The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-05-25

casional competition from abroad, but a
source of domestic wealth and external
commerce. In selecting the branches
more especially entitled to public patron
age, a preference is obviously claimed by
such as will release the United States
from a dependence on foreign supplies
ever subject to casual failures, for articles,
necessary for the public defence, or con-
nec,ed with the primary wants of indi-
viduas. 1t will be an additional recon-
mendalion Of particular manufactures,
where the materials for them are extern
slvely drawn from our agriculture, and
consequently impart and insure to that
great fund of national prosperity and in
dependence, an encouragement which
cannot fail to be rewarded."-.Madison's
seventh annual message.
'Oar manufactures will likewise re-
quire the systematic and fostering care of
The Government. Possessing, as we do,
all the raw materials, the fruit of our own
soil and industry, we ought not to de-
pend, in the degree we have done, Gu sup
plies from other countries. While we
are thus dependent, the sudden event of
war, unsought and unexpected, cannot
fail to plunge us into the most serious
difficulties. 1t is important, too, that the
capital which nourlshes our manufactures
should be domestic, as its influence in that
case, instead of exhausting, as it must do
in foreign hands, would be felt advan,a-
geously on agriculture, and every other
branch of industry. Equally importan,
is it to provide at home market for our
raw materials; as, by extending the com
petition, it will enhance the price, and
protect the cultivator against the casual
lies incident to foreign markets" -.Mon-
roe's inaugural address.
"Uniformi.y in the demand and price
of all article, is highly desirable to the do
nestle manufacturer. 1t is deemed of great
Importance to give encouragement to our
domestic manufactures. "-.Monroe's third
annual message.
SIT cannot be doubted, that the more
complete our internal resources, and the
less dependant we are on foreign powers
for every national as well as domestic
purposes, the greater and more stable will
be the public felicity. By the increase of
domestic manufactures, will the demand
for the rude materials at home be increas-
ed; and thus will the dependence of the
several parts Of the Union on each other,
and the strength Of the Union itself, be
proporllonately augmented. .Monroe's
l. Gfh annual message.
Satisfied am !, whatever may be the
abstract doctrine in favor of Unrestricted
commerce, provided all nations would
concur in it, and it was not liable TO be
interrupted by war, which has never &C.
Cured, and cannot be expected, that there
are other strong reasons applicable to our
situation and relations with other coun-
tries, which impose on us the obligation
to cherish and sustain our manufactures.
Satisfied am. however, likewise, that the
interest of every part Of our Union, even
those benefited by manufactures, require
that this sub ject should be touched with
the greatest caution, and critical knowl-
edge of the effects to be produced bv the
slightest changes. "-.Nonroe's sirh an
nual message.
"The great interest of an agricultural,
commercial, and manufacturing nation,
are so linked in union together, that no
permanent cause Of prosperity to one of
them can operate without extending its
influence to the other. All these are
alike under the protecting power OF egis-
lative authority, and the duties of the re-
preventative bodies are to conciliate them
in harmony together"
Sis the self-protecling energy of this
nation so helpness that there exists in the
political institutions of our country no
power to counteract the bias of foreign
Legislation; that the growers of grain mus.
submit to the exclusion from the foreign
markets Of their produce; that the ship
pers must dismanlle their ships, the trade
of the north stagnate at the wharves, and
the manufactures s.arve at their looms,
while the whole people shall pay tribute
to foreign industry 10 be clad in foreign
CARDS; that the Congress of the Union are
impotent TO restore the balance in favor
of native industry destroyed by the sta
tute Of any realm2"-.4dams' 4h annual
message.
The poser TO impose duties upon i'm
ports originally belonged to the several
States. The right to adjust these duties,
with view to the encouragement of do.
mes,ic branches of industry is so COM
pletely identical with that power, that i, is
difficult to suppose the existence Of the
one without the other. The States have
delegated their whole authority over i'm
ports TO the General Government, without
Limitation or restriction, saving the very
ncunslderable reservation relating to the
inspection laws. This authority having
thus entirely passed from the States, the
right to exercise it for the purpose of pro-