The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-26


several years All to purpose-every proiessed
good must come through the medium OF a tax, and
that tax paid by who by the labor OF the working
man indirectly exacted from him-theres the secret
again But the tari-taxIng patriot did not say that
thought say it. II is not from any objection to
trade and commerce, Mr. Chairman, that wear
American manufacture exclusively, for am as scnsi-
BILE of their value any one but perceived that In
my region of Ohio we weIe buying too much and sell
ing TOO little the State heavily in debt the paper
money deuson inpovershing US rapidly, and the
money, gold and silver, disappearing; and that
nothing but the real retrenchment and REFORM and
general PRACTICAL say practical emphatically-en-
couragement of home industry and manufacture
would re-estabsh prosperity and lay a foundation
for paying our State debt. Such conviction, among
other local considerations, induces me to wear Anne
rcan fabric IN preference to foreign and have been
trying to turn the attention of others to tor some
tne | think your tariff taxing plans IN tlis House
will assist, for my neighbors, Democrat and w ing,
hate sly taxes even in the way of friendship.
| have been recommending to them in homely
phrase, TO sell and buy less, and as general
proposition and earnest of patriotic purpose prefer
own manufactures to foreign ones not through the
false, and partial and oppressive medium OF dlscrim
mating protective tariffs though, but through the
public sentimental action of patriotism, and prudent
elf preservation. Avoiding the affected manutactur-
ing zeal of designing ciques lnsinuang dlscrlnina-
tive tariff associations and home leagues; adopting
the expansive determination of wearing their own,
which their interests and prosperity and general wei
fare demands, and perseveIe in 1t, and their banks
that honest will be able sustain themselves, they
will have the currency of reality, and will thrive and
prosper to their hearts content.
And what may the freemen of Ohio say to their
General Governments They may say" You can
put this oppressive indirect tax law upon US, but we
will nulfy its operation by rejecting the goods-we
will defeat it on the same principle that our foreathers
did the tea tax you may import them and tariff them,
but will not buy Them through the virtue of our
powerful free will which shall not be impnged upon
by any tortuous proceeding whatever, we will not
submit your partial indirect or-oppressing tax,
in what manner or under what pretext it may,
for will produce and trade, and buy and give and
take, and manufacture for ourselves we please.
Not n any spirit Of selfshness though, but of high
purpose towards good currency and consequent
prosperity" This will be the audable determination
and Tone and action of Ohio and she will be safe
from calculating influences of section, and class, and
sinister desgn-she will command fair play.
That Ohio has ample capacities and resources for ma
nuacturing when properly employed, you shall havea
case in point. We have enterprisng, money
acquiring little quaker friend, they would rather
be called, in my neighborhood within two miles of
me, who has got an extensive mandatory of hannes
in full operation. He makes all colors and kinds to
considerable extent transports them every where, and
Is evidently driving successful business. lie is
building up little town about himself which has an
air Of comfort and prosperity that displays tangible
proof of his manufacturing and energy o. pur
suit encouraging evidence of the value of such
kind of enterprise and thrift in Ohio, when there is
stable to conduct it, Mr. Street, the proprietor
has said any thing to about protection, and
believe him to be too shrewd to stir much in the
q uestion, but " let well enough alone" l may be
mistaken but think SO. Now why, how is this
prosperous result will tell you the secret of its
foundation. Our friend Fed as we Familiarity call
him, judiciously employs his capital among the raw
materal-n wool-growng region-there it is
And'combned with cheap fuel-coaI and wood--cheap
living, good air and water, intelligence, industry, en-
ergy, and perseverance, the results In all similar
cases, are commensurate with the judiciousy
applied. And like causes and circumstances produce
like results all over the Union, and we have them all
in their natural positions if we would only them
properly. However, that our Indebtedness and other
untoward condition will oblge buy less offoreign
goods for time at least and do for ourselves,
there is doubt. And in this point of view, am
amazed Mr. Chairman at the fatality that have
got some gentlemen in supposng that all we
have got to do, is to pass this tariff tax bill and col
lect under its operations from tn labor of the coun-
try some thirty millions of dollars year. Now my
opinion is that will not be able to collect the half
of it, for the People not and will not buy the
taxables it contemplates- nothing like it. But tax,
tax, tax the order of the daytax and get in debt
tax indirectly and get debt in anticipation and ul-
timately leave posterity to pay it. How magnani-
nous! Tax, borrow, and spend, is the maxim that
is to lead us to prosperity-a charming prospect
truly AAd yet to in this bewilderment those Of
that region which cannot possibly be advantaged by
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any one of its particulars, is rather puzzle | al
lude to the South. And will suggest respectfully
| a few words in the way OF admonition to Southern
gentlemen on this hoor trusting they will see the
object in the goodwill sense in which it is intended
in conneXon with this tariff tax BILL having heard
some whisperings of little hankering that way !;
wrong perhaps, but it is best to be cautious Cotton
manufacturing has commenced in the South and will
no doubt succeed and become prosperous; but l. for
one hope at least that it will not engender dscrim-
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deserve to be swept off by tornado, spindles and
| looms and all ! have been warning my Southern
friends since have been in Congress, not to be
lying implicitly on their staples-yet fear they are
ncorrgible-but to use the advantages that climate
affords them, by going into the variety of such agri-
cultural products forbidden to less favored
gions of the Union. Their interests, and the
duty they owe that Union, demand from them such
Industrial action. England is not only cherishing the
cotton culture in the East Indies, but has com
menced the tobacco culture in Jamaica it is true,
you say she cannot compete in the culture Of the
former with you, but that remains to be tried no
matter-let her present condition be warning
against oppressive tariff schemes. Her monopoizing
policy of protective lariffs, and realiating duties
and corn laws and prohibitions, and excses and Gus
toms, and bounes, and taxing restrictions is reco-
ing rapidly upon hersef she has retaliated and re-
sricted her continental neghbors into her successful
rivals; France, Switzerland, Germany and Prussia
as well as ourselves are at present bidding fair to
compete with her to her defeat everywhere in cotton
manufacture, and progressing into woolen and hard
ware. To retrieve her errors, maintain her power
and avert the fate that awaits every departure from
truth and justice, however slow may be in coming
she is calling into requstion every tortuous scheme
she can invent to sustain her supremacy, and
retard the advance of her whom she considers hel
rival of rivals, through her republican energies
But will she succeed' If true to ourselves
and loyal to the Union, unqhestonaby not. Grea
truths are flashing upon the American People
that are forming themselves into halo of ligh
which will shield them from all the insidious policy
that men or nations devise to retard their prog
ress in prosperity, independence, and rightfu power
But have depressed beyond what intended, | only
meant to you against the distorted temptation
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