Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-03-14
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has occurred expected 9th
strong applicable to situation and relations with
| our manufactures"
Here was exhibited the common sense Of Mr..
Monroe. He dealt with realities. The theory Of
free trads-whcb England forever breaches, but
never prsctices-hs treated as mere abstraction.
The want of general concurrence in the free-trade
theory, and the liability to war, were with him So
Der matters OF fact, to be taken into accoup, in
forming judgmen, on this great question.
In his seventh annual message, Of the I'd OF De.
cember, 1893 President Monroe adverted to the
subject, for the seventh and last time follows
Having communicated my views Congress, at the
mencement Of tho last session. respecting tho encouragement
Which should be ouSded 6aVS only 70 ada that these
views remain unchanged and that the state Of the
tries with which have the most immediate political relations
and greatest commercial intercourse tends to confirm them I'm
der this impression recommend review Of the tariff for the
purpose aordins additional protection
which prepared to manufacture which i'm
country.h
This message was followed by the tariff of 1924,
which carried out the views SO repeatedly urged
upon the attention of Congress by President Mon
roe DUNG his administration.
1t is q common remark, that the protective poll
cy has been sustained by WASHINGTON, JEFFER-
SON, MADISON, and Monroe. ! have deemed il
proper, at the hazard Of wearying the patience Of
the House, 10 depart from the beaten track of gen
era reference to their authority, and to intro.
duce them into this debate that they may speak
for themselves. You have the positions taken by
these great men, and their reasons for them, ex-
pressed under all the varied lights of their own di-
versiied observation and reflection, during the LIST
thirty five years Of the administration of this
Government They were all men OF the Revo-
lution-two of them the most distinguished mem
hers of the Convention which formed the Consti'
tuition, and all familiar with the discussions which
preceded its adoption by the people. You have
not only the authority of their names, but the
power of their arguments, in favor Of the prOtec-
ting policj Though dead, they yet speak; and
admonish their countrymen, as they value their
Independence and their Union, to cherish this pol
icy.
And shall not their voice be heard7 viii Vir-
ginia disregard ,s Has she any veneration fol
the names and the principles of her WASHING
TON, her JEFFERSON, her MADISON and her Mon
ROE? And shall their recor led opinions on this
great question, given under the high sanction Of
their Executive responsibility, pass unheeded?
do not ask Virginia to hear me but may and do
ask her to listen 20 her own bonored and venera-
ted sons-lhe depth ofwhose wisdom, and the fer
vor OF whose patriotism, she surely may not ques'
ton.
In concluding my reference to Virginia author
ity, need not say that the Executive messages to
which have referred were just exponents of the
policy carried out in the legislation of Congress
during the first thirty 1--we years of this Govern
tnent. During ths whole of this period, we have
n succession of Executive messages, Treasury re-
ports reports of committees, resolutions OF the
House Of Repres enaives, and acts of Congress
all fully sustaining the protecting policy, and
clearly indicating a conviction that 1t ought to
be- and an expectation that it would be- The settled
policy of the country.
now turn from Southern authority to the
North. The venerable gentleman from Massa
chusetts, MR. ADAMS, now at the post assigned
HIM by the people on this floor, next occupied the
chair Of state. His sentiments on the subject oil
the protecting policy during his Presidency are
well known. pass over occasional references to
II in his messages, and come to the last, transmit.
ted to Congress on the I'd of December, 1923
which contains argument in favor of protec-
ton, worthy of that policy, and OF the great mar
who vindicated it.
"The great interests said Mr. Adams) of agricultural
and manufacturing linked in together
of prosperity of them operate
without extending its influence to the Others All these inter
alike under the protecting of the legislative
hory and the duties OF tho representative bodies are to
cae them harmony together SO far tho object of
ton for dischargng the debts and deayin
the of the community, should much possible
their ability of bearing It without oppression But the Iegn
ton of one nation is sometimes Intentionally made to bea
heavily upon the interests another. That legislation adapt
ed, be- to the special interests of its
pe will often most unequaly upon the several component
Thus the legislation of Great Britain when, has recently
been avowed adapted the depression of rival nation, will
abound regulations Of nterdt upon the produc
ohe soil industry of the other which come in compet
ton and will perhaps
bounty the material of tho other State which it canno
which essential OF It's manuac
competitors in the markets OF the world with those OF 1T
upon interests 1t excludes with nterdct
ing duties all mPoations Except in time Of approaching fam
incl of staple productions of Middle and Western
prosc6e. with equal gS suke Lumber and y
parts Of gu" Union refuses even the the South
aggravated with charge of duty upon the Northern caIe
brings them. But the COTTON Indispensable for the
looms they almost duty Free to into ia
for to the of our own manuiac
"I the energy Of tins nation SO hepess tina
counteract the bias Of this foreign h9 the grow
submit to this exclusion from the foreign mar
ships the trade Of the stagnae the whaves and the
their looms while the whole people shall
foreign industry to be clad in foreign gaIb tina
the Congress Union mpOen restore the balance
Of native industry destroyed by ns o.
nation! More Just ana more generous 'h'"e" WIN trust
tho tariff adopted at the of Congress shall b.
any section of tho Unon ought to be- and cannot doub
will be- alleviate its burdens. To the voice
Just complaint from portion of their eonstltuen the rep
their ears But so long as the duty foreign shall operate
only bounty upon the domestic ace-whie the planter
merchant the shepherd and the husbandma shall
be found thriving under the duties imposed
for protection Of domestic manusetures-they WIZ not re-
professions, denounce violations of The
Constitution the deliberate acts of Congress to shield from the
wrongs foreign laws the native industry OF the unon
If might allow myself,o interrupt the refiec
tons suggested by this eloquent and unnnswera
BILE vindcalion of the protective policy, II would
be TO dwell, for a moment, upon tho sentiment
with which il commences-fhe tndiSsoluole union
of the interests Of agriculture, commerce, and man
ufaciures, SO that the permanent prosperity OF one
necessarily becomes the prosperity of all. All the
reasonings have heard on this floor, in opposi-
ton to the protective policy have overlooked this
great truth insomuch that the whole policy has
been repeatedly asserted to be for the exclusive
benefit of those engaged in manufactures. We
have been referred 10 the 79l 900, returned by the
marshals, as manufacturers and artisan, and iaun.
tingly told that these alone out Of the 100000
of our population were to be benefited by the pro.
tecling system, at The erpense Of all The rest. !
have been amazed al the pertinaciy with which
this position has been maintained, in the
face OF the most obvious and overwhelming
proofs to the contrary. Why, sir, the sympathy
Is not more strong between the different members
Of the human bod than il is between these inter
ests With great proprsiy may en1 sr " ,an
9%s4har .nfFsrs. all the members suffer with il
and II one member be honored, all rejoice"