American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-08-28

truly surprising how fully YOU are refuted in every
arunment YOU now advance by nil the able arsu-
ments used in support Of the Tariff, and by eur
experience under it. so far as It has proved pro-
lection to the American manufacturer.
! Ii is only in wouen cloths. and wool, that u
has failed and that failure is because It did not go
far enough. Had it completely secured this mar
ket TO our wool!en manufacturers as It was no
doubt intended to do, by its original trainers, and
as the woollen bill would have done in great mea.
sure, we should have seen very different state
of things long since the farmers throughout the
country, would have something 10 rely upon,
market would have been opened at their own doors
for large quantities Of gran their fields would have
beer whitcned with ieeces which would have COM
handed ready sale, and they would have pro
cured much more cloth of given quality for
bushe. Of grain or fleece Of wool than they can
now.
The farmer. the plough maker, the blacksmith
and hundred Others. who barely live BY their la
Dor, instead Of paying any additional tax Tor their
wooen goods, wnulI have had an additional de
mand for their labor. which would have yielded
them more of the comforts Of life than it does.
and the whole country would have been IN tfriv-
ing condition. So that turn the subject which way
You will. the wolve, in sleeps clothing' those
who take hold of unsound arguments to destroy the
enterprise and industry Of their fellow citizens.
preterting to encourage and support foreigners
and by destroying the woolien business, devote the
sheep 10 the slaughter house. You must excuse
me, If cannot believe YOU think that the last sales
OF cloths in Boston were at a fair profit because i
is not the fact, and you must know that the stock
Of the best woolen mills in that part Of the country
could not now at forced sale be sold at 30 per
cent on the cost.
Your spleen against New England betrays you
more than you are aware Of; you seem entirely to
10 trpn fhny plr IF pf q
family; you advance as an argument against the
woollen bill that it would have given profit Of
fifteen per cent to tile woollen manufacturers of
New England. which would have been paid by
90 100 OF your constituents Withoat any sqairaient
Whutersr. Pray what equivalent do your constitu-
ents receive from the profits the, pay to your dear
friend, the English manufacturers whose cause you
are espnusing. Have you made any particular
stipulation in their favor, that England i to re
ceiye their grain or will Won advise them to send
their raw wool to England One would think
that il it were true (Which it is notl that New
England brethren wsn. supply US with cloths, tina.
the part they took IN helping us to resist the tstan
ny OF Old England entities them to some favurs at
our hands, and as to any odiun attaching to their
agent. whoever be may be- be is the ageil, for the
descendants OF those who, il not the first were
among the first to spill their blood and expenl their
treasure in the cause of their country and surely
-
Congress. who would, if it were in his power IL.
stroy all the wooen manufacturers Of the country.
and throw US into state of dependence upon Great
Britain amounting almost to recoionzlug ourselves.
Your argument, however. is as unsound here,
as It IS throughout your extraordinary letter, tie /
whole tenor of which in favor of British interests
The truth is. and there are in your own county {
hundreds who Will tell you 50, that the woollen
bill, was more, and is more canted if possible, for
pennsylvania, than any other state in the Union.
There are hundreds Of thousand, Of dollars employed n
the manufacture of WOODEN goods the state, and erev
81 else they may be made IN The United Ates, pcn Iva
MA must supply them with large quantities of wool and
grain --Fannes and all other wooens well and as
cheapy made in the vicinity Of Phsde lpa as any where
the United Sates-and in pittsbrs and Beaver county
The same thing happens in sancs in tile former, and
danncls, sattnes, and broadcloth in the latter.
There ID one case you put to Mr. Roberts which must
De excused for answering in detail for ry rllc.
nous, that 4 deserves to be held M TO public no,ce
as follows viz: 4
"Suppose poor man to buy as much flannel as cost.
FIVE dollars, exclusive oiduy, he then pay IN addition
70 this five doa,s tax Of ninety eight per cent or four
dollars ninety cents while he Who buys five dollars Of
orty cent flannel would pay tax OF one dollar eighty
hree cents only! 4!
Y,u appeal in the solemn manner upon this state
ment to the justice Of Mr. Roberts, and tell him il he has
any Of left he must be shocked al the ryb,h
lion Of this fact If such fact existed or could exist from
what know Of Mr. Rabcrts. would venture 10 insure
that no man on earth would be likely use his hes
e"so " " prevent but SIT II Is Imaginable
he extreme to tnd you in your retirement pretending to
noS apy hing on this subject and bringing forward grave
y such arguments. Fannes already made here in
great quantities. The poor is spn Piled with them chean
ar than he ever vas IN his life, and if there should neyet
come yard from Great Britain, lie could never pay ten
per cent more tor them than he does present And lie
case OF The poo. man and he sane, more absurd fo
position f'r they are almost WI oily made here
linus IS however, and always will be with those v no
s'a, upon false premises The longer they ason the more
slte they stray from The truths and here YOU have com
ntted yourself has been in the principle You NOW ay
Town. Mat to give projection 10 home ianstly Is 10 Law
AK on ,he consumers principle ntcune as the, adj
lnoha tonnage duties on foreign vessels lax upon
he country The latter produced to our great ben
ell SHIPS enough for the trade Of all The world during NE