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

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,vh;ch the progress OF manufactures are doubt
III ,hs election is doubtful, with the exception
n Pennsylvania, whose voice is doubtful BE-
e, zen The rivals, but whose population is EN-
nhaticaliy agricultural and manufacturing. -
The General at the last election, was decidedly
the fasorile both Of Pennsylvania anc New Jer-
sew: his yote for the tariff iron, was 10 them,
as they supposed, safety valve against an ex-
piosion Of the whole American system nu.
these States begin now TO discover what must
be the fate Of their iron makers, and their whole
manufacturing interests, if they chain them
selves to Virginia and Carolina policy. Nor
are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, sup
posed to sleep SO soundly as not to be awaken
ed al the danger threatened 10 their hopes upon
internal improvements.
The great Western road which IS progress
ing through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, TO Mis-
souri,, depends on this question:; yes, emphall-
cally, depends the approaching contest. II
the Virginia policy prevails, there is an end TO
their hopes from this splendid instance oil ma
tional improvement, and that parl Of the road
already made, must sink into ruin. Nor are
The inhabitants Of the valley oil the Ohio and
Mississippi any longer to hatter themselves
with hopes, that al no distant day the waters Of
the Ohio and the Chesapeake will be connect
ed by great national canal or rail road. All
these, s. every other object Of nstionai improve
ment, must be abandoned; and the States that
are severed from each other by mountains err
otherwise, must forever remain detached and
aliens from each other. The wealthy States
will! then indeed tariff the weaker and poorer
ones, by combining their means Of internal i'm
pro,ement 10 their own selfish or State parpos
es, and the poor States will contribute to the
perpetual swell and increase in "ealth and pow
er Of the are ady powerful. This doctrine will
suit the great States OF Virginia New Yerk;
not so with the weaker States; not so with Ken
lucky They require national roads and nation
al canals to carry the prodnctsoi their industry
10 the ocean, which they can never make them
selves, but have fair claim upon the nation TO
make for them. 1t may be said that General
Jackson will not unite his influence in the ma
tonal councils with that OF Virginia, the Caro-
linas, George, and other anti-tariH and anti
internal improvement States; that, though e.
lected by them, h- will desert them when elected.
My opinion of General Jackson does not do
him this discredit. believe he has an ordina-
~ dislike to his enemies, and that no man upon
earth is more devoted TO his friends. WHAT'S
natural to other men is natural TO General Jack
sor; that is, to love frienGs and dislike enemies
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upon the General by the an,i.tariff states, they
make him Chief Magistrate Of the nation, and
demand Of him the repeal of duties on foreign
imporiaiions He knows that he is supported
under belief that he will favor their views and
polcy;'and, rely on it, the General will feel too
strongly their Just claims upon him, to disap-
poin, their hopes. will anduce but fact or
two, relative to the Generals course in Con-
gress, in confirmation of here predict.
1t will be recollected, lha, while he was men,
Der Of the Senate OF the United States, Ken
lucky was in her greatest difficulties; that our
only staple, hemp, was selling a, about four dol
lars in Comm ,nwealth paper worth two dol
lars) per hundred, tina, among all the mapufac
tories Of rope and bagging in the town of Lex
ington, there was time when but single one
v /, in motion, (Mr Weir's.) The farmers be
came discouraged, and were gradually declin
III the growing ofhemp; and the manufac,ur-
ers were dispir,ed so far as to suspend, in some
instances, and wholly abandon in others, their
factories, and quit their business. Our State
was laboring under load of deb, which had
literally shut the Courts.
One Of the causes Of this depression was,
the Russian hemp AMI the Scotci, bagging
had defeated the sales Of Kentucky hemp, and
bagging manufactured from the growth oil Ken
lucky hemp Your salt and iron manufacto-
ries were either abandoned, or fast going 10
ruin, while you beheld your storfs and ware
houses filled with Swedish iron and foreign salt.
Pennsylvania was suffering severely in her ma
nufa,ture of iron, as well as every other State
that depended upon its own resources for sup
ply. The domestic manufactures were bank
rup, in thousands, by the influx OF British and
other foreign goods. II was at this moment
that your late representative in Congress, Mr.
CLAW, with other patriots, exerted oil their en-
ergies 10 save the sinking manufactures OF the
Union, but especially those of the three articles
iron, salt, and hemp 1t was known that the
British government gave to The Scotch weavers
about three pence sierling'a premium upon
each square yard of bagging exported to Ame-
RIGA. And hence, by the powertul aid OF that
government, the Scotch weasers had engrossed
the sale of that article in our cotton states, and
thereby DESTROYED its manufacture in Kentucky.
10 che * his growing evil, the House OF Re-
personalities in Congress passed the tariff bill,
with a moderate duty of four and half cents
on each square yard Of Scotch bagging import
ed into the United States, and forty dollars per
ton on Russian hemp An equal, il not great
or duty WAS laid unon all other articles whose