Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1842-05-20
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N a = 20, 1912.


/ The Hermiiage. and We embraced re opp0fiG4
nifty to call on the venerabls ex-President 81
the United States. Having letter Of introduce
ton from one Of Gen. Jackson's particular
friends, and who, though Of recent acquain-
tance, we may call our friend, We were most
kindly and Hospitality received. In politics
we have the enviable privilege of ssetting on
the fence." unmoved by all the commotion Of
party feeling that RACES around-consequenfly
we had no political predictions TO gratifying
party antipathies to disturb US.
1--WE found the General confined to his room
with cold and oppression Of tho lungs, for
which he had been bled the preceding day.
! Hence he appeared feeble, and looked older
! than we expected to find him. Yet his con-
versation was animated, and his opinions Of
men and things expressed with great frankness.
! With the view Of seeing the workings Of a
mind Of no ordinary powers, and which for
/ many years has commanded the attention, If
not The respect, Of the world, we introduced
the subject of politics. What was said, and
what the views he expressed about men and
thngs-is no business of the reader. Enough
/ was said, however, to confirm the impression
| that General Jackson, whether right or wrong,
possesses no ordinary mind. He certainly
will rank among the great men OF the age.
Posteriy will so regard him.
! 1--WE spent an hocr and a half in his compa-
nv, with unusual satisfaction. Various topics
of conversation were inroduced-the condition
of The couutry,t hat Of Englad and other Euro
2ean counties, s.he advance of arts, public
morals, education, and last, though not least,
religion. On this soject he spoke freely, and
with due reverence and solemnity, as the rich
est blessing man could enjoy-as the only sup
| port the mind can have in old age. Repeated
| iy he expressed his satisfaction at our call on
him, and urged our stay to dinner. This we
declined. He is necessarily much thronged,
and we should really suppose annoyed, with
company. Hundreds, nay thousands in ayear,
call at the Hermitage.
| "On arising to depart, for we had engaged
| to be in Nashville at 3 O'clock we gave him
the parting hand, expressing the qualification
we had received from the interview, and i'm
| ploring the blessing Of Heaven upon the rem
| nant Of his days, with the sincere hope that
| we might meet in Heaven. His voice trem-
bled with emotion while he grasped our hand
| firmly and said, IS My dear sir, thank you
| thauk you for this interview-l respond 10
| YOUR kind wish. May the Lord go with you."
From the n. H. Register.
Facrs BETTER THAN THEoRIEs.-The Home
Leaguers Insist upon it, that the compromise
| act has depressed our manufactures and me-
| chanical productions, and that we have TO send
| speci. abroad to settle the balances between
US anu Otner uuttvu,. - .i.~t. .h -y hut
it unfortunately happens for them. that the
facts, as shown from the official tables, are all
against them. We have exported more Of our
domestic goods, and brought more specie into the
country, under the compromise act, than we
did under the Tariff laws Of 1898. 10 show
how these laws have affected our manufactu.
rers and mechanics, we have compiled from
the tables the following facts: In the tive
years of the high tariff of 1928, that Is, from
| 1928 to 1882 inclusive, the value of our domes-
tic manufactures exported, averaged $5,2S3,-
s35 annually.
Now take the succeeding five years under
the compromise act, that is, from 1883 10 1887
inclusive. The value of our domestic manu-
features exported in these years, averaged $6-
TAI, $50 annually. 1t will thus be seen that
| under falling tariff we exported of our man
ufac,ured goods, nearly million and half
more annually, than we did under the high tar
/ iff Of 1928.
We will now see how the specie account
+, stood in those years. In the first series, or
| HIGH tariff wears, we imported of specie more
rhan we exported in all $S;2S2,l77. And in
the succeeding five years under the compromise.
we imported of specie more than we exported
S42 .6i4.7eO. That is, we brought into the
country during the latter years, tre times as
much spcc;e, as we brought in, during the pre-
cediuo five wears of high tariff This does not
look much like sending all our specie away, to
..set,le foreign balances" Perhaps the Home
Leaouers may say that the first five years OF
the Compromise act did not test its operations
so fairly as the last few years-and that 1t is
since 1887, that our manufactures have been
desolated by the compromise law. But here
again the facts and figures are all agalnt their
/ theories; for during the last four years, which
is as late as the table come, that is from 1888
10 ls4l inclusive, we have exported OF our 90
nestle manufactures, more than zoe ecer DID De-
fore. They average during those years W.
lvol9. 1871 annually; nearly ttco millions q gear
more, than they averaged under the h'gh far.t
efisas. o,, 40, H..
| Boston Home Leaguers at great expense SEND
to France for cargo Of shoes, just to make
noise abou,-for they had nothing left to talk
about. These Boston Leaguers are cute TEL
lows, and they don't care about spending few
hundred thousand if necessary TO carry tnelr
point, and raise humbugs for polltlca! enec'.
We now predict their next humbug VIII DC %
import cargo of Egyptian or INDIA co"oh'
(no matter at what expense and tnen 'eli ',e
sou,he.ners, that free trade is running Inc COZ
ton planters of the South. VII! the the Fai-
ladium stick pin there.
i Wusprq YES WHERE MIR. Profit put the
Il following in,errogatories TO his wing inends