American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-10-30

ZION. ti,c* have been the assailants,
.,.d y. u ncnoslg to blame bu! themselves
or the CO. J. u.cnces. They sowed the
harvest. and III \ have reaped il too.
Int tnc7s we're local matters, which
enabled The manufacturers to distinguish
their friends from their enemies, among
those Immediately aro.nd them. ENten
dine their views to Il wider sphere, the in
yps,i,ratiun has resulted in an entire con-
yictivil. that to effect the overthrow of the
administration, old principles had been
aEan,lone.! and thrown asidc--that those
Who now accuse tie manufacturers of
abandoning tlleir friends, had first aban-
dopcd their cause. The manufacturers
could not fail to remark, that all the oppo.
stion newspapers in the Union, north,
south, east and west, were arrayed against
the cause Of national industry; and as if
actuated by common motive, were all
united either i'll waginS direct and open
war against manufactures, or in sneeriny at
and ridiculinG their cause and their sup
porters. They saw members Of Congress,
who, in former years had been consider
ell as their advocates, all at once change
their countenancr to lukewarm and dubi-
oils expression. They saw Buchanan and
Ingham, Representatives from the manu-
featuring state Of Pennsylvania ; and 9TH
ers, formerly friends of manufactures );
rxeltiny every effort to amend or defeat,
~ encouragement proposed to be given
to the woolen manufactures. Political mo
tyes were the only ones the manufacturers
coull discover fer this change in the con
duct Of their friends. They could moi
but perceive in those who had united in
support Of the Southern candidate for the
Presidency, disposition to promote the
mistaken views of the Southern planters,
and readiness to sacrifice the best inter
e-ts of the country to new views OF policy
and ambition. 1t was no longer tfcn for
the Manufacturers to inquire, who had
Lecn their friends in former times Z but.
simply, who were nau their enemies!
Such are the reasons the manufacturers
have to alladge for their vote at the late
election; tLey may not be rcry satisfactory
to the writer in the Delaware Gazette, but
they are sufficient for themselves.
The Delaware Gazette asks-W ould
the manufacturers oppose the present adj
ministration, in case Virginia gave it its
support: We answer, no:-they do not
contend for names, nor men, but for princi-
plies. They would not yield their princl-
pies to purchase the support of Virginia
for any political object TO that point,
they could never be brought but were
Virginia and the Southern states to give
their support to an administration such n,
they approve. an administration favorable
10 the great American interests Of domes
tic industry and internal improvements,
they would hail the day which had dissi
pated the prcudices Of their Southern
brethren. and brought them to the convic-
ton, that their interest. like that of every
other part Of the Union, is identified with
the adoption OF a system of national econ
omy, which BY the protection of American
Labor, is to be the best foundation Of III
tional prosperity
IL tie last paragraph Of the article al
lIded 10, the writer says, " We are deci
aealg II faror Of extending protection to
domestic industry; SO FAR AS IT NAY Be
CONSISTENT aih the progress Of the other
great interests et the country" This
lesliilcal sentence reminds us of the "ju-
cicious tariff" of General Jackson, whose
vote in the Senate, iii 1924, was one OIL
the majority Of two, which j"diclouslyI
reduced the protection to woolens, SO
low as to have caused the ruin of the wool
e.. manufacturers and breeders of sheep
We should like the writer in the Dela-
ware Gazette, to explain if he can, what
great interests Of the country" are to be