The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-23

disgraceful misrepresentatlons, to gloze over his heresies. For example--we copy the following from the New York Plebelan:
 FALsEHoops OF WEBsTER.-Mr. Webster, in his Albany speech, says V
 "In the first place, snassachaseAs tqkeS ana pays for cotton to tte amount ot SI,o0o,ooO annually.
 'sAnd now, if you go to Boston and look at the oreat depot of the Western railroad, you will find it filled with flour; and Ill every road, and on the side hills of New HamP- shire. and wherever is water to float, or steam power to convey 1t, ill every village and town, and at every cross-road, you will ind Hour bearing every brand from the State of New Yorll and the West; and thefe'S where It IS consumed. Massachusetts takes and pays for four annually to the amount of S4,00O,00O.
 ''She takes and pays for another S4,00O,-I GOO in corn and other grain, and much ot this IS from New I ork and the Southern States, Michigan, Ohio, &c., of wooI-and let the farmers of Duchess understand that, and the farmers of Pennsylvania, and the farmers of Vermont, and farmers everywhere. Let them understand when the price of wool IS raised, what raises 1t.
 Massachusetts herselfreceives S3,000,000 worth of wool; and let the farmers get that amount, if they can out of an incidental and
 udicious' Tariff!
 "Of leather and hides, from the mountains of New York mainly, Massachusetts buys every year S700,000
 '' She buys and consumes beef, pork, and other provisions, to the amount ot S3,O00,- 900.
 's0f butter and cheese, mostly from New York, she buys Sl,000,000.
 's She takes S500,000 of pig lead from Missouri and Illinois.
 ".She tahes S3,0O0,900 of rice trom South Carolina for consumpiioa, and
 Of tar, pitch, Sc, from achat they call the glorious old ,Nor7h State,' $l000,000
 ''And, not to overlook Pennsylvania, she pays her annually S800,000 for iron.o
 The Charleston Mercury exposes portion of these fa!sehoods, in thearticle we quote below; and we have no doubt that careful examination will find similar glaring errors in the other items:
 ssBLUNBERING XTRAoRDlNARY.-Alr Web- ster's recent speech in Albany produced an effect here amounting almost to consternation. It seems unaccountable, fl his gross mis-state- ments are excused as unintentional, that a man who has been all his life engaged in public affairs, should be profoundly ignorant and equally unaceountable, if he wished to give the protective party the benefit of a fresh manufacture of iacts,-that he should have taken so little pains 10 conceal the gross ness of the fabrication in the gloss of the fabric. We will give few specimens:
 :" He says, that Massachusetts consumes of tar, pitch, Sc, from North Carolina, to the amount of Sl,000,000 annually Now, we have made diligent inquiry, and find that the entire export of those articles from that State but little exceeds half million of dollars, and of this 1t IS estimated Europe consumes about nine-tenhs
 '' He says, that Massachusetts consumes annually S3,00,000 of South Carolina rice. If he had consulted the price current, he would have fould that the entire shipment does not exceed 5000 casks, which, at S17 per cask, is worth S1,530,0 0,000-and of this but small portion IS actually consumed in l Massachusetts.
 "Again. he says, Massachusetts takes ST. 100000 worth of cotton annually. Now, the entire consumption of cotton in the U. $. is not 100000 bales, which, at S20 per | bale-the average value fer some years past Is worth only S8,000,000. The number oi Cotton Manulactories in the United States since l843 see American Almanac, page l45,, was l,240, with an aggregate capital ot 5 l5,- 765, l24-of which 278 were in Massachu- sets, with capital of $ Sl,179,085, On . comparison of these figures 1t does not appear that Massachusetts consumes more than l00 900 bales of cotton annually, which, at p2C per bale, is worth two only, instead of sever millions of dollars Tins is what Mir. Web ster calls taking practical view of the advan tages of the protective policy. The whole system, from its first foundation to it's las glass, IS but eoncatenated falsehood, and any other defence of 1t would be the intrusion o a foreign and unnatural ingredent.o
 We regret the necessity of pointing out !; similar mis-statement at our own doors-no designed, we trust, by its authors but for tho want of little, plain explanation, calculated to deceive the yeomanry of the land. Gu able friend, Ednunds, of Halifax, who wield. the weaYer's beam all around him, among the Coon Orators of the District, made some remarks upon the shipments of four from oul port-upon which some of the coons apply for information to the merchants of Richmond They furnish large list of flour, which we ship to the N orth-without qualifying their statistics with the fact, known 10 so many of our merchants, that though this quantity is sent to the N orth, is not destined, in great degree, for the consumption of the North The greater part is certainly not intended for the manufacturers; for, they generally use other bread-stuas; and, Meretore, 1t does not establish the proposition which Messrs. Clay and Webster are so anxious to propagate, that by encouraging manufactures you encourage &riculture-lor, as they say, the manuiacto- ries furnish mouths to eat up the farmers bread. Some portion of the inferior bread- stuffs of the South may be consumed by the seamen, shippers, and other classes of the North. But far the greater proportion of the four, which VIC ship to the North, is sent there for tranchi inp,nnt fr, f,ra;O, ,,orfe