Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-03-18
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MATTHIAS HANSON.
From the Dela,rars Journal.
PRELIMINARY.

A writer, in the last Patriot, asks us the follow.
ing questions.
"Will you show us when and where J @. Adams has
written word in favor Of protecting domestic IN
dustry'
Will you show any public act public expression, or
vote of his that has any appearance Of avorng the pro
lection Of American Manufactures Your reply will OBJ.
ige" SC. &c.
On the Goth July last, the following remarks
appeared in this Journal, written BY the Editor,
which may. perhaps. give the necessary nforma-
ton. II any thing more particular is wanted and
the writer will appear in propria persona, &C. he
shall receive respectful notice. when we are
more at leisure. In the mean time he will please
publish this in the Patriot--preliminary to any fur
ther acquaintance.
"Combnaton" press located in certain lat.
itudes, has now and then the hardihood to assert
that Mr. Adams is unfavorable to manufactures
We notice the asserti0n-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 fabrlcatons so gross
can pass for truth, and assertion and passion for
fact and reason.
II Mr. Adams be unfriendly to manufactures.
how happens it that the gentlemen most interested
IN those measures are generally favorable to his
re election : The fact is too notorious TO require
proof in detail. And how happens it that so ma.
ny thousands of those who once favored the pre-.
tentons of the General, have abandoned him, mas
much as he is preferred by those states who have
manifested the most deadly hostility to the Amer.
lean System, and which has consequently made
the friends Of that system suspicious Of the Gener-
al's frendliness to it
1t Is admitted that there are men friendly to the
Hero, who still profess themselves favorably dis
pnsed towards the American system But still
they cannot abandon good old Virginia, &c. They
hrs,, fL0.u IL Al
to adopt decided measures such as indicate be
yond all doubt, that they are in earnest, and that
they will! give up their man in preference to aban
doning the American System. The real friends
OF the American System will remember, as they
now generally well know, that no administration
can be formed more tavorabIy disposed towards it
than that which now exists and that any change
IN this administration cannot better their condition,
even admitting, which few can believe, that it will
be no worse.
Without any directions upon the subject from our cor.
respondents have published the above at the request
OF the journal We hope readers will give The article
careful perusa, think deserves be read and re-
membered in connection with the questions that head it.
propounded though this paper Of the l1th inst The
Journal has right to call upon correspondents to an.
pear IN "propra PERSONA &c TO insure reply to civil
and important questions if he means to act toward US h
the least degree Of reciprocity. That paper was the me.
dunn of proposing questions to that did not hest.
tate to answer at once and may with appearance
of proprey ask the journal to recprocse without wait
ing his leisure and without his imposition of conditions
And besides he has right to ask friends to appear
IN propra persona, while "Tmoeon" remains behind the
fictitious veil He sheen called upon leave his NAME
under promise that the evidence shall be given him. that
his assertions groundess This must be done before
any OF our correspondents viii be obligated to appear be-
fore the Editor Of the Delaware Journal in pursuit of
Feply 10 decent ques ions.
The Journal must excuse US for few remarks upon the
above "PRRLImINARY."
Defamation is not argument. The decanatons of thar
paper of the 20h of July last, worth more than its
declarations Of the present date. Its age has not mprov
ed its quality, it is the Delaware Journal STILL and
without lis head would be designated in Turkey by any one
who knew it in its youth Il will net satisfy the nqusye