The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-03


this Union lcontend the government has right,
would it be expedien interfere in the conflicts
OF interest between its citizens. am now planting
seed cane, and expect in two or three years 10 make
sugar. And should do IT, | hope never To be 80
much slave TO interest as 10 demand that the gov
eminent tax my neighbors for my special bene6t,
There is one great advantage the sugar interest of
the United States possesses that is not fully sppre-
ealed il is the suppression of the slave trade. Our
feet on the African coast will be Of more advantage
to the sugar interest than all the tariffs we have
had IL will be permanent and real IL prevents
the African slave labor from being applied to It's cul'
ture, and il is impossible for free labor 10 compete
with the weorganized labor of the Louisiana plant
err think the sugar lands and sugar interest in the
United States have brighter prospects ahead than
any other agricultural interest
The sgrculruTists Of our country receive about q
per cent. interest on the capital inyeslsd whilst
these chartered manufacturers decaEe dividends
from Is to 50 per cent Their insataba aSArice
still crying aloud for protection: ask CO. AGA nsi
whom they will tell you the pauper ksSor OF Eu-
rope. IL is false, and they know Il TO be false. II
is to be protected against the tiers Of the soil IL
is that he knows that they can furnish the market
by exchange cheaper than they cam and they have
the audaeity 10 call on the government to prohibit
them from doing it. They charge US with being OPP
posed to the manufacturing interest IL is wholly
untrue. have no hostility to any legitimate inter-
est Of my country. | go in to protect American in
| dusuy-nOt your protection OF American Industry '
however, such as the wolf gave the lamb; but TO
protect the great agricultural commercial, and marie
time interests Of my country from your mastery
and robbery Nothing will satisfy the avarlee and
ambition of these naughty capitalists but public
acknowledgment that We are their willing slaves. II
we give duty Of 10 per cent, have They not 10
per cent advantage US 10 furnishing the markell
If 90 per cent, have they not 2G II is now pro-
posed by this bill TO give them from SIS 10 $50 on
every hundred advantage over US. THIS even does
not satisfy their cupldity. Let them learn wisdom
ere il is late Let the fate Of the proIectioaiss
| Of England warn them. ,..
We are indebted, Mr.. Chairman, TO the honora-
bic gentleman from New York, Mr.. CoLLM,l for
an expose Of the condition OF the iron interest. He
here proves, beyond cayil doubt--taking the cen
sus returns of the amount Of capital invested, the
number OF tons OF iron made, It's value, the number
Of hands employed, allowing each $500, making q
liberal deduction for other expenses-lhat the CAPT.
aist made 60 per cent. interest his capital in
vested. He proved more than this: he took the price
Of iron in the English market, allowing five dollars
per ton for freight insurance, &c, and proved con-
clusvely that IL the capitalist had sold his iron TO his
lcountrymen as low as the English iron could be
brought here, adding 1--WE dollars per ton, he would
then have made after paying each hand 500, and
full allowance for other expenses, 30 per cent. on
the capital he had invested Notwithstanding this
| regret to say we find gentleman from Pennsylya
MA calling themselves friends of equal rights, aban
donng their ancient friends who have stood SHOULDER
To shoulder with them in many a glorious battle
field; and at this late hour, when victory is aboc
perching again on the Republican banner, with
deep modification and regret do we behold them in
the ranks Of federalism, with their battle-cryl Of
plumber Let me entreat you to stay the fratrlcida
blow; ponder well before you take the irremediablt
leap We are told that the interest of Pennsy lysnIs
demands it, Are the sacred principles Of truth and
justice to succumb to the fleeing monetary interests
Of the hour Are truth, justice, and equal rights u
be ampled under foot to satisfy the Unsuitable ava
rice Of few Shylocks' No, SIR. Let our friend.
tered privilege of pillaging their feow-cens; return
TO the old Keystone State, unfurl the banner Of FIRE,
trade and show the tIIers of the soil il for the
freedom and interest they fought. Go TO the mer
chants and sailors, and offer them commercial eman
cpation; 90 to the manufacturers and tell them YOU
have dared to tear from the statute-book their Ii
canse to plumber Tell the day laborers to HE to
the west, with wife and children, build their log
cabin, whose roof may shelter freeman's head anG
my life for it, old Pennsylvania will do, as she hal
always nobly done, her full duty. 1t is whispered
hat they NAV lose their seats on this floor Ever
suppose they did, which do not believe, | ask i
( they could die in a nober cause? As to myself,
should prefer that doom thousand times TO seat or
thus floor with a consciousness that l was doing
: what knew to be wrong.
Mr. Chairman, we are told by our opponents thai
our foreign commerce is as nothing compared to the
internal commerce Of the country, and they claim
that the internal commerce is the legitimate fruit O
their policy. This | deny, and think that car
! prove to the most skepuca mind that their policy
| If carried out leads 10 its certain destruction. II
their policy is right to the United States, why no
amply to he different States, to make everything a
homei If applicable to the States, ghy not to
! each county, If to each county, why not carry
It out, and make every man a jack-o-all-trades
Where, then would be the internal trader ltwould
he annihilaed. Is it not clear, you approach the
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minish the internal commerce to the same extent!
Oar internal commerce entirely depends on tht
foreign commerce Of the country. They are insep
arably connected; they live die together Strike
off your foreign trade and what would become o
the producers of the fifteen millions of tobacco We
now make more than The American people can con
! sumei What will become Of the wheat, pork, lard
: | 'eef corn, butter cheese, horses, mules, lumber
ri producing States, that now make millions more thar
The whole people of the United States can consume
even with the great cotton States consumers, ant
when your policy forces the cotton States TO thu
abandonment of its culture, and necessity mus
force them to make the same productions that they
now purchase from the west | would ask, in al
seriousness, where is your internal commerce.; where
are the thousand steamboats, that new ply the
Mighty rivers Of the wes2 Would they then b,
D freghted as they now are, with -four, corn, beef
U bacon, horses, mules &c, to furnish the south
No, sir; your protective policy-your making every
. thing -at-home policy-has forced them into opPo
sition to nature, to be producers, instead of Consu
0 mers of these articles What becomes Of the grea
$ canals and railroads Of Pennsylvania and New
!, York, that are now bearing the eemng production
of the west, TO scatter them the four quarters
y the globe, to exchange for the very articles tina
l. these protectioniss say ought to make at home
e That u.s. the government must not let farmers fur
,ish the market by exchang", but prohibit it, ant
it let few chartered companies dol it! will tell thos
Is cunning men thath is now made at home just a
u certainly if made on their armsi and re
peat again the contest is who is to furnish the mar
ket, the tllers of the soil by exchange, or a few
e chartered companies. We have the same right Il
:. demand that government prohibit the chartere
companies from furnishing the market, for the reason
y that it conflicts with interest, as they have u
= demand that Congress prohibit US, because it con
~ hics with their interest But neither haa the RICH
to ask more than fair competition. We now i'm
re port into the United States four million dollars wort
:, Of sugar, and ask, who furnishes this sugar.
e is the lumber of Maine and the Caronas the corn
flour, pork, lard, beef mules, and horses from tn
d farming States, and giving employment to thousand
2 Of shp-carpenters sailors, and others, connecte
n with thai business; and why shall thew be prohb