The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-07-11

interest 10 cherish and cultivate all. But | be-
ieve 1t to be our indispensable duty to afford
proper and reasonable encourag cement to our
own.
But il must be borne in mind that. although
Cotton is by far the most important of our agri-
cHitufai products, II is not the only one. Where
should we lind a market for o6r Indian corn il
ltwere mol Tor the existence of our manufactu-
res! We should absolutely have none. My
friend, Mr.. Pettlgrew, who sits before me, can
find no market for his corn in North Carolina,
because his neIghbors, like himself, are occu-
pied Ia producing II. Nor can he mud any IN
foreign countries. But he meets with a good,
sure, and convenient market in Boston and Pro-
whence, aud ether Northern capitals. Where
should we seek a market for the flour, provisions
and other raw agricultural produce now con-
sumed by our manufacturers! If their present
business were destroyed, they would be en-
ployed themselves in producing cotton, corn,
provisions and other agricultural produce, thus
augmenting the quantity and inevitably leading
TO a further decline OF prices.
Ithas been contenGed that fhe effect Of afford
ing legal encouragement to domestic maufactn
res is, TO enhance The price OF commodities. and
TO impose ajax upon the consumer. TINS ar
gunent has been a thousand times retuted.
1t has been shown again and again, that the
price 70 almost every article, on which the
system OF encouragement has effectually opera
ted, has been reduced to tue consumer. And
this was :he necessary consequence OF that law
SuDDlN anu 0GtidlO dn0 LHAL BiiuGip4O VI NOth
petition to which | have before adverted. IL
was Iorelold long ago By myselfand other friends
OF the policy. But II Is in vain that we appeal
to facts thai we take up article by article, and
comparing present with former prices, show the
actual and gradual reduction. The Tree trader
has mounted his hobby. and he has detrmined to-
spur aud whip hun on rough shod, over all facts,
obstacles and i~mpediments that lie in his way.
1t was but the other day. | heard one of these
free trade orators atfessing an audience, and
depicting. in the most plalntIye and doieful
terms, the extreme burdens and oppressive
exactions arising out of the abominable Tariff.
Why, says he, feilow-citIzens, every one OF you
that wears q SHIRT, is compelled TO pay six cents
per yard more for 1t than You otherwise would
do, in order TO increase the enormous wealth OF
Northern capitalists. An old man in the crowd
plainly dressed, with scarcely any thug but u
shirt on, stopped the eloquent orator aud asked
him how that could be? Tor sa $ he, | have a
good shir; on, that cost me only 81 els. per y'd,
and / should like TO know how J paid a duty OF
6 cents.n
These ingenious and indefaiigable theorists
not only hold all facts and experience in con-
empt,butthey are utterly inconsistent with them
selves.-At one time. they endeavort to raise The
alarm that the tariff would put an end to all Tor
eign commeTce, and thus drying up our principle
source Of revenue in imports, 1t would become
necessary to resort to direct taxation. In pro
cess oi time, however, their predictions were
falsIied, and the system was found 10 produce
an abuudant revenue. Then. they shifted lhtIr
ground The Treasury, said they is Overlooking
the Tariff is the cause ,and the system must be
abandoned. Ii they had taken the trouble &c
enquire, they might have ascertained that al
though England is the greatest manufacturing
nation IN the world, in amount. extent and vas
Iety, she nevertheless dra MS a vast revenue from
customs.
Allow me 10 present to you, fellow-citizens
another view. OF this interesting subject
The Government wishes to derive a cerIaIn a
mount OF revenue from foreign imports. Let Ia
suppose the total amount OF imports to be 500,
pUU,O0O, aud The total amount of revenue 10 bt
raised from it, 10 be SEQ, 600, 600. Is il at al
material, whether that S20,000,00 be spread, il
tHe torn oil duties. equally over the whole 1O1,
100000 or that II be Grawn from some $4,000,
QUO or more ot the imports, leaving the rest FREE
OF duty! In point OF tact. such has been thu
case ter several years. Is not a compensation
found. Tor the duty paid upon one article, by tn
exemption of duty from another article! TAX,
ihe wearing apparel of a single individually, an
suppose you have a duty OF s. to raise upon it
Is II OF any consequence to him whether yoi
levy the whole S. upon all parts OF his wearing
apparel equally. or levy il exclusively upon hI
coat aud his shit, leaving the other articles free
And II, hy such determinations as | have des
erbed, without prejudice TO the consumer, 20
San raise up, cherish, aud sustain domestic mai
uiuctures. increasing the wealth and prosperity
and encouraging the labor OF the nation, ought
not to be doue?
We are invited By ihe partizans of the do'
inne OF free trade, 10 initiate the liberal exam
pie OF the great European powers. England
we ATE told, Is abandoning her restrictive polio
and adopting that OF free trade. England adop
ing the principles OF free trade. Why, whel
are her corn laws! Those laws which excluc
an article OF prime necessisy-the very brea
which sustalns human ille-in order To affol
protection to English agriculture. And, OH ii
single article oil Amercdn tobacco, Englan
levIes annually an amount OF revenue equal
the whole amount OF duties, lerieG annually |
the United States upon all the article OF impo
from all the foreign nations of the world, inciu
lug England. That is her free trade! And
ior France, we have lately seen a State pap
from one Of her high functionaries, complaImI
in bitter terms of the American Tariff of 1912,
ending with formally announcing to the wor
that France steadily adhered to the system
protecting French industry!
But, fellow-citizens, | have already d
tanned you loo long on this interesting to
ic, and yet | have scarcely touched it. +
near 3Oyearsit has agitated the nation. t
subject has been argued and debated a lhot
and times, in every conceivable form. 1t
time that the policy ofthe country shou
become settled and fixed. Any stable q
lustment Of it, whatever it may be, will
far preferable TO perpetual yascillation.
When once determined, labor, enterprise a
can accommodate themselS
accordingly. But in finally settling it, I
interests of the whole Union, as well as
Its parts, should be duly considered, il
paternal end ~frateTnal spirit. The Conf
eracy consists oftwenty-six States, besie
territories, embracing every variety of p
suit, every branch of human industry. Th'
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