Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-11-19

The Tariff convention met in New-York on theI 26th of last month, when more than four hundred delegates appeared and answered to their names bel ing almost exclusively from the eastern and northern States. In the course of that and the following day. this body was divided into forty or fifty commit tees for the transaction of business many of which would be of too little consequence to mention.
 The object of this assembly is to prepare the pub; lie mind for continuation of the duties already im posed upon foreign importations, and gradually to introduce the measures of taxation which was sol long the darling object of Alexander Hamilton and his Federal friends. The Free Trade Convention lately held in Philadelphia, has excited the jealousy of the manufacturing classes, and hence it was that no pains were spared to fill up their ranks in the con vention which is ordanedto guard their interest. It has already been resolved, that the committee which is to prepare memorial to Congress. shall be allow ed time to do so after the assembly adourns or, in other words that this body ofmen consisting fmore than tire hundred, shall be bound by whatever the committee of six or eight may choose to say for thenl month hence. This method of disposlng of busi1 ness was most strenuously opposed by some of the Pennsylvania and New-York members, who con- tended that the convention would not be bound by the reports of small portion of their body, thus acting out of council and dctating to seven or eight States. They also the opportunity it would af7 ford to MT Alexander Everett, the chairman of the committee to report avorably for the cotton spin nersof Massachusetts and Connecticut, at the ex- pense of those who manufactured wool and iroa in the middle States. But as the members from the latter States were not unanimous in opposition to so fatal mode of ofdelegating away their own opinions, tIie motion prevailed, and the report whenever it IS made, will frauduIently carry with it the presumed sanction of more than five hundred men. Such an outrage upon common sense could not have been uni derstood or intended by many who must have voted for the resolution; but in the hurry of business through body so constituted, but little time is all lowed for judgement to group its way.
 This will not help the cause of eastern monopoly, but will awaken the tax paying portion of our coun1 trymen to more immediate and vigorous resistance to all enchroachment, to all unequal taxation, which may be imposed in it's most alluring form. Upon the coming report, much of the Tariff system is expect ed to be bolstered up.
 MT Ingersoll, of Philadelphia; MT Kennedy, of Ma ryand, and Mir Dutton, of Bostop, compose the com mittee who are to prepare an address to the people of the U. States. It is looked for with good deal of interest, and will probably be answer to one which eminated from the Free Trade Convention of Philadelphia, reported by MT Berren.
 On the 4th day of the meeting il appears that oo3 members answered to their names, from the follow ing States Maine 4, New-Hampshre 20, Vermont 9. Massachusetts, 63 Rhode Island 30, Connecticut 63,i, New-York 182, New-Jersey 48, Pennsylvania 1O6, Delaware 7, Maryland g, Ohio 9, Virginia 3, District of Columbia 1. The suboined view ofthe proceedings is taken from the Courier and Enquirer of the 31st October:
 "The Convention has reached one of the most important stages of its whole proceedings- This day will decide whether it will be an abortion
 like the Free Trade Convention or useful and prac1 tlcal body. On Saturday morning most animated and highly interesting debate broke out the sub lect of p0stponng the preparation of a Memorial to Congress-and in the afternoon resolution was off fered by Mr Lockwood, to inquire into the propriety of modifying and reducing the revenue, consistent with the preservation of the principle of protection and for the purpose ofpreserving it unimpared, from the conflict that approaches
 The debate in the morning, on postponIng the Mel morial-or raher delegating the whole power of the Convention to the discretion of MT A. H. Everett, of Bsston-was very adroitly managed by that gen- teman. Let the preparation of this memorial bel wholly intrusted to him. and there is every reason to believe that the weollen and cotton manufactures of the east will push aside the iron and wool of the Middle States, in which New-York and Pennsylva1 mia nre particularly interested. MT Jonathan Ro- berts saw this most distinctly, and attempted to open the eyes of the Convention. twould not do. The Pennsylvania delegation was divided and blind to their own interests and the superior skill of the