Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-03-28

90 with the adjustment Of those Difficult
nominations embraced in q tariff bill,
have endeavored to take care that The in
,erests of all the States were protected
) whether they were large or small. say
now to you, and it should be said in Con
gress, aud to the country, that Massachl
sets asks no exclusive legislation. |
Pennsylvania, New York ard Ohio
the three great states, with Kentucky
Georgia, Missouri, Alabama and L0uisl
ana, wish to try an experiment on iron
coal, hemp, cotton brggng, sugar, &c
am ready as one citizen Of Massachusett
to meet it, and await in patient submis
sion the result, which | doubt not will b.
found within eighteen months, in the
realization Of all | have predicted.
say again, ! would not, i! could, have
tariff made for Massachusetts alone. IT
however, there should be new one, lie,
our interests, with those Of every other
in the Union, share that protection tc
which we are all entitled, and OF which
we claim our full share. can with con
idence assure you, that we shall go up
ward and onward. We will work. lfl2
hours labor in he "a will not sustain US,
we can, and will work IA; and at the same
time feel that Congress cannot take the
sineWs from our arms, or rob US OF the
Intelligence acquired from our system of
public schools, established by the fore
sight and wisdom OF our fathers.
At the risk Of writing long letter,
cannot forbear abiding 10 the fact, that
the habitual agita ton of this question OF
the tariff, has worked, in the main, TO the
advantage of New England.
We we're previous to the war Of 1919,
an agricultural AMI navigating people.
The American system was forced upon
US, and that for the purpose Of creating a
home market for the product of the soil
of The South and West; we resisted the
adoption of system, which we honestly
believed would greatly injure our naviga.
ton, and drive US from our accustomed
into business we did not
understand. We came into it, however,
and soon learned, that with
the transfer Of our capital we acquired
skill and knowledge in the use Of it, and
that so far fran our foreign commerce
being dismissed, it was increased, and
that our domestic tonnage and commerce
we're very soon more than quadrupIed.
The Illustrations were so striking in every
department Of labor; that those who, fiji.
cen years ago, were the strongest OPP
'onents among US, have given up their
heorIes, acknowledging that the reVeIa-
IONS are such as TO satisfy the most
keptlca. We have gone forward stead
~, IllI many descriptions OF manulac-
ures are us well settled in New England !
IS the raising Of potatoes. Our expe
encs has given US skill, and Of course
We have confidence in our own resources,
hat does not exist elsewhere.
When converse with gentlemen from
he South and West respecting the eslab
Ishment of manufactures-they reply
hat they should long ago have engaged
n it, but the repeal Of the tariff, the &C
ION OF the government, prevented them.
Now you cannot blame us, if this con-
slant agitation OF the tariff question has
tended TO give View England, not mo.
nopoIy, but advantages which she has
not been instrumental in bringing about.
have no doubt we have been gamers on
the whole, by these agitarlons, yet we
have at times been great sufferers. |
wish those Sat IS that have withheld their
energies from entering upon these indus.
lrlal pursuits, to examine this matter,-
and II | am right, to take an obsercai ion
and a new departure. We have no leal-
'usy whatever concerning the establish
ment OF manufactures in all parts Of the
country; on the contrary believe those
gentlemen from the South and West who
have been here, will bear witness to the
desire on the part OF the people who are
engaged In manufactures, to impart all
the information in their power; there is
room for US all. When the Southern and
Western States shall manufacture their
own clothing, we shall have become ex
tenslHe exporters Of the variety Of manu-
features produced hero. We have the
ships, and the men to navigate them
We shall pursue an extensive foreign com.
merce with manufactures, and bring home
the produce Of other countries, such as
coffee, tea, &c. &c, and pay Cor the pro
duce OF the South AMI West, with for.
elgn luxuries, AID necessaries Of life. 1t
has often been said here by US, who ad
vIcate protection to American labor, that
IN wearing British co;tons, woolIens, &c.
&c, we we're consuming British wheat,
beef, pork, &c. | am happy to find au
thorty of the highest responsibility for
his opinion, in the person Of one OF the
most eminent me rchants, as we'll as one
oil the best and most honorable men in
England, Mr.. William Brown, Of Liver.
pool-latey the free trade candidate for
Parliament, from the county Of Lancas
ter. In letter to John Rofe, Esq, a
Iandholder, upon the advantages of free