Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-09-22
.xra act OF THE SPEECH OF MIR. STEWART
OF PENNY IVASIA.
POLICY OF THE SOUTH.

Iook how stood, ana then LOOK al TIE 'orIl 1He
No,,b applied their shoulder to the wheel they went to
work to better their condition.; they husbanded their
ources they employed and diversified their labor; they
;vd u,on their own means; kept their money home
10 reward their industry, instead Of foolishy send
ing il abroad to purchase what they could well and
nro6,,bI, supply home. But South Carolina and her
Southern sisters would touch neither hammer shut
They send away their money New England or
N old England And what the consequence Of these
,ro ouposte systems. South Carolina poor and de-
,endent while New England independents nd p-oe-
porous South Carolina when the Federal Constitution
adopted, had five representatives North Caroline
five, Virginia representatives, this floor. They
al cherished deadly hostility every thing connected
with manufactures, internal improvements and progress
Of every kind. They denied to this Government the
power self protection and aelf-nprovcucut; they
went for the stand-s e-9own, go-to-slecp, let-ps-
Alone do nothing policy; they had tined TO live whip
ylabnb, political metaphysics, and constitutional alb
stractons until it had nearly starved tIauI to DEATH
while the Northern Sntrs hna wisely pursued the oppo-
site policy and what had been the effect their rcl
tive prosperity New York began with six rcprcsenta-
tves in that hall she had thirty -four. Pcnnsy Iva
MIA began with eight ana She has twenty four
Virginia, with North and South Carolina, had coumcnc-
ed with twenty representatives and they have a.!
together. but thirty, and New York alone has thirty
four Such are the fruits of the opposite systems Of
Poicy dioTtd y! inc Norm ana south JHUgc the tree
by its fruits. VIII men never learn wisdom from expo
renee? IL would rejoice the South as prosper
Gus and as happy the North They had all the Gle
ments of wealth and prosperity profuson around them
the materials and bread atuiIs, minerals and
fer-powcr IN abundance, running to waste If they
would allow him to offer them advice, would be
bandon exploded and rainous policy; follow the
pie Of the North, and share in tho prosperity. Instead
of coming here repjuing and complaining that the North
rich and prosperous. making forty fifty per
profit on their capital whilst the South realized but four
i've, just turn round quit your five per
profits and to work what you alledge yields forty
fifty If the tariff was confined to The North, YOU
might complain, but nee All anKe-N orn ana
SOUTH East and West Go the hammer and tho loom.
The furnace and the forge, and become prosperous in
your turn. All these blessings within your reach, if
you will but put forth your hands 10 grasp them; they
offered freely to your acceptance You enjoy great
advantages. You have only all the advantages
loycd by the North for manufacturing, but you have 9TH
ers supcraddcd, you supply the material and above
I'LL you have fabof ri7a ~aseS, perfectly available for
such purposes; the hands of the young and oi.
less for the field. might, in fctorrs become gIy prof
liable and productive operators Take hold them the
same industry which had made New England great aud
especially those branches of it which New England
could and would spare Then South .lrolIna would
BE- thus far, independent both of New England aud of
all the world. She cou! longer hope compete
with Texas and the rich lands of the Southwest in the
production of cotton Her out fields must sink in
the contest with the virgin soil of the Then
let her address ersef manufactures The gentleman
from South Carolina seemed to observe. with grief and
envy, that New England enjoying profits of from
forty to fifty per That true; but what il
it was Ii she gave that South Carolina for six cents
per yard which South Carolina could get
abroad under tysN, the question for Carolina look
Mt not what profits New England made, hut what
prices she charged her That gentleman wanted ms
State 10 go to old England for all She required. We
all to depend Europe for our manufactured ar
tcles. Foreign countries ENJOY exclusively the
profitable business yielding forty and fifty pei
while all TO turn farmers, and Join the gentle
in working he said, for prof; of and five
per cent (and when all became farmers it wouid be
times wore,) competition having ceased, old England
would again make the gentleman pay twenty five cents
syarl for what New England offered them for 5
Was not this patriotic Was it not noble, enlarged
American policy England was to be allowed TO mo-
nopoizc all the profitable business the result of labor
saving machinery while were TO content ourselves
with the plough and the hoe. profits rate OF
two three per Wa the policy for America
to pursued They might be Americans Who recommends
"a ~ but they were certainly playing into the hands Of
our translansic competitors.
If manufacturing such profitable business as these
gentlemen represented be, why not let Americans
have rather than foreigners Why not keep our mon
'y and our profits 10 ourselves instead of giving boil; to
me labor o! Great Britain The profits Of nanuflctur-
ing were chief, owing enlarged market and 10 tho
use ana constant Improvement Of labor machinery
Ne saving OF labor and the increase of human power
produced IN this manner almost incredible Bv its
a'd one feeble child enabled to accomplish
more IN day than would pay for the productions Of forty
aoie-bodied hardhanded men withouti Did gentlemen
ueslre and was their policy, to let England all
'his benefit, and keep 10 herself monopoly 1t
was their abor-savng machinery and this alone, that
Kept the British Government from Bankruptcy. This
prolific q wealth and power enables the British
people 70 stand up under debt Of thousand millions
q dollars and pay taxes g the Government amount
ing TO more than hundred and fifty millions every
year This the result Of her immense Iabor-Saying
machinery estimated he equal the labor OF eight