Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-07-16

balance. The whole specie Of The country had
never been estimated at more than eighty mil
lions. How, then, was his policy TO work
! How was he TO make up this deficit! No, from
The banks for they would be broken up within
! The very first year of such system; and then
what was Mr. Secretary going 10 do for his rev.
enue? The duy on foreign iron, he tells us, is
now rs per cent. He was for reducing i, to
80 per cent-less than one half. We must, OF
course. import more than double the amount Of
foreign iron 10 get the present amount of reve-
nue., and 10 that extent break up American sup
! ply. Now, il was impossible TO make our peo-
pie double their consumption, and so the result
must necessarily be TO get them 10 take foreign
goods where they now took domestic, thus re-
ducing the demand, and of course destroying
The domestic supply TO tha, extent. Was not
all this plain Could any man in his senses
deny it! And then, besides, where was the
Secretary going TO gel The money to pay Tor all
these foreign goods! There was he rub. The
gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bayly) takes
about exporting potatoes 10 Ireland. Export
potatoes 10 Ireland He would tell that gentle
man that last year we imported , 327 bushels,
paying duty OF len cents per bushel- 5,045
from Ireland, while Ireland took Of all our grain
,
cornmea. or bushel of grain, or It's produc-
lions in other form. The hole Of our mighty
export of breads,uGs TO England, Scotland, and
Ireland amounted TO less than 1924, 900, less
than one-fourh of million less than could
be furnished by single Western county
Potatoes were cheaper IN Ireland than In the
United States, yet the people are starving, be-
cause they had no protection against Eng land,
no money, no employment. This was the ef-
feet of {. free trade" with England, and ii was
precisely the condition into which "free trade"
with England would soon bring this country,
if il were adopted. Free trade with Eng
land reminded him OF an anecdote of an Irish
man, who, when complaining of starvation in
Ireland, was asked whether potatoes were not
very cheap he answered, "Chape? Ihe Lord
love We, they're but saxpence bushei." "Iiow
is it, then, you are starving?" "Just because
we have no work, and cau'i get the saxpence."
"a laugh.) Such were the fruits of exchanging
agricultural products for manufactured goods
The products of manual labor for the products
Of machinery working The hoe against the
loom. Such had been and always would be
the result of this miserable system of policy,
whenever and wherever adopted
Next the gentleman complained Of taxation.
What tax did farmers and aborers now pay the
United States! Nothing Many Of them used
nothing but domcslics. They bought no for
IGN goods except lea and cufiee. and they were
free Thousands and hundreds of thousands
of our people don's pay dollar a year into our
National Treasury, aud thousands not a cent
How would Il be under system Of direot tax
alion? The burdens of The Federal Government
+ Id
than the heaviest Stale taxation. Under system
of direct tax the proportion of Pennsylvania would
be three millions year--Inore than double her
present heavy State taxation. But all these bur-
dens put together are nothing compared TO the tax
es imposed Oh by the British. 70 form an idea
of its extent, let every gentleman ascertain the
number OF stores selling British g00dS in his DIS
trlct. These merchants are all taX-gathers for
England taking millions and tens Of millions ct
specie from our farmers for British agricultural
produce; wool and every thing else converted into
goods and sent here and sold to our farmers, who
have those very materials on their hands rotting
for want OF a market; and this IS the ruinous sys-
TEN recommended TO our farmers by these : free
trade" advocates. The farmers understand it, and
they will lei gentlemen know il at the polls.-
They viii let gentlemen know what they think OF
this buy eUerythlBg and sell nothing po}icy."-
They know that the farmer who sells more than
he buys gets rich, and he who buys more than he
sells gets poor; and they know that the sane the
CRY is true with regard to natioDs they know ;ia.,
TO sell more and buy less, is the way to wealth,
and that the opposite course is the road to bank
ruptcy and ruin
The true American policy was PRoTEcTIoN
and INDEPENDENCE. 1t was to make America
independent of all The world. That was sound
American policy and he trusted no man would
suffer himself 10 be so carried away by mere
parry politics as 10 advocate free hade' and
Stqsuation twin-sis,ers, "one and inseparable.'
Protection was the policy which would spread
comfort and happiness over The face OF a smiling
land Its effect would penetrate our forests,
and reach 10 the remotesi hamlet in the West.
This would keep our money al home, instead
OF sending il across the ocean 10 enrich British
manufacturers al our expense.
What was The theory of our learned Secre-
tary? We must reduce duties TO increase our
revenue, Now, Mr. S. said, and he defied con-
uadictlon, that as truly as the ihermomeler in
dicaled The increase or dimnullon Of heat IN
the atmosphere, just so truly did The increase
or diminuiion of the tariff mark the increase
and the diminuIion OF revenue. He appealed
10 Ihe record, and defed his opponents TO the
test.
The Secretary recommended reduction Of