The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-11-03
From the Richmond Wig.
MR.. wEDsTERS SPEECH.

at Rhocester, New York, which touches
upon the protection Of the Agricultural
Interest.
II is truth, as clear as any truth can
be, that the agricultural interests OF this
country, requires far more protection than
the manufacturing, and that tariff, which
is beneficial TO the latter, is III the same
ratio, productive Of happy results TO the
former. " heneyer mandatory is
built, it is OF certain advantage TO the ag-
riculurist. He must feed the hands, and
furnish the materials for working. In
less his -four, pork, cotton, or wool, be u.s.
cd in this manner, it must seek u foreign
and precarious market, which has, after
all, never been sufficient to consume one
half the products of the American pro-
Queer. Every mandatory in New En-
gland, is of positive advantage to the peo-
pie of Virginia, and indeed of all the
States. But our business for the present,
is with the people of this State. Mr..
Webster says:
Now there is on this subject, especially
among our brethren al the South, a
strange iniatuation. They are respecta-
bic men reasonable meu-candid men,
III some respects-in most respects; and
yet see how they reason upon ,his subject.
GcnllemeD, belong to Massachusetts. =
applause, cries of Good, and three
deatcning cheers for Massachusetts |
have taken the pains 10 inquire what sum
Of money Massachusetts pays to Virginia
aud Carolina, 10 say nothing Of New York,
every year for their agricultural products /;
and il amounts to several millions. If we
take the Eastern part Of Nirgiaia, and the
Eastern part Of North Carolina, what
have they for sale but agricultural pro.
ducts purchased by the manufacturing and
commercial classes Of New England -
Nothing on the face Of the earth-and We
pay them many millions. Does England
take their grain! Certainly not and YET,
owing TO causes which ii would be easy to
explain il il were proper, owing 10 proju-
dice, owing to their particular notions
for notions are quite as common there as
in New England, though New England is
the land of notions T daughter and
cheers.) There is a perfect reprobation
Of any idea of protection giving them any
sale for their agricultural products, al.
though they find, day by day, that we buy
and pay them for their products by manu-
tactures Of the North--and it is the only
thing they get dollar for and are ready
10 drive US into raising corn and all agri-
cultural products for ourselyes-they be-
ing agricultural, and finding the articles
becoming cheaper, and no per.
sons except US to buy Of them Cheers
Now that's strong case-though per.
fectly true Of Eastern Virginia and North
Carolina.
Why, gentlemen, live on the sandy
sea shore Of Massachusetts and get a.
long !, well as | can. | am a very poor
farmer upon great quantity Of very poor
land. But my neighbors and by very
great care-l hardly know how-contiu-
ne 10 live on. We pay for what we pur.
chase-though, for my life, could hard
ly tell how this only | know, they all get
paid in some ray And yet these men
that we do not raise what we
want ourselves, but buy of them There
seems 10 be much truth in an old saying,
that " Maxims hich have a seeming sense
take iirmer hold, and endure longer in the
mind, than those which arc founded on ma
tnre and experience" Men like dogmas;
they like theory. If they can pick up or
sesapc together a string Of apothegms or
fact and truth and all the
human talent in the world can never argue
them out Of them. Equal delusions pre-.
vail in other parts Of the country, as, for
instance, the notion that protection 10 ma.
lutactures IS thing particularly bencf.
nal 10 those engaged IN those pursuits
Far from il. As | have said, the capital
Il massachusetts can 90 TO commerce, or
ean 90 to farming. But what can he do,
whose farm is bis sole estate, but nH il =
Can he transport 1t or 90 into other pur.
suits The fact IS, protection TO this class
II society Is, next 10 the beneficence Of
Heaven, whose sun shines and whose rains
all upon US, the highest object, the most
ABSOLUTE necessity 10 those who cultivate
he land, and raise from il more than sui.
ices for the wants Of themselves and their
antilles. (Cheers.)
Facts are strongly stated here, but not
90 strongly. The manufacturer is always
| capitalist-he can employ his capital in
iome other way, ii manufacturing prove
But with the farmer, the
,ase is far otherwise. His farm, stock
md negroes, are, in general, all he has
y working them Iudiciously, he can
manage to live comfortably. But he is
ignorant Of any other business.
I his farm becomes improbable, he runs
u debt every year, and ends with inso.
ency. Its then, Of far more consequence
0 him, than 1t is to the manufacturer, 10
AVE steady market for his produce; and
where can this be obtained so we'll as at
omc ! Let manufactures be ENCOURAGED
let them spring up all over the land