Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-04

come into ours. To agriculture there was
no limit but the quantity OF labor applied tn
it. But, in manufactures, additional hbur,
withou, additional skill, will not raise the va
lhc of the article made. When the price falls
below the cost of making it, the manufacture
ceases, and b Frustrated. Not 40 with agri- /
culture that may be intrrmiiird while prices
are low, and immediately resumed whrn they |
revive. II WAS strange doctine that COM
petition, winch, according Ia gentlemrns own
showing, reduces the price of manufactures,
should increase the price of agricultural pro
duets. lift we're MT for the respect he ftlt
fur the gentlemen who composed the Com |
mite. of Manufactures, he should almost
suppose they had introduced this item inio
the bill merely od cnptondum hut he could
not suspect that committee of any iegerde
main of this sort-he, therefore, hoped it
might be stricken out for, he said, he was in
favor ofan entire prohibition of soft corn, &C.
Mr.. G. pursuing his argument, cnntended that
the manufacturing interest had an undue as
cendancy on this floor that they bad used
systematic means To obtain il and among
others had employed corps Of writers, who
| rivalled, in the productions Of hooks aud
pamphlets, the multiplying power of those
machines of which they were the advocates.
Thes, literary machines, he said, produced
| iumtile Of patriotic continents and crude no.
tions an political economy, and distributed
them gratis by pedars, pusts, &c. and the
good people read ai.,. ed. Mr.. g. men
toned, AS an instance Of the industrious dis
tributon Of them, that gentleman in south
ern state, who had sent quantity OF merino
wool % he exchanged for cloth, found, in the
bale Of cloth returned for IL, q dozen of
pamphlets, an manufactures and the tariff
placed there, he presumed, 10 make up for
the difference Of price charged in the exchange,
upon the domestic above the foreign article
| Farmers in the Immediate vicinity at large
manufacturing establishments, Mr. q. said,
were plcasediu having ready sale for prov-
stone, and forgnt that, for this local advantage
10 Themselves, the great body of their fellow
asriculturalsis had 10 suffer. If palaces had
been erected instead of factories, the Same
CASE would occur, and palaces would then he
| as popular as fictorcs are said to- be now
| The iarprrs, in other parts OF the country,
not under the Influence of these feelings, got
together formed agricultural societies, got up
circumstances and memorials, and then rcilr
cd to their hGmes ill some new tariff again
excited them TO action. II was time this
course should he changed. The farmers of
this country, Mr.. q. SAID, were treated much
like is militia they made II great show on
paper. especially ia ioasts on the 9Th of July
but, H.. said. they were toasted, nattered and
ldespispd. Mr.. G.. said. that i, was four years
since - Committee on AgIicult' had hrrn
appointed in this House, 10 pr"irr' the pot-
cal interests Of the farmers iii Ills country
The manner in which this commit .e was ac-
tommodalrd was symbolical Of the ate ofthe
class Of citizens they had 10 protec:. Until
now, while other committees had spacious
and convenM nj apartments, this committee
had no room in this building, meeting in what.
ever other committee room they could, and
had sometimes to take refuge in the apartment
! Of their deadly enemies, The meant in policy
| only) the Committee on Manufactures. And
| even now they were put into a room more like
a dungeon than any thing else a room into
which, through the whole circle of the year, a
| ray nf the sun never penetrated. And, this
year. majority of The Agricultural Commit
Zee Thy accident ne knew were in favor of the
| rropused system of protection Ia manufac-
lures. So that the agricultural interest had,
in effect no committee 10 represent them, and
10 resist a plan Ia their injury. This considr-
ration alone, Mr. G. said, brought him before
this committee, as he was not professional
man, and never bred TO public speaking
Mr.. &. replied TO some observations of the
Hon. Speaker, as 10 the predictions of the ad-
versaries OF the existing Tariff heretofore not
ha,ixg been verified. Though the cord had
not vet snapped, was it wise To increase
the tension, aud try how much it would bear !:
He attributed much of the distress of the
South 10 the policy Of the general govern
ment in various particulars TO which he re-
! ferrpd.
Great complaints were made Of the loss Of
= European market for our produce. The
true aud only remedy for this, Mr.. Il. argued,
was, 10 reduce the rates of orr duties. and TO
take the foreign manufactures-then they will
take our products in return. This was the
proper mode oi encouraging The agriculture Of
the country. The proposed Tariff, on the
contrary, MAS calculated to produce ruin 10 a
part Of the Union and he dem. ID the right OF
Congress 10 inlure and ruin any one part of
the Union. even were IT for the good of The
whole. The Constitution, he said. required
that taxes should he equal The South had
always been the victim Of the policy Of the
, General Government. Whatever system
vas adopted, they had 10 hrar the chief bnr-
den Of Il II pui him IN mind, he said, Of an
account he had read Of some Prince IN Africa,
who. whenever funds we're wanting far his
cxchr,tncr. nsrd IN 90 abroad with sort of
bonnet on, and whichever way the wind hap
pennd to blow The bonnet, that distrlct vi his
empire furnished the way. and means. BY
some accident ar ether, the bonnet q Inc gen
erni Government always took direction to-
wards the South That part Of the couniT.S,
further, had been Threatened by two great
tornadoes, one from The East, the other from
III. Wrst-iIe tariff and internal inprore-
menfs. To, il might have heen hoped,
would have krp; the bonnet in eqnilibrin-bn',
unfortunately, up sprang wind to the North,
! and away went The bonnet once more, IN ITS
old hirct tim, sc. The South, said he, Is like
- sheep that bad been shorn and shorn, till
there is not lock OF wool leh on his barh,
| and then he is put into the pound. The
| South, he further said, was not unlike an old
dray horse, that kicks out his heels few
,;,,,cs and thinks himself AT liberty, but few