Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-30

ioi me factory al Saifm. IN MS first abOiiWp
'ttemp' at using thu American FAX, and its laI,
succt ssful manufacture of sail cloth from AJAX
imported from Ireland. The article he ac
knowlcdgedt to be of the very first quality, but
furnished at price which the Navy alone
would pay. The factory was kept in hping
| by Navy contracts alone-nOt - bolt of lis
| duck had ever been used in merchant shp
notwithstanding II was situated i'm the most
commercial district in all the Unun. Mr. G..
went into course oi general argument against
he bill lie censured the graspng ambition
of tins young country-whch nothing could
satisfy We were seeking to monopolise e.
very branch of profit Ia ourselves; we must
have every enterprise of commerce, all the
profit of manufactures, and the whole sys
tenn OF agriculture to ourselves. We said To
the North, give up-and To the South, keep
not back. And stretched our desires over the
whole earth. He stated the commercial cha
racter and situation of his constituents Il his
district contained probably twice the amount
OF commercial capital To that of any other dis
trict represented on this floor; il had honora-
bly, paid every custom house bond, with one
solitary exception and even that could vet
he recovered. Ii had never heen d manuiac
turing district, and never would be. The ha-
BITS OF commercial men were not to he chang
ed by the tasmanic touch of an act of pgis-
iation. Ii was vain To expect to draw about
he capital OLA trading people at your will. by
siIkcn cords; it must he done slowly. gradual
~, surely, and by natural causes. He shew-
ed hat the proposed duty would be Injurious
to ihe navigation If the country, and euogs-
eo IN" ingenuity, ant, and science, displayed
IN the construction Of ship. In reply 10 the
argument that The consumer pays the duty,
| Mr.. G. asked, who is the consumer Who
eats hemp Who eats iron Who wears sail
duck And replied, it was our ships; all that
part at The proposed tariff wrnt TO oppiess the
IN 'eres's of navigation. We regret that we
cannot present ms very animated speech in
"A more extended form, but our limits forbid il |
! Mr.. kremrr then rose, and insisted that th,-
duty was no higher than that recommended
by the Secretary of The Treasury Hrihouahi
the arguments of the honorable member from,
Massachusetts, We're very extraordinary. Tha'
gentleman asks II So can change the habits of
| merchants by cords of silk, and whether we
were IN lsratlltes OF old. | say yes, ", are
and | will prove il to the gentleman from the
good book. II has been SAID Ia us, as il was
tn 'ael of old, II We Will hearken 10 IL,
voice of he Lord your God, you shall, yes
you shall, be the head and not the TAIL of all
the nations of the earth You shall lend Ia
many, and borrow of none. You shall like the
good people of the g-ntlrmaD's district of
Salem, pay all your Custom louise bonds.
with the exception uf one 10 be sure, all the
districts of tn Union could not compare with
| me senleman's district. They We're not so
rich rs the merchants of Salem. Bul, if thos,
gentlemen had had all the TAI Of the soup. Il
was tin e they spared some tu the rest of the
country. He was in favor Of do ing equal its.
tee t" all. The growers of hemp, To the
west, were properly protected, perhaps thy
might, IN Time. be- able To sa, to the gentle
4 ma II ". A
endmrnt would prevail
MIR. CLAY spoke in reply 10 the gentleman
from Massachusetts,, MIR. CIowinshipId. So
Tar as ne had moi been answered by he speech
OF the honorable gentleman from PennsIIa-
MIA The gentleman had said that the Ma,
Distributed IFS contracts at high prices with .
view tn become popular with the nation -
lie wished that government would pursue
| throughout. the policy of encouraging CIR
own ingenuity, industry, and enterprise. Therc
| couiu ne no more certain ar more honorable
| pain "a popularity. But he though, thPgpu-
ll' mans argument went I" confnte him.,
lie said that, but f"r The patronage of the va
w, the factory at Salem must die. What did
this show That nothing was wanting Ia
the manufactures but governmental protec-
ton the very thing for which the friends Of
the bill commended. Mr.. C. insisted that the
effects of he American Efforts had greatly
| lowered the price of this article II had been
furnished tn Ia" navy, since the peace, at S %.
hui could now be supplied at s II. while the
hes Russian was at from l6 To S 90. The
report OF the Secretary of the Treasury re-
commended an ad valorrm duty of s5 per
cent lbe very rate at which this amendment
would place IT,
Mr. FLoYD said, that he had heard, in the
course OF this deb tr, ii very frequent refer
| Pnce To the former Tariff Pile -
often said that duties in this bill we're not
higher than in those hut il must be remem
herrd, that the former Tariff bills had been
professedIy for rpvenue-tbis was professedlv
for different object, and therefore there
was no proper parallel TO b. drawn. He in
sisted that lhe bill would not benefit the far
mers, (nf which number he had the honor tn
be one) As To IFS aiding agriculture by re-
curing more flax, the object was too small 10
he worth consideration. Ii was confpssed
NAT un!esss the Factories could get fdt con-
tracts from the government they could not 90
on. No doubt with such contracts the,
mi ut thrive and grow rich. II was argued
that we must cut off foreign trade and pro-
mote home products. But he asked, who
will buy Was it commended the manufacturers
would themselves supply the farmer with
market II all the 100000 manufacturers
~ the U >. were put into one of the Wes-
tern districts, a circle Of 60 miles diameter
would furnish all they could consume. Could
any body believe that we could take hands
away from the agriculture of the country. to
compete with the manufacturers of Europe !?
Something had been said about domestic tai
low. Did ever farmer kill his beef for the
sake Of the tallnw
Mr.. CUTHBERT wished to ask one question
Of the honorable chairman of the Conmitie,