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OHIO LEGISLATURE u.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
MONDAY, Jan, q, lS42.


vital importance to the best interests o
the country, would, he trusted, unite
the concurrence Of every member o
this body in favor ol their adoption -
They referred, generally, to the pro
lection Of all the great Interests Of the
people; but mainly to the means by
which agriculture, now and always the
paramount interest Of this country, could
he sustained in its vigor, and by which
alone the real prosperity and indepen
dence OF fthis Union could be upheld, de
Tended and preserved.
At crisis Of universal embarrass
ment, like the present, when our whole
people were burdened with a heavy
debt, oppressed with grevous taxes
paraIyzed in their industry, broken down
in spirit, cursed with an unsound cur
rency and threatened, even by our own
iegisIoion, with degree Of suffering
which no free people was ever before
doomed 10 endure, he had thought pro-
per, on looking around for the means
of restoring prosperity, that Ohio should
be called upon through her assembled
Representatives, TO speak out and avow
her principles TO the world upon al i'm
portant subjects involved 10 these res.
olutions. Her commanding position as
the tbird-soon to be the ond-Slate
in thc Union, entitled her TO be heard t.;
and her voice, if she would speak out
manluIly, could not fail TO exert its Just
and proper influence GU The councils Of
the nation.
The subj"c, was not one. in his view,
oi q party character; most certainly it
ought not to be made so; and in coming
20 its decision, he invoked he exercise
oi that patriotism, which, in times of
trial, Indignantly discarded all party
lrammets, and looked with a single eye
10 the besl good Of our common country
AT 1.-THE proper time he might desire to
be heard somewhat fully in defence of
these resolutions; but for the present he
would only add, that in drawing them
up, he had taken special care to assert
no prinr,ple that he did not pledge him.
sell to maintain and demonstrate, if
controverred, beyond the cayIs of the
soPhlst, and tho power of re(utaion.
Predmble and Resolutions relative 10 Ne
encouragement f American Industry.
Whereas, the chief elements Of wealth
in every country must be found IN the
employment Of its labor, and the deveI
opcment Of its natural resources; and
whereas, that country will always be
be most prosperous, whose abor is
most equally divided in the various oc-
Cupations Of Agriculture. Commerce &
Manufactures, and the Mechanic arts;
and whereas, in he present state Of the
commercial world, just equilibrium in
the success Of these great branches Of
human enterprise, can only be preserved
in our own country by such system of
counIervniing commercial regulations
with foreign nations, as will restore the
balance OF trade in our favor arrest
the ruInous export drain Of our precious
Enthusiastically protect our home
industry aud secure our own markos
to It's products, against those of Europe :,
nnd whereas the modern hercsy of free
trade, which would throw open our
ports to all The world, while the ports
Of all the world Nre closed against US
which would teach tho American peo
pie to look to other nations for that
support which God intended each ma
tlon should draw from its own soil and
labor, Is not only at variance with such
asyslem. aud subvorsive of our national
prosperity, but at war with all those
principles OF National independence,
self preservation and selrde(ence, for
which our Government was founded f.:
ana wherCae, no country can no indie
pendent 10 peace, or secure in war,
which, dIsregardng the protection of
It's owo labor and resources, relies up'
on foreign lands for the staple neccssa-
RIGS Of life, or the means Of its defence;
and whereas, no foreign naton receives
from US, ia exchange for our own, aay
product Of our soil and labor, which il
can produce at home; Therefore. be it
kes0lrcd BY tie Senate and HouSe Of
Representatives., That, in tho opinion Of
lh,7 General Assembly, labor applied TO
the dcyeIoI emeul ol our various resour-
Crs, Of soil, climate, AID mineral wealth,
~ no true source aud foundation of in
dlYdual aud national prosperity; and
that the tue policy Of this country con-
sl'is IN fostering, and sustaining in It's
.t"l'ous departments, by just equal aud
adequate Legislative encouragement,
Hcao'rei, That tho power to foster,
protect aud encourage the enterprise
aud industry of It's own people, is an al
lnhnlo OF sovereignty, which belongs Ia
every Government, aud that the due on
conrgeoenl and protection Of the labor
ing ca'sess oI every country, are among
the hrsl ohleCts for which tree Govern