Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-03-21
HENRY CLAY AND TIE GOLD AND STT.
YER ARTISANS or N RW-YORK,

by the favor OF the Committee appOin-
ted by the Gold and Silver Artisans Of our
City, we are enabled to lay before our
readers the following interesting and graf
flying Correspondence
Ngw-YoRK, November 10Th, 1916.
Hon. HENRY Clay DEAR SIN The
undersigned have the houor to present to
you, in the name of the Corn n SILVER
Artisans of the city of New York, the nc.
companying Silver Vase, as a small trib-
ute Of that deep respect entertained by
theni for your many valuable services, and
especially for your uutiring zeal, aided by
your acknowledged consumatc abilities in
eieyating the Working Men of this coun-
try TO the station ito which the laws Of
Nature and Nature God entitle them"
However much men may differ as to
the policy oftlIe General Government rip.
on many important measures, we feel quite
confident that PRoTECTroN TO AMERICAN
INDUSTRY, SO long and zealOugly advocated
by you, will cntitle you more than my 9TH
CT American Slate gn III to the thanks and
gratitude of the Mechanical portion of
your Eellow-citizens at least.
We can, in behalf of the God AMI Sill.
yer Artisans of the City of New Orleans.
assure YOU that your exertions in the for.
NATION Of the Tariff Bill Of 1882, and e..
petially in procuring for a. ut that time,
after aA other meanS had faaed, an AIDE.
quatc and just Protection against Foreign
lmportatiOns, inset from US our heartfelt
We beg ofyou, then, sir, to accept Of
his emblem of our gratitude, and remsm.
Der, as often as you look upon it, that it
from Il Mechanical portion Of your
elbow citizens, who feel them selves greatly
nj lebted to you, and take this method of
acknowledging it.
II MAY not be out Of place Mt this time to /
tate to you how bencfcially the present /
has affected our business. We
you'd briefly state that, for several years
reylous to its passage, the business Of the |
Told and Silver Manufacturers had been f
radually declining, until we found our.
elves upon the very brink of ruin. In h
onipetlng with foreign manufacturers the
.nvil no longer rang with the gladstone r
otcs of wcll-paid Induytry-anll before Us r
as gloond and idleness, with their MANY J
anefui effects. We all felt that, unless v
&c Protective Policy was again adopted o
, the General Government, VIC must give d
!, a business that had cost years Of toll to G
'quire, Indeed very many Of Us well adj h
need ia liie,) and seek other occupations. !
On the other hand, since the passage of W
e Tariff of 1912, the business ofthe Gold b.
I'd Silver Artisans has been steadily in da
until at the present time, and we ha
ke great pleasure in stating it, our bdgi-
50 enjoys as great a state Of prosperity W
the most sanguine could desire. "
Permit Us to add, Sir, whether you con- a
me to reside in the strict retirement of
surrounded by all the comforts
d endearntents of family associations %
d a consciousness of having though a ~
lg life served your country faithfully and up
nestly, or are again called by your fell co
y citizens to ttke a part in the councils sf
the Nation, the name Of HENRY Cay w
IL be remembered by the Gold and ST. OF
r artisans ofthe City of New-York with 50
and admiration. to
our much obliged and humble servants. ma
!. vi. ADAMS, EDwARD Y. PRrME, "
osFs G. BALDWIN, DANIEL CARPENTER, VI
G. PECKHAM, Dawn DUSK, ~
Committee. =;
Mr.. CLAY'S REPLY. sn
NEw-ORLEANs, Feb. 9th, 1916. ses
Your favor, as a Commit IL
ofthe Gold and Silver Artisans of the pa
y of New York, addressed to me at my TIC
has been transmitted to and re- the
ved by me at this City. | regret ex- MI
nelly that | was not at home when Mr.. inc
ans did ME the honor to come there cIe
h it and with the Silver Vase to which ne
/ sould have been most happy liz
have received him and treated him un. the
my WI roof with the high respect go
hospitality which he was entitled 10 le
which would have been prompted by Ga
greatful feelings. When | took wa
departure for New Orleans from Ash rec
in December last, near a month had
psed after | had been advised of the
SC having left New York, and as the go
nter commenced very early with IN. ant
anon rigor. | concluded it might not vor
ch It's destination until the Winter broke