Litchfield enquirer., 1842-01-13
DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

the subject of pru.-, Kentucky. deliv. ! speech of Mir. Marshall, 1 '--ae. adYo. cred in the House of ReIresentH>s ,,::I eating the reference of thit part of the F dents Message relating O the tar'Ii' 10 !he r Committee on Manufacturers. 1t is genuine American doctrine:- T. .D-.LF ,,.n
 Oh! exclaimed Mr. N, if I should live 10 see the day when all things that are needed for humun use rnd bought and sold within these United States-wlen all our mIneS shall have been opened, all our rich mOun- tains explored and covered with sheep walks for the use of our manufacturing establish menis-when every American citizen, let
 him eat, and wear, and consume, and use 1 whatever he desires to mahe him happy,
 shall find it all here-hele upon our own sOll, within our own boundary: then, though the wrath of God should be let loose upon the nations of the old World-though Europe should reel and ,remble beneath his blows, and Britnin's fast anchored isle should go down, aud sink in the mighty deep. and we ] remain so unmoved, 80 self-supplied, as not
 to feel the loss-this, this would be to me, { the very realization uf American Indepen-
 dcnce nnd prosperity. But this country IS i not and never can be ttuly independent, so , long as our own labor and own capital are 7 left unprotected" Nevet: so long as 1t is the
 darling object of our own Government to crush the industry and dash down all the en-
 terprise ofthose it should protect and foster. ! If to hold that, is advocating protective taritf--I can't hrlpit: po-l can't help it, 1 Ifl am sinner, ] am a! least a bold sinner 1 If to feel the glow of ore common nation In
 my bosom-if 10 hold that the man who rec
 sides at the extreme North is as much my
 brother as the cotton planter of Georgia-if
 this is hostility to the South, then am her enemy. tr... s.4t. ...-.. ! ..... ..t ....r.
 But, as to Southern rghts. let no man lay
 his hands upon them. My observation m lie
 has taught me to believe that in all domestic
 quarres there are usually faults on both
 sides. And l will say to my Northern
 friends, why be eternlly striking at that
 sore which, God knows is sore enough with
 out blows from you! Why keep up this
 eternal turmoil and excitement about aboli- ton! Why this constant determination to
 disturb and meddle with us our domestic
 concerns! can, conceive 0f no other or
 better rcason for it than the man gave tor
 beating his wife" because am able to do
 it." It was dangerous he knew, to attempt
 to prophecy, but this he would venture to
 predict, if ever this gorgeous, this glorious
 temple tO human freedom, should be pulled
 down, Or consumed, that was the thing that
 would do it. ,..t.. .,,s.!,.a..,., ,.,.,. '' !g When Americans spoke of .dissoiving the
 Union, they spoke of what they should not the idea was unnameable. The Greek leg
 islator gave it as u reason for providing no
 punishment for parrcide, that such a crime
 ought never to be mentioned but if Northern gentlemen chose to use their strength for such l an end as abolition, this Union must crumble, come what might. To attempt such thing was to violate the original compact of all the ] States, The slave States before this Union. existed: they were slave states when the l Cavaliers of the South first joined the North ] ern Presbyterians 10 drive buck the assaults of oppression. When Greene und. MnriAr ! fought silsA by e;4s lrtthe ranks Of armed | freemen for the protection of their rights, the 1 Southern States were slaveholding states,
 and their rights as slaveholders were, among Ithose for tho protection of which the sword
 of the RevolutioR was drawn. They held constitutional recognition and constitution
 al guaranty of their rights as shareholders, in
 the provision which requireal their sister states 10 deliver up runaways when found, to their rightful masters, and to aid their South.
 e'n brethren in case of n servile insurrec- tiu". Tl.o lecams of modern philanthropists about all men of all colors being possessed of equal political rights had not been the doc
 Urine of those days. and African slaves were
 not then recognised or treated as American
 citizens. The national guaranty then thrown
 over the slaveholding states guarded them as ] well against their sister states as against the
 power of the General Government. The State of Ohio must deliver up the fugitive,
 despite of all her State sovereignty and all
 her abolition notions. Southern institutions
 were solemnIy recognised by the organic
 law ofthe Confederacy; and yet gentlemen I now came forward and insisted that, because they were the stronger party. they might do
 what was expressly forbidden by the origi-
 nal compact that held US all together If they
 should attemp, this, it would, be an act of lawless violence an act which could not, Whlch ought not, and which would not be 1 borne. ''''' .Lu ~1Ia. ' l, On this subject of slavery, Nrr. M. said he might pursue whnt policy he pleased his State was sovereign and could net her pleas
 urc For hinlself, he had done his part in her Legislature to plohibit the introduction
 or slaves within her borders, and the exertion | oI hhmSeit and others on that subject had been hitherto successful. So far as Kentuc.
 KY was concerned the domestic slave trade
 was at this hour absolutely prohibised.- | Would 10 God it might ever remain so But
 that was their affair; it belonged to them 1 selves, and 10 them alone. The Constitution mad thrown it's conSecration round the rights of the master. aDd,, thank God, no power on earth could lawfully interfere with it. l1 Why, then, must the Northern and the Southern states be forever waging war upon each other! Why must a jealousy be tost
 cred between them amounting almost to ha. tred! He must believe himseIf there were Faults on both sides. As a slll,hern man. he looked upon New England ss an essential part ot this great national Union, entitled 10 ! noerty and 10 the enjoyment of all her social ! fights. To crush her, to attempt to strike l tr. .Es snseh A.Su n l