The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-02-26

beraIity Of their opponents, to
blow upon their long. cherished
IS. there will be some prac-
Donstration Of sincerity, amidst
protestalions Of devotion to the
he people
intended to have spoken sip-
Fal Of the measures condemned
resolutions; but IS much time
adv been consumed, and there
u members, more competent e
& 10 the subject, desirous Of sd.
he House, / shall give way at
essinq myself upon one single
lur Senator'S are instructed and
ssentatiyes requested to oppose
sure recognising the principle
ection. can not favor such in-
lbs. 1t has been so fashionable
unce every thing like the an
ement Of domestic industry, that
be lanathematised tfor expressing
osile sentiment. But lam free to
that believe protective tariff
Drove more beue6ciaIto tho South,
N measure that will ever be adopt
the legislation Of partizan dema-
/. or wrangling politicians, am
that tits the only policy,
,ich the United States can ever
|.bat height Of prosperity, wealth
bwer, to which she is entitled by
beoualled natural advantages, her
form Of government, and the I'M
energies Of her people.
j, sir, the period IS rapidly APP
hing when the much abused Sane
SYSTEM will receive the support
ory section Of our widespread Re-
!. look forward with heartfelt
action to that suspicious day, when
merican Iaborer shall be freed from
ompetition Of the half-starved ope-
.s Of Europe; when tiourishing
factories will be established undcrs
Dstering care OF a paternal govern
in every town and village, upon
! water course and mountain-fall;
( the husbandman shall find Z rca-
nd unvarying market for his pro-
i; and when all classes and profess
may set down, in comfortable indie
ence, under their own vine and fig
and as band Of brothers, nurture
protect the happy institutions Of
country. Gentlemen may regard
anticipalions, as idle fanlacies, but
not the less sure that the day is not
distant when the interest Of the
fern manufactures and the southern
Ter will be identified, and when both
feel an equal solicitude in the pro
On Of their industry against the ey-
-asping rapacity Of European Go
ments.
is time for the South te prepare foA
mighty revolution in Commercial
course that may soon occur with til.
snt market Of her great staple. TIL
ictive and prohibitory policy Q
It Britain, has caused the rapil
Of labor and capitsd 10 III
uction Of cotton. This has bee
we'd by a superabundance Of thu
lie, and q consequent depreciatio
J exchangeable vulue Now when W
ct that the present prices bareI
The cost Of production, aud that
portion Of the South is yet unaE
priated to agricultural purposes
n we turn our eyes to q neighbOI
Republic, popuIating with degre
'apidity scarcely paralleled in ii
ais of colonization, with unmeasurc
Is, prepared BY the benedcent han
nature for the ploughs and pecuIia
dapted to the growth ofcotton; whe
look to the boundless plains Of Me,
and South America, and to those Vi
nbered isles that deck the bosom
southern deep, prevented from beir
ught into culture, by civil wars. ~
sstins connection: when, ia fine, v
slider the mighty effort now beir
de by England to supply her man
tories with the cotton Of her East /