Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-07-16
Judgment Of the American public is cheerful
" submitted TO their wisdom and justice.
H. CLAY.
Tsr;uotou DOTH Lune 1927.
From the albany Daily .4drertiser.
MEETING AT THE CAPITOL

| MEETING AT THE CAPITOL.
| The meeting held yesterday at the capitol,
To choose delegates 10 attend the State Conven-
ton for the appointment of delegates to attend
at Harrisburgh on the 3oth inst. 10 devise mea-
| sures for the encouragement OF domestic manu-
features and wool growers, was respectfully at
tended. The meeting was addressed by J. 5.
Van Rensselaer,, S. M Hopkins, M. Van Blu
rem and Chandler Starr, The two first and the
last gentleman urged the objects proposed up
on the broad ground OF national policy
MIR. Vau Buren, spoke at great lenghth in ex-
PLANTATION of the proceedings had at the last ses-
Sion of Congress upon the woollens bill, parti-
cularly his own votes, and avowed himself in ia
yor of the objects of the meeting, if they could be
come a, by reconciliation ofdiscordant views.
We shall not attempt to give an outline OF his
speech till il appears in his Argus, as II will
doubtless appear there. Suffice it 10 say, the
speaker made quite an ingenious Grafton, and
concluded by warning against making the SUB
eet party question.
In re,Iy Mr.. Starr said he did not wish 10
make the subject matter Of party controversy;
but he could assure the gentleman that it would
be sectional one, as those parts Of the Union
interested in the prosperity Of manufactures and
agriculture would make simultaneous effort
to attain their object.
The resolutions, which were submitted by
Mr.. Hopkins, were unanimously adopted by the
meeting.
AT a meeting of the Farmers, Wool Grow
ers, and Friends Of the American system, OF
the county Of Albany, held agreeable to public
notice, at the capitol in the city OF Albany, on
the 10th day Of July, 1927, Stephen Van Rens-
selaer, was called to the chair, and ]. Buel, APP
pointed secretary. The following resolutions
weree adopted.
Eesolred, That meetings ofthe people in their
individual capacities, or in assemblies Of dele
gates. TO consult upon matters OF general inte-
rest, to address the public and the legislatures
by temperate statements Of facts and arguments,
and to bring the just weight Of their opinions
and interests 10 bear upon the national councils,
are no more than . reasonable andsalutary ex.
ercisc of an unquestioned right, and that in &C
cordance with these principles, this meeting
cordially approves Of the proposed convention
at Harrisburg.
Hesolred, That the laws Of Congress have
from the first, assumed the principle that reve-
nue. is so 10 be levied as shall most encourage
or least impede the various branches oil com-
merce and Of internal industry; that this Prin-
cinle NAV be, and ought to be, carried out to a
more full and extended applications; and that to
enact laws in disregard of it, would be an undue
exercise of power.
Resolved, That the laws OF the Uni:ea States
which have tended to protect our interests oil
navigation, manufactures, farming and planting.
aeains, the exclusions, monopoies, restrictions
and bounties OF other nations, have been one
main source Of whatever prosperity this coun-
try has enjoyed; and that in every instance
where the protection has been efficient and COM
pletc, the result has been beneficial, not to
part only, hut 10 the whole community.
RESOLVED, That the exclusion Of The principal
agricultural products of most of the states from
the markets of The nations whosemanutactures
we receive, operates most oppressively upon
ouI interests, and subjects us to a disadvantage
in trade, which has seldom been experienced by
any we'll governed nation; that it calls loudly
for remedy, and tina, remedy is the protection
of our own manufactures, and cotemporane
Gus protection to the growers OF American
WOOL
Eeso1ycd, That Ambrose Spencer, Jesse Buel,
Samuel NJ: Hopkins, Benjamin knower, Rufus
Watson, Stephen Willis, and John II. bur
hans, be appointed Delegates to attend the state
Convention to be held at the capitol on the
sixteenth day Of July inst.
S VAN RENSSELAER,, Chairman.
]. BuEL, Secretary.