The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-02-26

then they divided IS, "a diminutiof Of profit
owing to the want of water last summer and
fal.) This they themselves have communi-
Gated. 1t is to be supposed, then, the other
establishments are not suffering for the want of
encouragement. 1t would be better to let
these things regulate themselves in some de-
gree, and not depress the agricultural interest,
which is not worth per cent, to advance still
more the manufacturing interest, which is al
ready as high as from IL to 90 per cent.
Fellow-ciSzens, you have been told in months
past, there was no further approximations need
be entertained on this subject-that the tariff
project was abandoned; but it is not so.-
Look at the proceedings of Congress, and judge
for yourselves.
FelIow Electors the Hon. SETH HAST
INGS is friend to both Agriculture and
Manufactures, but is partial to neither. He
will not advocate measures that depress the
one to elevate the other.t Give him your
votes, then, on the third of March next, for
your Representative in Congress. He is an
nounced to you as a candidate who will re-
ceiVe the votes OF HUNDREDS.
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*Were it not upon the eve Of the election,
we should leave to others to perform the duty
(Which is extremely unpleasant to us,) of cor
rectiDg the errour into which the writer of this
communication, probably with many others,
has been led. But it is our duty, under pres
ent circumstances, to endeavour to prevent
others from being deceived by statements cal
culated to create a wrong impression. We
are neither the advocates nor the denouncers
Of the proposed ne,c Tariff, fer it is subject
we do not thoroughly understand in all its
bearings But we do know that the idea of
our correspondent that the Tariff voted for by
Mr.. Adams was designed ito advance still
more'' the interest of such manufactures as
our correspondent speaks Of, as ,oEolly errone-
ous The manufacture of coarse cotton goods
has been for sereral gears protected by duty
of about 80 per cent; and it acas not proposed,
by the bill, to increase the duty on such cot
tons. There could be no possible object to be
gained by it for no such cottons have for a
long time been imported. The argument Of
our correspondent is therefore founded upon a
misapprehension of the subject in an important
particular and we have no doubt that the
honest indignation of many of the electors has
heretofore been excited by the same misappre-
henson. So far from the 6 Tariff" being cal
culated {" to advance still moren the interest Of
the Waltham and other similar establishments,
itiswell known that the proprietors were among
: the most strenuous opposers Of it! Ed.
This is undoubtedly true of Mr.. Hastings
and we have no doubt it is true also of Mr..
Adams. Since, however, we are urged to give
the preference to Mr.. II. it becomes our duty
to state (Which we do upon unquestionable
authority that the measure for supporting
which, Dir. Adams is denounced, was, at The
same time 1rarmly advocated by Mr.. Hastings i!
Has Mr.. Hastings changed his opinion since
MIR. A. failed of being reelected? If he has
not, the real ground upon which he is recon-
mended, fails: II he has, ought such change
recommend him to the Electors? We have no
doubt they will answer, No! led.