Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-11-09
From The Lexington (Va,) Gazette
The Way the Specie Goes.

For the last iour years, from the port oil
New York alone, EIGHTY.EIGHT MIL
LIONS, EIGHTY.SEvEN THOUSAND
NINE HUNDRED and EIGHTY DOL.
LARS, have gone TO Europe. This is the
way our gold and silver goes TO foreign coun-
tries, under the Democratic Tariff policy, TO
buy what ought 10 be made in our own work.
shops, by our own mechanics, and the money
kept by our own people. So it will continue
until The Wing Tariff policy is adopted for
the protection Of our home industry against
the shilling per day wages Of foreign pau.
pers, the profits Of which are pocketed by
English capitalists. Remember, mechanics,
the contest is between the shilling per day
labor Of European paupers and your own
labor. Will you vote for The party thu. goes
for protecting yoar interests, or lor the par
ty that goes for protecting the interests Of
European paupers. Remember, Farmers,
The contest is. whether The specie shall be
kept in this country 10 buy your produce, or
be thus exported to foreign countries. II
you do not encourage your own mechanics
where do you expect 10 find market fol
your surplus produce! Your Locofocc
friends will tell you, without regard 10 the
interests Of the mechanics at your doors
tina, you will find i, among the mechanic.
of Europe. But is it so? Look al the sub
joined table, showing the decline in the ex
portalion Of breadstuffs from this country
since the Locofoco Tariff Of l846 went intc
effect:
| l846-47 $4,000 ,Oot
1847-48 19,50000(
1848- 40 l3,70000(
1849-50 12,200,00(
186O-5l 8,l0000(
From TUenty.Seren Millions of dollars
worth Of breadsluffs exported, the year III,
Wing Tariff was repealed, and the Locofoct
Tariff went into effect, your exporta,ion
have come down 10 only Eight Millions O.
dollars. You don't find your market abroad
You must find it al home. Remember tina
MIR. Jefferson said: "We must now pac
the manufacturer by the side Of the agricul
turis,. The former question is suppressed
or rather assumes new form. The gran,
enquiry now is, shall we make our comforts
or go without them, at the will Of foreigl
nalion2 He, therefore, who is now agans
domestic manufactures, must be for reducing
US either 10 dependence on foreign nations
or TO live like wild beasts in dens and cav
erns. | am proud q say am not ono G
these. Experience has taught me that man
ulactures are now as necessaryio our inde
pendence, as TO our comfort, and If ihos
who quote me Of different opinion, vii
keep pace with me in purchasing nothin
foreign, where an equivalent Of domesli
fabric can be obtained without any regard
difference of price, il will not be our laul
II we do not have supply al home equal
our demands, and wresl that weapon Of d
lress from the hand which has so long wal
tonly violated it," Remember that Andre
Jackson said that our manufacturers "ougl
to have extended TO them adequate and la
! protection, that our manufacturers and Il
!, borers may be placed in fair competiIic
! with those Of Europe, and that we may ho,
!, within our country supply Of those Leaf
. ing and important articles so essential |
in wars" and that 1--WE have been TOO Ion
: subject 10 the policy Of British merchant
Il is time that we should become little MOI
Americdnized, and instead of feeding pal
> pers and laborers Of England, feed our owl
or else, in shon time, by continuing OF
present policy, we shall be rendered pauPe
y ourselves"