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

or he system which elevated the poor in the scale OF
society that promoted equality that essential element in all
free Government not by pulling the higher but by lift
ing the lower classes TO their level The gentleman from
Alabama and his friends advocated policy which would have
precisely the opposite effect Their system would truly make
the rich richer and the poor poorer The gentleman adj
vocaed system whose direct and undenabe tendency was 10
destroy competition and thereby give monopoly heavy
capitalists He would benefit those very mlonaires Of
whose presence here he complained SO loudly. ,lr
The gentleman for free trade, for opening our ports
to the manufacturers Of all the world for bringing in freely
the paupes productions Of Great Britain, overwhem the
rising Of our own poor but industrious citizens He
went Tor crushing American enterprise grinding down Amer
ican labor and pusng his countymen footing with the
very sweepngs OF thu poorhouses Of Europe and would
the end bring them down their POLITICAL well their
pecunary and moral con0sion Mr. s. was for chershing
American labor for giving high wages for surrounding it
with all the substantial comfoso life Which was
friend of the PEoPLE And yestbese advo-
friends Of the poor man., and se denounced as the
friends OF mionaires and monopoes. We now imported
fifty millions worth Of foreign Chiefly Bssh) goods and
therein we imported twenty-five millions worth q British ag
ricnlnra products Of English wool, English grs.a Eng
lis beef and mutton, English FAX, English agricultural pro-
ducons of every kind And yet gentlemen would rise here
and talk Of British market for our breadsufs Why how
much of this did England take Not aquarter of millions
worth last year, in all ts forms Gsl s
Here beautiful reciprocity. Here the beauties
of free trade Here equality of benefits Wetook
fifty millions in British goods onehaf Of agricultural pro-
duce while she took onequarter OF million OF our bread
stuls. This our boased British market. What
this British market to US The American market consumed
annually nearly thousand millions Of American grain; the
British market onequarer of one million Great Britain
took Of flour tenth part of the amount taken by the
East and West Indies not tenth part much Brazil;
not much the little Island Of Cuba and not much more
than half much Hayi. Poor miserable negro Hayu
year 3d. A barrels of -four, while England
Scotland and Ireland together took but 49, 355 barrels of
-four and barrel of cornmca Yet we are told IN the
face of these official facts by the Secretary OF the treasury
that must take British goods otherwise she will
haua 19H hnv
IL to spare, she will not buy much OF cotton What
insult to American farmers is this As an honorable man
must he blush for his reputation when he looks upon
these facts But what better could expect from this
American Secretary who, and in his report de-
the substitution of american manufactures for
foreign goods and declares that direct taxation is equit
able and just than duties foreign goods, especially in It's
operation the poor Better levy taxes on our own pro-
auctions than those of foreigners Such the doc
nes openly avowed by this Secretary to favor his miserable
system of tee trade" Away with such British doctrines
these They could find favor with the American
people while spark of patriotism animaes their hearts,
drop Of Revolutionary blood runs in their VEINS
The gen eman from Alabama will doubt discover an
other terrible absuy when Mr. s. stated that Great Britain
exported and sold agricultural produce than any other
country in the world. Yet is strictly and undenably true.
Exported not in its original form, but worked and convert
ed into goods on Cloths &c., consisting OF materials
and breadsufs Great Britain exported average more
than hundred and fifty millions of dollars worth OF manu-
facures hundred and twenty-five millions, oneha Of the
whole value of which consisted Of the produce of the soil
Of all the exports of Great Britain the United States took
about oneh part being than all Europe put together
In report of a committee in the British Parliament made
years ago. appeared that the British goods consumed
by the people Of the different countries of Europe France
Russia, Prussia, Austria Spain, Belgium &c. amounted to
fourteen cents worth per head while the people OF the United
States at the time consumed three hundred and t
Fur cents worth per head This showed the immense inn
potance Of the American market to Great Britain and
counted for her great soctude to retain it. 1t also showed
the superior wisdom of the European Governments in excud
ing British goods by high and prohibitoy tariffs thus deve
looping and relying upon their encouraging and
sustaining their national industry, promoting their
prosperity and thus establishing Gas should do their
national independence the solid and lasting founda
tons.
Mr. s. invited scrutiny into the facts he had stated; he
challenged contradiction He them before gentlemen and
begged them examine and dsroye them if they could He
invited hemto refectupon them spirit Todismiss
from their minds all party bas to for superior TO the
low groveng preudces Of party to wake TO the great in
ees and feel for the real strength and true glory of their
tive land