Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-04-11

they have sometimes placed their estimates beIo
hat was believed to be the actual amount ,
these interests. With regard to the quantity
bar and other iron annually produced, tits der
we'd from the known works themselves and .
know some in Western States which tiev hs4e
omitted in their calculations.
Such are some of the items of tip vast system
of protection which it is now proposed to aban-
don. We might we'll pause and 'ntemplate, If
human imagination could conceivthe extent of
mischief and ruin from its total ovehrow, before
we proceed to the work of destrut on. Its du-
ration is worthy also, of serious bnsideratlon.
Not to go behind the Constitute its date is
coeval with that instrument. 1tegan on the
ever memorable 18th of July--tl4th of July,
1889 The second fGt RR Ee 1s2} recorded in
OF George Washington, laj'tho corner stone OF
the whole system. Tha there mghtte no ms
take about the matte, it was then sosmnly pro
claimed to the Anglican People and the world,
that it was necessary for ''the encouragement aud
protection o. manufactures" that dues should
be laid Il is i'll vain to urge the smll amount
OF the measure OF protection then extnded. The
great principle was then established by the ia
theirs of the Constitution, with the Either If his
Country at their head. And if cannot now be
questioned, that, If the Government lad not then
been new and the subject unlried. geater meas
ure of protectection would have been applied, i'll
1t had been supposed necessary. Shortly atte;,
the master minds of Jefferson and Hamilton
were brought to act on this interesting subject!
Taking views of it appertaining u the depart
ment OF Foreign Affairs and Of the Treasury
which they respectively filled, thay presented,
severally, reports which yet remain monuments
81 their profound wisdom, and came 10 the same
conclusion Of protection to American industry.
Mr. Jefferson argued that foreign restrictions,
foreign prohibitions and foreign high duties,
ough to be met at home, by American restric-
lions, American prohibitions, and American high
duties. Mr.. Hamilton, surveying the entire
ground, and looking at the inheren nature Of the
subject, treated it with an ability which, if eve
equalled, has rot been surpassed, land earnestly
recommended protection.
The wars of the French Revolution common
ced about this period, and streampf gold poured
into the United States through lousand chan
nels, opened or enlarged by the uccessful com
merce which our neutrality enaled us to prose-
cute. We forgot or overlooked,in the genera
prosperity, the necessity of euearaging Our d.
nestle manufactures cine the edicts #
Napoleon, and the British orers, in council
lion, and war, followed in rapiduccession.
These national measures, anlunting to a to,a
suspension, for the period of heir duration, 4
sur foreign commerce, afforded The most efica-
cious encouragement to America manufactures
and, accordingly, they every Were sprung up
Whilst these measures of restriction and thi:
state OF war continued, the manufacturers wert
stimulated In their enterprises by every assurance
81 support, by public sentiment, and by legisla
tive resolves. 1t was about that penod GS0S
that South Carolina bore her high testimony t.
the wisdom of the policy, in an act of her LIE
gisature, the preamble Of which, now before me
reads, "Whereas the establishment and encoul
agement of domestic manufactures is conduciv
to the interest of State, by adding new inoe1
tlves to industry, and as being the means of d.
posing, to advantage, the surplus productions II
the agriculturist: And whereas, in the present.
state OF tue world, their establish
ment In our country is not only expedienf, bu
polite, in rendering us Independent of foreign
nations" The Legislature, not being competent
to afford the most efficacious aid, syimposihg du
ties on foreign rival articles, proceeded to incor
porate company.
Peace, under the treaty of Clint, returned in
1915, but there did not return viii it the golden
days which preceded the edicts evelled at oul
commerce by Great Britain ah France Il
found all Europe TRANQUILITY resming the arts
and the business Of civil life. Itound Europe
no longer the consumer of our stplus, and the
employer of our navigation, bu.txcluding, OF
heavily burdening, almost all the productions o.
our agriculture; and our rivals manufactures
in navigation, and in commerce Ii found GU
country, in short, in situation tally ditferen
from all the past-new and untrie. 1t becam
necessary to adapt our laws, andespecially GU
laws OF impost, to the new circumstances Il
which we found ourselves. AccIrdmgly, tina
eminent and amented citizen, taA at the hea
|of the Treasury, Mr.. Dallas) wa required b
a resolution of the House Of representative
under date of the 23d Of February, lol5, I
prepare and report to the succeeding session
Congress system Of revenue coniormaDe WI
the actual condition of the country. He had II
circle of whole year to perform the work, Co
suited merchants, and other practical men, al
Iopened an extensive correspondence. The repC
which he made, at the session oi 1916, was /
result of his inquiries and reflections, and emf
dies the principles which he thought appilcat
to the subject. Ii has been said that the Tar
| IF 1916, was measure OF mere revenue; al
hat it only reduced the war duties to pea
standard is true, that the question then W;
how much, and in what way, should the dout
taties of the War be reduced? Now, also t
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