is the case with respect to cottons, no such temptation could ever exist. 1 he minimum of thii ty cents is the standat d of value for the square yard of all cotton goods which cost less than that price ; when you get above it the duty rises grad

ually in nropoitiontothe value of the article. You do not at once leap to a second, to a thiid ?nd to a fourth minimum. Such, my fellow citizens, was the bill, against which I voted So novel, so unequal. o undigested arc its provisions, that I never heard a member ol Congress xprcss entire satisfaction with its details Indeed, many d ubted whether after the end of a few years, it would have been

une-u in euaracicr. ant! one Who hart rvi.

uption must ' !jccn t,,c decided advocate of Gereral . A square j Jycks,," election, requesting his opinion

rt,lu ""OLe uwon wit sunject. I received his answer, dated the 27th December. 1824, upon the 29th, which is now before mc,and which strengthened andconfitmcd my previous opinion. I then fi.mly dcermined, cither that I would ask General Jackson myself, or get another of his friends to ask him whether he had ever declared he would appoint Mr. Adams his Secretary of State. In this manner, I hoped a contradiction of the report might be obtained from himself and that he might probably declare it was not his intention to appoint Mr. A-

dams.

A short time previous to the receipt of the letter to w hich I have referred, my fiiend Mr. Markley and myself got into conversation, as wc very often did, both before and after, upon the subject of the Piesidcntial election, and concerning tho person who would probably, be selected by General Jackson, to fil, the office of Secretary of State I feel sincerely sorry that I am thus compelled to u?e his name -but I do so with the less reluctance, he cause it has already, without any agency of mine, found its way into the newspapers, in connection wi h this transaction. Mr Markley adverted to the rumor which I have mentioned, and said it was calculated to injure the General. He observed, that Mr. Clay's friends wero warmly attached to him, and that ho thought they would endeavor to act in concert at the election. That if they did so they could either elect Mr. Adams or General Jackson at their pleasure ; but that many of them would never agree to vote for the latter, if they knew he had predetermined to prefer another to Mr. Clay, for the first ofiicc in his gift. Acd