Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-22
Copyrighted 1888 by the Author.

Copyrighted 1888 by the Author.
| had observed that Uncle Tom
usually spoke of our present taril
system as the "American System"
He said once that that was Henry
Clay's phrase. do not know
whether Henry Clay invented it.
But it was the phrase under which
tariff men fought in the old nullif-
cation daysot Webster and Clay.
asked him about this use of the
word one day. EYES," he said,
"therc was a great deal in the
name. do not want any one to |
protect me. protect myself.
And if this nation choose to say |
some day that Germany shall make |
her cannon and England write her |
books for her, as Mr.. Mills and the |
rest of them propose-why, we !
shall manage to make living here
somehow. When the hay cart
goes over we shall not be at the
bottom of the hay-at least he
said, laughing. yankees never
have been there long, and 1 do not
think we shall begin now.
"But do You read the cOrrespon.
dence and the speeches of the peo-
pie who lived within ten years OF
either of the old wars. Sec what
bloody tariff man Calhoun was,
when he could remember what 1t
was to have an English blocking
squadron of Charleston, swapping
up any poor little coaster who
wanted to carry a few bales OF cot
ton, perhaps, to Philadelphia.
See how Tom jefferson, in his
hatred of England, was willing to
build up factories OF muskets ana
cannon. He wanted, OF course, TO
build them at Harper's Ferry, if
he could. But even he did not
propose to buy our gunpowder and
our guns Of an enemy. Did you
ever hear what old Dupont said to
him-Dupont, grandfather Of these
Duponts?'
| said | never had.
"Old Dupont stayed ut Monu-
cello, and Jefferson hoped he would
establish his powder mills there.
But Dupont would not. Jefferson
asked him if he did not like the
water power, or the climate, or
what was the matter? 81 do not
like your black Sheep" said the
Frenchman. SO he went to Will
mington, and the Duponts make
powder there to this day.
"Poor Jefferson and Madison,
while they were bullying the Eng
lish about the Chesapeake and
impressment and all that, they
had occasion to strike some medals
for the heroes of the Algerinc war.
They had not in all America
machinery strong enough to stamp
the medals, and so they had to ask
the British Government to be good
enough to strike them in the Eng-
lish mint. That is pretty bad, to
have nursed your free trade to
such a point that You must ask
your enemies to give the medals to
your heroes.
"WelI, to tell the truth, the most
practical of the crew do admit
that, for what they call the abso.
lutte necessities Of war, a nation
must be independent. E We n
Toombs and jeff Davis and this
- Mr.. Mills-free traders az they
were-did not expect the South,
, when she went to war against the
Union, would buy her powder OF
Dupont or her cannon OF Uncle
| Sam. Floyd did what he could
{ but stealing is one thing and buy
0 ing another. SO all free trade sys-
TENS are made to reserve certain
exceptions, by which you make
your own guns and cannon and
O powder and shot.
"But where IS this to stop
p What is a necessity Of war;
4 saw a charming Southern lady the
4 other day. She told me that of al
, presents she ever received in hel
;. life, a box of table salt was tina
{ which, at the time it was gwen
!. was the most valuable and mos
: prized. Is salt a necessity of war
o or is it nOtg
a WNOw. why was it not easy t
!. make salt in the South Why no
Il make salt in Florida as we'll as il
;. Barnstable? The sea is as salt II
r one place as in another. The dli
/. ference is that in one place the pee
i pIe are used to making things ant
, in the other they are not.
"The monitors, for instance
It There was not monitor when tn
D. war began. The second monito
s which was built, the Nahant, me
ID in the mouth of the Savannah th
Y. Atlanta, which had been built i
g, Savannah. With the first shot
n, the Nahant the Atlanta was disf
e. bled. At the third shot the A
II. lanta hung out white handke
,h chief and struck. Why did nc
es the Southern workshop make
he good a Ship as tile Northern wOrl
I. Shop why, because for two ge'