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

is LagginY uf Your thaae always 10 cru,s Il
yard below the Imported? Aud he quotes
from a price current, 10 shew that ours Is put |
down at half price. Bn, what is the date al
that paper 1879. The very year in which
the Manufacture was linguis ,ing and almost
DESTROYED, anG in thr latte, part of wh"h il be-
gan 10 revive. Yrt he rriirratrs upon us thu
question. Why don't you al once make II
bptn Cheap anu good: Sir, w. Want To breathe.
We are, III tins respect, just bnrn. Our
factories are but eighteen inontl,s iii hrins
aud already they have reduced the Sculch
price The gentleman objects 20 the re-
cent paper quoted by my honorable friend
over the way, tMr. Sharpe) brcause the
planters, he says are all Supplied, nothing
Is doing in the market, and the price is
n"n,ina merely. But, sir, am iii possfs-
si,n Of another paper, only z or days later
than that quoted, and different p,ice is given,
which sh.ws that there is, at this time, some
activity in the inark,t. The majority of the
planters may he snpl'ed-hut there are, also,
pro,ident men, VII" reserve their purchases
till the market is lowest. When left my
home, ~ hich was at the time when the pur-
chases are usually made, saw letters from
highly respectable men, which stated that the
bagging of Kentucky, from one particular
factory at Lexingion,l was then bringing a
price equal to the Scotch article. Sir, we On
iy ask you 10 let our manufactures exist under
hope, aud in lG months, my word for IT, you
will have baGsing AS good rs the Scotch, IN
equal abundance, and al Il less price.
Before sit dawn, must add 4 word or
two in reply to a gentleman from New York,
(Mr. Hogebooni,l who told us that The manu-
facturrrs of Dundee'li,rd in a cold climate,
bought their fuel, and brought their hemp
from DauiZlc, though they had nothing 10 give
for II in exchange. Why, sir, though do not
in the leas. doub, that honorable member had
fully convinced his own mind that this was SEQ,
did he know SD little about trade, AZ not 10 Lee
aware that il was not the manufactures, but
the merchant who imports the material of Bril-
tish manufactures !? Aud DOES he suppose
that nothing goes fiom Britain w the Baltic,
for the hemp aud iron that come down the
Baltic !? repeat what ] before mentioned,
that the Scotch manufacturer may afford to
make y sacrifice for a time-that .ie may IN
JOY the monopoly 10 the end. But If that .stn-
tleman is really convinced that there must b.
monopoly of this Article somewhere, would
he not rather give il 10 the American than Ia
tho Scotch manufacturer put il 10 his
patriotism.
The gentleman from Louisiana says, that
this manufacture is in no nsed OF projection,
because we have hsen obliged to take our
hand. from II, and employ them in other oc-
equations. Sir, WE hava dun. sO, il Is true
iamcrtably true. We have tried the raising
of tobacco-we have tried horses have
tried hogs-we have tried hemp the industry
OF the country roams from object to object,
trying every thing, alike in vain. We wan. pro-
tection-we ask this gorernmentfor protection
mot against our brethren, not against other
states, but against strangers.
The COMMITTEES then rose, on motinn Of
Mr.. McDuffie, who expressed desire to deli
yer his views more fully on the subject.
THURSDAY, FEpnuAuY 90.
The question on striking oui the duty on
cotton bagging still pendiug-the debate on it
was resumed.
Having presented our readers, al some
length, the debate of Wednesday, on this
much disputed item Of the tariff bill, we must
content ourselves with very summary view
of what took place on Thursday, previous to
the final vote, by which the item was plodifi-
ed from 9 to ii cents per square yard.
Mr.. McDufIie had the 0oor, but he yielded
il, by courtesy,to
Mr.. CAMPBELL, If S. C., who opposed the
duty, in a short speech. the FIRST we believe,
he has delivered this sesson.I He insisted
that this duty was equal to a directta tax oftwo
per cent. on all the Southern states, and equal
10 bounty of0nr hundred dollars piece 10
every iaboreri in kentucky who was employed
i'm the manufacture. The manufactures of
Kentucky were stated 10 he, at present, in a
state Of activity; and If that fertile state pro-
duced more than she could sell OF consume, il
was unfair to tax the Southern states OH ac-
count of her fertility, &c.
Mr.. McDuFFfE replied to some at the argu.
menrs'that had been advanced in favor Of the
duty urged the thriving condition OF the
Western states during the last war, when they
fed the armies of the United States insisted
that their present distressrs arose not from Il
want Of protection, but from their banking sys-
tenn, and the rise in the value of specie.
He was succeeded by Mr. Forward Of Pa.
who advocated ;he duty and repealed the ar
gument which attributed the reduced price
Of coarse cottons tn the amount Of machinery
employed in their fabrication.
Mr.. WAnYiELp Of Maryland, opposed the
duty.
MIR. GovAa Of South Carolina, spoke, for
the frs, time. He opposed the duty in short
speech, in which br insisted that three mil
lions of yards Of hagSing would be- required
for the consumption Of the ton-sruwing
kentucky, under this duty, surprising it TO be
prohibtory, a million Of dollars; and that she
would take nothing from them in ex-
change for her produce, hui guild and SILVER.
Mr.. WIcKLIrYE Of Kentucky, resisted, ith
warmth, the implied charge Of Incidence,
which he UNDERSIGNED rs cast upon the Ken
lucky population, by Mr.. McDuffp.
The question was then taken, on MIR. Dreut's
motion 10 strike out the whole clause, and
iosf-syes 81, noes 1907.
Mr.. Buchanan rhrn renewed his motion
to change the duty from 0 cents to ! Ia cents
per square yard, which was agreed to--ayes
40.
Mr.. Z. r. Barbour then moved ~ strike
ont the clause laying duty 81 25 cents per
bushel on imported wheat. lie made short
4 49,. a.. aid,