New-York daily tribune., 1843-09-25

the sea-iarlng classes anu dl plIei E4dSsSs VI '-
producers. Now, gentlemen, certainly admit
that those who have invested their capital ID
Manufactures have great interest at stake ana
it is lust that they should have secured by law
reasonable protection 10 that interest. But 90
also insist, in spite Of all the sophlstry and all the
follv (as must call it, OF this age-and this age
is fuU Of sophistry and folly on this subject, that
the great thing to be looked for Is that we have
at home demand for the surplus products OF our
Agriculture, and, on the other side, home de-
mand for the products Of Manufacturing industry
fChcers.) This neighbory exchange i, is, this
neighborly intercourse among oursclves-thls sup
plying our own wants from city 10 city, from
village TO village, from house to house, this, thus
it is which is calculated to make Us happy ana
a strong people. Enthusiastic applause
Now, there is on this subject, especially among
our brethren at the South, a strange lniatuatlon.
They are respectable men-rcasonable men-caA-
did men, in some rcspects-ln most respects and
vet see how they reason upon this subject. Cen
tlcmen belong TO Massachusetts,. Applause
Cries of Good, and three deatenng cheers ior
Massachusetts y have taken the pans to m
quire what sums Of money Massachusetts, pays to
Virginia and Carolina, to say nothing OF New
York, every year for thclr agricultural products
and it amounts to several millions. u we take
the Eastern part Of Virginia and the Eastern part
of North Carolina, what have they for sale but
agricultural products purchased by the manulac.
turing and commercial classes OF New England :,
Nothinp on the face of the eartl-and VIC pay
them many millions. We are their only custom
or. Does England take Their grain Certainly
not and vet, owing to causes which It would be
easy to explain if it were proper, owing TO pre]u-
dice owing 10 their peculiar notlons-or. notions
are quite as common there as in New England,
though NewEngand is the land Of notions :
! Hauphter and chccrs)-there is perfect repro
baton Of any idea Of protection giving them any
sale for their agricultural products, although they
find, day by day, that we buy and pay them for
their products by manufactures Of the North
and it is the only thing they get dollar for: and
are ready to drive us into raising Corn and all
agricultural products for ourselvcs-they beng
agricultural, and finding the article continually
becoming cheaper, and no persons except US
to buy of them. tChcers.) Now that s strong
casc-though perfectly true of Eastern Virginia
and of North Carolina. Why gentlemen, livo
on the sandy sea.shore Of Massachusetts, and l
get along as well as ] can. am very poor iarm-
er upon great quantity of very poor land. But
my neighbors and ], by very great care hardly
know how-continue to live on. We pay 1or
what we purchasc-though, for my life, could
hardly tell how; this only know, they all get
paid in some way. And yet these men complain
| that we do not raise what we want ourselves Dut
buy of them! There seems to be much truth IN an
| old saying, that Maxims which have seeming
sense take firmer hold, and endure longer III the
mind, than those which arc founded on nature
and experience Men like dogmas: they like
theory If they can pick up or scrape together
string of apophthegms or enlgmas-thc TACT
and truth and all the human talent IN the
world can never argue them out of them
Equal deusions prevallin other parts OF the coun-
try as, for instance the notion that Protection TO
manufactures is thing peculiarly beneficial to
those engaged in those pursuits. Far from it.
AS | have sad the capital of Massachusetts, can
90 to commerce, or can 90 to farming. But what
can he do, whose farm is his sole estate, but till
it? Gan he transport it or go into other pur
suits ? The fact is Protection to this class of
society is, next to the bcnefcence OF Heaven,
| whose sun shines and whose rains fall upon us,
the highest object, the most absolute necessity to
those who cultivate the land, and raise from 1t
more than sufiices for the wants Of themselves
and their families. (Cheers.l
Now, gentlemen, we Americans. We
have vast country, variety Of climate, and va
rious pursuits. We have agricultural States; and
we have plantation States. We have manuac-
turing interests and commercial interests. And
our business is not to array our various interests
into begerent and hostile state, not to lntiamc
our own passions or the passions OF others con-
cerning The measures of government for the pro-
lection of our particular interests but let US
make the whole great national, may say, 1dnt-
IN concern. We shouldaim not to produce the I'M
preston that one intercs: s set against another but
| that we all 90 for those laws and measures which
will be most conducive to the general good we
should remember that we are citizens OF the uni-
ted States; that as such we are interested IN the
! United States and in every State,-that we are
interested in the concerns oil al! classes and OF ev-
cry class; and do firmly believe that modera-
ton and wisdom and perseverance and truth and
reason will ultimately prevail over all the lnfiu-
cnces which seem to separate the interests oi one
class from those of another. Why, what | have
said in relation to the necessities or wants OF Ag-
riculture is strictly true with regard to breth
ren Of the South engaged in the Plantation inter-
est. The frstmarkct for their cotton and the best
market, is with the Northern and New Eng!a land
manufacturers of that article and it is absolutely
! astonishno that this is not perceived. The
North takes one-third of their cotton, and that
the first third, and fixes the price; it is sold with
small charge for ireight and still brings high prlce
And say it is absolutely astonishing that those
whose living dcpcnls on the production and sale
of this article should not see TO what an extent It
depends upon the consumption and manufacture
of the article in our own country. These truths
these elements of political economy are as
true on the James River and in Alabama as here;
and let popular prejudice become informed and
kind feeling mark all discussions Of the subject
and we shall come to see how much our happl
ness and honor depend upon a free and just and
liberal intercourse among ourselves. <Checrs)
Gcntemel,, am too long in troubling you with