Delaware journal., 1828-03-14
PREI1MINARY.

- PRELIMINARY. I
A writer, in the last Patriot, asks us the follow
ing questions
Will you show us when and where J. @, Adams
has ever written one word in favor of protecting
domestic industry?
Will you show us any public act, public express
sion. or vote of his that has any appearance Of ia,
yoring the protection of American Manufactures
Your reply will oblige,' &c. &c.
= On the goth July last, the following remarks ap-
peared in this Journal written by the Editor, which
may, perhaps, give the necessary information. III
any thing mere particular is wanted and the writer
will appear in propria persona, &C. he shall re-
ceive respectful notice, when we are more at lei
sure. In the time he will please publish this
in the Patriot-prelminary to any further acquain-
tance.
AZ Combination press, located in certain lai-
tudes, has and then the hardihood to assert that
MIR. Adams is untavorableto manufactures! We no.
tice the assertion-not because it will be generally,
OF even partially believed, but merely to observe
that the time is fast expiring, perhaps it has already
expired, when fabrications so gross can pass tor
TRUTH and assertion and passion for fact and reason
If Mr.. Adams be unfriendly to manufactures, how
happens it that the gentlemen most Interested IN
those measures generally favorable to his reel
ectlon The fact is too notorious to require proof
in detail. And how happens it that so many thous-
ands ofthose who once favored the preentions of
the General, have abandoned him, inasmuch as he
is preferred by those states who have manifested the
most deadly hostility to the American System, and
which has consequently made the friends of that
system suspicious of the Generals friendiness to it?
II is admitted that there men friendly to the
Hero, who still profess themselves favorably dspos
ed towards the American System. But still they
cannot abandon good old Virginia, &c. They cannot
bring their minds for some cause or other, to adopt
decided measures such as indicate, beyond all
doubt, that they in earnest, and that they will
give up their in preference to abandoning the
American System, The real friends Of the Amer
can System will remember, as they nov generally
we'll know, that no administration can be formed
more favorably disposed towards it than that which
now exists; and that any change in this adminisra
ton cannot better their condition, even admitting
which few can believe, that il will be no worse
II seems totally unnecessary to state any change
of sentiment in Ohio--t being SO decidedly in ia
vor of the Administration. But some Of the causes
this change worthy of notice. OF jackson count
formerly in his favoriti is now sald--on the be-
authority
SIN 1924 we supported Gen. Jackson, on tn
ground of his being friendly to this policy Amer
"ican System J but the mysterious course which hi
:. principal supporters have for some time past bee
&C Steering has alienated his friends in this County
:. almost unanimously. They discover they mus
" either forsake their policy, OF let their man g
=" his own course This they will do; but stick
f " their policy. And having found. Mr.. Adams j
g the path of that policy, they will thank him TO
"his kindness, and give him their interest.
In confirmation of the statement above, anothe
: letter, from highly respectable gentleman of tn
same County, says -''rhere is an unaccountabl
change in this County, in favor OF The Administr;
: ton. We have four-fifths of the People on ou
side-changes are making daily, in its favor; an
hear of none on the other side. The People wi
do what is right"