American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-20

such as the manufacture Of woolens, &c necessary
for the clothing of troops, &c. in state of war
The manufacture of whskey was one which could
be increased to any extent in case of emergency.
1t was article which could not be brought within
the principle on which domestic manufactures right
fully claim protection; and he trusted the House
would not sustain the proposition to increase the du.
~ upon it.
What, he asked, was the suggestion of the gen
tleman from New York? That, if you strike out
one of the items of this bill, you must another, and
another, and thus lose friends to the bill. protest
against this argument, said Mr.. McDufie. Let
every article stand on its own footing, and on that
ground alone. Is ii to be argued that you are to
protect an article by additional dutes contrary to
the interests of the community, merely as the gen
tleman from Kentucky has it, to egualize the tariff?
The tariff, Mr.. Med. said, ought to be equal, to be
sure; but, as preliminary question, no article
ought TO be protected which does not deserve it
and tariff ought not to be made up of justice and
injustice.
The gentleman had addressed himself to the es-
prt ducorps in the House, and called upon it to
take the bill it is, not at all. 1t was certainly
asking of the House very great portion of faith, to
require them to take bill, including three or four
hundred items, Just as it stands, without examina
ton. Let it be taken up, said he item, by item,
and thus discussed: Ii is by this sort of discussion
only we can arrive at the truth. When it is ascer-
tanned what articles require protection, then let the
whole be combined in one bill. Let US take up the
items one by one at least, and sanction those only
which merit our sanction. And, if we are to have
system, injurious TO particular parts of the coun-
try, let US have the consolation of knowing that it
is adopted with eye 10 the national interest, and
for national object.
There is a portion OF this country, said Mr.. M
Duffe-a portion which have the honor to rep
resent-that, modify it as you will, must sustain
from the passage of this bill vast and heavy peCu
mary loss. But regarding the general interests Of
the Union, if 1t can be shown that the proposed
duties are connected with the independence, the
power OF the country, this consideration will always
with them have great weight and system of pro.
lection Of manufactures, tending to these objects,
although it may bear heavier on them than on any
others, will not be disapproved But system of a
combination of particular interests, Tor the particu-
lar benefit of each, is which will never receive
their sanction.
MIR. MD. adverted to the article Of indigo, on
the importation Of which the bill proposes an sdd
tional duty. He knew part of the country, he
said, that at all interested in the culture OF this
article, but that which he in part represented.
But, he said, nothing would appear more idle to
the people Of that country than protection in the
manufacture of indigo. They required no protec-
ton, he said, in the manufacture OF any article He
trusted therefore, that the attention of the commit
tee would be turned TO the particular articles pro-
posed to be protected, and decide upon them in re-
ference to their respective merits.
Mr.. Md. concluded, by reference to a decla-
ration of the honorable Speaker, in which he under
stood him to say, that he perfectly willing that
an excise should be established, to supply any de-
6cency which might be produced by this bill: he
asked that gentleman il he would consent to intro
duce into this bill provision for such an excise
TO be continued