The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-11-03

It's lhststeo5 however, thtt enc uFage
ment yielded tO the industry Of one class .
citizens, Is partial and injurious 10 tha, .
others. This cannot be in any lust sens
true, since the prosperity and VigoF Of eac
class depeHds ia great degree on the pros
parity and rigor OF all the industrial class
es. But all experience shows, thai il Gov
ernment do not favor domestic enterprise
its negative policy will benefit some for
cign monopoly, which Of all class lepisla
ton is most injerious AMI most eycusable
Once more il IS said that the present sys
ten must be right, because predictions o
| disasters, thai shonld result from II. hay,
beeg falsi6ed. ] do not dwell on the signs
which seem now 70 pOFtenl fearful full
I fIlmeBi, nel eriheless, Of those predictions
I Let it suffice 10 say, that it Is as common
an error, to look prematurely for the blight
which must follow erroneous culture, as i
is 10 expect propilioas frGits rom that whicI
/ is judiciSUs. This nation Is youthful an,
vigorous: II cannot now suffer long am
deeply from any cause, for It has great re
Operative energies. Itis not destined ;
an immediate fall, or even to early decline
II is the part Of vision, nevertheless, no
to try how mach Of erroneous administra
ton it can bear, but to adapt our policy nj
ways so ~ to favor the most complete and
lasting success Of the Republic.
Geutlemen Of the Institute, Il felrain from
discussing the details Of policy. Cireum
stances are fastening a necessity for an
examination Of them in anothsr place,
where action fellows debate. and is effect
i've. | shall not be absent nor idle there
But will not attempt 70 delnie either my
self or you into the belief that the opinion;
have expressed, which trustin some de.
gree correspond with your own, will soon
become fully engrafted into the policy Of
the Government. shall perform my duty
better by showing yod that it is not wise to
expect, nor even abs bsJlu,ely necessary to
depend on the exercise Of just Patfonage
Of our industry by the Government.
This Republic, although Constituting one
nation, paFtskes OF the form OF a cone iera-
tion OF many States, AMI for the purpose of
securing acquiescence allows great power
/ TO minOrities. Although there is no real an
tagonism Of interests, there is, nevertheless.
a wide divergence of opinion concerning
/ those interests, resulting from the different
degrees of maturity and Development reach
ed in the several States. Massachusetts,
and Virginia New York and South Carolina
scarcely differ in their ages; but, neverthe-
less, they differ in their industrial system ,as
widely as Pennsy !vania and Arkansas. r.
f0!d free States have passed through the
stages at which the merely agricultural and
planting States have anly arrived. Itwould
practically be as impossible - bring these
latter States Immediately up TO our proper
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to the system which they are pursuing
They will resist all such efforts earnestly
and perseveringly, 50 long as they shall fee
that they are unable, like US, to distribute
their industry, and SO to share in the bene.
fits ofthat policy. All that we can expect
under such circumstances, from the Govern
ment, is some occasional and partial molii
cation OF its financial policy, SO as to fayoi
the Success of the efforts of the friends o
home industry in establishing ii on safe
basis, without the immediate and direct ali
of Congress-. And this will be sufficient
tits net yet forty years since New York ap
piled in Fain to the United Stated to con
struct the Erie Canal, which was acknowl
edged to be thelincipientSmeasure in sys
TEN Of Internal improvements to be coex
tensive with the Republic. Now, not only
that canal has been built, but the whole sys
TEN is in a train Of Accomplishment, although
Congress has not only never adopted, bu
has almost constantly repudiated it. Pri
vate and corporate enterprise, sustained b.
the States, has worked out what the Fedora
Government has refused to undertake. Tat
same agencies will establish the American
system. Capital, labor, science, skill, ART
augmenting lsere. Power is daily becom
ing cheaper, and consumption more exten
sye. New Hampshire, Massachusetts
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Delaware
Mary land and Ohio, have become manufac
turing States. The advantages resulting
from the policy are indicated not more b.
the universal Improvement Of the agricultur
al districts in these States. than by the pros
Iperity and growth Of their towns aud cities
Here are Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, Spring
field, Provider ce, New Haven, Rutlant
Bennington, New York, Albany, Troy
Rochester and Buffalo, Philadelphia an
Pittsburgh; Newark and Paterson, Whining
ton and Baltimere, Cincinnati and Cleve
LAND, d,-contrast with them the towns and cit
les Of those states, which practically adher
to the pohcy OF employing ioreigh INDUSTRY
and you see plainly the results Of error
That contrast excites INQUIRY, and inquiry
will go on, until it shall correct the great
error; and Introduce universal emulation.
Persevere then, Gentlemen of the lnstl
tute, for while you are represented as hin
dering the prosperity of the country, you
and none so much as you are securing i
and rendering it universal. While you are
regarded as favOring privileges and monoP
olies, you, and none SO much as you art
counteracting pauperism and ciass-legisla
ton. While you are censured for oppos
ing the interests of commerce, you, ant
none SO much as you, are laying the SURF
| foundations for commerce that shall be a
broad as the limits of the earth, and lasting
as the necessities and the enterprise o
mankind While you are represented a
checking the rising greatness of the nation
YOU, and only you, by lifting labor to il
! rightful rank, are elevnting the Republic &c
true aud lasting Independence.
GTThe result of the general introduction
of Americans into the cities on the shores o
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