The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-04-23

throughihe columns of 1.-THE Dispatch q few
fines, in order 10 set You right in regard toaI
charge which you made ssaipst me in your
last weekly issue. Yon there charge me
with advocating "anti-AHerican doctrineg
and that ! advocate principle that will NOT
do 10 carry out in community desiring
prosperity. In order 10 arriveat correct
understanding Of this matter, il may be well
10 go back TO first principles and investigate
the condition Of this countryat It's FIRST set
tlement By The English, and trace il down
10 the present time, and then we can ascef-
tain who is American and who is anti
American. Watts, that disine potet in
his day said:
Where nothing dwelt but bensts Of prey,
Or men as wild and fierce as they,
He bids the oppressed and poor repair,
And builds them towns and cities there.
Their fields they sow and trees they plant, m
Whose yearly fruit supplies their want;
Their race grows up from fruitful stocks,
Their wealth increases with theit focks.
There is probably as good description Of
this country as could be given in SO many
words. When the first settlers Of this CON
tinent landed on the inhospitable shores Of
New England, with nothing but wild un-
cultivated forest before them, filled with
savage beasts or men still more savage, what
was the labor which they had to perio6ng
What was tine first wok for them TO dor
Wosit to pass protective tariff and go to
manufacturing? Or was It TO clear up thp
forests and prepare the land for cultivation? ?
To build houses and to perform all the labor
peculiar to metz country, 10 render tia fit
habitation for civilized man? And to do
this would it have been good policy 10 close
their ports against fofeign goods, and there.
by compel themselves 10 manufacture such
articles as were necessary to them in prose-
cutting the work which lay before themY
Common sense / think will teach any
man ihai it would have been the heighth Of
folly for the. early settlers Of this country to
have passed laws restricting trade with the
mother .cobntry, and thereby deprive them
selves of the assistance they might receive
rom the old country 10 the shape Of manu-
factured articles, that were adapted to the
wants Of new country. Now gentlemen,
if il would not have been good policy to
CONNIE ncr manufacturing at the Start, when
the pilgrims landed at the rock Of Plymouth,
at what subsequent period from tha, time to
the present day should this policy COM
mrnce? 0rin what respect has the COM
try changed so as to require different poll
cy from that with which it set out? II i.
was Americen labor To clear up the for
ests then, is it not American labor yet? In
the same paper where you charge me with
being anti-American in principle, you state
that ID. Wollard has now on hand very
large assortment Of furs and skins, taken
from The animals throughout portions of
Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio. They have
been collected by Messrs. Glover and VOL
lard during the past winter, and many Of
them, we understand are destined for ship
ment 10 Europe, where they are to be manu-
factured into various articles" Now gen.
tlemen, if this be the fact, it is evident the
forests are not all cleatea yet. nor the wild
animals all exterminaled. And gentlemen,
are you so sillyas to osuppose that aZdcs of
men who, for mole than two hundred years.
have followed the chase with all the fun and
frolic and wild adventure Of back-woods
life, are going 10 suffer themselves to be shut
up in manufactory there to toll in dust
and oil and smoke Tor stated number Of
hours, 10 go and come at the sound Of bell,
to eat and sleep by rule, to be dependant on
the will Of an employer, when they can just
as easy be their own masters, go and come
when they please, work in the fields Or roam
the forests as best suits their pleasure. No
sir, il can't be done. You are the men who
advocate "anti-American doctrine" You
wish 10 transport foreign labor to this
country, call il American, and because the
people are not willing to work at it, call up
on Government TO sustain il by leehl enact
ments, and then charge US with being hos