Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-10

These acts Of the General have endeared him
to Virginia, and made him the favorite Of the
whole party opposed to the progress OF domes-
tic manufactures But ough, II 70 endear MIN
10 Kentucky! Should we forget our right TO dc.
mand Of the nation It's protecting aid, 70 shteid
our infant manufactures and our agriculture
from foreign competition! Should we forget
ourselves, so far as TO kiss with fawiing aou-
lation the hand that has smitlen US! On the
bill being returned, your faithful friend and
representative prevailed upon the lower house
10 reject the amendment of the Senate, strik-
ing out the dety Of four and half cents on
cotton baggiag What was then the course Of
things! Why, the Senate adhered its amend
ments, But TO save other provisions, and the
bill itself, il finally agreed 70 the triHing duty oil
little over three cents on the yard, and oi thir-
ty-ive dollars per ton on hemp, The effect OF
even these small duties has been astonishing
upon our hemp. growers and manufactures. In.
stead ola solitary rope walk in motion, the
town and country have many. More than one
million Of yards Of bagging is atnnally mann
featured; and this principally in the town Of
Lexington The quantity Of hemp raised is
tripled, and even that quantity will be doubled
during the present year. Instead OF Tour dol
lars Commonwealth, or two in specie, then the
reward Of the farmer, he now receives eight
dollars in specie May not ask, to how much
greater extent the cultuie Of hemp and manu-.
featuring Of bagging would have been carried
in our State, but for thev OF General Jack
son and his associates in the Senate? And may
not also ask the farmers and manufactures OF
my district, what would have been the price
Of their hemp, and What the quantity Of bagg-
ing manufactured, if the General had succeed
ed in taking off the whole duty upon cotton
bagging, or if no duty had been laid on hemp?
The answer is 10 be found in your then cond-
ton, in the price Of your labor, when he gave
his woes. The question will again and again
recur upon this tariff in Congress. The Gen
era has, on oath, said, i, ought to he taken off.
VIII you make him your President, that he
may say so again? Were the Presidential chair
now vac ant, and the claims Of General Jackson
equal to those of MIR. Adams, l should feel that
was failhless 10 myself and treacherous to my
country, were 10 support the General, aficr
this unequivocal declaration of his political
hostility to the best hopes and interests of Ken
lucky. AS Kentuckian, hope to see the
day when, by canal or rail road, the ports Of
the Chesapeake VIII be opened 10 the products
Of gu r. industry, if Mr.. Adams is preferred by
the American people. ! have now before me
the report Of the Engineer Corps, upon the pro
posed canal from the navigable waters Of the
Chesapeake 10 those of the Ohio, maintaining
both its utility and pracIicability. This, in
stead Of con6nng Western industry to sickly
and precarious outlet 10 the ocean, throws open
for its reception all the ports ofthe Atlantic:
and what Western man is there, who does not
revolt at the idea Of throwing the national gov.
eminent into the hands Of party determined
10 seal this splendid and useful enterprise, with
a perpetual negative. 1t was my wish sincere.
". to have left the election of president 10 the
people, untouchedsby my feeble voice, until
mingled with my fellow-citizens at the polls
but the combination against the administrator
has boldly commenced the canvass, & in spite
of my best efforts to keep il out, forced the
question apon the Legislature at its last ses
sion, not only through the Governors message,
but by resolutions calculated 10 further the
Generals claims, and denounce the admins
ration. II has therefore become my duty 10
say thus much 10 you, my immediate friends
and pei ;hbors, TO whom am responsible, and
with whom | have common interest and
common sympathy. VIVA, declare to you are
the honest convictions Of mind devoted to
your pee interests, and unfettered by the
hatlery of hope, or pressure Of fear For new
er have, nor never will ask, or receive any favor
which any administration has to bestow have
no political connrxion with the President, and
perhaps never may-but feeble and unimpor-
tant as am, am your servant, and / believe
my enemies have never charged me with de-
sorting your interest. I am farmer and a
hemp grower, and should have been faithless
to you as well as myself, il had not, in this
address, declared to you nv convictions, against
the claims Of General Jackson upon your sup
port. Should he be elected, he will meet my
fondest hopes il he continue he American gov
eminent in the same credit at home and abroad
and secures TO the American people the happi-
ness and prosperity which he finds them en-
joying when he enters upon his offi"e. can
not close this address, without one further re-
mark, as to the coalition formed by the leaders
al the Jackson party in this State. Among
them are to be seen not only the furious disor
ganized, bur the avowed advocates Of federal
ism--men not only ofdfIerent political sen,i-
ments, but who, for twenty years past, have
been known 10 cherish towards each other the
most inyeterate personal hostility; yer this in
congruous mass, in the scheme Of elevating
General Jackson to the Presidential chair, have
suffered seli-interest 10 triumph over their past
and present animOsties which with their rom