The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-12

one-. As was saying, have asked such proecuss
lard zealots why they did not wear their own iAoi
instead of foreign ONES II they were mere ehiiu,1
IA free will touched the ofinconsistency MUS
and as dernier resort directed them to my own dress
not having worn any thing but American iaoric ioi
several years. All To purpose-evefy proiess'u
good must come through the medium OF a TAX
that tax paid by who 2 By the labor OF the wofkihs
man Indirectly exacted from him--theres the secret
again But the tarld-taxng patriot did not say 'hal
thought say it. 1t is not from any ooJecuo" 70
trade and commerce, Mr.. Chairman, tha' "sa'
American manu- tacture exclusively, Tor ah as se"
sibe of their value as any one pu, Peioe'e IL
INV region of Ohio we were buying too much ana sell
mo loo liz e-the State heavily In debt-the paper mo-
new deluson impovetishing us rapidly ana the uuo
money gold and silver disappearing ana 'na' ho'n's
but the real retrenchment and reform, ana general
nractical-I say practical acknowledgements
meni of home industry and manufacture, wouiu rees
tabiisb our prosperity and lay foundation Tor paying
our State debt Such conviction, among other local
considerations induces me To wear American i"o ~
in preference to foreign, and have been trying 10
turn the attention of others to II Tor some tune.
think your tariff taxing plans in this House VIII as
sist for nv neghbors, Democrat and w mig nate s'y
taxes even IN the way OF friendship
I have been recommending to them, IN homeIy
pbrase to sell more and buy less, and as general
uropostion and earnest of patriotic purpose prefer
their own manufactures foreign ones, not through
the false and partial and oppressive medium OF uis-
eliminating protective tariffs though, but through the
public sentimental action of PATRIOTISM and prudent
selt.preservalion. Avoiding the affected manuac'ur'
ing zeal of designing cques, lnsinuating dse,iha
tive tariff associations and home leagues adopting
the expansive determination OF wearing Their own,
which their interests and prosperity ana genera wei
fare demands, and persevere in and their banks
that are honest will be able to sustain themselves
they will have the currency OF reality, and VIII thr'e
and prosper to their hearts content.
And what may the freemen of Ohio say To their
General Government They may say" You can
nut this oppressive indirect tax law upon U.s. but we
will nuify its operation by rejecting the goods-we
will defeat it on the principle that our foreal hers
did the tea tax you may import them and tari them
but we will not buy them through the virtue OF our
powerful free will which shall not be lmpnged upon
| by any tortuous proceeding whatever we Will not
submit to your partial indirect depressing tax
| come in what manner or under what pretext 1t may
for we will produce and trade and buy and give and
| take and manufacture oi ourselves we please =
Not in any spirit of seshness, 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, an1
| sinister desgn-she will command fair play
That Ohio has ample capacities and resources fo'
manufacturing, when properly employed, you shall
have a case in point. We have an enterprsing, money
| acquiring little quaker, friend they would rather
| be called, in my neighborhood, within two miles o
me, who has got extensive mandatory of hanne
! in full operation. He makes all coors and kinds, TO
considerable extent transports them everywhere ant
| is evidently driving a successful business. lie II
building up little town about himself which has ar
air of comfort and prosperity that displays tangible
proof of his manufacturing success and energy OF pur
suit an encouraging evidence OF the value of sucf
kind of enterprise and thrift In Ohio, when therei Is
stable means to conduct it. Mr.. Street, the propre
tor has never said any thing me about protection
and believe him to be too shrewd to STIR much In th
| question but I" let well enough alone" ] may b'
mistaken, but | think Nov why, how is th
prosperous result 7 | will tell you the secret of 1T
foundation. Our friend Zed, Familiarity cal
him, judiciously employs his capital among the ra"
Hateria-in wool growing region-there it Is
| And combined with cheap fuel coal and wood cheaI
living good air and water, intelligence, industry,
ergy, and perseverance, the results, in all similar
cases are commensurate with the means judiciously
| applied And like causes and circumstances produce
like results all the Union and We have them al
| in their natural positions if would only use then
properly However, that our Indebtedness and othe
untoward condition will oblige to buy less offoreigr
goods for time at least, and do for ourselves
| there is no doubt And in this point of view | all
amazed Mr.. Chairma at the fatality that hav
| got gentlemen, in surprising that all WI
have got to do, is to pass this tariff tax bill and col
ect under its operations from the labor of the coun
try some thirty millions of dollars year. Now m,
opinion is that we will not be able collect the hal
for !he PseRs can ess ca sa e, rst Il d:S
tax indirectly and get in debt in anticipation and
nous Tax borrow, and spend, is the maxim that
is to lead us to prosperity charming prospect
truly And yet to see in this bewilderment those OF
mat region which cannot possibly be advantaged by
this taxing, borrowing, debting impolicy through
any one Of its particulars, is rather puzzle. al
Jude to the South And will suggest, respectfully
few words in the way of admontion to Southern
gentlemen this floor, (trustng they will see the
object in the goodwill sense in which it is intended
in connexion with this tariff tax bill having heart
some whisperings of little hankering that way
wrong perhaps, but is best to be cautious Cotton
| manufacturing has commenced in the South and will
no DOUBT succeed and become prosperous but |, fol
one, hope, at least, that it will not engender dscrim
mating tariff propensties for if it should it would
deserve to be swept of by tornado spindles and
| looms and all | have been warn ne nv Southern
friends, since have been in Congress- not to be re-
lying implicitly their staples-yet fear thew are
lncorrlglbe-but to use the advantages that climate
affords them, by going into the variety of such agr
cultural products forbidden to less favored re-
gions of the Union. Their own 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 monopolizng
policy of protective tariffs and retaliating duties
and corn laws, and prohibitions and excuses and Gus
TOMS and bountes, and taxing restrictions is recoiI-
ing rapidly upon herself; she has retaated and re-
strcted her continental neighbors into her successful
rivals; France, Switzerland Germany and Prussia,
as well as ourselves at present bidding fair to
compete with her to her defeat everywhere in cotton
manufacture, and progressing into woollen and hard
ware. To retrieve her errors, maintain her power,
and avert the fate that awaits every departure from
truth and justice, however slow it may be in coming.
she is calling into requisition every tortuous scheme
she can invent to sustain her Supremacy and
retard the advance of her whom she considers her
rival of rivals, through her republican energies
But will she succeed If we are true to ourselves
and loyal to the Union, unquesonably not Great
truths are now flashing the American People,
that are forming themselves into halo of light
which will shield them from all the nsidios policy
that men nations devise to retard their prog
ress in prosperity independence, and rghtfu power
But have depressed beyond what intended ] only