American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-10-01
TO THE
CITIZENS OF
NEWCASTLE COUNTY.
TO THE
FELLOW CITIZENS;

respct table meeting OF tie Friends OF 10
nestle Industry convened at Barleyville,
Oh the Brandywine, on the ed inst. to
present to you All expression OF their feel
ings i'll relation to shameful and malig
nant attack aimed at the character and
credit of the manufacturers of this county,
il. public print of the Borough OF Will
rlington, we solicit your attention, in the
first place, to some general views connec-
ted with this subject, and with the present
political crisis.
There never was time when the manu-
facturers of the United States were more
loudly called upon to rally their whole
strength to defend their interests, nay, the
very means by which they live, than at the
lrt sent moment All the evil and oppos
ing spirit of the Southern Planters is rous-
ed into action against the system which has
built up our manufactures, and to MAN.
taia a preference for the labor Of black
slaves over that of white treemen. \ mt
mortal to Congress is now circulating in
South Carolina, for example, which, not
only in the bitterest terms opposes any in
crease of protection to free laborers, but
actually calls upon the national legislature
to repeal those loacs Which haze been pass.
cd on that subject, and throw the whole
concern of manufactures into the controul
of British agents and importers, as it for
merly was, and cause stoppage of the
numerous establishments now employing
and supporting thousands AMI tens of thou
sands of families, constituting the most
useful and valuable q, sses of pc ople in cur
country. We annex Tor your information
AN extract from this memorial; and also a
resolution recently adopted by the Legis-
Eture Of Virginia, in which, tor the first
time in this country, the constitutional
power of Congress TO foster and protect
the domes site labor Of our country, is dcni
ell by Legislative body. he Planters
have their hundreds Of slaves to aid in the
undertaking ; and on Account of every bum
dred slaves that they have, possess the
power of sixty free voters in the lection
of President of the United States or a
representative in Congress for the slaves
arc counted, five 81 yes as three white per-
sons; and thus the Southern States, be-
ciuse of their slaves only, send as many
Representatives to Congress and have )
much weight in the election of President,
as the whole population Of The tatcs Of
Pennsylvania and Delaw re, lmou ting to-
g"ther to re than eleven hundred thou
sand free persons.
This is the constitution Of the United
States, and it is our duty to submit patient
ly to it; but when the planters thus unite
TO break down the manufacturers. it would
be madness in the latter not t, rail, then
whole strength in opposition to their enc
mics in the South--who, having mark,
in Europe for their tobacco and cotton
have no feeling for lis, who are destitute
of market there for the products of on
soil or the proceeds of our industry VIII,
would be compelled almost to 60 withnu
clothes, if we had no manufactures of gu
own. England, perhaps, i'll whole year
does not take the value of one hundre
dollars in any agricultural or manufacture
article produ led in all the State of Eela
Ware. She buys nothing of us-and Vt
the Southern people would compel US t
purchase English goods, by destroyin
our manufactures. This is not less ur
just and oppressive than it would be, ii tn
employer at one of our manufacturing e.
nbls ments were to attempt to compel pei
sons to work for him without paying thel
wages. But the Indignant freeman wi
reject that idea with the scorn and COZ
tempt it deserves-and SO should all OF
pose this daring attempt in the South
make them the dependents of England, t