The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-05-23
AMERICAN POLICY

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AMERICAN POLICY.
! Extracts from the Speech Of Fir. STEWART. o.
i Pennsylvania on the bill for the protection
of Wool anl tfoolien Manufactures =
CONTINUED.
All admibthat there is at this moment a
struggle of life and death between the
British and u4nter;ca:t manufactures, not
fer the Forejgn but for the american mark
ct. The contest is between .Netc England
and Old England, and the question is
which side are we to take? Shall we
save seventy or eighty millions of our own
capital, and our own market, for our own
people, or sacrifice them for the benefit of
\ foreigners and foreigners who have shut
. their ports against us The gentleman
! from New York Mr.. Cambreleng) has. call
ed this ",Nis,O England bill, and from
/ principles of "pGtri0tisn," he says he is
4 opposed to it. g Il is imnaterial," he SAYS,
to Us whether we get cur cloth from g Man
chester Or Boston," This may suit the
patriotism of the representative of city
where it is said three-fourths of this whole
Iwoollen business is in the hands of British
Merchants and British manufacturers but
Alr. s. took his principles from another
School
II The gentleman from New York, has
Hold lis of the taxes and burdens this will
! Impose on the farmers of Pennsylvania,
and their wives and daughters. Sir, let
tle gentlemen go with me into the interior
and western parts of Pennsylvania, amid
tue ruins of our once fourishing manufac-
tpries. Let him ask the farmers what
would be the effect Of restoring these es-
tsblishments. Sir, they will inform him
that instead of taxing them it will add 100
per cent. to their farms, that it will revive
! and reanimate every branch of industry,
and -enel sieahnir. Syiues and daugbiars aoa;n
to purchase and consume foreign goods,
and thus enrich Che public treasury. From
letters just received by Mr.. S. he was ir1-
formed thai several extensive woollen es-
tablishments in the West, if the protection
afforded bythis bill were granted, would
again be put in operation and again diffuse
their benefits and blessings on the sur
rounding country. The consumption Of
foreign goods and groceries, paying the
| highest rates of duties, at all these manu-
featuring establishments was immense, and
would more than supply all the loss of rev.
enuc by tie non-importation of woolens.
| Hence he contended that the universal as
sumption that this measure would impair
the reve2ue was founded in error. Expe-
rience showed that the impoftatioGs, and Of
course the revenue paid, last year, by the
manufacturing cities of the East was great
" increased, while the revenue and impor-
tations of other parts OF the Union had
been greatly diminished. The arguments
that this bill viii destroy the revenue, de-
stroy commerce, and tax the farmer, are
all alike, they are against all experience.
The policy which will enrich the country
will enrich your treasury by enabling the
people to purchase and consume foreign
goods. BY promoting the prosperity of
one great branch of national industry you
promote all the rest.
Sir. the plain question is, shall we aban-
don our manufactures, and our agriculture,
: and import agricultural protiuctions-wool
and woollens from Great Britain, whose
policy now compels her people to starve
before they dare consume mouthiul OF
American bread, or Americanmeat though
it were offered TO them for nothing? 1t is
made by their laws penal offence to do
so. Sir this is the question, and gentle
men cannot escape from it.
Sir, we are told that we must buy from
Great Britain that she may buy from US
How is this meter? Great Britain buy
from us! what does she buy from the Mid
dlo o,d N>r.l.4>,..,- = 'Jits rroeifirrsss
! Great Britain, from whom we bought II
, 1895, upwards of ~ millions of merchan-
dize-$l0,6S2, Goo Of it wool and woollens
: took in exchange Of the agricultural pro-
duce Of all the States north Of the Poto'
mac and Ohio an amount less than $500
, and yet we are told by American states
men, gentlemen respecting these States
! that we must purchase wool land why moi
flour tco) from Great Britain to induce he1
to purchase from us repeat it, and de-
5 fl contradiction, for it is proved by our rec
, ords, that in 1925 the whole importations
| into England, Scotland, and Ireland from
=, this country to feed and support their man
: ufacturers did not amount to two hundred
dollars !! Sir, only $751; Of flour, rye
corn, wheat, oats, pulse-and every other
! species Of grain, 56S! Of all kinds OF an,
imal too1-beef, pork, bacon, &c.--S34
J And of all kinds of drink--whiskey
, gin, beer, cider, &c.-$29! With these
r facts staring him in the face, the British
c Minister himself would blush to ask the
/, grain growing states of the Union to "buy
from them that they might buy from us
Sir, would say to him as now say to the
gentleman from New York, the dutle!
: proposed by this Bill on British wool anC
{ woollens, arc too low. When Great Brit