Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-06-18

all Sorts oil agricultural produce in the same
proportion. How, then, could gentlemen as
sert that the protective policy was oppressive
to labor and agricultureY
MIR. Holmes, OF s. C.. put question 10 Mr.
Stewart. whether all this was not done BY
taxing the South for the benefit of New Eng
lanl3l
the gentleman asked whether all this bsn-
eht did not grow on, Of tax upon the SOUTH
MIR. 5. would answer the gentleman; If these
factories were built by Government. then this
might, 10 some extent, be true. But they
were built. not By the Government, but BY
individual enterprise; and what sort Of a tax
was IL upon the South 10 give them better
goods for onc-fourlh the price they formerly
paidl MIR. >. said he was very sorry that his
excellent friend from South Carolina should
feel such deep reg,etat the prosperity OF New
England. II he thought that New England
was getting rich upon manufactures, he would
advise him TO go home aud do likewise; to fol-
low the example, and grow rich also. The
gentleman said that the planters of the South
were working the whole year for a profit of
Tour or five per cent, While HIe manufactures
OF New England were getting forty or fifty.
Was II not Tree country. Who gave New
England exclusive priviligesl WHY did not
the South engage ia the same forty or fifty
per cent. business, instead of working OH at
tour or ive7 Why did not they commence
with coarse fabrics. made from their own cot
ton, just New Englanl had done Before
thein2 But New England was now passing
from that stuge, aud going into the higher and
finer branches. The South, he was glad to
learn, were now commencing. True, they
were yet in the a Ii T. of the business; they
were in their infancy; they wanted the foster
ing care aud protection OF Government. The
tariff on the coarse fabrics was now for their
benefit. New England wanted il no longer
on the coarse, but only oil the higher and finer
iabrics, In which they were now struggling
with foreigners, who were endeavored to break
them down by flooding our markets with these
articles at an under value, hoping TO indem-
nifty themselves for temporary losses by future
exorbitant prices, exorbiant prices, exiorted
from us when American competition is put
down and destroyed.
How was ii that Southern gentlemen could
shut their eyes TO the result of their own UNI
wise policy! Lei them look how they stood i,
aud then look at the North. The North APP
piled their shoulder TO the wheel; they went
To work to better their condition; they hus-
banded their own resources; they employed
and diversified their labor; they lived upon
their own means; kept their money at home
TO reward their own industry, instead Of tool
ishly sending 1t abroad 10 purchase what they
could so wen and profitably supply at home
But South Carolina and her Southern sisters
would touch neither hammer nor shuttle. -
They sent away their money 10 New England
or 10 Old England. And what was the con-
sequence Of these two opposite systems2-
South Carolina was poor and dependant, while I
New England was independent aud prosper 4
nus. South Carolina, when the Federal Con- \
tltuiion was adopted had five representa-
~ Rro .,.l ,,n,o
representatives. on this floor. They all cher
she'd a deadly hostility TO every thing con-
ected with the manufactures, internal inn
rovements, and progress of every kind They
enied TO this Government the power OF self
rejection and self.improvement; they went
" The stand-still. lie down, go-to sleep, let
5 along, do-nothing policy; they had tried TO J
We on whip syllsbub political metaphysics :
nd constitutional abstracliQns, until it had
early starved them 10 deaf while the North
TN States had wisely putghed the oppO&<e
policy; and what he'd beenAihe effect onSheir
elatiye prosperity? New York began with
TX representatives. in that hall; now she had
thirty four. PennsylvanI began with eight, /
.nd now she had twenty-four. Virginia, |
with North and South Carolina, had commen- /
red with twenty representatives, aud New
York with six; now they have, altogether, !
thirty, aud New York alone has thirty -four. (
Such are the fruits OF the opposite systems of
policy adopted by the North aud South
Judge the tree by its fruit. Will men never
learn wisdom from experienced lie would
rejoice To see the South as prosperous and as
happy as the North. They had all the ele-
ments OF wealth and prosperity in profuSion
around them-ths raw materials and bread
stufis, minerals and water power ia abundance
running To waste II theyhyould allow him
TO oifer them advice cit would be TO abandon
MI expIL led and Tuinous policy; follow the ex-
ample OF the North. and share in their pros
pariiy. Instead OF coming here repining AMI
complaining that the North was rich and
prosperous, making forty or fifty per cent.
profit on their capital, whilst the South red
lied but four or five, just turn round, quit
your Jour or five per cent. profits, and go TO
work at forty or fifty. II the tariff was con-
lined To the North, YOU might complain; but
II was free To- all Blike-North and South
East aud West. Go TO the hammer and the
loom, the furnace and the forge and become
prosperous in your turn. All these blessings
are within your reach, il you will but put
forth your hands TO grasp them; they are of
tered freely 10 your acceptance. You enjoy
great adyantegs. You have not only all the
advantages enjoyed by the North for nanufac-
turing, but you have Others superadded; you
have labor without wages, perfectly available
Tor such purposes; the hands of the young and
old, now useless for the field might, in lscto-
rieS, become highly profitable and productive
operatives.
Take hold, then, on the same industry which
had made New England great, and especially
on those branches OF il which New England
now could snd would spare. Then South
Carolina would be, thus far, independent both
OF New England aOd OF all the world. She
could no longer hope TO compete with Texas
and the rich lands OF the Southwest in the
production OF cotton. Her WORKOUT fields
must sink In contest with the virgin soil Of
the new States. Th.n let her address herself
To manufactures.
The gentleman from South Carolina seem.d
to observe, with grief and envy, that New
Boglsnd was enjoying profits OF from forty to
MY per cent. What il she did? II she gave
that TO South Carolina for six cents ner ystl
which Carolina once could not oet from ahr,,d