Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-11-30

~ auu pontC1l ortnOuOxy OF mat en1ightencd
Statesman, by asserting that lac was uufrisnd-
iy to the great interest Of this section of tie
countryside protection and encouragement
OF DoInest,ck Manufactures. Assertions III
this kind. il believed hy the people, would,
, they justly considered, enlist the manutae
turers and farmsrs of the State in the cause
OF SEINE Other candidate, and, eventually, pro-
duce diversity Vt public sentiment, which
could not fail OF proving advantageous 10 MIR.
Crawford. Calculations were. also, undoubt-
edly maJe on the peculiar situation of Mr..
Adams himself, rs we'll as on his well known
unwlhiogness To appear in the Canvass, where
such and appearance might not be consider
90 as due 10 himself. MIR. Adams has been
IN the Department OF State, ever since his re-
turn from foreign employment. The duties
ul That station have never called upon him
for an Official opinion on the claims of the
manufacturers, or the interests of the country
as involved in manufactures. II was presum-
ed, justly, that he would not make a gratui
tOus apd uDcalled for declaration Of his sen.
timents on the subject, ON the eve Of an eiec-
ton which he had so deep siake-and, that
the well known opinion of Nlr. Clay, with his
honest, strenuous and eminently successful
| cxertons in our favouS, would rally the manu-
factories Oftlie state-first in opposition to
i Mr.. Adams-and, eventually, (Mr. Clay Is
| prospects OF election fainS) in support vi
Mr.. Craw ford.
| We have always entertained the same
views An Tins subject, 80 important at once, To
Now England and The country at large
We had the most satisfactory assurances,
that Mf. Adams was on our side. We res
pecsed the splendid Oraforcal talents Of MIR.
Clay, and were grateful for his ser, ices-but
we considered ADD still consider Mr.. Adams
rs greatly his superior in general qualifications
tor the Office Ut President and that, removed
from the Speakers to the Presidents Chair,
Mr.. Clay would not only quit a place where
MS peculiar talents have been, and may be,
most ernlnenily useful-hut, in all probability
leave that chair t1 be occupied by Mr. Web
ster, man of equal powers Ia oratory, the
avowcd opponent Of the American policy, and
the great champion of foreign manufacturers
| we have, therefore, ever since MIR. Calhoun
was withdrawn from the contest, considered
Mr.Adams The first, aud MIR. Clay the second
choice OF this and the other New England
states, among the gentlemen who have been
named for the Presidency (. Aud we have
pledged ourselves tn produce, at the proper
time, evidence which should leave no reasu-
aable doubt of the disposition Of Mr.. Adams
toeXfend to the manufactures of the country
all the support which they require, for their
encouragement and success. We said the
l
vocates of Mr.. Crawford, hero, aware Of The
nature oil the evidence in our possession. wish
I'd and pressed for lis publication. in season
to make use of it 10 Mr.. Adams prejudice
Ia the southern states-an advantage which
we thought ourselves fully justified in with
holding from them. We now proceed tn re-
deem our pledge-not by any thing written
by DIR. Adams, since the present canvass,
which his opponents would have pronounced
insincere-but by his declared sentiments,
before the canvass begun, and when he had
no reason, whatever. for Disgusting or sup.
pressing his real okiniun.
I About the close ef the year 1919. the pros
tration Of domestic manu- fractures and the con
sequent depression Of the general business OF
The country, had reduced our working popu-
lation TO the greatest disiresses, and SO much
deranged our mOnied Institutions and COM
mercial operations, that mercantile conf
dence was destroyed, ard the nation seemed
ON the verge of public and private bankrupt
cy-n being found necessary to borrow mo.
ney for the ordinary expenccs Of government.
Tie true cause ofthis gloomy state of affairs
was supposed TO exist in the extravagant i'm
portat,ons (much beyond our ability To pay
lori OF foreign manufactures, and il was iudg-
ed expedent, by a great number OF indiyi,IH-
ais who had turned their thoughts upon the
subject, that general and simultaneous eff
tort should be made for the encouragement
OF home Enthusiastically appeals to the pa
tri0fsm and self Interest ofihe people in their
favour, and by procuring for them such Ie-
gIslative protection as might not he iuconsis
tent with our well grounded regard for COM
nierce, or the customary mode of collecting a
revenue. To further these objects, new pres.
SEES were established (among them the Manu-
lecturers and Farmers Jourusi) and treatisps,
tracts and circulars were written, printed and
disseminated, under the patronage of In. ia
trioiic societies in diffrren, parts of the coun-
try. The New York Tarnmany Society took
a leading part in these measures, an d issued
pamphlet in favour Of National Economy and
DOMESTIC Manufactures. copies Of which were
forwarded 10 all the eminent statesmen In the
country. Dir. John Quincy Adams received
one of them, with a letter from Col. CroIius,
President of the Society, which we now pre-
sent to our readers, with Mr.. Adams brief
but pertinent reply, in which he fully concurs
WIN the general principles" asserted in the
pamphlet
NEw-YoRx, Nov. 10, 1919.
The Hon John Quincy Albums,
Sr-By the direction of the Soc;etv ofI
Tammany or Columbian order, l do myself
the honor Of transmitting to you by this davis
mail The address Of that Society, ON the sub
Ject of National Economy and Domestic
manufactures. The Society as well az nv
self would feel much gratified should the SEN
timents il contains coincide with your own.
have the honor TO be, with high conside
ration of respect, sir, yours obedienfly,
CLARkSON CROLIUS.
:. Hon. John Quincy Adams,
Secretary Of State, Washington.
AyswER.]
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
washington, 9TH Dec. 1910.
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