Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-04-25

EFFECTS on FARMERS AND MECHANICS.
Bul our present amount OF foreign imports,
viz, one hundred millions, is sufficient TO sup
ply the demand how then are you 10 make
room 70. fiiv millions more ,hi. can only be
done by destroying fifty millions Of dollars OF
our own domestic Productions 10 make way for
hat amouspl Of the productions OF foreign indus
,rv We hmusi, according 10 this financial
scheme not only destroy fifty milIisns of dol
lars worth annually of our productive indus
,irv bu, we mus, tsend fifty millions of dollars
oi hard cash to ofeign countries, 10 purchase
" han we now dol produce, can produce, and
ought 10 produce Al home; and for what? to
raise FIVE milllon5 of revenue by iaxation, which
is no. wanted! Now, sir, submit, is this a
rise. is il an american policy Is ii not ra-
aher British policy, plan 10 reduce the du-
Ties and open our ports 10 The importation Of
British goods, 10 the sacrifice and destruction
OF our own mechanics, farmers and manufactu-
rers Yes, sir, and this is 10 be done by an
american Congress, aud by Iherepresentatires
Of The American people! CAD such an anti
American--such a Brush system as this. stand
fr moment before this free and enlightened
people? Pass this bill, sir. tate FIVE dollars
eff bar iron, and still more off iron in all its
.,ther forms, and, sir you will 60 far 10 exiin-
guish the fires of every furnace and Of every
forge in Pennsylvania. BY thi, bill YOU will
strike down your own mechanics ha,tcrs,
Feur shoemakers, your blacksmhhs, your tai
lers, your saders in shorl. all your mechan-
'cs you will paralyzc and prostate your glass
~orks. paper mills, tannerles, salt works, col
heres, lead mines-your woolltn and cotton
factories; but above all, you aim death blow
al the American farmers, mol only by destroy
ING their home markets, almost the only mar
kets they now have, but what is still worse,
you will convert the mechanics and manufactu-
rers thus thrown out of employment into agri-
cnurists, into producers instead of consumers
of agricultural productions. When you double
production and diminish consumption one-half,
do you not ruin and destroy the farmers OF This
country And, sir, allow me 10 say, that in a
country like this, where seven-eigh,s of the en-
tire population is engaged in agriculture, when
agriculture is destroyed, the country itself is
destroyed Agriculture is the great basis and
foundation on which every thing else depends
when The farmer prospers, all prosper; when
he sinks, all the rest, professional men, me-
chanics, and all go down with him. Ii is the
great object therefore 10 take care Of agricul.
Iure, make this prosperous and the whole coun
lrv will prosper; and how is agriculture TO be
made prosperous but by building up and sus
lainIng home markets 1t is therefore not foi
t ne manufacturers, bul for The mechanics and
farmers, yes, sir, for The farmers, that | advo.
cate the protective policy. There is one i'm
.portaa, fac, which hes deep at The foundation
4s( lhs whole subject. TO which am anxious it
a,lrsci The attention of the farmers and poiIt
clans of this country. and it is this, that half
and more than half. Of The entire price OF th'
hupdred rlIions Of dollars a year OF foreig'
g,s.,i> imported into ahis country Is agriculture
produce raised Ga foreign soul. worked up ant
manufactured into goods, aud thcn sent here
Jor sale; aud thai the farmers and people o
'his ,ounl.y send in this way fifty millions
dollars year To purchase Iureign agriculture
produce, IN The shape OF gods, While ioreIgn
ers lake iilile or nothing lrnm us; our whole
agricultural exports To all The world (excepnn.
cDion ard lobaccol do NOT amount 10 ten mil
r lions of dollars year; thus, sir, we parchas'
hso dollars worth of foreign agricultural pro
dnce 10 every dollars worth We sell; this ma,
seem strange, bur ii is strictly true /; deiy con
lfad.eilom-l challenge Investigation. lie
gentlemen disposed TO contest I, seleci an ar'l