Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-10-03
DANIEL wEBsrEa,s SPEECH.

This speech as delivered To the Agricultural meet
log at Rochester, is sketched in preceding
columns 1t has been most singularly overrated.
1t is sly, cunning, plausible, ingenious, IT the
Talf eulogists please-nothDg more The most
prominent part of it is covert attempt TO please
ad protect the manufacturers, by tickling up and
pnpitiang the support of the Agricultural interest
Il insidous attempt, to "whiP the Devil round
the stump TO obtain, indirectly protection for the
manufacturer, whilst protesting to protect the farmer
Mark the cunning of the sopbist
81 do say gentlemen, that the AGRICULTURE Of this
COUNTRY the great matter ohieh demands Protection
/, snomer to talk about protection OF manutac-
;ues that net the thing we want or need; It 10 the
PROJECTIONS or THE AoRICULrURE OF THE COUNTRY!
Repeated cheers) 1t is a furnishing to the surplus
productions Of tina. agriculture Market near market,
home carket large market .-(Cheers and cries OF
that's II, that's what we want
Unbushing sophstry! "Oh, no! don't help the ma
ulac;uters, but must help you, the farmers-furnsh
YOU with home market OF manufacturing consumers
and therefore we must build up and protect the manu-
acturers most contemplate evasion indeed, as the
Glowing money article of the New York Herald shows
hr. w. not only shows himself imPudently, grossly
noran os the Custom House returns, and the state Of
Commerce but he directly contradicts himself
and for the evidence of this fact not only the mo-
ney article OF the Herald but the subsequent letter
from one of intelligent correspondents.
The whole argument Of Mr.. w. is utterly fallacous.
The aies should protect the property Of the farmers as
vel rs all classes, against fraud and plumber. Inc
States should also furnish the farmers with roads, DC
.iansmi, his surplus productions TO market So far,
50 O. cd The United States should also attempt,
by rs foreign agents, to remonstrate with other 60
yefnu,e.. against heavy imPositons upon our rice,
obacco &c; and thus open the door wider for such
PRODUCTIONS of our soil into their ports but u IS
hot tie DIT y, the right Of the Federal Government
oopsn at home for farmers, any body else
regul the labor Of people, and to tax one por
Ian Of or country, for their pretended benefit, but tor
The real benefit of another. THIS attempt 10 at war With
he principles Of our Constitution, aud all the sound
iales of POLITICAL Economy. 1t is at war with Free
Trade, and the right of every citizen to md his own
market in his own country; to buy where he can the
cheapest and to sell the dearest. II would be an i'm
pertinent meddlng Of Government with our prl
vate concerns-and all the soph'sry OF Daniel Web
Ser cannot conceal the usurpat,on or the cheat
the report 4 the Free Trade Convention, which met
al PaadepL;s come years ago, written oy Juose Der
zen, now Clay, Tariff Wing, and from which we
made the of the two last years, and wall very
soon make copious cxtracts,) says:
We are the advocates Of FREE TRADE.-The argu
sent which susains it rests upon proposition when
nay 6ci be denied Il is the unquestionable right OF
every individual 10 apply bis labor and capital 10 the
mode which he may conceive best calculated to promote
a' own interest Il is the interest Of the public, that
Ne should so apply it. He understands better than II
tan De understood by the Govern ut, what will con-
sace 10 his benefit; and since the ma ority OF ind
sdras WILL If properly protected. be disposed to follow
e'' interests such IN application of their industry
na capital mist produce, in the result, the greates
anoant of putllc good
LAWS which protect by bounty any peculiar species
:, oor, cannot be said to encourage american indus
THAT IS, directed to various objects. These laws
'or only single Glass; and since the bounty is MOI
supplied by the Government, but taken from the poke
me individual, the protection which IS given TO one
olabor given at the expense OF every other
=. a' course Of legislation, which leaves American CAPT.
ana labor to the unfe.tered discretion Of those who