The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-18


IL sbpsafs BY feiSfsh5s 10 Gat H5hsfatslbaai
tshtft of Friday alghl'c proceedings of The tiodss,
that we omitted notice Of the excellent speech
of Mr. Patterson, Of New York, on the Tariff-as
did most of our contemporaries. In Justice to that
gentleman we insert the following sketch of his
remarks
During the night session. on Friday the 18th
instant, when the Senate's amendment to the
Civil and Diplomatic bill. making an appropria-
tlon for the Belgian mission was under conslde-
ration Mr. Patterson, of New York, rose, in the
absence OF the reporters, and took ground di-
rectly opposite to that assumed by the gentleman
from Tennessee, (Mr. Johnson,) who opposed all
appropriations, upon the ground that the system
raising revenue by a tariff of duties discriminating
for protection was unconstitutional, lnequtable,
and unjust Mr.. p gave history of the origin
of the tariff--showing that South Carolina sane
toned the doctrine Of protection, and was nstru-
mental in perfecting the first act introduced at
the first session of Congress which convened
under the Constitution in 1899, brought forward
and advocated by Mr. Madison, upon the ground
that Congress did possess the right to protect
manufactures against foreign competition. He
controverted the doctrine that duties imposed
tax upon the consumer, and that they enhanced
the value of articles of the same kind produced in
racter of the alliance which the gentleman from
South Carolina (Mr. Holmes) attempted to form
with the West, to put down the tariff He ar
gued that the protective policy was the true pol
icy for tho whole country, and more particularly
for the West. He maintained, that manufacture
ing did not beget ignorance and vice, by referring
to it's effects upon European nations, particularly
England and France. He sketched the rise and
progress of manufactures amongst the Moors,
thar af ho inc Of dISCOVprV n
this country, the incidents connected with lsa-
bela's sending forth Columbus in search OF a new
hemisphere, and closed by abiding to CONVEX
sation he had held with Mr. Douglass, of Illinois,
in which he was revelng in the most extrava-
giant anticpations of the future greatness of the
West-cities were to arise there which would
surpass New York. While contemplating their
prospective grandeur, he almost realized the SUI
blime vision of Byron, when he says
II stood in Venice, on the Bridge Of Sighs
And saw from out the wave her structures rise
thousand years their cloudy wings expand
Around me, and dying glory smiles
Over the fair time, when many subject land
Looked to the winged lions marble piles, isles"
When Venice sat IN state, throned upon hundred
How such magnificent cities were to spring
into existence was more than he could divine.
But let the West come up to the work, and sus-
tain her true interests-which are, emphaticay,
Wing measures-by adequately protecting every
branch of home industry. and carrying out Judi
cious system of internal improvements. This
was the policy which had enrolled New England
in the beautiful garments with which she is
adorned, making her waste places bloom like the
rose-substtuting in New York the hum Of the
happy husbandmen for the hiss Of the serpent,
the scream of the panther, and the still more
frightful battle yell Of the red man--making every
hill top and valley in Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey ring with the merry clink Of the mechanics
hammer, building scores of towns, and developing
the untold wealth of their iron mountains. The
same policy will equally enrich and bless the
West and South, if they will avail themselves of
its protecting wings
While giving short history Of the tariff, and
South Cardinals connexon with it, Mr.. Simpson,
and other members of that delegation, called him
to order for irreevancy; the Speaker, however,
declared he was in order, and he was sustained
by loud calls for him to proceed from various
parts of the House.