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

THIS speech, as delivered ta the Agricultural meet
iag a, Rochester, is sketched in our preceding
columns 1t has been most sngulariy overraed.
1t is sly, cunning, plausible, ingenious, IT the
Tau.f euogists please-nolhing more The most
Prominent part of it is covert attempt to please
and protect tho manufacturers, by tickling up and
prop,iang the support of the Agricultural interest
In an insldious attempt, to "wh,p 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
eouatryi the great matter which demands Protection
Il rs sdomer to talk about protection OF manuac-
lures; that net the thing want need; it is the
Projection THE AoRICULTURE OF THE COUNTRY!
Repeated cheers.) II is furnishing TO the surplus
productions Of that agriculture market, near MARKET
tome cafket, large market -(Cheers, and cries Of
HhatsI!, that's what we WANT
Uablushing soph,s,ry! "Oh, no. don't help the ma
nliacusers, but he'll you, the iarmers-furnish
YOU with home market of manufacturing consumers
and therefore must build up and protect the manu-
isctu,ers A most contemplate evasion indeed, as The
!oiOwing money article of the New York Herald shows
sl'. w. not only shows himself impudently, gros ~
ignorant o. The Custom House returns, and the state OF
our Commefce-but he directly contradicts himself
and for The evidence of this fact no, only the mo-
ney article of the Herald but the subsequent letter
from one of our intelligent correspondents
The whole argument Of Mr.. W. is utterly fallacious.
The a,es should protect the property Of the farmers
well As all classes, against fraud and plumber. The
States should also furnish the farmers with roads, &c
to,.aasmi, his surplus productions to market SO lar,
g, 90 The United States should also attempt,
Ay lis foreign agents, to remonstrate with other 60
vetnmen against heavy imPostons upon our rice,
tobacco Nc; and thus open the door wider for such
PRODUCTIONS OF our soil into their ports but " Is
tie dG.y the right Of the Federal Government,
tOcpsn markets al home for farmers any body else
regu the labor OF our people, and to tax one por-
of or country for their pretended benefit but for
The real benefit of another THIS attempt is with
the PRINCIPLES of Constitution aud all the sound
rules Of POLITICAL Economy. 1t is at with Free
Trade, and the right of every citizen TO find his own
make, 10 his own country; to buy where he can the
cheapest and to sell the dearest. II would be i'm
pertinent meddlng Of Government with pri
vale concerns-aud all the sophstry Of Daniel Web
s,es cannot conceal the usurpaon or the cheat -As
the report q the Free Trade Convention, which met
a. Philadelphia come years ago, written by Judge ber-
,'en (now Clay, Tariff Wing, and from which we
made the OF the two last years, ana VIII very
soon make copious extracts,) says:
We are the advocates of FaEE TRADE.-The arsu
Aent which pustains 1t rests upon proposition whcn
nay ret be denied. Il is the unquestonabie right OF
every Individual 10 apply his labor and capital 10 the
mode which he may conceive best calculated to promote
MS interest II is the interest Of the public, that
De should apply It, He understands better than II
can be understood by the Government what will con-
oace to his benefit and, since the ory OF lnd
sduas WILL If properly protected, be disposed to follow
'ae' INTERESTS such application of their industry
AUG capital mast produce in the result, the greates'
amount Of public good
Laws which protect by bounty any peculiar species
" aoor cannot be said to encourage american indus
sy-lhat IS, directed to various objects These laws
Vor only single class; and, since the bounty is
supplied by the Government but taken from the pocke
the individual, the protection which is given 10
~ OF labor, given at the expense OF every other
aI course Of legisation which leaves American CAPT.
and labor to the unfeered discretion Of those who