The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-05-02
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W|NNAEE OF "a AaLAAN 49,
plsIkBVTI0xs
DsIis,.sd q lie lease e Representatives -
ths Islh e Nsfch. 1854
Bot our present amcunl az forsign in.
porls, va. one husdIed mlllions, 10 sui /
6elrnl 10 supply The demahd; bow ihen
ere YOU l0 make roam Tor fiiy millions
mon I lhis ean oaly be done by destroy.
ing 6lly malIlans Of dollars &c our owR
damesne projections. % maks gay far
Ihal amount Of he psodueiions Of iof.
siea industry. We meet. seeoEting n
lh,s 6nsnei.l scheme. not Only desiroy
6lry millions af dailass worth annually
oI cor productive industry. but ne mnst
send CIV millions Of dollars of hard cash
20 foreign countries. 70 purchase what
we now do produce. can produce. and
ooh ~ 20 produce. u home; and for Nha I!
10 RAISE Eve Dillians 81 revenue By taxa
ton, which 10 nol wsn,ejl Nov. SIR. ]
submit. 10 this wise. 10 u an American
policyl Il il not rather Brifish pol'.
cy. q plan 10 reduce The dUiirs and open
oar ports 10 the importation Of British
goods, 20 The sacrifice and destruction
Of our a~n mechanics. farmers, AID ma
nuf, ciurer.i Yes, sir. and lhis 70 10 be
done BY IN American C0ngress. and BY
the Representatives Of The AnerisE peo-
ole! Can sucn m anti AIneTican--such
. British syslsm - ihIs. stand Tor mo-
mrnI before this free and enlightened peo.
Pile! Pass tins bill. sir. take Eve dollars
OF bar iroa. and snll more OF IRON in all
It's other fnIms. and, sir. you gill 90 Ear 10
sxlineulsh The fires ef every furnace and
Of every forge in Pennsylvania. By This
bill you will strike down your own me.
ehsncss--your hatiers, your shoemakers.
your 81 ,cksmilhs. your iailnrs. your cad
lers; in short. al youI mtchaniesi you
viii psIslyxe aud PROSTATE your glass
works. paper mills. ssnneries. salt works.
eullieries, lead minss--yeur wOollen and
cotton isclories; but above all. you aim
death blow al tie American tanners. not
only BY destroying their home markets,
slnns, the only markets they nov have,
bu, what is still worse. you Will convert
the mechanics add msnuisc urers thus
drown nut Of employ meEt into aeilcal-
turists. into producers instead Of consum-
ers Of agricultural productions. When
yOu double productlnn and diminish con-
sumption ons.hsli, do you not ruin and
destroy the farmers OF this Country! And,
sT, allow me 10 say. tina, in country
ike this, where sesen-eighn Of the eniIre
population is engaged in agriculture.
when sgricuIIurse j. destroyed, the eoun-
try Itself is destroyed. Agriculture isihe
great basis aud foundation on which every
thing else depends; hen the fsImer pros-
peIs, all pIo.p,i; when he sInks. all the
rest, Professional men, mechanics. aud all
20 down with him. IL 10 The eres, object
therefore TO lake care Of agriculture
make this prosperous and The whole couH-
try will prsnp,t; and how Is agriculture
to be made pr, perous bat By building up
and sustaining hume markets! IL is there'
lore got for the manufacturers, bu. Tor the
meehsDics and farmers, yes, sir, Tor h'
farmers. that | advocate the protective 20
Icy. There is one important f'ci shlct
lies deep al the faundauon Of the whole
!. subiec,, TO which an anxious TO alirsc
the attention Of the farmers aud polIicIsn'
: OF Ills county, AMI II Is this, hat hall
= and mere than half, OF the ea,ite piice o
, the hui.G,rd millions Of dclisrs year o
, foreign gnot!s imported into this counir!
10 agriruitur slprotuce raised On !oreigl
: soft; worked up and maniac,ur' d int
!. goods. and thsn sent here Tor sal; al,
;. that the farmers and people % this ccun
: try send in this way tii.y millions Of d"l
} lars a year to purchase foreign agrIrul
d iural proiuce. IN the shape &c goods. whrl
\. Iorelgners take little or nothing from US
4 our whole ayr cultural exports o all N
= aorlh (cxeeping cotton and tObscc") d
IS no, amount 10 ten millions nj dollars
y yes,, thus. sir. We purchase FIVE dollars
/. wnrlh Of ioteign agricultural produce ,
II every dollars worth we seil; this INA
- seem strange, but II 10 strictly true; lie
i. Gy coutrs,l'ctlon--i challenge invesIig;
., VuUs llCt q Hbtrhrh hSIUsth W S'Htt'
!. It sriecl an a, i,rie Of foreign goods.
Dl yard ot cloth, ton OF iron, a hat. a Goa
par Of shpes. any Thing. /" from a nee
e, die ~ an anchor" examine Its c"nsti,uei
% paris. the raw material. the rlolhing al
rs the subsistence Of the labor employed
ITS manufacture. and IL would be dIscnse
}. ed ,ha, more than half. often ihree-frurth
ID oil the whole price IS made mp Of sgtieu
,e lnrsl produce. Ii is a veil known IA
n tha, farmers oi,en make, hundred. 0f do
h lar worth Of domestic goods. cloths, e.
~ithou: using q dollars worth of an
thing not produced on their own farm
d. goods and cloth thus made are thereto
d. eatuely agricultural: and are not 'he san
" materials used in The manufacture #,
$. goods. whe.ll.r made on farm or ~
W factory!
o. Mr.. 5. said he had ascor,ained the IA
- from his own bnoks kept al furnsc
81 hal more than three fourihs Of he prl
20 OF every ton Of iron sold. was paid 10 II
IN neIghboring farmers for their domes,