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

thing but that il w"uId rather grow wursr. |
a. tO the argument from the reduced price at
coarse co,;ous. the tact was true, but the in
trr.nc. false because HAT WAS an article The
vesy reverse uf This. There, the material was
abundant, and of the best quality, and almost
the whole ,alIe Of the manufactured article
Was derived fom machinery here, the
material was acknowledged Ia he bid, and the
manufacture rnploy,d no nachinery at all.
Mr.. SHARPE explained. lie did not Gem
PLAN uf the duty an sugar but only urged il
To show, that, ab"ye all other states, Lnusia;u
should MT complain. When She sent 900 hogs
heads of sugar To the North, the protecting
duties On that quantity amounted 10 $4,000,
over and above the price that would other
wise have been paid. AS to the had quality of
the hemp, il arose from not being water rotied,
and he had heard Southern gentleman say,
that there was not ,rater enough in Kentucky
I" rat il. II SD, Inc wished to supply, from
.lsewhcre, both 'caier and hemp.
| MIR. LIVINGSTON resumed. The gentleman
says, they can make gnnd hemp in New i"rk.
| as ,in ask him, "Why don't y"u then ~
For wan, OF ii market Ne. There are
lourishng manufactures of sail duck and
corja5e Il ,our ,riy door. Why don't you
take II Ia Patterson Because the people al
Patterson won't takr your hemp.
| As 10 the dnty on susar-thrre are, IN Lou
isiaDa, perhaps 600 persons who make sugar
aud because these 600 persons receive benefit
froma general law of the whole Union, must
| therefore all the other inhabitants of LOUISE
ana he taxed for the benefit of Kentucky
Shall isacriice ninei SHINE of my constituents
because one is benefited ? Away with such
arguments
The gentleman has produced late paper
to show, that The home hagging is now with
in six cents of the foreign, in the New Orleans
| market. | will explain this. The planters
have all got their supply, long since, and the
price is now merely nominal. But why any
difference Ii IS from prrj.dice, they tell US.
| Why, Sir, we knsw no more of the Scotch
men al Inverness, than that gentleman knows
| about the Chinese nor, much as we may lows
Scoichmen, are we willing, out of love, to
| give them from six TO ten cents yard more
| On the bagS ing they send us AS 10 the plan
TER Geducting only two pounds tare on bale
of cotton, when lie sells it To the merchant
| suppose he deducted none AT all, and sold
every ounce Of basgins aud bale rope rs cot
ton, does not the merchant, who knows that
he shall have To deduct the whole tare at Lii
yerpool, allow for this, think you, in the price
lie gives the planter?
Mr.. L. again deprecated so great and sud-
den change in our internal pulley, as tn.
| bill, unless modified, would produce. Shall
we, said he, because rock lies many rifles
ahasd, put the ship abou, with all standing !?
| No. Let Us take time 10 cl.w up some of
| our sails first.
Money may be very plenty in Britain Just
now. The boys may be playing at chuck
rarthing with guineas. But, TO say that this
is the effect of their protecting duties, wont do,
when we know, that, Hnderthe same duties, mo-
| ney has been almost as scarce there as with ouI-
| selves. Besides, those duties have been laid
In Britain 10 encourage expectation But, are
we ready TO export our manufactures No,
sir our luIurant soil, our multiplied harbors,
point us out, by the hand OF Nature herself,
Ar an agricultural and commercial nation.
These must be our great national characters
tics. Manufactures third interest, and
a subordinate one. Manufacture If you can,
but don't fnrce the country into such system
as is fit for Britain. II would he pernicious,
as we'll To the morals, as to all the fundament-
al interests Of the United States.
\ MIR. LETcuER spoke in fdvur Of the clause
in the bill.
| MIR. LIVINGSTON repeated some OF his for
mer positions, and still Insisted that, " with a
bounty of $50 "A ton, which is more than half
The Whole price, they had not raised hemp
that the manufacturer would make use of,
there was little prospect that they would in
| future. When the American manufacturer
will consent 10 take our hemp at all, then a
pr oteciing duty may, with more propriety, be
asked for. The argument from the effect of
| the duty on coarse cOttOns would not hold
because, when that duty was laid, the material
WAS already Of the very best quality, and the
fabric IDade almost wholly by machinery.
He was sorry to find his declarations met with
so little credit from the gentleman from Ken
lucky Mr.. Lstcher y his conduct, he trusted,
| would always shew that he was not IN the
matchmaking false declarati0ns:h he hoped that
the gentloman's prophecy about improvement
E hemp would prove more correct than abuut'
his not supporting the genera; principle and
| provisions of this bill.
Or. Clay was happy TO hear such decla
ration from the honorable member from Lou
| siana, and he was now about To put those de-
clarations to the test. |, said Mr.. T.. am
hemp grow er (that is, at such time as the stu
alton of the country and the regulations Of
government render ii possible, without l0ss.)
| The gentleman seems 10 believe that il is i'm
possible, in this country, To make the article
good. Sir, as nature delivered it 10 our hands,
IL is of rs iine quality as any in the world !;
| IL has no natural, inherent defect, Uf any kind
whatever. The only difficulty attends the
| treatment Of il after il is cut down or pulled
up, for both modes pursued.) 1t is
/ then either dcw-Tut ed, or water-Totted.-
! When IL is 10 he dew-rOtted, il is stacked till
1 lie month of December or January, and then
| spread under the snow ill February--ths is
called d'w-rUtting. In the other process, the
hemp is imrprrsedin pondsor running streams,
where some process goes on, by which the
sluiinnuS part Of the vegetable is dissolved,
| and when dry, il is submitted To an operation
| called breaking. When thus prepared, the
hemp of this country is, III all respects, equal
| To the Russian, and commands as high price.
! The gentleman from Massachusetts, on my
| right, (Nr. Latilrop,) tells me that he always
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