The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-19
Speech Of Hon. J.. B. Grinnel, Of Iowa
In the HuoSe of Representatives., March g.
1866. -. II

1866 | !. I'LL Cth
The House, as in Committee of the
Whole on tile state offhe Union, having
under consideration the bin (H. B. No. 1917
regulating trade with British North Amer
lean possessions y gE'~b or
Mr.. Grinnell said:
: MIR. Ca AMI shall hereafter, when
the opportunity arises, offer the following
amendment. - -
AddatDheend of ths third section the
following.
Onwool ten centsper pound, and ten
cent. sd. ralQrem; ..cleansed, Twenty-Five
cents per pound; and on sheddyrof mum
&c, tiffyceAtsp4 psead. y. e.. NJ .
| feverish throb. Rumors of conspracies
! against our nationai-credit pass strom~ city
ITO .catT the speed Sfl lightning. The
| alliance of any party with our foreign Ell.
eniees was thought to be impotent 1or. mis-
chief while carrying debt to be ehonora-
bly, discharged by.amriffand internal rev.
enue tax. We have rested i'm delusion.-
Foreign emissaries, taking advantage -c4
glutsd grain markets, since a mighty ar
my of men and horses are disbanded, and
the high prices of fabrics woven with dear
labor, and from cotton many times its
usual price, are perambulating the North
west, organizing free-trade leagues, with
exclanations oijpae rumors of,rich divi-
dends on manufacturing
stocks, and scattering their tracts thick as
autumnal leaves in the forest, and hope
full of early results. 1t is section against
SECTION, occupationy against ~Qccupation.-,
The national League is'oflicered most sa,
gaciously witirIan array of high Sounding
names, and in the back ground are the
sinews Of Of this foreign warfare, pontrplled
by agents apt in com mbinations, who have
by the enlistment Of newspapers, adopted
one half oftheir free trade ma kim, namely
'to buy where. you can buy the cheap
est
We are carried back to that we'll estab-
lished fact in our legislation, that subscrip-
tions were made in Manchester and Glas-
gov oi $4,000, and in all not less than
Sl,O0o,009 were spent of British money to
hreak down our tariff in 1916. This. was
deemed a wise investment if but one per
cent. was made on their expectations, and
since they sold more than one hundred
million dolars's worth dig nodsa year to
us following 1916 than the. fiye years pre-
ceding, the return was most satisfactory.
How much more tempting is the prize"-
We have added ten millions to our people,
from four million things have made men
with the wants of civilization. Hungry
wars for years has devoured our substance
and tratriciiiel STRIFE and slaughter has
lessened usual pr"dnntion, Yet we
t...-s .,,-s,,-ps.,s OF sEq,aoe. .noa bushels .ot
ing Tor purchasers.
An annual importation of $50. 100000 in
value of goods fails TO glut the market,
and our bonds, by the worlds Judgment
be.ter than consols, can be had for SIXTY
five cents ON Al dollar by n gold standard,
and so stands our national balance sheet
that exporting all our gold and the 81 me
amount ofdnnIestic products the present
year q. the last, that 10 protect our bonds
and corporate Indebtedness 500, ,00G, COG in
value OF our bonds would be required. No
wonder thai we tempt the spirit OF perti,ly
and cupdity which, like birds OF evil
omen during war, lowering, waited torour
national annihiiatiop. ..u .... ... ..
have before ne u letter Of recent date
from one OF our distinguished eitizeus now
in London, from " which read the follow
ing: a-a Nas.. r. $780, .a... ..' ..H ..
=" The idea OF supplying our market is
uppermost in their minds. Their iron
works are vastly eXtended-one establish
ment covering twenty arcres of land
They have no idea that we have a right to
do any thing but raise tie raw material
and send il to them to be worked. -.,.t
Il wish every American could hearthese
British talk free trade. They fairly late
us because we have a tariff. A member of
one OF the largest manufacturing firms in
Great Britain said they would have our
tariff reduced this session Of Congress.
They think MorrilI ought to be hung in-
stead OF Jefferson Davis-a very high COM
pliment." g., 1'
Our consul at Liverpool warns us that
great efforts will now be made by English
capitalists and manufacturers To induce
us to reduce our tariff and pernait them to
do ali our manufacturing. There will be
n terrible pressure put on the Govern
ment.', This is the language Of the Lon
don Mining Journal. aaar rgl-.-s
"The formal constitution of a free trade
league in the United States is very hope
full sign. The representatives from the
South are almost sure to vote for IL, and it
will be strange if the West does not Sho'
their .antic; ;pations prove true, we may eS-
pect very large trade with that country"
But on home testimony this suspense is
not to be of long continuance. An officer
of the league, author of the. .""Buckeye
Abroad, and of .'fsight Year In Congress- .
who made in this House strange COM
mingling of figures and fiction, takes up
the prophetica. office i'm his book'of speech
es, and announces prefatorily that abefere
1868, agriculture and - com
merce, labor of all kinds, consumers
of every degree, will join in new Bund
to rescue famishing toll from fiscal tyr
amy" sqsif.rH ..5.e...
such is the strain prophetic taken up by
that Samuel who has notperished between
the temple Of freedom and the altar sacri-
flee. Such are the emissaries who would
destroy our domestic industry aud give
England ~ market worth more than the
trade of her colonies and the Indies. Stern
justice is the most we owe to that country,
and before asking us to accept of the sell
fish theories of her economists and bribes
OF her agents let her make apologies that
in tho drear night of our war she raised