2 ?ft 6 out fitt 4 The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL 6. STKOUDSBURG, JV1ILFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1846. No. 48 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCHOCH & SPJBKIXG. . J , ,wrtWhJif Jirinhf lB,T0,loll,iU! and a quarter, naif yearly and if not p-ud before the end of the year. Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their i pipers by a carrier or stage drivers employed ly the propne-i tors, will be charged 37 1-aots. per year, extra. , No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except I at the option of the Editors. ID Advertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) 1 will bo inserted three ueeks for one dollar; twenty-five cents1 for every subsequent insertion: larger ones in proportion. A; liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers ID-All letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. . 1 1, i I REMARKS OF Mr. A. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, ON THE TARIFF. 1 had not intended, said Mr. S. to say one word about the Tariff; but 1 am strongly tempt ed to state a fact or two in reply to the gen tleman from Virginia. That gentleman dwelt entirely on the benefits of foreign trade. He went altogether in favor of importing foreign good., and creating a market for the benefit of foreigners. Would our own agriculture be benefitted by a process like this ? Nothing could more effectually divert the benefit from our own people and pour it in a constant stream ! upon toreign labor. io American interest was so much benefitted by a protective system as ihat of agriculture. The foreign market was nothing, the home market was every thing, to tliein; it was as one hundred to one. The Ta riff gave us the great home market, while the gentleman's scheme was to secure us, at best, but the chance of a market abroad, while it ef fectually destroyed our secure and invaluable market at home. The gentleman says he is ll I of Europe. I will tell him one fact : Wnh all lhe protection we now enjoy, Great Britain tends into this country eighi dollars worih of her agricultural productions lo one dollars worth of all our agricultural productions (wave cotton and tobacco) thai she lakes from us. Mr. Bayly. Does the gentleman assert that? Mr. Stewart. I do and will prove it? Mr. Bayly. Then you will provu the re turns false which are made by our own Gov ernment. No, sir; I will prove it by fhe returns fur nished by Mr. Walker himself in support of the bill which he has laid before the Committee of Ways and Means. Now, 1 assert, and can prove, that more than half the 'alue of all the British goods imported into this country con sist of agricultural products, changed in form, converted and manufactured into goods. And I invite a thorough analysis of the facts. 1 challenge the gentleman to the scrutiny. Take r u i down all lhe articles in a store, one ' , " J material, the er estimate the value of the raw bread and meal, and other agricultural products . WIJ1U11 UdVC CUIC1CU IIIIU IIICII ISUllkHIIUll, UUU I. .. n .,A.n,l ..t lm.. v I m. I mi .. . t . ... VI t u v ill be found that one-half and more of their value consists of the productions of the soil agricultural produce in its strictest sense. Now by reference 10 Mr. Walker's report, it will be seen that, for twelve years back, we have imported from Great Britain and her de pendencies annually 52 1-2 millions of dollars worth ot goods, but call it ou millions, wntie ihe look of all our agricultural products, save . f. 1. II .A II 11 couon and tobacco, less than two and a halfj. minions oi uouara viurwi. i uus, men, assu- raing one-half ihe value of her goods to be agri .1 of her agncu!- J of ours taken o avoid cavil f , to avoid caxii cultural, it gires us 25 millions lural produce, to 2 1-2 millions by her, which is just ten to one; to avoid cavil, 1 nut it at eight to one. To test the truth of his posiiion, he was prepared, if time permitted to refer to numerous facts. But for the infor mation of the gentleman from Virginia, who is so great a friend to tho poor and oppressed farmers, I will tell him ihat we have imported yearly, for twenty-six yeas, (so says Mr. Walker's report,) more than len millions of dollars worth of woollen soods. Las year we imported $10,6G(5, 176 worth. Now, one-half j tiid more of the value of this cloth was made tip of wool, the subsistence of labor and other agricultural productions. The general esti mate is, that the wool alone is half. The uni versal custom among farmers when they had their wool manufactured on the shares, was lo give the manufacturer half the cloth. Thus we import, and our farmers have to pay, for