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

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duced 10 hope for much more from the same source.
TO "MANY MANUFACTURERS"
II gives me pleasure to answer the questions
propounded by you, through the medium of the
last " Delaware Journal" though at the same
time must remark, that personal acquaintance
with me Ct such acquaintance exis,) and ,ecol-
lection of opinions. previously and publicly expires
sed' would at this day render such queries unne
cessary.
LIST. " Wte'her you mean 10 dissolre partnership
run the southern peopie'
To this branch of the question reply. that no
partnership OF This has ever been ente, ed into
and as am unacquanted with any objec, that rem
ders such one desirable. none snch will be form
ed-nor will one be entered into with the Eastern
people
cd find heartily md wihom eguirocation or
spbfprtage, Tend NE support Of your paper 70 tie
cause Of manufactures and Internal imprors.
ment.' &c.
The first idea that suggests itself upon looking
a, this branch Of the question is, that you have
conceived it in imper,inence. and hope, by using
the rude words Of c1uivocaton'' and I" snbter-
fuge," to drive me to give such an answer, as you
wish for political effect to receive, not from alone
bur from ali the members of my party. You
not presume. what you pretend to be, " Manu-
facturers," but fancy you belong to the new batch
Of converts to the system that are to be found
every where from the Kennebec to the Potomac
Your zeal expect, will evaporae with the cause
that created it will not, however, introduce the
" - A. Ill Al.
whatever ! do, shall DC done without equivoca-
lion or subterfuge," as The future progress Of my
paper shall eyince.
The support Of the Patriot, however feeble it may
be, We, with the same good faith that the widow
contributed her mite, SHALL BE given to the cause
of manufactures and internal Improvements
This does not arise because you have asked me
the question, nor from any revolution OF opinion OF
recent date, or for party purposcs--but from that
sort of experience, which hope you may be ex-
empt from. was manufacturer myself, prev
Gus to, and during the last war-I gave constant en-
ployment TO about eighty persons through the year.
and if the branch Of manufacturing that was en-
gagged in. had been properly protected the news OF
peace that reoiced the hearts Of this nation would
no, have been the knel Of departed prosperity 20
me- My opinions on this subject were written
upon my memory in suffering, and my judgment
was ma,ured in SORROW and they not therefore
evanescent, nor will they be influenced by political
fluctuations.
If your ideas Of protecting domestic industry
extend only to cotton goods, wooden cloths. iron
works, canals, rail and turnpike roads, it 10
me ha, your ''pro bono publico' is contracted and
beggarly, and that you have just got notions enough
on tie subject, to make noise about, and not dis
cernment enough to know, that if your partial sys
tenn, only be adopted that the work Of encourage.
inert is scarcely begun that If these branches alone
receive the fostering ofthe government great
part of our most worthy citizens left in neglect
and ruin. My ideas lead me to advocate system
of protection, and internal communication, that is
CO. extensive with the wants of the nation taken
whole, and to reject as the bane Of our republican
institutions, every measure that has the least ap-
pearance Of creating privileged classes amongst us.
For this and other reasons, opposed 10 the
partial and exclusive woolens bill before congress
a year ago land our Senators and Representative
deserve your united appreciation. and the applause
of the whole people for opposing it. They knew
that if the bill passed in the shape demanded BY the