Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser., 1842-11-05
From the Baltimore American.
GENERAL JACKSON'S VIEWS CON-
CERNING A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.


1t may be satisfactory to many of General
Jackson's admirers TO know exactly his views
on this important subject. We find in the
Nashville Banner various extracts from the
Generals published letters and official Mesa
ges bearing upon this point. "We have the
most positive evidence" says that paper, "that
in those periods of highest Tariff excitement
1921 and 1928 he was decidedly for protec-
ton; and at all subsequent periods, if we mis-
take not, he has steadily maintained its con-
stitutionality and expediency, without at any
time, so far as we are informed, abandoning
the principle. We propose briefly to turn to
the record Of his written opinions, and by
copying his own language, place it in the
power of all our readers to determine for them
Selves his real position
The following extract from his letter to DR..
Colman, of North Carolina, in 1924, has al
ready been published in our paper; but it
will lose nothing by second appearance:
"Heavcn smiled upon and gave us liberty
and independence. That same Providence
has blessed US with the means OF national IN
dependence and national defence. If we omit,
ed to us, we deserve not the continuation of
His blessing. He has filled our mountains and
our plains with minerolS-wth lead, iron and
copper, and given us climate and soil for the
growing of hemp and ovoOi These being the
great materials of our national defence, they
ought to have extended to them adequate and
fair TPROTECTION:] that our manufacturers
and laborerS may be placed in fair cOmpeti-
tion iCith those Of Europe, and that we may
have within our country supply OF these
leading and important articles SO essential in
war
81 will ask what is the real situation of the
agriculturst? Where has the American far
mers market for his surplus produce? Elk
cept for Cotton he has neither foreign, nor
home market Does not this clearly prove
when there is no market either at home OF
abroad, that there is too much labor employed
in agriculture? Common sense at once point
out the remedy. Take from agriculture in th'
United States six hundred thousand men, wo
men and children, aud you will at once give
market for more breadstuffs than all Europt
now furnishes us. In short, sir, we have beer
too long subject to the policy of British mer
chants. 1t is time we should become little
more Americanized, and instead of ieedin.
paupers and laborers of England, feed ou
our present policy, shall all be rendered
paupers ourselves. 1t is therefore my opinion
that a careful and judcious TARIFF is mucI
wanted to pay our national debt, and to affor,
us the means of that defence within ourselve
on which the safety of our country and ibert,
depends; and last though not least, give pro
per distribution to our labor, which mus
prove beneficial to the happiness, independents
and wealth of the community"
The Journal of the United States Senate @
1894, when General Jackson was member c
that body, will show that during the discusslo
Of the Tariff bill of that year he voted, as tn
several items came up, in favor of duty o
iron, IN bars and bolts, of cents per hundred
on cheap cotton cloths duty of 100 per cen
and more; on cotton bagging duty of a
cents the square yard; duty of cents pc
pound on iron cables or chains; duty of 3
cents per bushel on wheat, and Of SO cent
per hundred on flour; upon iron duty G
thirty-seven dollars per ton; and an increas
of duties on distilled spirits Is per cent Fl