Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-06-06

ann now OF age am nay own feet can make my way
through the world have met John Bull and beat him
thank you very much for what you done for me- and
will be burden you no longer take of the
younger branches of the family"
The rest of the country comparatively young in
features. They still needed the helping hand of Governments
they wanted protection in their infancy. New England
nagnanous and patriotic she wished to other portions of
the country prosper by following her example when the South
and estsupped they could the goods she would
to work the finer fabrics Did not the gentleman that
by reducing the tariff he checking investments his own
country and in mine, in the South and West and thereby
securing monopoly to vested capital wherever it existed,
and present high profits which could only be reduced by
larged competition at home Was not this true Was ii
not common He put every mans understanding
II was not only common sense but, what more,
universal experience.
To show the practical operation Of the protective policy,
he would take, by way OF illustration, the neghbong iron
works at Mount Savage, near Cumberland That establishment
had been built up within few years Some time before
commenced land could be bought there for and three dol
lars which could not be purchased under twenty
thirty dollars and mineral lands had lately been sold at
hundreds Of dollars per acre, which, few years before these
improvements made, comparatively worthless Such
the effects Of the protective policy. Was this system
hurul to agriculture Then let gentlemen look at the Lau
rel Factory not far from this CITY, The proprietor of that fac
tory lately bought the ground which it stood for five dollars
and the proprietor trying purchase
land in the neghborhood at fifty and could get it. This
was the effect OF giving the farmers market Manufactur
ing establishments multiplied the value Of farms in their yic
nifty often en twenty, and sometimes mineral lands, hun
fold So much for the effect of protection agcul
ture And what was its effect upon labor Did not in
the price of labor What raised prices but increas
ed demand What depressed prices but the destruction Of
employment The protective policy, by increasing the
Der Of manufacturing establishments of increased the
number of persons employed in them, thereby creating
greater demand and higher wages for labor Laboers of all
descriptions flock to the furnaces coal dgge choppers team
sers, and thousand Others Now suppose the gentleman
should quit his agitation, make appeals party, and
no more antarif speeches. what would be the effect
Would not others go to building up establishments
And would not that furnish markets for farmers and
poyment for labor of all sorts The Mount Savage works
employed in various from four to five thousand
Let three four such establishments go up in that vi
cniy, and you would have at demand for three
four times many hands, and for all Of agricultural pro-
duce in the proportion How, then, could gentlemen
assert that the protective policy oppressive TO aor and
agriculture
[Mr. Isaac E. HOLMES put question to Mr. STEWART,
whether all this not done by taxing the South the
benefit of New England 7
The gentleman asked whether all this benefit did grow
out of tax upon the South Mr. S. would the gen
tleman if these factories built by Government then
this might to extent, be But they were built not
by Government but by individual enterprise and what
OF tax upon the South to give them better goods for
one fourth the price they formerly paid Mr. S. said he
very sorry that his excellent friend from South Carolina should
feel such deep regret the prosperity of New England
ne thought that New England getting rich upon
iacures he would advise him go home and do likewise
follow the example, and grow rich also The gentleman said
for profit of four five per cent, while the manufacturers
Of New England getting forty fifty Was not
Tree country Who gave New England exclusive privileges
Why did not the South engage in the forty fifty per
cent business, instead of working four five Why
did not they with fabrics made from their
own cotton just New England had done before them
But New England was now passing from that stage, and
going into the higher and finer branches The South, he
was glad to learn commencing True, they
in the G of the business they in their infancy
they wanted the fostering and protection of Government
The tariff on the fabrics for their benefit
New England wanted longer the coarse only on
the higher and finer fabrics, which they strug
Cling with foreigners who endeavong break them
down by flooding markets with these articles an
under value hoping to indemnify themselves for temporary
losses by future exobant prices extorted from us when
American competition is put down and destroyed.
How II that Southern gentlemen could shut their eyes
to the result of their unwise policy Let them look
how they Stood and then look the North The North APP
piled their shoulder the wheel they went to work to better
their condition they husbanded their own resources they
employed and diversified their labor they lived upon their
own resources kept their money at home to reward their
own industry, instead Of fooishy sending il abroad pur
chase what they could well so proaby supply home
But South Carolina and Ter Southern would touch nei
her hammer shuttle. They their money tn
New England to old England. And what the con-
sequence OF these two opposite systems South Carolina
was poor and dependant while New England indepen-
lent and prosperous South Carolina when the Federal Con
sution adopted had five representatives North Caro-
Ina hve and Virginia ten representatives this floor They
all cherished deadly hostility every thing connected with
The manufactures internal improvements and progress every
kind They denied to this Government the power of self
protection and self improvement they for the stand
still, ledown, goo-sleep, et-us-alone donohing policy
hey had tried to live political metaphysics and constu-
ona distractions, until had nearly starved them DEATH
while the Northern States had wisely pursued the opposite
policy and what had been the effect their relative pros
penty New York began with representatives in that
hall; now she bad thirty four. Pennsylvania began with
eight, and she had twenty four Virginia with North
and South Carolina had commenced with twenty representa-
lives, and New York with six now they have altogether
hirty and New York alone has thirtyfour. Such
fruits Of the opposite systems If policy adopted by the North
and the South Judge the tree by fruits VIII never
learn wisdom from experience He would rejoice to see the
South as prosperous and happy the North They had
all the elements OF wealth and prosperity in pouson around
themthe materials and breadstu minerals and
power in abundance running Ifhey would allow him
offer them advice would be abandon an exploded and m
nous policy follow the example Of the North and share
their prosperity Instead of coming here repnng and CON-
planning that the North rich andprosperou making forty
fifty per cent profit their capital whilst the South real
zed but four ve turn round quit your four vepeI
cent profits and go work forty City. If the tariff was
confined to the North, you might complain but free
all alkeNorth and SOUTH East and West Go the ham
and the oom the furnace and the FORGE and become pros
porous in your All these blessings within your
reach, you will but reach forth your hands TO grasp them
they offered freely to your acceptance You enjoy great
advantages You have not only all the advantages enjoyed
BY the North for manufacturing but you have superadded
others you supply the material and above ALL you
rbor o oages perfectly available for such purposes
he hands of the young and old useless for the field
might in factories become highly profitable and productive
operatives Take hold then, the industry which had
made New England great and especially those branches Of
which New England could spare Then South Caro-
ina would be speedily independent both Of New England