Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-07-09

House 10 such a as bold and proligale at
Tempt to bias and control the Legislation of this
House? Far from il. The British agent had
been here for months. He had conducted
member after member TO his display of British
fabrics, and gentlemen Of this House, and The
gentleman from Alabama himself, had gone
there and contemplated, he supposed with IN
finite satisfaction, these products OF foreign in
dusry. For hat had they been brought there?
For what purpose, 10 what end, had a foreign
agent been accommodated with an apartment 10
house appropriated To American legislation,
in the very Capitol itself! For what, but ex-
pressly for the purpose of swaying and blasting
and controlling The Legislation Of thai House on
The tariff! This The gentleman had denounced
in terms OF The highest Indignation, when he
products were The works Of American hands,
and the fruits Of American capital and skill, and
when they were exhibited, not in committee
room Of that House, but in building erected
| by the manufacturers themselves, al their own
cost, and whittier they had invited their fellow.
citizens 10 assemble from every part OF he land.
1t was all wrong that this should he done by
Americans, but all perfectly right when it " as
. done by an agent OF the BRUSH manufacturers.
The gentleman could gaze with infinite graiii-
caion on a committee room filed with foreign
fabrics. bu, turned with disgust from building
pu; up hv American hands, and filled with The
splendid and varied fruits of American ingenu-
iiy and skill. This was u hun!bug, compared
by the official paper 10 "menageTie," ''baga-
elie, and all those glorious and beautiful proofs
OF the inventive powers Of our counrymen were
contemplate humbugs, the fruits of sordid in
eTest, the devices of a,arice and cupidiiy =
He envled no man such feelingS-lhey were
not American--they had no place in an Amer
lean heart. But this was matter of taste: he
went 10 The American, Other gentlemen 10 the
BrttiSA fair a mere difference in taste. But
(Alr. 5. sald) he had seen, in The las hour,
with emotions which he could not describe, a
collection Of thousand "a voice "ihrce lhous-
and" American children brought to look upon
this sight and learn, in their tender years 10
love their own country better Than any foreign
land. Among these were doubtless many of
the future mechanics and manufacturers, and
not few of the future Legislators of our coun-
Try. He reioiced that they had learned bet
Ter lesson than to prefer the prosperity of for
elgners TO thai of their own parents, bro hers,
aud coun'symen. lfIhe gentleman would step
10 The window behind hir, he could behold
thCoG bCaH'Ithi Sulul vi tlitil uIdItH W 'nc
Capitol. Was Ihis American sight offensive 10
The gentleman! Would he destroy these Amer
lean products also, and import hem fsoG abroad?
[Greal merrimentl He hoped not, Blu, he
had done with the fair; and he now turned 10
consider some of the arguments which had been
adduced by the gentleman from Alabama, for
whom he cherished a high personal respect,
who was doubtless actualed by patriotic feel
lngs, and whom he should be happy to hear in
reply TO what he was now going to say
The frs, argument Of The gentleman had been
The position, that lhe e6eci of Il protective tariff
was oppressive, especially on the poor, and on
The interests of agriculture and labor. How
was il oppressive upon these! NJ ollie. in'cr
esl in the country was hall as much bcneftted
by The ariil the farmers, AMI NE ehaDcs, and
workingmen. The gentleman SAID that it in
jured hem by increasing tie price of manuiac-
iured commodities; for The ecnlenans asser-
ton was, that protection did invariably increase
the price Of the articles protected. Now, in
reply, Mr.. S. would distinctly rut forth this as
sertion, 10 which he challenged contradiction,
VIZ that there never was protective duty lev
led III this country, on any article which we
could and did manufacture extensively. which
had moi resulted in bringing down the price o
that article and he challenged gentlemen TO
point him to single instance in reference TO
which this was MOI true. The price Of COM
modlies instead of being raised by protection,
had been reduced 10 oae-lhird, one fourth, aud
even to 0ne-tenlh and one-twelih part Of what
had been paid for them when imported from
abroad The gentleman, if he had walked up
10 The Fair might there have seen American
cotton such as had cost, when the enormous
mnimums were first imposed for rs protection
by Mr.. Lowndes and Mr. Calhoun. eighty five
cents yard, now ready 10 be delivered IN any
qnanliy, and of better quality, at seven cents
and wuoen jeans, sold in 1910 al sixtyfve
cents, now selling, of much better quality, for
ihluy five and these articles were subject 10
she very highest duties in ihe whole catalogue
proving. beyond all conieslaton, lhe ruth OF
the proposition denounced as an absurdliy by
the gentleman, that The highest duties oiieu pro-
duce the lowest prices, when levied on articles
which we can supply TO the extent Of our own
wants Here was The result of American in
duslfy, skill, and Improvements, when left free
TO act out their own energies, aud occupy, fully
and freely, their own appropriate markets, with
out the disturbing and destructive competition
of lie paper i4bOI 0l Europe Mr. ) had