Jive' millions of dollars worth of foreign wool every year in the form of cloth, moa'Iy the produc - nun of sheep feeding on the grass and grain of Great Britain, while our own wool is worthless, for want of a market; and this is ihe policy the grntleman recommei.ds to American farmers. Yes, sir; and the gentleman is not saiified with five millions, bin wishes to increase it to ten millions a year for foreign wool. Will ihe gen tleman deny thU? He dare not. He has de clared for Mr. Walker's bill, reducing the du ties on woollens nearly one-half, with a view to increase the revenue; ol course, the imports niut be doubled, making the import of cloih 'wenty millions instead of ten-, and of wool ten insiead of five millions of dollars per annum. This was the gentleman's plan to favor tho farmers, British farmers, Uy giving them the American market. His plan was to buy every thing, sell nothing, and jei riili. (A laugh.) What was true as lo cloth was equally true as to t'lrivihmgieliSe. wJrafce-.ajhaf.a pair of shoe, very anxious 10 compete wnn Hie pauper ianorj,hfi manufacturer recei! and n.iid nvPr in the j a yard of silk or lace, analyze it, resolve it into Ills consiiiuent elements, and you will find thai ibe raw material, and the substance of labor, . , and other agricultural products, constituted . ,u., luifi,w ,;.,, ..-ilnn Thn nin. more than Olie-lldll lis entire dlue. 1 He pau- per labor of Europe employed ill manufacturing 1 ,. , , , -. J . , .1 llk and lace got what It eat, no more; and tilts js .j,al y()U pav for when VOU purchase iheir , '. J , J 1 - , goods. Break up your home manulaciures and ,.,., niari.WIS. :mnnr, -v-rvthimr vnn n.it and ...... ....j..... . -. j i .1 r. 7. ?. r uritiK anu wear, lor me uenejii uj iiv juijiki I Oh, what friends these gentlemen are to the ' farmers and mechanics and labourers of this county no, sir, I am wrong, of Great Britain. Now I ask whether wool is not, in the strict - est sense, an agricultural production? And if wo import ten millions in cloth, is not five mil- fifleen shiings, and wijl they not supply the , lions of that sum paid, for the wool alone, a whoie Most clearly they will. The fact is , product of British farmers? As a still stronger noloriouSt tllal mosl o( olir grain ani fl0llr now I illustration of his argument, Mr. S. referred lo ,Q Engand through her colonial ports, and I ihe article of iron. Last year, according to j al co0ial dmieSj ,nus evading the operation of Mr. Walker's report, we unpolled $9,043,390 j ,j0 corn ,aws wmle ,he gra)u flour froni worth of foreign iron, and lis manufactures, ,he n()rth of Europe musl aiwavs pay ,ie high ; mostly from Great Britain, four-fifths of the j esl dulie3 im d by ,he con; ,awSi Hence vame ui yui';ii, as every practical man uiibw, -.1 l . L. . . I I. - consisted of agricuitural'produce nothing else, j Iron is made of ore and coal; and what is the i ore and coal buried in your mountains worth? Nothing nothing at all, unused. What gives ii value? The labor of horses, oxen, mules, and men. And what sustained this labor but corn and oats, hay and straw for the one, and bread and meal and vegetables of every kind for the other. These agricultural products were purchased and consumed, and this made up nearly the whole price of the iron which farmers a - and a ill) as oflen as lhe pr0. rer)ealed. WelL is noi iron made in England of the same materials that it is made of here? Certainly; then is not four-fifths of' the value -of British iron made up of British ag-; rtcultura! produce? And if we purchase nine : minions oi aoiiars wortn ol Ljrnisn iron a year do we not pay six orseven millions of this sum th f, hlv mL nr, Uin !; mnn fr J mIp i, ihp I ior eaie in tne lorm 01 ' for lhe produce of Briiish grass, bread, meat and 7 ' , TV ... ;v. . r t rnn? He nnt il lo He rrenl eman frnm V ro n a: aim iipnci spni npre nr snip in mo mrni ni . flr Kivi.vl In :av if tills tt int IniA to .'hn - i - ( " i , ,, , . . , . C letter, ne cnauengeu nnn to oeny it, or uis- oenv U. or uis- prove il if "he could. The gentleman's plan was to break down ihese great and growing markets for our own farmers, and give our own markets to the British; and yet he professed to be a friend to American farmers ! ! "From such friends good Lord deliver them .'" One remark more on this topic. Secretary Wal- ker informs us that the present duty on iron is 75 per cent., which he proposes to reduce to on nor npnt tn ;rrn the rrsr, Tn Hnlhic he ' . , . f . ?' . ' Clearly he must. Then we must add ten or iwcivc mnnunsper year to our present imports I :n: . ;oi mm, anu in course oesiroy mat amount o. l our aomesnc supply 10 ma Ke room ior it. i nus, , at