Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-12-24


Twill ask what is the real situation Of The
agrcuturaiistl Where has the American Gar.
mer market for bis surplus produce! Ex.
cept Tor cotton he has neither foreign nor a
4 home market. Does nol this Clearly prove.
wnen there is no market at home orabfoad. that
there Is too much labor csapio,ycd II agYleuHr,
Common sense al once points out The remedy.
Take from agriculture ID the Jftitsd Statcs sir
hundred thousand men, sron,ea aud children, and
you ,eHl AZ once gre a maskes for more bread
stqfs than al Europe no,e FURNISHES as In
short, sir, we have been loo long subject 10 the
policy OF British merchants, lis time we
should become more .isnericmised, and instead
Of feeding paupers and laborcrs OF England.
feed our own or else. in a short time, by con,
tinuing our present policy, we shall be render
ed paupers ourselves
ANDREW JACKSON.
certainly do notmean to say that the Pres
iden, and his Secretary are not men Of com
mon sense, but certainly the common sense
remedies which they prescribe for national
prosperity, differ very widely from tile remedy
which General JACKSON in his letter says
''common sense at once points out" AT the
time the General wrote his letter. the peo-
pie Of the United States were mainly purcha-
sing their goods abroad, and our imports were
over Eighty millions Of dollars-yastly more in
proportion to our wealth, products aud popu-
lation than they now are. and yet they did not
then afford US a market for any thing like our
surplus of Breadstufs, SC. And vet the
Message and Treasury Report say, and insist
on it, that if We buy our goods abroad, Europe
~uist take our provisions at fair prices. The
intelligent freenen Of this Republic will under
stand all Of these musis. and viii weigh them
by the pas, history and experience Of the coun-
try. Our Republic has not vet grown grey in
years, and scarcely so years have rolled away,
since the dislresses prevailing from 1850 TO 80,
caused the Federal Constitution, through ne
cessity, 10 be formed, in order TO give shape and
form, and protection to the labor and industry
Of the Nation, and provide some way to raise
Rerenuc for the support Of Government, then
we bought every thing in Europe, and yet
Farmers were without uarkets-laborers with
out employment, and people and Government
comparatively penniless. Why then did not
the law Of must prevail with Europe? She
did as she chose, and listened or not as her ne
cessiiies required, when we said to her, we buy
of you, you must take our produce in return
Seeing the necessity of Tariff was soon
and Government soon began to look up, and
the Farmer TO find market. Protection from
that day, has met the appreciation and received
the supper, of the best statesmen OF the Coun
try, though occasionally ii has been set aside,
never, however, without bringing financial
crises on the country, and casting a Inildew
over every branch Of our National Industry
Let the farmers contemplate the simple and
plain history of Protection, and they VIII at
once tear in t,cain the ilimsy web Of sophisry,
which seeks to use tllem as the instrument, Of
destruction to system which has proved
blessing to the country in time Of peace, aud
one Of its strongest shields in time Of war
Let them scout the idea Of Favored classes"
and compare for themselves he facts with the
official assertions. The President says, "the
increased demand for. and increasing prices Of
provisions, are caused By the removal OF artii-
cial restrictions" is 10 say. by the Ges-
,ruction Of the the American Tariff Of 1872
and the establishment OF the Act Of '4G, which
has been praised in the British Parliament, aud
adopted as their own. Does not every farmer
know tina, prices are iorer this day. than they
Were even one year ago, under the Tariff Act
OF AZ, and instead Of increasing prices" they
are actually decreasing every day Do not
the President and Secretary know the same
thing Certainly they do. Do not Farmers,
know that Europe will buy food and provisions
OF us, when her own hsrvests and stocks lal
and not otherwise This she will be obi
ged TO do when necessity compels her-ii mat
ters but little whether Free Trade or Protection
is in the ascendency. But ifshe does not want
ii, she won't take it, though our fields should
groan under their weight, and become strewn
with our wasting and rotting surplus. II we
want goods we can get them, but we iaasi pay
the specie she will soon demonstrate to the
President that she must not take our produce in
exchange He is a short sighted statesman,
who POUNDS policy upon the present disas.
tiers and dis,resses Of any country--a failureof
crops will not always be the LOT of England
and Europe. Before another year gdes away
into eternity. the following extract from the
Message, may rise up 10 mock Mr.. Pork and
his theories. The same destruction (God grant
tina, it may not be SOY which now sweeps Ike
the "simoon blast" over Europe, may come
over our broad acres, and cause us to look to
Europe, as her starving millions now do 10 US.
Here is the extract, read it,
"Our farmers are more deeply interested in
maintaining TIE just and liberal policy Of tho
existing law than any other class OF our cIt-
zens They constitute large majority ofour
population and il is well known that when
they prosper, all other pursuits prosper also
They have heretofore not only received none
/ OF the bounties or favors OF Government, but.
I BIZ the unequal operations ofthe protective po-
! hey, have been made, by the burdens Of taxa
I ton which il imposed, TO contribute 10 the
/ bouu,iss which have enriched others.
"When foreign as well as home market
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