Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-09-28

Government. considerable take fhdf
fhere should be demand for agricultural produets-
(Cheers) am not about, gentlemen, TO enter upon the
questionable debateabc sublect-ot Protective Tariff,
any considerable extent Blu, nevertheless do say-at
least do think-and why should say ti-(Chccrs,
and cries Of it, 'out with it, go ~ do say, gen
tcmcn that the Of this country is the
matter phieh demands PRorEcroN. 1t is missioner %
talk about the Protection OF Manufactures that is not the
thing need; IL is the Protection AGR-
CULTURE THE COUNTRY Repeated cheers.) IL is
furnishing the surplus productions OF TINT Agrcu
market, market, a market, large mar
ke. Cheers, and cries Of That's it, that's what want
WHY, gentlemen, many OF my friends and ncighbors in
State have invested their capital in Manufactures OF
they desire employment IN this branch OF industry
But suppose they do IT. cannot they turn their capt.
tai in other channels thousand other pursuits to-
morrow Are they shut all other ways of iyingi
Do suppose that the Protection OF this interest
portant is Yorl Is 1t essential rs abSo
utey necessary interest to YOURS Not by ten
thousand times! You market for your pro
ductions You You want open
mouths and uncad bodies and drink and wear
the surplus productions YOU have provided for them!
You a home market steady demand for Agri-
cultural products And this is and must be- furnished by
the Commercial classes the scaang classes ami all other
classes of nonproducers. Now, gentlemen, certainly
admit those have invested their capital Manu-
features have great interest stake and is that
they should have secured by law reasonable protection
that interest. But do also insist spite OF all the sophis-
try and all the folly (as must call it, of this nge-and this
age full OF sophs;ry and folly on this subject that
great thing be looked for is, that have home de-
mand for the surplus products OF Agriculture and,
the other side, nome demand the products Manu-
featuring industry (Chee) This neighborly exchange
1t this neighbory intercourse among ourselvos-his
plying wants from city city, from village viii
age from house house, tins, this which Is calculated
make happy and strong people. Enthusiastic APP
plausc0
Now, there is on this subject, especially among our
brethren the South, strange ntatuaon They
spectacle men-reasonablc men-caudd men, in II
specSin most respects and now they up
this subject. Gentlemen belong Massachusetts,.
Applause, Cries OF Good" and three deaienng cheers
Massachusetts, have taken the pains inquire what
OF money Massachusetts pays Virginia and Carroll
nothing OF New Ork, every year for their agr-
cultural products and 1t amounts 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 manufacturing and commercial
classes OF New England Nothing the face OF the earth
and pay them many millions. We their only
customer. Does England take their grainl Certainly
and yet, owing which would be easy explain
1t proper owing TO prejudice, owing TO their
liar notons-or notions arc quite as common there as in
New England, though New England is the land of ma
lions Laughter and cheers there perfect reproba-
ton OF any idea OF protection giving them sale for
agricultural products although they nd day by day. that
buy and pay them for their products by manufactures of
the Norh-and it is the only thing they get dollar for
and ready drive raising Corn all agricul
rural products for ourscves-tey being agricultural, and
finding the article continually becoming cheaper, and no
persons except us to buy OF them Cheers Now that's
strong cGse-though perfectly true OF Eastern Virginia
and OF North Carolina Why gentlemen, | live on |.
the sandy sea-shoe OF Massachusetts aud get along
ms well us can. | am very poor farmer upon great
i.
very great care-l hardly know how-counue live on
We pay for what purchase-though, for my life, could
hardly tell how tins only know, they all paid
way. And vet these men complain that do raise
what ourselves but buy OF them There seems
10 be much truth old saying, that Maxims which have
seeming take rmer hold, and endure longer the
mind, than those which founded and expert
nnce! Men like dOgmas: they like theory. Ii they
pick scrape together string of apcphihegms eng
nas-the fact and truth and all the human talent in the
world them OF them Equal decisions
he
hon that Protection manufactures thing peculiarly
beneficial TO those engaged those pursuits. Far from it,
As have said, the capital OF Massachusetts go to COM
lnerce, or can to farming But what he do whose
farm his sole estate but nil it Can he transport it or go
other pursuits The fact is Protection this class OF
society is, the benocence Of Heaven whose sun
shines and whose rains fall upon the highest object the
most absolute necessity those VINO cultivate the land and
raise from than suices the OF themselves
and their families. (Cheers.)
Now, gentlemen, Americans. We have a vast
country, variety OF climate and various pursuits We have
agricultural States and have plantation States We have
interests and commercial interests And our
business Is not TO array various beger-
ent and hostile state name passions or the
passions OF others concerning the government
for the protection OF particular interests but let us
make the whoie great national, say,
Germ. We should aim produce the impression that
interest against another but that we all 90 for those
laws and measures which will be conducive the
general good We should remember that we are citizens
Of the United Sues that such are interested in the IT,
States and in every e-hatwe Interested in the con-
Germs OF all classes and OF every class and do firmly
e'e that moderation and wisdom and perseverance, and
truth and will ultimately prevail over all the inhu
ences which seem to separate the interests of one
class from those OF another. Why, what / have
said IN relation to the necessities or wants OF Ag.
nculture IS strictly with regard brethren of the
South engaged in the Plantation interest The first mar
ket tor their cotton, and the best market IS with the
Northern and NewEngland manufacturers of that article
and it absolutely astonishing that this is not pcrcciyod
The North takes onehrd of their cotton and that the first
third and fixes the price; is sold with small charge for
freight and still brings high price And say il IS abso
uey astonishing that those whose living depends on the
production and sale of this article should what an
extent II depends upon the consumption and manufacture
1f the article in country These truihs-tese ee
nents Of political economy the James River
md IN Alabama as here; and let popular prejudice become
informed and kind feeling mark all discussions of the SUBJ
ect and we shall how our happiness and
ionor depend upon free and just and liberal intercourse
lmOng ourselves. ICheors.l
Gentlemen, am long in troubling YOU with these r.
marks. [CHes Of, Go on believe that they are found
ID IN truth wish for everything which wall promote the
inon OF the American family. wish Tor the prevalence
II everything which shall make every man. from Maine 10
'eogla feel that his Interests are clearly bound up with
hose oil every other from Maine Gcorgu lChccrs
Genom en- may say SIR turning 10 the President five
words about myself Cheers and shouts Of yes fifty or five
iundredD IL was under c full conviction Of these truths
hat, meeting few months ago some intelligent friends
rom Baltimore alluded to our commercial relations
1bect TO which had devoted for years the most anx
Gus and painful labors Of my whole life fSomc one cried
Three cheers Treaty. and they were ocroi
given with great cnhusinstn.) assure YOU gentlemen
hat although friendly 10 all treaties Of peace nothing wn-
ariher from mind at this than the treaty recent
concluded with Great Britain. mean our commercial
Citations; and II the time shall arrive when there shall
% BUSINESS PARTY IN this couniry-whch have faint
cope may sometime happon-GOd knows-rchcers aud
anghter-we shall find that the subject Of commercial
citations as they have for several years past existed and a
hey now exist, is highly interesting and Of the uno. inn
'oance 10 every citizen Of the country. But propose
'nv 70 say now, That having OccneJn spoke 40 Biun rr
II the elect Of an arrangement entered into very I'M
oftunately many years ago, % the great detruicpf
Il our navigation interests, now fully shown by the
which fOrpIyn shtr.ug ,.,