Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-01-11

is now so we'll understood, as respects the practi-
cabillty of advantageously carrying them on, as
to the kind of goods which may be made and the
quality and durability of the articles which have
had fair experiment amongst Us, that 1t is
deemed unnecessary to urge arguments IN their
support. The general government, fully aware
of the Importance ofthe subject, will, it is conf
IDENTIFY hoped, follow the dictates of political Wis
dom, and protect our manufactures against inju-
rious foreign competition or combination; con.
trary course would protract the long and anxious
! ly sought real independence of our country, and
again impose on us a dependence almost colonial"
His Excellency William Findlay, referring
briefly to the subject, says:
"As agriculture and manufactures the
great sources of wealth. and the only solid fcun-
daten of our comforts end independence, they
are particularly entitled to the fostering care of
! government"
! In the first message of Governor Wolf he
| speaks as follows:
"Theprutecting policy hitherto sustained by
the general government cannot, under existing
circumstances, be abandoned o. relinquished with
the appreciation or consent ofthe people of Penn
| syivana. Their interests, their prosperity. and,
may id, their comforts are, at this time essen
sentiay identified with that policy. The diver
sihed branches of industry in which our citizens
are engaged, the character of the productions Pc
culiar to soil, the state of the foreign markets
to which we had heretofore been accustomed to
resort for the sale and exc hange of our staple
commodities, and the interdicting duties by which
the produce of our agriculturs,s is excluded
from those markets, leave US no alternative as TO
the course to be pursued. We must either suffer
our surplus produce to perish upon cur hands. or
we must establish a market for its consumption
at home. We must either submit 10 the humi
ating condition of becoming tributary to foreign
industry, or by ording encouragement to our
own, render ourselves independent os foreign I'M
position and exaction. Under the encoura ge-
ment and protection now afforded, our manu- fac
turing establishments are assuming vigorous
and healthful appearance, and give reasonable
promise of promoting the general prosperity of
the country, and of accomplishing the great end
and design contemplated by the friends and ad-
vocates of the protecting system. Happily for
US in Pennsylvania we have no constitutional DIFF
fcultes to embarrass US in reference 10 this sys-
tenn. Our statesmen who have hitherto repre-
scented Us in the National Legislature as we'll as
in that of the State, have uniformly expressed
their opinions afirmatiyely and III terms by no
means equivoca, that this nation possesses the
right, under the constitution to protect Its indus
try by salutary enactments OF its own, against
the Injurious consequences of foreign Legislation.
and that the ats of Congress imposing duties on
imports are cohs itu,ional; and their constituents
have unequivocally responded to those opin-
IONS"
Governor Porter also refers to the subject in the following
al, unworthy the great state of Pennsylvania
to depend on the manufactures of other States or of foreign
countries supply with those aatces for
various purposes of life which they produce themselves
well. cheaply and abundany any other people
on the face of the globe teeming with plenty
hills with exhausess depOstes of coal and our
aboundng with power for all purposes
surpassed by that of any other country citizens
uated by enterprise and possessing means TO render ec
tua should awaken in that spirit Of independence which
disdains seek hands Others which can
furnish wi th its own IL is with no feelings of of
local jealousy of Others that bring tins subject to
tce but with honest feeling ofstate pride
enulaon which should inspire us with determination not
be indebted to Others for those solid and useful of
promoting prosperity and independence which Nature
has bounteously lavishet on our own citizens.1
question of the greatest magnitude involving the honor
of the state and the interests of the citizens will arise in
the consideration of the public debt The regular payment
of the annual interest and the formation of sinking fund
for the final liquidation of the principal should receive the
early and careful attention of the Legislature. II will give
uneigned pleasure to unite with you in any rational
mode calculated to facilitate object so desirable.
The present debt of the State is as fellows wiz
per cent stocks, S1lSe7549 06
!. do do '':sOS!sS5 sOG,s@ % %
Relief Notes in circulation $703664 90
Interest certificates outstanding 22G,7S9 81
do unclaimed, f,44S 35
Interest o unclaimed and outstan-
ing certificates 10 be added to
when funded, 1f,lG5 50
Domestic Creditors, e9,3IS g5
81 1918 4O424736 %
OF the above there due demandae at the Treasury
as follows: -
Relief Notes s7oa664 90
Domestic creditors, -. SO, 9,3IS 95
Interest certificates Of all kinds, 239 4o3 80
lO3I, 1856 n
presumed the gradual process of cancellation of the
relief notes, redemption heretofore
to that amount the pressing necessities of the
The residue of said sum of 1856 "A Ito WITT
Due and demandabe, s3sa,722 "a