Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-06-07

Now, sir, ! submit, Is this a wise isil
an American poIicy3 Ia il not rather
BRUSH policy, plan to fed1ce The
duiles sad open our porls TO the impor-
ta'loa OF British goods, TO the sacrifice
and destruction Of our own mechanics,
farmers and manUfaclurersf Yes, sir,
and Ibis is TO be done by aa American
Congress, and by the representatives Of
tho American people! Can such 40
snti Ame ricAn such a British system
as this, stand for moment before his
free and enlightened peoplef Pass his
bill, sir, take five dollars off bar iron,
and still more Off iron in all its other
forms, aud. SIR, you will 60 far 10 pxln
guIsh the fires OF every furnace aud Of
every forge in PennsylVsn,a
By this bill you will strike down your
own DechanIcs-yOur hslrers, your
shoemaRers. youf bscksmiths. your
tailors, your soldiers; in short. all your
mechanics; you will paratza and pros
iraIe your glass works, paper MI 5, tan
nerIes, salt works, coIIeree, lead mines,
your wooIlen and cotton factories. but
above oil, you am death blow al he
American farmers. not only by destroy
ing their hons markets, almost The on
y markets they now have, but what is
still worse, y0u will convert the me-
chanlcs and manufacturers thus thrown
out OF employment into sgriculurisls
into producers instead OF consumers of
agricultural productions. When YOU
double production end diminish consump
lion one halt, do you not ruin and des,
troy The farmers oI this countryi And,
sir, allow me 10 soy, that in a country
like this, where seven eishlhs Of the en-.
tire population is engaged 10 agriculture
when agriculture is destroyed, the coun
try itself s destroyed. Agriculture is
the great basis and foundation on which
every thing else depends, when he far
mer prosPers, all prosper; when he
sinks, all the rest, professional men,
mechanics and all 60 down wrh him
II is he great object therefore 10 take
care oI agriculture, make this prosper :
ous and the whole country will pros per /;
and how is agriculture 10 be made pros
porous but by building up and sustaining
home markets. 1t is therefore moi for
the manufacturers, but !or the meChan.
lcs and farmers, yes, cir, for the farm
ers, that | advocate the proIecrlVs poll,
cy. There is one important fact which
les deep al the foundation OF the whole
subject; 10 which am anxious to attract
The attention Of the formers and pOliti
cans Of lhis country, and it is this. hat
half sad more than half. Of the entire
price Of tho hundred millions OF dollars
year Of foreign goods imported into
this country is agricultural produce rails
ed on a foreign soil, worked up and man
ulaclured into goods and then sent here
for sale; ard that he farmers and poo.
pie nf this country send in this way fly
millions Of dollars year 10 purchaIe
foreign agricultural produce. in The
shape Of goods, white foreigners take
litde or nothing from US; our whole az
ricultursl exports 10 ali the world Tex
ceplDg cotton and tobaCco) do not a.
mount 10 ten millions Of dollars year;
thus sir, we purchase five doIar's of for
ego sgriculural produce 10 every dol
lars worth we sell, this may seem
strange. but it is strictly tue; defy
contradiction challenge investigation.
Let gentlemen disposed TO contest il Sc
lecl 40 article Of foreign goods, yard
Of cloth, a ton Of iron, hat, a coat. a
pair Of shoes. any thing, from a needle
TO an anchor. examine its constituent
parts, the raw materials. the clothing
and The subsistence Of lhe labor employ
ed in it's manufacture, and It wOul be
discovered that more Than hall, ofrn
three fourlhs. of the whole price is made
up Of agricultural produce 1t sawel
known fact that farmers often make
hundreds OF dollars worth OF domestic
goods, cloths, &c, without using a dol.
lars worth Of any thing not produced
on their own farms, goods and cloth
thus made are therefore entirely sgri-
cultural; and are not the same maleri-
als used in the mgnulscIure Of goods.
whether made on farm or in factory 7
Mr. S. said he had ascertained the
fact from his own books kept alta fur
mace, that more than three fourths OF
the price OF avery ton Of iron sold, was
paid to the Deighborlng farmers for
their domestic goods, their meat end
-four, that clothed and fed his hands; /;
for their hay, corn, oats, &C., thai sus
taiCed bis horses, mules and oxen, en-
ployed about his works 10 England,
iron is made ofrh Same materials that
constitute It here; we'll, we now import,
manufactured and unmanufacIured eight
millions Of dollars worth OF iron and
sleel say only half its value is agricul-
tura produce, hen, we send four mil
lions OF dollars year 10 purchase for
aim agFicnItural nFoduca cnnverted in