Delaware journal., 1828-02-15
CONGRATULATIONS.
TO the Editor Of the Delaoare Patriot and .4naeri
can Wdichnaa7a.


can, Waichnaan.
| Sir,CI have seen what presume may be regard
ed your creed upon the subject OF what has beer
termed the - American System," in your reply tt
:. Many Manufacturers"
l have examined your creed with some delibera
ton, and frankly confess that it runs counter tt
mine. 1t is my intention with all proper courtesy,
but at the same time with the freedom and candouI
belonging to the occasion, to state my objections as
we'll to the general doctrines you have assumed, as
to some Of the special matter contained in your re
marks.
You object to a system which extends only te
cotton goods, wooen cloths, iron works, canals
rail and turnpike roads, as "beggarly and con
tracted,' as "a partial system" DO you really
mean what you say ? If you do, apprehend you
will find few of the real friends of manufactures, IN
this neighborhood at least, who agree with you.
There never was time when "A tariff, giving ehec
tua protection to the three great interests of
aUool and iron, would not have been hailed by the
friends of manufacturers the most precious boon
that could be conferred by Congress. And as it re-
CARDS internal Improvements, cannot conceive
what more you would require than "canaIs, raj
and turnpike roads," Probably you may have som'
other mode of internal communication in your mint
balloons, for instance-that, however, must as ye
be mere specuaton-tor the present. would bs
content with the three modes which you character
ise as "beggarly anu Contracted.
| Until the Harrisburg Convention assembled, tht
views of the great body of the friends OF manufac
lures in the middle States, as expressed in their pc
titons to Congress- have rarely gone beyond this
| :. begearly and contracted" system which you 81
Indignantly denounce. 1t was thought, that this
system, like every other involving complex interests
should proceed cautiously to proceed surely-tha
as the basis of the system, the protection OF some
leading articles which would furnish the w'des
sphere of employment, and for which our countr.
presented the greatest facilities should be the hrs
consideration leaving subordinate branches to b
brought forward when time should develope thei
necessity and the probability of success. Ihes
leading articles are cotton, aoool and iron-and upo
these they have uniformly laid the greatest stress
as being, beyond all question, the most mPortan
manufactures that could be introduced into the coun
try. So far from regarding the protection OF thes'
primary branches as beggarly and contracted
system, they would have accepted it with joy ant
ii Congress went no further, it they touched not an
other article besides, every friend of National In
dustry would say that the battle gained, that tn
good cause had triumphed. The cotton mauufac
ture alone, fully protected, would employ more peo
pe and bring more wealth into the country, than al
the other branches you could name, iron and woo
excepted and the protection OF these two last artl
cles would carry prosperity and industry INTO ever
farm house in Pennsylvania, and, indeed, throug
all the wool growing and manufacturing States
And yet, forsooth, you deem tariff limited to cotton
wool and iron, beggarly affair, you would not ae
3 cept it in the magnificent expansion OF your idea
YOU would spdrn this modicum, unless the hemp c
Kentucky was embraced in your scheme. And 20
claim to be friend Of American manufactures!
6 oCall ye this backing your friends {"
|, Sir have no objection to extend the protectv
principle to them, or any other minor article requ
ing protection the difference between us is, tn;
YOU deem this Sine qua non, that you would doo
a millions who would be rendered prosperous ny IN
prosperity of the cotton, wooilen and iron manuia
tures to penury. unless the u''ifs were equally col
!, sidered while would be content to accept tt
= little could get, provided that little was benehc
;. to my country, and most assuredly would not reJe
II a system which embraced cotton, iron and woo
v compared with which all other branches sink IN
. insiynfcance. Establish these, and you gam Il
. fucrum of Archimedes you secure that home ma
Is ket which is all that our farmers want, and th
IS vantage rround' for the cause OF manufacture
to which would, in time, spread the mantle OF prote
le ton over all the interests OF our country.
's You speak of 'priuileged classes' and OF : arr
re focracies - and it appears to me, that you object
er the protection of any particular branch OF manufa
u lures, as having tendency to generate these sor
it upon the body polite. understand you, at lea
e. TO appy this objection to the woolen's bill OF Ia
IS winter. I had sufficient confidence in your cand
and good sense to suppose, that you would have dc
We nised this stale can't this last resort OF men
to we're compelled to task their ingenuity to devise
Sc excuse for the grossest dercton Of duty. lcou
III ask you to descend from the LOFTY general'tle
you have adopted, and to explain ho'o the ''wool
r. bil'' could have produced these privileged elias
ST esq of which you speak. | know OF no privlleg
classes in this country, except those which owe ths
in privileges to superior skill aud industry any oth
ne idea Of privileged class or any arstocracy, in
lie country where all the institutions breath the sp