American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-08-28
From The Democratic Press.
ri THE ion. SAMUEL d. INGHAM.

tlc1 arts .yie, aeiy L. instead the public mind on
,i1a',y interesting concern. shalt make goa no
apology iar undertaking wholly to disproye your ar
satnents al tie slt~et of the woollen bill, IN your
iettsf M ta tie boa. Jonathan Roberts. This
after gentleman know will excuse me, It shall
succeed a. .ope to do, in showing your sophistry
10 its true lisAt. never was much pleased with
The mode generally pursued in answering argu.
nents which makes it necessary to quote the words
Of an antagonist 1t swes the reply into too great
volume | shall therefore proceed 10 answer
your arguments, taking it for granted those who
Shall honor me with perusal, will understand the
grounds YOU have taken.
confess however, before | proceed, have as
little expectation Of convincing you, as you had
hopes Of convincing Mr.. Roberts; for if am not
mistaken you know already, that you have taken
ground which is wholly untenable write therefore
for the "great mass Of impartial sober ju gment,
which may be always appealed to with confidence
BY those who endeayor te elicit truth and establish
sound doctrines.''
deny that there is any affinity between taxes
duties laid for revenue and duties to protect A.
mercan Industry the former are laid under the
expectation that the article will be imported and
the duty paid the latter as in the wooen bill, are
expressly intended TO prevent the importation Of
the article in order to give portion Of the home
maj ket TO the American farmer Tor the sake Of his
grain and wool, and to the manufacturer for his
>loths; and this, notwit standing all YOUR arsu.
ments, you must have known was the intention Of
he woolen bill You know it, because you voted
or tie present square yard duty on cotton goods,
hlch instead ct taxing your constituents or any
other of your fellow citizens, has produced re-
duction ola least one third OF the price, for much
Better article the kind Of muslin which before the
square yard duty cost the consumer twenty-five
cents, IS sold to him at fifteen cents, and this
cdGcsion in price is the case with every ar
;icle, where the manufacturer Of this country has
lad the Justice done TO him, to give MIN our own
market. Glauber salts, while they we're received
rom abroad cost ten cents per pound now the,
are altogether made at home, they cost two and a
half cents per pound. Window glass used 10 cost
Of the common kind. fifteen dollars now being al.
together made in the United States i, costs the
consumer only five dollars per hundred feet. Oil
OF sltrioi could not be sold under twelve cents II
imported, and made here, il is sold for five cents
per pound. White lead when imported cost hr
teen dollars per 100 lbs the raw material has rails
ed two dollars per loo lbs. It i now made at home
and costs eleven dollars Refined salt pe:re used
70 cost when imported, ten cents ; il is protected
and Is made at home for seven and half cents
Copperas when imported used to cost SIX cents, il
= now sold Tor three cents mention these as
few articles which have received tile necessary pro
lection, and are articles of large consumption. II
might add nails boots and shoes, hats, cotton web
bling for saddlers, and number more, but il will
oe sufficient for TO say, that all the articles ex
cluslsely made here for our supply, are better
made, and at a much lower price, and to call on
you to name one single article on which the price
las been raised by the people OF this country en-
eoaraging the industry Of their fellow citizens
All Your arguments about taxation are entirely de
atroyed BY this well attested fact, which is nov
pretty generally known, but which will be ere We.
y long thoroughly disseminated. Those Of Won
members OF congress who voted against the wool
len Dill, are obliged to resort to sophistry to sup
port your having thus violated your duty, and have
endeayored to make your constituents believe that
every additional duty laid on English cloth, raises
the article 10 the full amount Of the duty added,
for the benefit Of the manufacturer. But Do moi
deceive yourselves. Your constituents are not 50
tsnnrant as you think them to be--when they can
only get twenty five cents per lb. for full blood
ineriHo wool, they are we'll assured, that article
cannot have fallen from fifty, sixty, and seventy
cents. and the price of cloths have advanced. One
81 your own constituents told me he rad sold hi,
wool atoty cents on the condition that the woollsn
MI would pass, and that he could not now obtain
.hirtY Tor IT, Yon have many such persons, who
aave heretofore given you their support, and who
should think would feel any thing but fayourably
disposed to you !; TO have their dstrcsses made
'aockory Of, as they are. by your letter under con-
slderation.
OF the nlnety-siy articles you had before YOU III
would have been but fair to have named few that
your constituents and the public NIGH; have Judged
Tor themselves how far the passage Of the wooen
OIL would have laid the manufacturers Of them un-
der contribution.
How you can make il appear that prohibitory
or very nigh duty constitutes monopoly Of pro-
lection tor which those VINO are unprotected have
TO pay, am at loss to imagine; one would sup
pose from this argument, that the Woollen bill was
to ba,f gwen some particular corporation, tic sole
night make cloths.-I have always thought that
high llties, il they amount to protection as in the
case have named, rather acted in direct oppo
slto' y monopoly, by increasing the demand for