Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-02-08

branches OF domestic industry excluded from it
would look in vain for protection at the hands o
these exclusonists. Iron and hemp enter Target,
into the construction OF ships: ship building is ar
immense business in New England a duty or
these articles opposes the interests of those people
cannot now, tie induced to extend protection to the
makers of iron and the growers Of hemp, unless il
be gained by connecting them with woolens in the
same bill. The votes Of tire Representatives from
New England on the tariff of 1924, are too fresh in
our memories, TO induce any other belief, than that
IT the wooenr bill had passed last year, they would
have joined the members from slhe South, at this
session, and opposed and defeated every species Of
protection asked by the Western and middle States.
The Eastern incorpo ated companies in that event
would have been in effect created by law. monopo
lites and the establishments based upon individual
enterprise and individual capital, would have fallen
prey to the nvergrown sullures of the East. And
here will remark, that in my opinion incorpo
rated companies, whether banking or manuIacur
ing, i. the employment of money be the object
Except for internal communications by roads or
canals or the like,) in their nature and opera
,ions aii,tocracal. | do not esteem them legiti-
mate objects OF protection, and am satisfied that
experience will prove more and more that they
ought not to exist in a republic. Individual estab
lishments, conceive to be proper objects for the
fostering care Of the government, and believe that
at this time they require, and ought 10 receive, its
efficient protection against foreign competition, i'll
it can be legally given.
81 .9ud are withia tie legitimate pouers granted
far That purpose"
This involves constitutional question, and as
am no iurist, am incapable Of discussing it. It'll
would be tcmerity in me to attempt to decide upon
it, when the hest aud ablest statesmen Of the coun
try at issue about it. hope il is g within the
legitimate powers grantcd'' to protect our indus
try and improve our country in its internal commu
ncaiions. as much as to encourage the foreign ar
fizan, and to defend and protect our erternai com
munications. If it is not, it ought 10 be.
1t is proper for me now to remark, that much as
believe the best interests OF this country demand
the protection spoken of, it ought not to be afford
ed at the expence Of the plain. liberal, and intend
ed meaning of the constitution. I cannot admit
the propriety Of the constructive interpretations of
that instrument, nor of wrestling parts of it from
the context, and amalsamatng these parts SO as to
force from them meaning, that the whole taken
together does not convey. This course would mi
short time render it Of no greater value than blank
paper; and with its destruction our liberties would
it be defective in the particular now
,nder consideration, it ought to be altered and as
he people are all intimately concerned, in the
to be derived from protection to every
ranch of industry in the country, and of all alike,
If no one more than another, it becomes them to
ELL any alterations that are required, and they
must be made.
Thus have endeavored to comply with your
equest, in candid manner. and shall at all times
e glad to answer all questions that are decentIv
as well as to advocate the interests of
together with those Of other classes
# citizens.
Rhode Island.-Our little sister by attending to
in good season, as well as pursuing
ther branches of industry, has arrived at an
Mount of wealth, which some of her larger sisters
nay envy in vain, unless they follow her example.
the metropolis, is the richest town Of
Is size and age in the world, and owes its rapid
dvance principally, to the Cotton manufactures
established there. 1t is to be regretted that Della
ware has not been pursuing the same system, to
he same degree. Wilmington, better situated
han Providence, with natural advantages for pur-
uing system of manufacturing superior, might at
his day have competed with that town, in wealth
nd enterprise, if we had profted by its example
1t is not too late to begin land our contenrla-