Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-04-25
COMMUNICATIONS.
Fox THE DELAWARE JOURNAL.
No. VII.
Mr.. Editor,

The Committee of Ways and Neans,
with NJ. NcDuHie at their head. affect to call the
American System for the protection OF; Manufactures
mr.. Rush's Sysien--whcreas it is the plan recon.
ynended by Gen. Hamilton under the orders OF Ge-
neral Washington, on which Con sress passed the
first act laying duties for the protection of manufac
lures. Tie Constitution had but just gone into ope-
ratinn. Mr. 4UaiiSon and others who had assisted
to frame the Constitution, were I'D this Congress
and II this law had violated the Constitution, M
Madison. in part the author Of the Federa'st, would
have opposed 1t, and the other members from VIrsi-
na--ustead of which. it met their support. Aud
il would seem. u,ier suCt circumstances, notWith-
standing the late resolutions of the Virginia Legs
lature denying the power of the General Govern
lnent to pass laws for the protection OF Hanufac-
lures, that this case must settle that point.
M. Hamiltuns recommendation in favor oil !Ua-
nutactures. owing to the war oil the French Revou-
ton breaking out lay dormant for considerable
perlod--and, perhaps, because the measure was
then an untre, one. Before our Revolution, It IS
well known, it was the policy Of the British govern
Inent to keep this country totally dependent ON them
for manufactured articles. And the produce Ut the
fisheries to the Eastward, which the hardy and en-
terprzlnr Yankees sold in the West Indies, and
with the proceeds paid for manufactures imported
from England, had deharred the people from acqu'r-
ing that knowledge and experience necessary III ma
nulacturny establishments. However, before the
Island had been built and carried with tolerable
success and when our late war broke out with
England, those of wooen in Massachusetts, and the
middle States had been extensively entered into.
here is the foundation Of the American System,
first patronised by the Father OF his country, but
now for party purposes styled 4Hr. Kushs oysteln.
which ought to be arrested, and we are content that
Gen. Wa,hington's name should stand opposed to
Mr.. 1HDulhe aud the Report of the Committee Of
WAYS and hans, and we hope the People will
Judge between them.
Il will pe recollected thatin this war the lives Of
Thousands of oar ENTHUSIASTICALLY fell sacrifice
10 the uaet of biulkets Had this system been IN
operation, thus reproach on the opposition now or,
canzed to the Southwark and in Pennsy lyania and
New York. would not have happened. Put down
the woollen ficorles, and IN the event OF another
war the same must again take place. and keep
Us rs dependent on England, as when we were CO.
ZONES. No British Minister could devise a better
ar more eiectual plan for that purpose than the re-
port Of the Committee, with Mr.. McDuie's name
annexed to it.
When the Woollens bill of last Session was de-
feated by the vote OF Mr. Calhoun. the Vice Pic5i-
dent. also South Carolnan, the papers in favor
of General Jackson raised hue and cry that tiene
raj jackson was in favor of Manufactures and inter
nal industry. aud Mr.. Adams was against them
that is, the Representatives in Congress, from
Pennsylvania and New York, and 1T was insisted
that that Bill was Objectionable, to render their ha
wing voted with the Southern interest palatabe Il
the People.
By this delusion, these Representatives and thei
friends procured the nomination OF General Jack
son a, the candidate of Pennsy vanla and New forl
for President, On the express grounds that he, Tie
neral jackson. was the sincere friend OF Manuiac
lures and Internal industry-and the two Legisa
lures of Pennsylvani and New York each pssset
strong Resolutions that Manufactures required tur
Their protection.
To keep IN this deusion. the Committee on Ma
nuiactures in Congress reported Bill to grant ther
further protecton-and as one OF the provision
laid tax on foreign wool Of 10 cents Id. on tn
pretence of protecting the native WOOL when not
single lib. Of native wool could be grown Of the sol
produced. The foreign wool is the production
the Pampas bounding Buenos Ayres, and extendn
in one vast plain from the river La Plata to til
mountains of the Andes, the borders of Chill
where wool of the quality of American wool is III
known, it is 50 coarse, and of the sort of wo
imported from Smyrna, the produce OF the fiocl
that wander from the frontiers of Egypt through a
Syria by Damascus and Diarbekir to bagdad ar
the woolIy head of the Afrcahp might we'll
compared with the hair of the white man, as tn
wool be compared with American WOOL
The Manufacturers instantly and simultaneous
met and presented circumstances that the law i
stead Of prohibiting them, insured their ruin
although the Committee on Manufactures profess
to be 80 uniformed, that they could only belle
the Manufacturers on their oaths. yet when they
ported this Bill which was in direct opposition to t
oaths of the manufacturers they suddenly becar
so inspired. that they insisted they knew the Man
facturers' businesses better than they did themsevs
and that duty on this wool not single pound
which was, or could be, produced in America, won
protect the American farmer in raising this wo
and most of tie members from PENNSYLVANIA and N,
York have voted with the Southern interest to 70,
this most objectionable Bill on the Manufacturer
Since thi, Bill reported, MIR. M'Dullie, t
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Meat
has reported the System, for the further protect