Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-04-04

fore the Committee, frem which itappeared, '.that
under the existing rate of duties, a ton of ham
mers and sledges can be imported, for the use of
the American manufacturer of those very arti-
cles, at less cost than the bar iron, from which
thew are made; that wheel-tire has actually been
mnorted. in finished state, for about forty seven
dollars tou willie bar iron, suitable for the pur-
pose. is selling for about ninety dollars the ton;
that tea-trays can be imported Tor half the price
of the raw material out of which they are manu-
featured; knitting needles for hundred and Tor
tv-three dollars ton less than the raw materials
out of which they are made; that ton OF chain
cables can now be imported into this country at
less cost than the rods out Of which they are
made; and that the necessary consequence has
been. that number of workers in iron, and of
mechanics, estimated at one hundred thousand,
had their profits so diminished, that Mr.. Sarchet
had declared, that he had never seen any black
smiths so poor, or carrying on a less prosperous
business, than those Of the United States, owing,
as he believed, to the high duties they are CON-
PEELED to pay on the raw rom
Look, continued Mr.. Hayne, through your
whole protecting system; your duties every
where are so arranged as to fall most heavily
upon the poor. The poor man is taxed five dol
lars upon coat. which cost him ten, and rich
man ten upon one which cost him forty-atax OF
eight dollars upon coarse cottons for his wife and
children, which cost no more than eight; and the
rich man but eight dollars, for what cost him
upwards of thirty. Can any thing be conceived
more monstrous than the system Of minimums, to
impose duty of twenty five per ccn!um ad vale
rem on cotton goods, but provide, that if they
should cost less than thirty five cents per yard,
they shall be deemed and taken to have cost thir-
ty five cents and pay duty accordingly pro-
vide that duty of forty five per centum ad valo-
rem shall be imposed upon woollens, but provide
that goods which cost more than one dollar, shall
be deemed and taken to have cost two dollars
and half This is like imposing an income tax
of fifty per cent, and then providing that every
mans income shall be deemed and taken to be
three thousand dollars; or tax of fifty cents per
Gallon upon stills, and providing that every still
be considered as containing fifty gallons. Now,
are gentlemen prepared to say that such system
as this with all its imperfections on its head, is
to he held as sacred as the laws of the Modes
and Perslans? trust not.
Let not gentlemen so far deceive themselves
as to suppose, that the opposition Of the South
to the protecting system, is not based on high and
lofty principles. 1t has nothing to do with party
politics, or the mere elevation of men. 1t rises
far above all such considerations. Nor is it in
Guenced chiefly by calculations Of interest, but
is founded in much nobler impulses. The in
stinct of self interest might have taught an
easier way of relieving ourselves from this OPP
preston. 1t wanted but the WILL to- have sup
plied ourselves with every article embraced in
the protective system, free of duty, without any
other participation on our part than simple con+
sent TO receive them. But, Sir, we have scorned
in a contest for our rights to resort to any bat
open and fair means to maintain them. The
spirit with which we have entered into this BUSH
ness, is kin to that which kindled in the
bosom of our fathers, when they were made the
victims Of oppression, and if it has no. displayed
itself in the same way, it is because we have ev
er cherished the strongest feelings of contractor
nifty towards our brethren, and the warmest and
most devoted attachment to the Union. Ii we
have been, IN any degree, divided among our
selves in this matter the source of that division,
let gentlemen be assured, has not arisen so much
from any difference of opinion, as to the true
character of the oppression, as from the different
degrees of hope of redress.-All parties have for
years past been looking forward to this crisis for
the fulfment of their hopes, or the confirmation
of their fears. And God grant that the result
may be suspicious.
Sir, ] call upon gentlemen on all sides OF the
House to meet us in the true spirit of concilia-
ton and concession. Remove, l earnestly be-
seech, you, from among US, this never failing
source of contention. Dry up at its source this
fountain of the waters of bitterness. Restore
that harmony which has been disturbed, that mu-
tua affection and confidence which has been i'm
paired 1t is 10 your power TO do it this day
but there is but one means under heaven, by
which it can-by doing equal justice to all. And
be assured, that he to whom the country shall be
indebted for this blessing, will be considered as
the second founder of the Republic. He will
be regarded, in all after times, as the ministering
angel visiting the troubled waters of our polti-
cal dissentions, and restoring to the element its
healing virtues.
will conclude by invoking the authority of
ono whose name is deservedly dear to the Ameri-
can People; whose life was the practice of viz
tue, from whose lips there constantly flowed the
lessons of political wisdom, and whose example
will be to the remotest generations light to our
feet, and lamp to our path. The restorcr of
that liberty which Washington achieved; the
man ''who saved the Constitution even at its last
gasp" mean THOMAS JEFFERSON.
In Mr.. Jefferson's Inaugural Address, he bears
the following strong testimony in favor Of the
true American System:
"Entertaining true sense of our equal rights
o,f foe 10 ha