The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-06

nard, of Albany, delivered the annual address
before the American Institute. The Tribune
gives the following statement Of one Of his points:
The manufactures of this country, (apart
from those OF household tabrication) amount to
no less than three hundred and fifty millions Of
dollars per annum Now this is more than the
aggregate value Of all the grain, sugar, cotton,
and tobacco purchased from abroad by all the
nations of the earth so that if we were to sur
render our home manufactures to the destruction
which free trade would inevitably draw after it,
and il we could secure in return the supplying
of all nations with their imported supplies Of
the great staples above named, we should still
be falling in debt to other nations at the rate of
many millions per year. No nation ever did,
ever could, ever increase in wealth and pros
perity while importing her manufactures and
selling raw produce to pay for them'
The new dranaatis persona introduced into
the political arena by the Richmond Enquirer
confuses US not little. Who among the Loco
aspirants is to personate Artaaer1es, who pri-
ded himself SO much upon having killed his bro
ther Cyrus, that a soldier who venlured to dis
pute with him the honor was delivered over to
most cruel death This Persian prince be-
sides sported several hundred concubines, and
married his own daughters A,taaeraes! This
sobriquet is enough to make the honorables
tremble, lest it should be- permanently affixed
to one or more of them. Who will be called
ArtaNerxes How suitable to No. / per-
fectt0nist!
There is an eminent fitness in Calling the lead
ing Locos Mahomet and Mustapha. The Koran
is not more inconsistent with true religion than
locofocoism is with sound government. Both
creeds are false, yet large number of mankind
have been induced to pin their faith to them. .
The democracy will be more than ever pleased
to find their republican chiefs assimilated to
Asiatic monarchs. Come forward, gentlemen
Democrats, with your turbans and tiaras. Who
shall wear the upright feathers or, to make this
ancient Persian custom plain, who shall be king,
is yet momentous question with the American
Persans, alias Arabs alias Turks.-Fredericks-
burg Areua.
CHARACTER OF Who" The Wing lives
in every State, but wishes to live only in free
State. He claims no right to himself, but what
he is willing to give to his neghbor He is not
lifted in sects, by sounds nor kept in them by
prejudice; his mind is not contradcted by sys-
TENS, nor soured by bigots; it is open to God
and nature He is not attached to person or fac
tion but to things, to justice, to liberty, to vr-
tue, to his country. He adheres to the men who
adhere to these. With like contempt Of pro-
misses and menaces, unawed by power, he is
attached to these Not lurking as drone, to
reap what others sow, he cheerfnly acts his part
in society; he does what he can; he endeavors
within his sphere to promote general welfare.
No matter what you call him; what his rank,
his profession or the title of his religion, this is
the Wing; and many such, to their immortal
honor, has Providence raised up for the defence
Of Liberty.-Dr. Franklin.