a blow, in the single article of iron, this bill is intended to destroy the American markets for at least eight millions of dollars worth of domestic agricultural produce to be supplied from abroad; and this is the American no! the JSrilish system ol policy which is now I i - t altempted to be imposed upon this country by ,l- D-t,-t.A.A,-, A J.n;;rtr;,t Tot ihom iuis uriiisifnaimg -lummsiraiwn: jei mem t h' in ,e6S lhfn !W -Vf " lhere wil' T be a fPecIe;PyK nk in lhe country, lhe . PeP,e 3,nd Jhe TfeaSUr; WI,'be. ag3U; bf"k;i and he sceneaand sufferings of 1840 mill Vnliin nnil mil V k . n. nrAnm-nW n 1 n i l ... icuiu, uu .v. ... ... a a ..ebaa.jr - with conse- quence, wie pomica., revolutions oi mat penou. fMr. Leake said, cotton and tobacco were agricultural products. Mr. S. certainly; but there are other inter ests in this country worth looking after and pre serving besides cotton and tobacco. But, no doubt, the gentleman concurs wilh Mr. Sec- retary Walker, who tells us, in hi free trade report, which has so delighted England, and no wonder it has, for he there says we must take more British goods, because, if wo do not, "Enoland must nav for our lhrtadstuTs in snc- o r j w i cap., and "Tto havin.tr it to snare, she will brino , 0 . . . l , j ... ... . . .i... . i aown to even a greater exicui ine price uj uur cotton " Yes, "our cotton" there is the rub. The North and West must quit work, sell noth ing, and bring every thing from England, and send them our specie as long as it lasts, so that Jbngland may have speciefo spare lor ooutli eru cotton that's the plan thus openly and boldly proclaimed by the Secretary and his followers. We of the North and West must send our last dollar to England to buy bread and meat, and grass and grain, in the form iron and cloih.to increase ihe price oi"our cot ton." We must be "hewers of wood and draw ers of water" for Gieat Britain paupers, slaves, and beggars, that England may have "specie to spare for Southern cotton, is the undisguised policy and purpose Treasury Report. But Mr. S. would these Southern gentlemen: Don't be This of the say to afraid. You will have your cotton market still. Eng- land must have your cotton she can t do without it at present. But beware; the time may come when England would not want "our cotton," and the South, in turn, would cry out for protection. But the gentleman congratu- lates the West with the prospect of an early repeal of the corn laws. But, in his opinion, if the corn laws were repealed, the people ol the West would scarcely gel a bushel of their grain into England on any terms. Mr. Bavly. Do you mean what you say, that not one bushel will go there ? Mr. Stewart. I will answer the gentle man, by giving him Lord Ashburton's speech in the House of Lords a few days ago. He Mates that nine-lent ha of the grain now impor ted in Great Britain is supplied from the north nf Knmnfi. nllhouoh tho.v nav a lax of liflPHii . shiiiings Ine qUar,er; while that from Canada 'd ,he rjniled StaIes passj,lg through Canada, J but foiir shillings. Repeal the duty ol ; Loiu Ashburton very justly argues, thai we j must be overwhelmed if the corn laws are re , pealed, and this great advantage, now enjoyed ; by Canada and the United States, of importing - ; flour ana gram at about one-lourtn ol ine amy , ,i()i;s of do,ars wonh of agrjcui,urai produce in we exported hundreds of thousands of dollar, paid by the importers from the Baltic and lhe jh( form of manuaC,ures, which does not glut ' worth uf cotton good, into the British East In j Black sea. Repeal the corn laws put them , of j - e ,he forejf,n markct., for our flour and dies, and beat the British in their own marker on an cuuai luwuus: nu uo, uuu la iiih question settled, anu t lie grain and flour in all time can be clearer. xnd yet market lost to OUr j to come ? Noihins gentlemen exult the prospect of the lepeal ol the corn laws, and are ready to sacrifice the whole of our manu factures and home markets to bring it about. Such will be the operation of the repeal of the rnrn laws mi AmHrican agriculture, and such - tl sla,fimenl nf ifjrd Ashburton. who ner- h knQWS as much abou, ,he maUer asJ cven lhp iparilBfi a.n,i-maI1 rmm Viroinia. Rut ihts is not all. This opinion of Lord Ashburton ,S sustal,ied by ,he ",0:l in''J'Senl merchants Gfeal Bri,aln " ihii w"hrm le"or of ,h testlmo"y 'ecel,y aken before a select - ,.:,, r ,u n.xo pn,nmnn n iln . . r- committee ol tne Mouse 01 commons on tins . rr r., r . .tiitinrti tt )i fit i tiyt i I . ;im m rt nnn ni I nn . J . J . . ... witnesses, anu one 01 tne most intelligent men ,t. i.:.i.., i?i ,u , and the growing trade with Canada an the Wcs- tern States of America will be crushed by the cheaper productions of the Baltic and the Black sea; consequently," he adds, "America, Cana da, and British shipping, would receive a se vere and decisive blow" by the repeal of the corn laws. But still the gentleman from Vir ginia exults in the prospect of the repeal of the corn laws, and boasts of the market it will open to our Western farmers, lo whom, however, he will not give one dollar for their rivers and im 1" ... ...