Delaware journal., 1828-03-04
10 The EDITOR or. THE DELAWARE PATRIOT
AND AMERICAN WArcHMAN.


Sir,
owe you an apology for my apparent lnatten- I
ton to your second expose on the subject OF Amerl-
can Manufactures Other occupations have, until
now, diverted me from the intention formerly ayow-
ed of pursuing this subject. shall now pc, form
nv promise for your last article, far from satisfy
ing me of the correctness Of your doctrines upon this
vitay important topic, has only Increased my
anxiety to expose their errors and preserve thus
community from this mistaken course, the fatal issue
to which they inevitably lead. But while DIS
pute the correctness of your doctrines, will doJus-
tice to the good temper and decorum of your style
which are the more deserving of appreciation, as|
they find few tators among the editors OF the par
ty to which you belong.
The great danger TO which the cause OF National
Industry has now to encounter, apprehend, IS from
its pretended friends-irom wolves in sheepskin, VINO
mingle with the flock, the easily to devour IT,
The popularity Of the American System is now so
decidedly established, throughout the greater por-
ton of this Union, that few are iound on tins side OF
the Potomac, with sufficient hardwood to fight open
ly against it, Hence even the Boston memorialists' >
consisting principally of British importers and WOOL
len manufacturers haping their factories IN England
profess friendship for moryaclurs', IN BOOK the
aim and purpose OF which, if realized, roud stop
every zpheel in his country. We meet such tr'ends
at every turn-politica friends OF friendly polltl-
cians-who talk largely about " Judicious tarih
-" protecting industry so far may be consistent
with the oher'great interests OF the country" CO.
extentive with the wants OF the nation, taken as
whole ''-'' general and national system OF pro-
lection embracing all interests who are anxious
Fl protect the wool grower against the hostility OF
the wooen manufacturer-who overlook OF palli-
ate the open defiance and avowed enmlty OF the
, Southern platter, while they deaen us with their
camor against " Eastern nabobs," Exclusive
privileges" and " monied asisocracies." such
friends of manufactures, say. meet us at every turn
they have taken possession of the highways and
even OF the house-tops-so that the old fashioned,
original friends of the system and even the manu-
l. facturers themselves, compelled to hide their
T. faces from very shame at their own lnkewarmness,
and Indifference to their own interests.
/, We may date the origin OF this new born class o
e friends ofmanufacures and of their extraordinary
n zeal, from the wooens bill of last winter. Tha
was the bot-bed, from which all these novelties
If fsprung II was then discovered that the interest.
of the wool grower and the woollen manufacturer
is far from being the same, were directly opposed tf
each other--that to support the farmer, You mus
= break down the manufactured the real enc
r mics of American manufactures were not IN thu
South but in the East--and in fine, the wooeI
T. manufacturer utterly ignorant OF his own inte
is rests and therefore the woollens bill must be de
W
10 himself 1t was in vain, that the wooen manuiac
in Iurers. almost demanded the passage of tha
n hl and that the wool growers of the Western an
lis Middle states united with them-their prayers uer
10 rejected and they sent home to wonder at tn
is wisdom Of their friends, which had taught them ti
v vanity of the ejaculaon that there was nothing ne'
k. under the sun.
as think recognize in you, Mr.. Editor, one {
IN these new friends of manufactures. You have en-
Al rol fha knll tt,a aol &
ne a new convert You have put yourself on the for
in ground their champion and advocate, and appes
lei determined to assume the exclusive charge an
in management of the concern in New-Castle County
The manufacturers, themselves, 1t might be suppo
as ed. know something of the matter--ior none al
en- said to be sharp sighted those whose observs
'p ton is quickened by interest. But you treat the
et as cavaIieriy did their friends at Washington
ed They approved of the agoollenS bill /; but you te
an them it was partial and exclusive. "a scheme
he the " Eastern monopolites' snare set "by II
ck vuures of the East | admire the modesty
not your pretensons it is indeed only equaled by Il
extent Of your information the subject and the
cusiveness of your logic, which now proceed
son examine.
in 1T needs no argument TO show that any b
the which is so drawn to exclude from it every ella
Dr. of citizens but one, if It pass into law, grants wh
he ever privileges it may confer, upon the class not
but cluded, and thus does create privileged class
o- This is your proposition, and you apply this ki
q of jargon to prove, that if the wooens bill OF Ii
of winter had passed, it would have constituted
act. wooen manufacturers, privileged class" We
Of Sir, suppose your premises and conclusion, both,
esi- be rue--suppose them to be realized and that
hen privileged class actually exists-suppose that
cry woollen factory in New-England, Newly o
the Pennsy ylvania. New-Jersey, j Ohio, Delaware q
red Maryland was in full and prosperous operation, 4
ded every wheel was going, and that hundreds M
dge about to be set in operation, by virtue Of tn
d to " privileges" of which you speak-will you W
Zenl your responsibility as an editor, say in the face