The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-09-27

thousand times You want a market Tor your pro-
auctions. You want consumers. You want open
mouths and unclad bodies 10 eat and drink and wear
the surplus productions you have provided for Them
You want home market, steady demand for your
agricultural products Aud this IS and must De- lur-
nshed by the commercial classes, the seaaring class
o., aud all other classes OF non-producers. Now,
gentlemen certainly admit that those who have m
vested their capital IN manufactures have great IN
terest at stake aud IL is u-t that they should have
secured 10y law reasonable protection 10 that m
tefest But do also insist, m spite of all the sophis
aud all the folly Gas must call IN of this age-and
this age Is tM olsOphlstry and folly this Subject
that the great thing TO be looked for is shat we have
at home demand for the surplus products Of our
agriculture, and on the other side a home demand
Tor the products Of manufacturing industry [Cheers.
This neighborly exchange it is, this neghbory inter-
among selyes-tbis supply ing ow wants
from city To city, from villa 90 10 village, from house
house-tbis, t4s IL is which IS calculated TO make
"A happy and strong people Enthusiastic applause !
Now, there Is on thi. subject, especially among
| our brethren at the South, strange niatuation.-
They are respectable men, reasonable men, candid
men IN some respects-in most respects-and yet see
now they reason upon this subject. Gentlemen,
belong TO Massae huselts Applause Cries Of SO ood
and three dca!enlng cheers for Massachusetts ] /
have taken the pains to inquire what sums Of money
Massachusetts pays to VTg MIA and Carolina, to say
nohing oil New York every year for their agriculu-
raj products, aud II amounts TO several millions II
take the eastern part of Virginia and the eastern
part Of North Carolina, what have they for sale but
agricultural products purchased by The manuiactur
ing and commercial classes OF New England? No.
thing on the face Of the earth and we pay them
many millions We are their only customer, Does
r gland take their grain Certainly not and yet
owing TO causes which II would be easy 10 explain #
II were proper, owing to prejudice, owing To their
peculiar notions for notions are quite as common
there as IN New England though New England is the
4" land OF notions ' Laughter and loud cheers -
there is perfect Reproduction of any idea of prutcc-
ton giving Them any sale for their agricultural pro
ducts, although they hnd day 10y day, that We, buy
and pay them for their products by manuf ,ctures Of
the North and it is the only thing they get dollar
for, and ready TO drive into raising and
all the agricultural products for ourselves they be-
ing agricultural, and finding the article continually
becoming cheaper, and persons except Us 10 buy
of them. Cheer. Now that's strong case
though perfectly true Of eastern Nrglnir and OF
North Carolina. Why, gentlemen, ! live the
sandy seashore of Massachusetts, and get along as
well as can. am very poor farmer upon great
quantity of very poor land but my eghbors and'l
10y very great care-I hardly know how-connue TO
live We pay for " hat we purchase, though for
my life ! could hardly tell how; this ouly know
they all gel paid IN some way And yet these men
| complain that we do not raise what we want our
selves, but buy of them. There seems to be much
II nth IN old saying, that " Maxims which have a
seeming sense take frmer hold, and endure longer in
the mind lhan those which founded nature and
experience" Men like do mas, they like theory
If they pick up scrope together string Of
apophthegms or enigmas, the fact and truth and all
the human talent in The world can never argue them
out of them. Equal deiuSlons prevail in other parts
OF the county; as Tor instance the notion that pro-
lection TO manufactures Is thing peculiarly bene-
cia 10 those engaged in those pursuits. Far from IT,
As have said, the capital of Massachusetts can go
TO commerce can 80 10 farming; bot what can he
do whose farm is his sole estate but tit it3 Can he
transport IT or 90 into other pursuits The fact is
protection 10 tins class OF society next to the bene
hceuce of Heaven, whose sun shines and whose rains
fall upon US, the highest object the most absolute ne
cessity TO those who cultivate The land, and raise from
than sulices for the wants Of themselves and
their ia lies Cheers.
Now, gentlemen, Americans We have a
vast country, variety Of innate, and various pur-
suits We have agii cultural States, ard We have
plantation States. We have manufacturing interests
and commercial interests. And business Is not TO
array various interests into elligerent aud hos
tile state, not TO inhame passions the pas
OF others concerning the measures OF Govern
ment Tor The protection OF our particular interests
but let us make the whole gr at national, may say
family concern. We should aim moi to produce the
impression that one interest Is set against anoihe but
that all 20 for those laws and which viii
be most conducive 10 the general good. We should
remember that We are citizens OF the United States ;
that a. such Interested IN tho United States
aud every State that Interested in the con
Germs OF all classes and OF every class aud DO firm
ly believe that moderation and wisdom, and perseye
iauce, and ruth, and reason, Will ultimately prevail
all the influences " hch seem To separate the liz
ttrests OF one class from those OF another. why,
what have said in relation TO the necessities
wants OF Agriculture Is strictly true with regard To
brethren of the South engaged IN the plantation
interest The first market for their cotton aud the
best market, Is with the Northern and New England
manufacturers Of that tcle and il absolutely
lonshng that this rs not perceived The Nor,h takes
onethrd Of their cotton and that the first third and
xcs the price is sold with small charge for freight
aud sill hrggs high price. And say II Is ALSO
lutey astonishing that those whose living depends
a sol, of igis mt
To what extent it depends upon the consumption
and manufacture of the article IN our own country.
These truths, these elements Of political economy,
tue on The James river aud ~ Alabama
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 happiness
aud honor depend upon free, aud jast and liberal
intercourse among ourselves Cheers.
Gentlemen, ] am too long in troubling YOU with
these remarks. [Cnes OF go on ~ ! believe they
founded 10 truth. wish for every thing which
VIII promote the union Of the American family. ]
wish Tor The prevalence oG every thing which shall
make every man, from Name to Georgia, feel that
his interests clearly bound up With those of every
other man from Maine 10 Georgia. lCheers
Gentlemen, may ! say, sir, turning to the Presi-
dentl five words about myself Cheers and shouts
OF yes, hlty, or five hundred.nl IL under the
full conl iction Of these truths that meeting few
months ago some intelligent friends from Baltimore,
alluded 10 our commercial relations subject to
which had devoted for two years the most anxious
aud painful labOrs OF my whole life. Some one
cried out, Three cheers for the Treaty - anu they
were accordingly given with great enthusiasm.
you, gentlemen that although friendly 10 all
treaties of peace, nothing was further from my mind
at thi. moment than Tie treaty recently concluded
with Great Britain. | mean our commercial rela.
tons aud ii the time shall come when we can
for a little while forget our parties, attend 10
things instead OF # the time shall arrive
when there sha be business party ~ the country
which have a FAINT hope may some time happen -
God knows cheers and iaughlorl We shall find that
the subject OF commercial relations as they have
for several years past existed, and they exist,
Is highly interesting and Of the utmost importance 60
every citizen of the country But propose only
to say now, that having occasion spoke at Bal