Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-10-06


comparative decline has extended itself far hey ond
that of any other nation i'll the time, and is
progressing in ratio of the most gratifying aug
mcntation.
The Navy, whose decay foretold in the an
tici patcd ruin OF orr foreign commerce, has sucr
od eclipse in its glorious and not found
90 want the means of ts construction or maintc
nonoo; on tho contrary, it has been supplied by our
own nrtzans with better materials in tho estima.
ton of the Govoinmcnt than heretofore; md while
tho coastng trade and whale fisheries thrive 30
vigorously, it can need plenty of skful
hands and brave hearts to protect the eonnercc,
and maintain tho honor Of its sountry.
The army is equipped, clothed and armed with
our own manufactures.
As shipping has multiplied, whether plying by
sail steam, mas tho number of houses been
greatly increased and notwithstanding their multi
plication, rents have been continually advancing
the number of inhabitants increasing faster than
that of habitations. This is not confined to the
seaport towns, but it is common wherever manufac-
turcsprovail from Boston to Lousville; and the
greatest increase is where they have been at
| tended to.
| Manufacturers furnish moreover the best NOR
chandize to exchange for specie in foreign coun-
tries, while they also supply articles of expectation
| in lieu of the precious metals in our trade with
others that the great increase of hard money
and its general diffusion throughout tho United
States. thereby contributing to the present whole
some state of the currency, may be attributed in
great degree to their agency.-To them also may
be attributed the prodigious increase of domss-
| tic exchanges.
The greatest Of all the delusive warnings against
! the acts to protect manufactures, was that they
| would inevitably reduce tho revenue, and lead to
direct taxation. Thor effect has been to increase
the revenue to great amount. No loan has been
nccessary-no tax is to be apprehended on the con-
| trary, Government is embarrassed with an excess
sivo income, which it will after discharging
the National Debt, be at loss how to dispose of,
while III its manufacturing establishments, the
country owns the surcst fund for productive taxa
ton, in of need; the sinews of war, they
No fnInH Nf nj
independence.
Another of the prcudiccs most attempted to BIO
raised against uiactures, was that they would
create privileged class, supported and enriched at
the charge ofthe community at large. This absurd
dcnunciation, retuted by whole philosophy of
our institutions has been utterly negatved by OK
poricnce, which has proved to the satisfaction of
the large ma ory of all classes, that they the
bcnefearies, and not the manufacturers. In fine
the positive evidence is all around u.s. that every
tice that has received full protection, has without
exception, instead of becoming dearer and worse
become cheaper and bctter-since the of pro-
lection, and none pays as much as heretofore, for
any of the productions of handicraf but those who
insist on paying more in order to crafty their
price, their aversions; houses, ships, clothing
hnt, SHIRT, coat shoes, machinery, carriages,
furniture, manufactures of wood, iron, cotton, wool
leather, peltry glass; in short nearly all the
! saries and luxuries of existence, to be found
in our own workshops of better materials and work
manship than they be brought from abroad.
Thus every evil predicted, has failed to befal us
every advantage promised has been accomplished
by those protective acts, which yet but in tho
| beginning of their effects; benefits said by
the first secretary of the treasury when he proposed
| them at the outset of our govcrnment-nevert to be
attained but by the interposition of government,
always complained of at first-but never falling in
the end to be sanctioned by universal approbaticn
Tho eastern states have concurred with the central
and western states in thoir adhesion those acts
and the southern states will also follow, surely
as their climate, their productions, their water DOW
| n, and their labor all lead to he lna
1t is not saying too much, to assert that manu-
features in the language of the Constitution of the
United states, mainly servciable in forming
that mere perfect union, providing for that com
mon defence, and preu@otng that general welfare
which the people and the states united to secure
5. Resolved, therefore, That it the and obvi-
GUS policy ct the government of these United
States to let alone the accomplishment of the
destiny in the present prosperous condition of their
| agriculture, commerce, navigation, manufac ures
currency industry and improvements of all kinds,
and that 1T would be most niudcious and
| periious experiment to check alter or cndan ger
their actual development.
G. Resolved, That the city of Philadelphia, and
the State of Pennsylvania, for tho first time with
| IT a few years put in possession of their own
markets, supplied by domestic manufactures and
sustained by internal improvements in common
| with all the cities and states of the centre and
the west, most of the eastern and part ofthc south
| ern states, furnishing and contented beyond
all example by these means, and that they must
deprecate any interruption Of them.
7. Resolved, That the importance of the mann
tactnre OF iron to all branches of industry-to ag
rlcultural, draws largely in its frabrica
| ton from the material, upon it's production
to commercial both internal and external and to
the national defence indispensable in war and es-
! scstla: to prosperity in peace, being of universal
need, IN which very large capital s, and is being
lnvested-mcrits and ought at all times to receive
the encouragement and protection of wise go-
| vernment, 30 lar as to insure supply equal TO
| our wants, without relying on foreign nations
or inf I D,o1,th a
at time of our utmost necessity.
| g. Resolved, That if any of the southern states
! or parts of them do participate in the general
| prosperity Porvading most of The United States,
this meeting regrets it, and would freely endeayor
! to impart to them their full share of the comm On
welfare. But that in unison with large, intelligent
and patriotic numbers of their own inhabitants
We cannot imputc their alleged grievances TO the
| protective system believe that our means Of
| prosperity their ruin. A large and rapidly IN
| ereasng market for their superabundant cotton
cannot iajure its producers. Protection for sugnr
which has established IFS culture, and thereby ia
ken large quantity of land and labor from super
huouR and losing cotton cultivation, must have re-
tarded the decline of the staples of the plantation
States, all OF which, moreover, enjoy protection
as fully as those of the farming and cturDp
States. In the spirit of harmony and union which
! begat and reared the American republic we are
anxious TO minister relief 10 all who suffer md IN
share our prosperity with all who desire it, What
ever cancellation can arrange without sacrfeing the
principles of protection, or without impairing the
national mdustry-we ready to sanction; but
the Union must be preserved and its lawful acts
carried into execution
On motion of Iona, $50.