The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-23

grow cotton: all the cotton now consumed in our
manufactures would, in addition, be sent into the
markets of Europe. These causes combined, would
increase the amount of that article exported
annually and if the aggregate OF cotton is ncreas
ed while the aggregate of goods is diminished, the
inference is obvous-the price of goods would rise,
while the price of cotton would sink.
Suppose then, | repeat, that the deadly blow
which this policy aims, should fail upon us, our
factories should stop, and the business of manutac-
turing in all its various kinds and with its thous-
and ramificatons, should be brought to perpetual
stand and the vast population which live by it, and
give life and JOY to the whole community, should
be driven as they must be, if you take away the
power of earning food, back INTO the wilderness,
upon savage life to sustain precarious existence
What benefit, ask, can result even to the south
BY this process Of desolaton The inquiry is not
put with the hope of convincing any one OF the toll
" of pursuing such policy; but there is much in
it worthy of attentive consideration, IT touches
very nearly the interests of gentlemen who seek to
drive competition from our markets, by placing
them under the control of foreign industry. beg
of them to examine the matter With candor, and
decide for themselves whether they do not mistake
their interests.
Cannot gentlemen find other c;uses for the de-
preston of business besides the tai? II the value
OF lands or the value of produce, or if any other
property declines, it is immediately ascrbed to the
revenue system. Every thing evil, and nothing
good, is imputed to the laws. The gentleman from
South Carolina has gone so far as toasser that the
fall of property is tax springng from this source.
Rnt nannvt loSru that property ip the south has
declined more in value than elsewhere. 1t has ex-
perienced great depression in all fading coun-
tries, and the cause is obviously ovelproduction
rom the great activity of labor If gods and pro-
duce tall, land and other property mustiolow.
L can Tad an easy and satisfactory solution of the
depressed value of cotton, without chaTng it upon
the tariff In 1885, we exported 100000 of
pounds to foreign countries, and the mount has
gone on increasing, until in 1927, W, exported
92.0O0OOo of pounds. | have no account of the
two last years. and therefore cannot spek of them.
w hile In this period of nine years the exports have
more than tripled, we have greatly nGeased our
own consumption by multiplying our facories. In
addition to this the quantity producedi in Brazil,
Egypt, and other foreign countries, has ieen much
augmented, so that III truth the market is glutted
with the article; and it is rather mater of sur
prise, that 1t maintains itself where it is than that
it has declined The raw cotton has forthe last
three years, varied very little in value while cloths
have fallen from ten to five cents the yard Can
the planter nothing in all this but the wihering
( influence of the tariff! Can he not comprehend,
that if the supply outruns the demand the article
must sink in value, and that the fall is not the work
of the tariff, but his work.
may as well here notice another staten of
the gentleman, which thought rather extraEagant.
He said that Mississippi paid tax into the treas
ury of the United States under the rerelue system
u tWGlN6 uunuTcQ LnOuSaliu Annually anu
in another part of his argument, he informed US,
that she exported to the amount of THREE millions
of dollars and that slave labor actually worth
Tbut twelve and half cents per day. II he allows
one-half of the whole population OF Mississippi to
be in the field it would Just about pay The tax and
no more. | make no comment on the statement.
/ Sir, what is the revenue system and what are its
objects 1t is well known, to every statesman at
least that it Is the leading policy of the great trad
ing states of Europe to impose heavy duties on all
the products of industry matured by their own cti-
zens. The object is to secure to the working pop
ulatiOn the of subsistence. England, for ex-
ample, imposes duties on foreign breadstufs, which
exclude them from her markets under ordinary cir
cumstances, that her own farmers may have the
benefit of feeding the nation. She also imposes a
heavy DUTY on silk. that her laborers may make it
and IN this manner she watches over the h5oTer to
provide, as far as she can for hs necessities. Such
also rs the policy of all the great states. How are
viii take none of the products of our labor in re-
/ turn How can the farmer of the NORTH tie west,
or the middle States, buy, if he cannot sell 4
! What is to become of him if the home market be
destroyed and he be put to depend on these foreign
countries for the sale of his produce He canaot
live under such disadvantages; and is obliged &c
look 10 benefcent and parental govcrrmen fol
protection. He asks for no bounties for any one
! no corn from the public crib as the gentleman in
tlmated, but merely that this government may SC
far interest itself in the f1te of the people as to
countervai the policy of other nations. which in
its operation is designed to bear fayorably upon
their own labor, but inuriously on ours He asks
that the wasting influence of the laws of other
states may not reduce the laborers here to beggary
! he asks OF government distinguished above all
others, because it is free and emaRates from the
people, that regard for popular Interests which
despotism dares refuse its humbest subject. This
! IS the Revenue Systematic Tariff Systematic
] Protecting System.
! What is the Free Trade System1 as il is called
j hrTW Nan-r g. l.
denominated "the fetch-and-carry system" Its
aims are high, and its scope is broad, If | have
rightly understood the gentleman from South Car
( ohna. He does not complain that the south are
not lett at lberv to raise as much cotton rice, and
tobacco, as they please; does he complain that
they are not at liberty to send where they please
and to sell 1t to Whom, and when, they please No
Sir, the laws of the country leave them as free and
untrammeled as the air, on all these points-but
! this is not enough; and they complain Of wrong
and injury, nay threaten rs with resentment, be-
cause they have not the entire market of the Unit
ed States to sell the goods in which are received
I in pay for these commodities. They complain
of the competition of American Industry, because
it supplies portion of our wants with manufacture
/ ed articles, and takes up p1rt of the demand ?
! They would have the whole to themselves The
planters would apply to their swn benefit the en-
tire resources of the country, by compelling US to
buy the goods they would furnish to us, instead of
working for ourselves They give preference to
| English labor, and would hate US work with axes
and spades from English shops. They aim to build
up the cotton, tobacco and rice interests at the
expense of the rest of the nation, to make nine
millions Of people bow down to three millions, to
consran us to give up the market TO them and ruin
ourselves, that they may try an idle experiment to
see If they cannot obtain larger price for cotton
God has given them monopoly Of these articles
SO far at least as respects us, but with this they
are not content and insist a monopoly of the
mark t throuphout the limited States. aud hacause
we resist this grasping disposition we have been
called by the gentleman from South Carolina, des-
pots, avarcious, grinding monopolists as merciless
and unreienting as the cannibal, who turns deaf
ear to the cries Of infancy for mercy Yes. sir the
gentleman has loaded us with these hard, unkind
epthets, and has reiterated them in MANY forms in
in the course of his remarks
Sir, declare in the sincerity of my heart. that
feel deep pain and anguish, when hear such Ian
gnage on this floor because its tendency is TO ex-
cite deep feelings Of rcsentmentin the injured par
ty, and to promote sectional hostility. II n,ins
me no less to be Obliged to notice IL h.. :: n