The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-13

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tariff zeaots why they did not their own fabric
instead Of foreign ones If they children
in free will touched the ofnconsstency little
and derner resort directed them to my own dress
| not having worn any thing but American fabric Tor
| several years. All to no purpose-evey protested
good must come through the medium OF tax-and
that tax paid by who By the labor of the working
indirectly exacted from him-theres the secret
again But the tariftaxng patriot did not say mat
thought say it. 1t is not from any objection TO
trade and commerce, Mr. Chairman, that wear
American manu- iacture exclusively, for as sen
sble of their value any one but perceive that in
nv region of Ohio were buying too much and sell
ing too lit le-he State heavily in debtthe paper mo-
ney deluson impoverishing Us rapidly and the true
money gold and silver disappearing, and that nothing
but the real retrenchment and reform and general
practcal-l say practica! emphatically-encourage
ment of home industry and manufacture would re-es-
tablish prosperity and lay foundation for paying
our State debt Such CONVECTION among other local
considerations, induces me TO wear American fabic
in preference foreign, and have been trying TO
turn the attention of others to it for some time |
think your tari-taxing plans in this House will as
sist for my ghbOrs, Democrat and Wing, hate sly
tax es even IN the way of friendship
have been recommending to them, in homely
phrase, TO sell more and buy less, and as general
proposition and earnest of patriotic purpose, prefer
their manufactures 10 foreign ones, not through
the false, and partial and oppressive medium OF dis
eliminating protective tariffs though but through the
public sentimental action of patriotism, and prudent
self-preservation Avoiding the affected manufac,ur
ing zeal of designing cques, inslnuang dlscrimna-
tive tariff associations and home leagues; adopting
the expansive determination OF wearing their own,
which their interests and prosperity and general well
/ 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 will thrive
and prosper to their hearts content
| And what may the freemen of Ohio say to their
General Government They may say" You can
put this oppressive indirect tax law upon us, but we
will nuity its operation by rejecting the goods--we
will defeat it the same principle that our forealhers
did the tax you may import them and tariff them,
! but we will not buy them through the virtue Of our
powerful free will, which shall not be impnged upon
by any tortuous proceeding whatever: we will not
submit to your partial indirect labor-oppressing tax,
come in what manner or under what pretext may,
for we will produce, and trade and buy, and give and
take, and manufacture fol ourselves we please -
Not in any spirit Of sehshness, though, but of high
purpose towards good currency and consequent
prosperity" This will be the laudabIe determination
and and action of Ohio. and she will be safe
from calculating influences of section, and class and
sinister design-she will command fair play.
That Ohio has ample capacities and resources for
manufacturing when properly employed, you shall
have case in poin! We have an enterprsing money
acquiring little quaker or friend they would rather
be called, in my neighborhood, within two miles of
me- who has got an extensive manufactorv of 1annels
in full operation. He makes all coors and kinds, to
considerable extent, transports them everywhere and
q
building upa little town about himself which has an
air Of comfort and prosperity that displays tangible
proof of his manufacturing success and energy fpur-
suit encouraging evidence Of the value of such
kind of enterprise and thrift in Ohio when there is
stable to conduct IT, Mr.. Street, the proprie-
tor has never said any thing to me about protection,
and believe him to be too shrewd to much the
question but {" let well enough alone" ] may be
mistaken, but think Now why, how is this
prosperous result will tell you the secret of its
r,,,p al caIIl
him, judiciousy employs his capital among the raw
materal-in wool growing region-there it is.-
And combined with cheap fuel, coal and wood, cheap
living good air and water, intelligence, industry
ergy, and perseverance, the results, in all similar
cases, are commensurate with the judiciously
applied And like causes and circumstances produce
like results all the Union, and we have them all
in their natural positions if would only use them
properly However, that Indebtedness and other
untoward condition will obge us to buy less of foreign
goods, for time at least and do for ourselves
| there is no doubt. And in this point of view am
amazed Mr. Chairman at the fatality that have
got over some gentlemen in supposing that all we
have got to d. 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 my
opinion is that will not be able to collect the half
of it, for the People not and will not buy the
taxables it contemplates- nothing like it. But tax
tax, tax is the order of the day-tax and get in debt
tax indirectly and get in debt in anticipation and
ultimately leave posterity to pay it. How magnani-
mous 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
that region which cannot possibly be advantaged by
this taxing, borrowing, debting impolicy, through
any of its particulars, is rather puzzle. al
lude to the South. And will suggest, respectfully,
a few words in the way of almonition to Southern
gentlemen this floor, (rusting they will see the
object in the goodwill sense in which is intended
in connexion with this tariff tax BILL having heard
some whisperings of little hankering that way
wrong perhaps, but it is best to be cautious Cotton
manufacturing has commenced in the South, and will
no doubt succeed and become prosperous but l, for
one hope, at least that it will not engender discrim-
mating tariff propenstes for, if it should, it would
deserve to be swept off by a tornado, spiniles and
looms and all. have been warning my Southern
friends since have been in Congress- not to be re-
lying implicitly on their staples-yet fear they are
ncorrgible-but to use the advantages that climate
affords them by going into the variety of such agr-
cultural products forbidden to less favored
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 mOnopolizing
policy of protective tariffs, and retaliatng duties,
and laws, and prohibitions and excses and Gus
TOMS and bounties, and taxing restrictions is recoi-
ing rapidly upon herself; she has retaliated and
striced her continental neighbors into her successful
rivals; France, Switzerland, Germany, and Prussia,
as well ourselves, at present bidding fair to
compete with her to her defeat, everywhere in cotton
manufacture, and progressing into woollcn 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 flashing the American People,
! that are forming themselves into halo of light