Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-02-04

ReSolred, That any system OF reve-
Due, not predicated upon wise dlscrIm-
lnalon OF duties between such articles OF
! Foreign production, as can, and cannot
be produced at home; aud upon JUS
reference to the Commercial laws o
those countries, upon whose products
those duties were to operate, is an aban
donment oi the interests u! cur own CIT
Izens, for those Of The foreigncr-Rt va
rance with the duty Of just Govern
ment, and frought with oppression and
ruin in its operation,
ResOlued, Therefore, That any law
of Congress, permitting the products
OF any foreign country, which excludes
our productions from its markets on re.
cproca terms, 10 come into anfair com
petition with our own, is to disregard
one Of the highest obligations Of the
Government-to give to the foreign
Manufacturer the monopoly Of our oI0n
market-to encourage foreign labor, at
the expense of our own industry to
deprive our own laborers Of the honest
| fruits Of their toiI--to drain US Of our
precious metals TO strengthen the arms
OF foreign nations against us, by con,
trlbuting TO their means Of hostile inva.
sion-to weaken our means Of compeli'
ton in peace, and our power Of resist
ance in war, and to pave tho way to
the pTosIraion of our National prosper
ity and Independence.
ReSoiUGd, That even should foreign
nations receive our products on recip-
rocal terms, it should be the policy Of
nation, like that Of the United States
possessing all the elements Of wealth
prosperity and commercial greatness
within her own borders, so to shape its
legislation. in reference to the price Of
labor and the cost Of products in other
countries, as to protect our own indus.
try against the runous competition Of
low priced loreign labor; and for this
purpose to encourage the investment Of
capital, and the acquisition Of skill in
our Manufactures to put the country
upon its own resources, for what it can
and ought to produce, instead OF import
ing ito stimulate domestic, instead OF
foreign indn5try-to multiply the pur-
suits Of labor--to save at home, for the
use Of our own people. the millions now
sent abroad-and thereby to create mar.
kots for our agriculture, and secure the
Development Of our internal resources,
more vast and various than are possess
sed by any other nation upon earth;
and that the effects of different policy
as all experience has shown, would be
to reduce the most prosperous nation
to tho condition of tho most depressed-
to paraly2e it's industry-to extend its
resourccs--to demoraIze its character
and to break down the lofty, noble,
independent spirit Off its population,
Resolved, That the doctrine that all
duties for protection, are tax on con-
sumption, is theory folIacious 10 prin
cipIe, conlradictcd by resuts, aud ralsi-
fed by the experience o(aII past Lcgis
Iation on the the subject; that on the
contrary, reduction Of the price, in the
article protected, always follows an in
creased protection, has been verified by
the same experience: and that no fact
is now better settled, than that increa-
sed duties upon articles manufactured
IL this country, instead Of adding to the
price of the foreign article, n our own
market, are in truth tax on the for
cign, leUjed and paid as Toll, into car
Treasury By Foreigners, for the privi.
Iege of comning into our market with
their goods The effect Of the system
having always shown, that protection
increased domestic competition--thNt
competition increased production, and
that increased production never failed
to break down monopoly and produce
dimunition Of price.
Rcs0Ircd, That as an Independent M
ton, we are bound to regard our rights
to tho products Of our soil as equally
sacred and invioIahIe, with the right to
,ho soil itself, and that it is as much the
duty of our Government to guard the
one as the other from foreign encroach
mcnt and Invasion
Resolced, That Agriculture is the
great parent interest of this country,
that when that prospers oil prosper
when that d cines, all su0erj and thrl
although the success of all classes aud
occupations is mainly dependent upon
that great foundation interest, still the
agricultural portions of the Union, are
those most deeply interested in the pro.
lection of American Manufactures.
RcSolred, Therefore, That our Sen
aIors and Representatives. in Congress
bo requested TO uso their exertjons to
procure such modification aud adjust
mcnt Of the existing Tariff as, whrio it
shall arrest the rnpjd drain OF the
precious metals from our couLtry, to
nnV for the manufactured articles of 9th /.