Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-06-17

play. Had the gentleman been TO see it, He |
spoke "a II from information only. Had he
seen this splendid fair Tor himselil II he had
and would but give fair play TO his own good
sense aud good feelings, MIR S. was very sure
that such spectacle must have filed his A.
mericsn heart, ii he had one--and he did not
doubt it--wlth exultation aud delight Such
a collection was well fitted To the boast and
glory OF the country. Who that had heart
within him 10 feel for the honor, the indie.
| pendence, the strength, and the prosperity of
his country, could look on such spectacle
and not feel all his national pride called forth
by the display
The gentleman talked about tue ''lortl, OF
the spindle but was il fthey alone who
Were repre- sented in that fart Far from it7
II was the mechanics OF the country who had
reason to congratulate themselves on tins
great assemblage OF their works. Let tile
gentleman 80 TO the mechanics of this country
and let him. ii he thought il prudent, tell that
great interest that the fruits of their industry,
invention, and enterprise were all humbug
II he did, Mr.. s. feared greatly that they
might consider the gentleman humbug him
self Was that the gentleman doctrine,
that the interest of the mechanic arts and the
interests OF American agriculture were hum
bug Would the gent lcman tell our farmers
not.
There was gentleman from England with
specimens OF British goods. now occupying the
committee, loom over which you, Mr.. Chairman,
! (Mr. Hopkins of Va occupying the chair, }
have the honor of presiding, almost in the
hearing of my voice, and has been Tor months
displaying his foreign goods, to influence the
votes OF members To favor the British: and
this is all fair and beautiful in the eyes OF
gentleman, who look with adherence upon
tins Amerlcon fair, got up TO counteract this
bold and bareiaced British attempt, made in
this House, TO influence our legislation, TO de-
stroy our tariff, and again inundate our coun-
try with British goods. The gentleman from
! Alabama had visited this British fair. and
had he complained OF that? Had he denoun.
ced the putting OF one of the committee rooms
OF tins House To such a use as bold aud pro.
fiigate attempt To bias and control the legisla-
lion OF this House Far from it. The Brit
lsh agent had been here Tor months past. lie
had conducted Uember 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
suppos II, with infinite satisfaction, these pro.
/ ducts OF foreign Industry. For what had
they been brought thcrc2 For what pu.
pose, to what end, had foreign agent been
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Iapproprnicd TO American LEGISLATION, i'm the
very Capitol itself? For Whist. but expressly
Tor the purpose of swayinI and biasinz and
controlling the legislation of the lllus. on
the iarii. This tire gentleman has denounced
IN terms OF The highest Indignation. when the
products were The works al American hands.
anu the fruits oi American capital aud skill
aud when they were exhibited, not i'm com
mittee room OF that House, but in building
erected by the manufacturers themselves. an
theIr.cost, and whittier they had invited their
fellow citizens TO assemble from every mart of
the land. 1t was all wrong that this should
Dc done by Americans, but all perfectly right
when II was done by an agent of the British
manufacturers. The gentleman could gaze
with infinite qualification on a committee
room iiiIed with foreign fabrics, but turned
with disgust iroma building put up by Amer
lean hands, and filled with the splendid and
varied trnts OF American ingenuity aud skill. |
i ms was humbug, compared by The official
paper TO "menagerle, "bagatelle," and all |
'hose glorious and beautiful proofs Of the in
ventNe powers of our countTvmen were con-
iemptlble humbugs, the fruits of soriid inter
est, the devices OF avariCe and cupidity. He
envled no man such ieeiiugs-they were not
Amercan--they could find no place i'm an
American heart. But this was a matter of
iasie:he went to theA mericdn other gentlemen
TO tue british tair mere difference of taste
But (Mr. s. said) he had seen. in the last
hour. with emotions which he could moi do
scribe, collection of thousand IA voice
three thousand American children bronpht
to look upon this sight, and learn. in tIeir
tender years, TO love their own country better
than any foreign land
To Be Continued