Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-01-11
From the Richmond Wing.
FORMER PRESIDENTS ON THE TARIFF.

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While :he Enquirer is engaged in the task Of
presenting the tariff as an unheart of enormity il
may not be amiss to refresh the memory of our
readers by a few short extracts from the messa-
yes of former Presidents, to whom that paper sue
cessively proiessed the most unlimited devotion,
First Of all comes the Father of his Country.
In his message of 9th July, 1890, he uses the
following language:
"The safety and interest of The people require
that they shall promote such manufactures as tend
10 render them independent for essentials" &c.
The Enquirer may plead homage to that; SO we
give HIN next an extract from the message Of Mr..
Jefferson, date, Dec. 1902:
$40 cultivate peace and maintain commerce
and navigation, In all their lawful enterprises: to
favor our fisheries nurseries of navio .tion; and
TO protect the manufactures adapted to our cir.
cunistances."
Agains
hen nation imposes high duties on our
productions, Or prohiJiis them altogether il NAV
be proper Ter us to do the same by theirs, first
burdenin2 or Excluding their productions, which
they bring here in competition with our own of the
same kind"
MIR. Madison was Qi,eray) the father of our
Constitution. In his message Of May, 1909, he
recommends TO Congress-
ITO make such further alterations in the laws
as viii more especially protect and foster the sew.
eral branches OF manufacture"
Six years after, viz; in 1915, he goes still fur.
,hcr into the subject. Hear him.
''There is subject which can enter with
greater force into the deliberations of Congress
Than consideration of the means to preserve and
promote manufactures, which have sprung into
existence and attained unparalleled maturity
throughout the U: s., during The period Of the Eu-
ropean wars; this. source of national indepen-
dence and wealth, | anXiously recommend there
lore to the prompt and constant guardianship of
Congress-
| MIR. Monroe, another Virginia President, in his
Inaugural Address, held the following language.
sour manufactures will likewise require the
systematic and fostering care of government
possessing, as we do, all The raw materials the
irut OF our own soil and industry, we ought not
TO depend, in the degree have done, on the
! supplies from other countries" &c.
In alluson to the same subject, he afterwards
says:
''lt is Important too that the capital which nour.
lShes our manufactures should be domestic and
It's influence in that case, instead of exllausting,
as 1t may do in foreign lands. would be felt ad.
vantaeeousy on agriculture and every other
branch of industry equally important is il TO pro-
vide HOME MARKET Tor our raw materials, as by
! extending the competition it will enhance the
price and protect The cul,vator against the casual
Ties incident to foreign markets.
We pass over what Mr.. Adams said on this
subject, as being of weight with the editor of
the Enquirer But we make up for the omission.
by inserting, at full length, the following letter
from man, the bare mention of hose name is
wont to enrap,ure the old gentleman:
Washington City, April 26, 1924.
Heaven smiled upon us and gave us liberty and
independence. That same Providence has bles-
sea us win the means of national independence
and national defence. If we omit or refuse 10 use
the gifts which he has extended to US, we deserve
not the continuance Of his blessing. He has filled
our mouains and our plains with mineras-with
lead, IRON, and copper, and given us a climate and
SOIL Tor The growing Of hemp and wool. These
being the great materials of our national Defence
they ought TO have extended to them adequate and
iair protection that our manufacturers and. labo.
Ters may be placed in fair competition with
those OF Europe, and that we have within our
country supply OF those leading and important
articles so essential in war.
VIII ask what is the real situation Of the ar.
ricultuTist! Where has the American farmer a
market for his surplus produce! Except for cot.
ION he mas neither foreign nor home mar
ket. Does not this clearly prove, then, when
there is no market either at home or abroad, that
mere is too much labor employed in agricultural
common sense at once points out the remedy
lake from agriculture in the United States six
hundred thousand men, women and children, and
you VIII at once give market for more bread.
stufis than all Europe now furnishes u.s. In
short, sir, we have been too long subject to the
policy OF British merchants. 1t is time we should
become little more Amercanized, and instead Of
ieedng paupers and laborers Of England, feed
our own; or else, in short time, by continuing
our present policy, we shall be rendered paupers
ourselves 1t is therefore my opinion that care.
full and judicous tariff is much wanted to paw our
national debt, and to afford us the means of that
defence within ourselves on which the safety of
our country depends; and last though not least,
give proper distribution to our labor, which
must prove beneficial to the happiness, indepen-
denCe, and wealth of the community.
am, sir, very respectfully,
our most ob't. serv't.,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Our readers here have authority, which the En-.
quref cannot object to, for the present Tariff, and
more especially for its protective features.
OREGoN.--The st. Louis Republican of the
18th alt., contains letter from Oregon, bearing
date Fort Hall, September 2OlI, from which we
make the following extract:
"The emigrants passed this place some short
time since, pretty well worn down and quite
scarce of provisions. The Indians on the Colum-
bia expected to become troublesome to these
new corners. 1t is supposed they induced to
acts OF violence by some persons as yet unknowhs
They have already burned DR.. Whemans mile
and fear II is not the last spark which will be-