The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-11-29
From the West Chester Pa. Je6ersonian.
ONE OF THE FRUITS.

x-Governor Seymour, Of New York, made
great speech before the Democratic State Con-
vention, at Albany, on the Sd of October, from
which we take the following extract, to show the
ruinous effects OF the Radical policy on our ship
ping and manufacturing interests. After stating
that the amount of alcohol used in the United
States is about one hundred millions of gallons
annually, which according to law, should yield
revenue of two hundred. millions of dollars,
the amount actually paid into the Treasury is
less than fifty millions! He then asks the peril
nent que stion. 'who gets the one hundred and
Fifty millions?' and answers the interrogatory,
by asserting that 'this enormous amount is di-
vided in some way-soine'imes fairly and some
times corruptly-hetween the officers of the law
and the violators of the law" But to the ex-
tract
"Another measure is needed to restore onr
credit and our honor Give ms back our COM
merce. A few years since were n great mari
time power-our ships whitened every Dream
Where nre they now2 Official reports show
that the carrying trade once u source Of we,lth
and power, has been nearly lost The ships
which bear our produces nbrond or bring the
immigrant to our shores sail under foreign flags.
Dur commerce was swept from the sea, not by
Southern corsairs, but by Northern Congress
men. Britain will pay for the few vessels burn
I'd ny private'rs fitted out in her ports, not from
sense of justice, bat from feeling of gratitude
toward an administration that has done so mucn
to build up her power and greatness She has
| tped all the fruits of our civil war. She is
now indeed the mistress of the SEES. We once
stood in the way of her ambition we tult bet
ter and cheaper vessels Our skin upon the sens
WAS unrivailed -; our nntaxed artisans ere driv-
ing her out of her best markets. .- Her looms
conld moi move unless we gave her cotton All
is now changed. Our shipyards are idle. Amer
lean imports and American exports are borne
over the ocean under British or foreign flags
Our manufacturers call upon Congress to help
them to live against foreign competition upon
our soil We pile up tariffs to fence out cheap
products and then load down labor with taxa
ton until The burdens of our government over
top the protection we give by duties uuon for
eign imports, and so eaden pail weighs upon
our industry. Beyond all this We have given
Britain that for which she has heretofore planned
and schemed in vain-cotton producing colonies
Her India possessions, which were of doubt
full value, are now made ~ Republican stupid
ity, the source of enormous wealth and the sue
cessful rivals of American industry. In FIVE
years before the rebellion, the annual value of
the cotton sept from India was about SIT 000,-
900. In the five following, the annual average
was about $ll3, 100000 In 1865. it rose to
nearly the sum of $3.50, 000 600. More effectu-
ally tn foster this branch of British industry,
Congress gives it bonus 10 the markets of the
world by putting an export duty on American
cotton. While her production grows great, ours
falls off. Never in all her history has she had
such allies as the Republican party. Her people
can well afford to give marked honors to those
who have broeght our country upon the verge
of ruin" r.4.