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

Az a meeting of the friends of American Indus
try, held at the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia,
September &c, at half past Z. NJ. Hon. Joseph
Hemphill appointed President, and Mathew,
Carey and Robert VAIN, Esqs. Vicc-Presideuts.
and james Page aud Thomas VI. Petit Secretaries.
The Chairman opened the meeting with some
pertinent observations, including statement of the
objects proposed in the call.
Charles j. ingersoll, Esq. then prcfaced, with
suitable remarks, and offered the following resoIu
tons, which We're unanimously aGoptod:
RESOLUTIONS.
L. Resolved, That National Industry. the now
or which creates social wealth, multiplics popula
Non, resources and enJoyments, improves the soil
and sustains agriculture, supplies commerce. and
furthers navigation, establishes the independence
confirms tho strength, and promotes the general
welfare OF the country, is National Interest
without whose prosperous and permanent devel-
oPment the American people cannot be great or
happy nation; and whose Importance transccnding
that OF ephemeral politics, shall, on this occasion
command the attention of this assembly, convened
without regard to party attachments, and disclaim
ing party combinations, devoted TO the great cause
of national industry alone.
9. Resolved, That these United States extend
ing from the Atlantic 10 the great Lakes. and
from the Estuary Of the 81. Lawrence to the Gulf
of Mexico, in a vast Peninsula, combine in de-
gree unequal!ed elsewhere She terrt orial opportu
mites of superadding the riches of manufactures of
al Kinds to those of commerce and agriculture:
that the magnificent distances and apparent d.
yorstes OF local interests by means Of steamboats,
an invention purely American, have became the
proyldeEtial causes of constant intercourse domes
tic exchange, and intimate union, among tho seye
raj States that the large so benefciallv ex
pended, and IN the course Of expenditure on inter
nal improvements, would be thrown away with n
view to any increase of foreign markets for ugri-
cultural products, and only TO DO rendered avail
able by Transporting those of domestic industry for
domestic trade, and that the State of PennsyIyania
the centre and hoart of this great body polite is
most especially interested in It's prosperity by her
position, and by the circumstance that, more than
any other State she possesses immense treasures of
iron, ccaI, and other minerals within the bowels
OF the earth, in addition to the inexbaustibe har
Vosts of it's surface.
3. Resolved, That TO deny to the government
OF these United States authority by It's charter to
protect and encourage manufactures, is to suppose
that lis lllustrIous trainers were insensble to the
first and greatest interests of their common coun-
try, aud that the admirable constitution they gave
it wants the first principle of prosperity, peace
and self preservation; and that for any State 10 ar
r0gate tue power Of determining whether a law of
the United States conforms to the constitution and
Of annulling it if that State deems it unccnstitu-
iionol is to set up usurped and despotlc sovc-
regnty, subYersvc of the radical doctrine that the
majority is to rule, fatal to the sovereignty of the
people, and nsufiorabc by freemen, who will not
endure the despotsm ola monarch state, any more
han of an individual monarch.
4. Resolved, That the acts of Congress for the
protection Of manufactures, have realized the prom
ses OF the majority who proposed, and have fuls-
led the forebodugs of the minority who opposed
hem; and that already they have greatly improved
he condition of the country at large, and although
heir effects not yet fully accomplished, the
great interests and staples all prospecting by
heir influence.
Agriculture finds markets for its products at
steady and profitable prices. The article of Wool
which has been fostcred by these acts has within
l few years increased sOmuch in quantity, quail
ty and value, as to be now worth more Than half
u the whole cotton crop, and is advancing so rs
o ensure its being within the next FIVE years more
aluable than all the cotton Of the cotton growing
states.
While agriculture is thus benefited foreign COM
1erce, navigation, ship-buding, and the tonna ge |
eneraliY of the United States Of the sea, the riv.
re- and the lakes, have constantly increased and
re rapidly progressive.
Above all, the coasting trade, that primary inter
It 81 maritime entsrPIzc, and principal nursery