American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-27

kentucky, oU,UUU YARDS annually oil cotton baERinR.
This fact appeared by the Census of the state oil
kentucky, in the year 1922, and the report in re-
lgard TO that manufacture, was that it was in Ian.
lguishing condon--not, Mr.. B. said, from the
want of protection 10 the manu- acture, but from the
Iinerorty OF the article manufactured. /, said he,
represent cotton country: and all the gentlemen
! representing The same description Of country will
unite IN testying that the bagging Of Kentucky is
oil so inferior quality, that we prefer paying 40
cents per yard for the foreign article, making use
Iof the bagging OF Kentucky, 25 cents per yard.
And would the advocates of this bill force upon he
cotton growers an article of this inferior quality
| The gentleman from Pennsylvania had referred
Ito the report of Alexander Hamilton. Now, Mr..
i b. said, though he was not disposed to adopt the
principles of Alexander Hamilton on any subject,
he willing to shew from his report, that Alex
ander Hamilton had laid down the principle, that a
prohibition of the importation of any article should
never be attempted by Government, without first
ascertaining that the country can manufacture
enough for its consumption and secondly that the
manufacture thereof is in sufficient number Of
hands to ensure competition.
| Mr.. Is. said he had many reasons, which perhaps
lin time he might present to the Houss, to shew
the evil consequences of this bill and that it ought
not to pass in any shape whatever.
MIR. Tod said, it must be admitted that cotton bag
gng an article indispensable to cotton planters,
and that il supply of il cannot be furnished by the
manufacture Of cur own country, the duty either
ought not to be agreed to, or the time, in which it
is 10 operate, ought to be extended. But Mr.. I.
said, it would not do to say to this House that the
states of Kentucky and Ohio could not make all the
cotton bagging wanted for all the cotton growing
states in the Union; for, he said, it was easier 10
make bagging for a million pounds of cotton, than
ii was TO raise ten thousand pounds Of cotton. Mr..
IT. said he knew very well that this additional duty
would oblige the constituents Of the gentleman to
pay more for their bagging than they now pay. If
for this they had no equivalent, the duty would be
Iuniusl, and hardship upon them. The question,
however, was. have they not already an equivalent
MIR. L. commended that they have. The consump-
ton of cotton, by the people Of the United States is
Ito the amount Of one third of the whole quantity
raised in the country. The greater part Of this con.
sumption OF cotton is by the people who do not
aise any Of the article. 1t was notorious that there
was more cotton consumed in the state of Pennsyl.
vania than in all the states that raise cotton in the
Union; and they pay protecting duty to those who
raise this Gotten, Of three cents per pound Which,
it would be agreed, was in fact bounty Of SO much
upon the production OF the article; because we know,
said he that ii be afforded to be raised in South
America, and in some parts OF The West Indies, at
three cents per pound cheaper :han in the United
States, perhaps because the slaves in that country
were treated with greater severity than in this, hard
At any rate, those countries underse our cot
ton growers. For their protection however, said
Mr.. Tod, we have laid duty Of three cents per
pound the importation of foreign cotton which,
i trust will ever continue TO be laid and thus the
people Of the state of Pennsylvania and of other
states, for every pound of cotton they consume pay
bounty oil three cents TO the people of the South.
And, doing this, they now asked OF the people oil
the South to repay about hundredth part OF this
hon Ia II, uEa Cf 1ht harrO
This the gentleman from Louisiana considered
hardship-Mr +. could not consider it so it was
a reciprocity. 1t was an exertion OF the pow
conferred on government for the purpose of COM
polling different sections of the country to do JUS
lice, in some degree, TO one another, by reciprocal
ting advantages in their intercourse, sc. If any
part OF the country required protection OF this Sort
ii was the state Of Kentucky. All the produce which
that state can send to market was not Of one fifth
the value of the exports OF domestic produce from
Georgia, or from South Carolina. Yet Kentucky
is superior in numbers, and in physical and mora
strength. Why should we, by the effect Of legs-
lation, give to one part OF the country so decided
an advantage over the other In consequence Of
the disadvantages under which the West labored in
respect to its products there had been great distress
and depression in the state of Kentucky. Specie
was almost unknown IN the state. SO much was
this the case, thatno long time ago, application was
to be made to the general government to
dispense with specie in The payment OF the POSTAGE
on their letters. They have not the same advanta-
ges as the citizens of Georgia and South Carolina,
and Louisiana, and Alabama and Mississippi; tina.
is they have no fellow citizens whom they com.
pei to become customers 10 them, as they are TO
the cotton growers From these and other consid-
creations, Mr. I. clearly for giving this encour
agement to the manufacturers OF the West.
Mr.. CroWninShield Of Massachusetts, said he
thought the gentleman from Pennsylvania was to-
tally mistaken in regard to the matter of fact when
he stated that duty of three cents per pound is
imposed as protecting duty on cotton, because
cnitnn could be raised in South America the West