Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-02-07
Eagehela Court House, S. &C., February =, As44.
Mr.. Med. said he had made out an es-

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i innate ofthe amount of Capitol, &c. EN-
/ ployed in manufactures. He would show
The distressed condition Of those manufac.
.iurers who came here begging for aid and
protection. He would show The amour,
of the profits put in their pockets every
year by this system. The manufacturers
Of cotton state their annual productions al
forty-six millions.
The raw material / suppose to be one
forth of the value Of The manufactured ar
ticles. l concede half dollar day to
persons employed, and ten per cent on the
wear and tear of machinery; and The in
terest on tine dead capital kept there put
at ten millions. Let mo give you a pic
ture Of their distress. The manufacturers
of Massachusetts are, from the above data,
now living on the snail profit Of thirty
four per cent. on the capital employed by
them, OH the averge; bur have informs-
lion that come of them are receiving forty
per cent. profit, aud laying aside a hand
some contingent fund. The average pro-
fiji OH other manufactures does not average
but twenty nine per cent. On rolled iron
it is thirty nine per cent. on tho capital
invested. The Senator from Pennsylva-
MIA could correct him If wrong. They re-
ceiyed al their furnaces two cents n
pound.
MIR. McDufie. That is distressing that
they cant not live on profit Of thirty
nine per cent. on their capital.
The Salt made in Virginia cost to make
it S4n0 600, A prof, of eighty per cent.
is made on the capital if the salt sells al
twenty FIVE Gus. hushel. He made these
statements 10 show into whose pockets
these enormous bounlies went. The
ground on which this system was origi-
nally supported q as, tha: it would protect
domestic industry from the competition Of
foreign industry. This was fallacy.
There could be no competition between
the manufacturers here and those broad.
The competition was between the differ
ent branches ofinduslry at home. What
was il TO our manufacturers that at Bir-
minsham they made three hundred mills
lions or three hundred thousand millions
worth of goods 7 II wa nothing til! those
goods we're brought into the Uuilcd States
for consumption.
Another prominent argument i'll favor CT
The protective system was, thai it helped
us to maintain our national independence.
if there was any truth in this argument,
then il would strike blow at once at our
foreign commerce, aud abolish our navy,
which costs us nine millions Of dollars a
year. National independence iudepen
dent ofwhOml
1t is the language Of depots-it is the
language of those who could live by plum
der-of those who war with the peace and
welfare OF the human kind. Now, sir,
nothing under heaven 80 illustrates the
principles of Christianity as this mutual deg
pendence of nations. 1t was this genersI
principle of harmony between nations, this
bond TO keep the peace, that the tariff sys!
leul would break down. 1t was tho only
foundation OIL which the peace and hapi-
ness of the world could rest. He cannot
be a Christian who seeks 10 destroy This
bnnd of fellowship between nations.
These remarks were not speculative, nor
were they made for any vain object OF display.
They referred 10 state Of things that was ac-
luaiiy approaching. The system aimed at the
destruction OF the commerce which tends to
bind us i'll relations Of peace TO come into con-
flict Yet, while destroying thrce-iourtis of
our commerce with England aud the rest of En-
rope, we are rearing up navy at the expense
of nine millions year. We mast build ships
TO empuly workmen. most pathetic appeal
was lately made 10 us in behalf of workmen at
tlc navy yard for employment; and the admin.
is,raton OF the Government was denounced in
the public prints because it would not keep
persons employed without authority o! law. tn
coming to this city in the cars from Baltimore,
he heard this matter spoken Of in such a man.
ner rs to lead ono 10 suppose that the srlev-
ancc was beyond endurance, and that the peo-
ple concerned would come TO this Capitol and
drive us from our places here. THIS state of
feeljua naturally resulted from the spirit and
genius Of this system
WHY maintain these splendid fleets securing
the Pacific, the coast Of Africa, DC. for the
sake of n pallry commerce Of three millions
lfyou must destroy foreign commerce, you
must also destroy the navy. We must adopt
tho policy of the Chiuese-as they were, not
as they are. You want navy to deiend our
commerce Against whnm7 Pirales7 En-
sIand1 for she is held up as the tugbear when
ever YOU are asked for appropriations. What
do you want this navy lori To defend COM
merce, yon say. But the great enemy Of COM
merce is not England, nor pirates, nor foreign
nations, but here in this Capitol; and before
God. he declared that he would rather under
take TO defend commerce from all those ene-
niou than from thi3 COualcss.
1t was also urged that the system would ben
eft farmers. How The circle within which
the farmer could deal with the manufacturers
beuefcially was narrow. He would agree that
for short distance. il was mutual monopoly.
1t did not extend far because Of distance, and
the difficulty oftrausportation prevented it
| Now, he would tell the gentlemen that the
planters of the Soulh bear the same relation to
! Liverpool aud Manchester-their nalural mar.
kets-that the Eastern farmers bear to the man
ulaclurer, in their immediate vicinity. Dis
,ance made no difference 10 the parties. Theil
natural markets which God gave them, were
in Liverpool and Manchester, and Leeds and
Birmingham.