American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-24


cle. But it seemed the object OF the gentleman from
the West to leave 10 the nation only Hopson';
v Ichoce-whiskey or nothing. But whatever might
Ibe the claims of the domestic industry OF the West
: on this subject, he thought the claims of Con
: necticut were equally strong. New England Riv-
: er OF Connecticut was as much the result OF do
! nestle industry, as the whskey or the corn oil
/ Kentucky was of the nerve and fibre OF her sons
To lay duty on the imported article, was TO put
a bounty on the domestic article. And the eifec,
would be, that the surplus capital would go to ma
king of whiskey, which would otherwise go to the
raising of wheat and of animals. But to suppose
that in that case, the high price OF whiskey would
continue, was certainly faacious-the price would
fall, and the consequence would be, that We should
only get five times the quantity OF whiskey that
we now have, without Increasing the wealth of the
country single dollar. The Hon. Speaker has
told US that he will consent to excise; is quite
competent for him to say so--but will the country
go with hmf He may call up spirits from the Vastly
deep, but will they come when he does call them )?
Lay an excise, and the consequence will be another
change in your government, perhaps another whis
key insurrecon. The Hon. Chairman Of the Com.
mlttee says, that if each member objects to that
part OF the bill that touches his own district, we
shall have no bill at all well sir, that is Just what
we ought to have. Then we should have only al
revenue BILL and an average tax, Of IS per centumI
Hamilton observed, the gentleman from Kentucky
told us, that equality could not be measured out by
drains and scruples. In reply have only to as
sure him, that entertain serious scrupes in taking
the dram he has prepared for US.
Mr.. Stewart, OF Pennsylvania, rose and said he
considered the duty proposed as not so much in
tended for the benefit of the manufacturer of spirits
as for the grower of grain. The gentleman from
South Carolina says that its object Is not of nation
IN; Il
farmers, it certainly has that character. The asr-
culturist has lost his market; his products also
utely shut out from Europe; where he sold
thousand barrels of flour he does not now sell one
And 1t is the duty OF protecting and parental
government, to provide market for him, if il CAM
De done. But, gentlemen exclam you will destroy .
by preventing us from import.
ng spirits. As well might they tell us we ought
% export grain, and import our bread lest COM
nerce should be unemployed, as to tell us we must
export grain and import spirits, for the sake Of com
nerce. tits certainly proper that nation should
IMPORT its bread, as import its drink. And it is
luite as much the duty of government to protect {
ne man who raises the material for our drink, as a
ne man who raises the material tor our bread. The Il
Gentleman from South Carolina cannot comprehend
low the country is to be gamer if the excise is ST
made equal to the duty imporlsthe difference OF
) OBVIOUS. We in the one keep our capital bI
Inference is the whole prce-which in the one case Tor
sent out OF the country, and in the other is kept to
ithn it, very well remember, that, in the dis so
ict oil country have the honor to represent
as paid during the late war heavy excise-yet ey
ere was never known period Of such prosperity re
the manufacturer OF whskey there was twice as oy
luch made then as there is now. The interior la W.
ours under peculiar disadvantages. The products nc
raises are bulky and heavy, and will not bear the
n fran
tent ought 10 protect and cherish them al home 4
I'd provide home market. There was such a
arket to considerable extent in our manufactur- tai
g establishments, but these crushed. During tn
lie war there were, in my district, from fifteen 10 II
gehy furnaces, besides orges, rolling and splitting tn
ms, and other establishments for the manufacture pc
iron. In 1916, the duty was taken of from i'm. wi
or'ed iron, and they were crushed. One after tn
homer sank, sank, sank they were all ruined tn
sir hands were dismissed and the agriculturi.t WI
ST his market, while the manufacturer lost his all ca
Oh took that market from the iarmer-it is your a
ny 10 restore tor give him some equivalent.
ne gentleman from South Carolina was pleased TO TIL
signate the spirit OF domestic manufac- rls
re- as 6Me rain. Nothing will suit him but the erl
lrit that is imported. He likes red ruin Rum
IN his estimation, far better coored and Tar better mi
sted than whiskey. Possibly he likes it because ser
is OF red color. But, sir, to my taste, old wbs- POI
y, the genuine old Columbia, is better than the the
red ruin. There are some gentlemen at.
no cannot bear any thing that is domestic. Call it but
reign, and they approve it at once-but nothing VIII
at domestic is good enough for their USE But thi
r. II you look at the effects produced, see no on
ason why red ruin is any better than blue ruin ind
man gets drunk, do not think it will make ext
ueh difference, whether it is on foreign or on do pre-
este spirits. If there is any difference, is in the
Pense 10 MS family, and that is all on the side of pei
e domestic article. me
The gentleman from South Carolina thinks il Car
ouid be much better to raise animals and send them to
The Eastward, than to occupy our capital in dis EN-
ing "hlsKey. But, Sir. can tell the honorable the