Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-03-28

taxes imposed on foreign articles would be but
temporary; that the manufactures would want
protection but for short tlme-ony to give
them start-and that they would soon be
able to stand alone. We were to have had
a double market for our cotton-high prices,
reviving commerce, and renewed prosperity.
Sir, after the expence of four years, the tariff
OF '28 came up for consideration, by which
the protecting system was to be further extern
ded and enlarged. And what was found to
have been the result of four years experience
at the South? Not hope fulfilled, bet one
promise performing-and our condition jntin-
itely worse than it had been four years before.
Sir, the whole South rose up as one man, and
protested against any further experiment with
this fatal system. The whole of the repre-.
sentatives of seven States, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, and Tennessee, with believe,
but three dissenting voices,) recorded their
votes, against that bill. Sir, do not gentlemen
find in this fact, some evidence of the danger
Gus character of that legislation on which this
system is based. Can it be wise-can it be
just-can it be prudent--to adopt and enforce
la policy so essentially sectional in its character?
Can we hope for harmony, peace, and concord,
while enforcing system against which an en-
tire section of your country SO strongl y reyots?
lit is the essential principle of the represen-
tative system, that mutual sympathy offeel-
ing and of interest, should bind together the
people and their rulers; and it may be worthy
of profound reflection how far that principle
is essentially preserved by scheme of legis-
lation, under which the feelings and interests
of so large portion of the country are out
ragged and trampled on. When taxes are I'M
posed, not by the representatives, Of those who
are to bear the burthens, but of those who arc
to receive the bounty.
Now, Sir, let us turn our attention to the
NoRrH. And here cannot speak from my
own knowledge, but am free to confess, mat
If we are to credit the accounts we have heard,
the rich fruits of the system have been scat
tered IN this quarter with profuse hand
We are told that manufacturing establishments
have sprung up every where as fby eBchant-
ment. Thriving towns and beautiful villages
cover the whole face Of the land. Millions Of
capital have been withdrawn from other pur-
suits and invested in manufactures. Joint
stock companies are receiving enormous divi-
bends; and the people, lat least in the neigh
borhood of the establishments built up and
sustained by the SYSTEM are rejoicing in
prosperity unexampled in the history of lie
world. But Sir, in the midst of this univer.
sal Joy, we hear occasionally the voice of la
lmentation and omplaint.--There are those
north of the Potomac, wise and experienced
and patriotic men, well acquainted too With
the actual condition Of things, who tell US that
: this apparent prosperity is in great measure
delusive; that the system has operated IN
t building up favored class at the expense of
the rest of the community. That it has, in
fact, made the erich richer, and the poorpo0r-
) en-" have before me several sate:nznts, all
going to prove these assertions, as to several
a of the most flourshing manufacturing e:tab-
> Iishments of the north. | will trouble the
= Senate with but one of them, and that merely
!, by way of illustration. The article is from
= the pen of one of the ablest political ecouo.
mists in the Union, one who has laid mis- coun-
4 try uuder lasting debt of gratitude.
s Mr.. HAYNE here read a statement from the
Banner of the Constitution, proving that a
A hourishing cotton mandatory at the Falls
4 Village, in New Hampshire, was from, their
o ozrn showing, maintained by p tax on the COM
!. munity; exceeding the entire profits of the
If establishment, by 100000 per annum; and
If that, if purse was made up, and every oper-
s etive man, woman, and child paid $500 pc,
dtlhuIi, IOT SuuutHS tuE Ut turning STiluslOhes
d the public would be gamers by SOL ,eoo an
n nually.]
1t will be seen, therefore, that, with regard tc
y some, at least, of our most fourishing manufac
;, turing establishments, the profits derived are
= drawn from the pockets of the people. But, i
!, will be said, 'here is in which the south
u participates in the bountias; here is home mar
Is ket found for three thousand bales OF Carolina
" cotton" Sir, seize the opportunity to dispe
a forever the delusion, that the south can derive
Id any compensation in home market for the inlu
s. rious operations of the protecting system. The
lie case before us affords striking illustration o
a. this truth The value of the raw material i.
te about oneourth part of the manufactured article
d Now if the cotton goods manufactured at the
s. Falls village, were imported from England in
Is stead Of being made in New Hampshire, we
- should find market for twelve thousand bales OF
. our cotton instead of three, so that instead OF
: gaining market for three thousand bales of cot
70 ton, we have lost market of nine thousand
q The home market for our cotton Is not new, or
l. additional, but substituted nurket.-lf the
s trade were free, the goods manufactured III this
country would be imported from England, and
paid for in our cotton; but IN cutting off the i'm
ports, you, Of COURSE to the same extent, dlmiIl
n JSee fourth DQpc1