-- provements not a cent but is anxious to se duce lbem hlJJ Bri,ish free Jrade ( bu, h(J woM bfly ,Q lhe .Mimeo danaos say to tlie v est, iimeo danaos, uuai yyjui iiiuuua, ai i Look at the boasted I" I IL C . , and be ware of your enemies. led foreign market, what is it? nhing. Look ai facts. The , Comparatively nothin , - - . . agricultural productions of lhe United Stales, exclusiye of cotton and tobacco, is estimated at one thousand millions per year. Our exports to all tho world amounted last vear to SI 1.195.- j , 5J5 0f thls Great Brllain ,ook oboul lwo and a nar JJ jhe i So ihe foreign int. j l m millions. Ye i! , r-t All the rest was consumed at home. markets of the world amounted and the home market to 9S9 the gentleman had just pro- nminoprl lbi fiirpton markets hvptv thino tn thp. farraeM an( ,he home markets comparatively nollli We are told by lhe gentleman, as well as by the Secretary of the Treasury, that if we will reduce our Tariff, England will re- M l,r .nr.. Inu,., a ,1 n,.n hnr nnr. ... nnr 3, uuu viuti uwi i i j i J iw vim. bread stuffs to enrich our farmers. Now, sir, r . I I . c l r . . I I beg farmers lo look al official facts sent us by this Secretary a few days since. Look at the report- on commerce and naugaiion, and you will be astonished to see ihat England, Scot - li rwl anil T rwl'ind Inct rnnr fniL frrtrti ii.n iTm. iuiiui uuu i i vsiuiitj ii"' j uui it win wiw kj onin ......J.. r n qsocr barrels of flour, equal in all to 178,785 bushels ...v v,. .. i.U., .... ..ijw i i I 1 we;i, not eaual lo the production of a single county in Pennsylvania or Ohio. England im - a a 'J ports about lb millions of bushels of wheat American farmers and mechanics for the Amert yearly. For six years prior to 1843, she im-jcan market, and we must decide which shall have ported annually more than twenty millions, and of this only 178,785 from the Utiised States not a huudreth part of her foreign supply. What an immense maiket for our bread-stuff! And would the repeal of ihe corn laws help you ! tries Clearly not. li will lavor otner conn as it will favor you ; if the tusl as much ofU'uly l! taken off of your grain, it is taken off your gram, it is taken theirs. So it leaves you jtisi where you are; j nay, worse. For we now get a large amount of grain to England through the Canadian ports at 4 shilligs duty, while the grain of Europe pays 18. Repeal the corn laws, and this ad vantage is lost for ever, and our trade through the Colonial ports is al an end. Clearly then the repeal of the corn laws will be an injury, and a great injury, to our farmers on the Cana dian frontier, without in lhe least favoring any body else. Last year Great Britain and Ireland look of all the grain and bread-stuffs of the U. States, wheat, rye, oats, corn, flour, and. meal ol all kinds, $223,251 worth, not a quarter of a mil lion; and we look from her $49,GS1,059 worth of her goods, neatly fifty millions of dollars. These are official facts, yet the Secretary of the Treasury who communicates ihem says, if we don't reduce our tariff, and take more British goods, England will have to pay us specie for our breadstvjfs. What an absurdity. She takes one-fourth of a million of our breadstuff's, and we take fifty millions of her goods : yet she must pay specie for our breadstuff!! But Great j Britain took in ihc same year $35,675,859 worth of cotton, vet this cotton srowins Secre- lary is not satisfied. We ol the West musl break up our markets, send our specie to Eng land to purchase wool and other agricuhural i produce, converted into goods, and support la bor, fed by British bread and meat, $o that England may have plenty of specie to pay high prices for Mr. Walker's cotton farmers musl be slaves to Southern negroes. Farmers of the WeM, what say you to this ? Will you sub mit ? If you do, you are slaves, and you de serve it. But dliUlllCr lad. V U l C A JHilLa Ul lilull" U C i . . - nr m n ufactuies last year, including those of wood amounted to $13,429,166. Assuming, as in the case of British manufactures, that one-half iheir value is made up of American agricultur- al produce, then we export neatly seven mil-, , :: rrm ' '. ucoo nmi inr orain. in us nrtoinai torm. 10 use a amuiar Ml. . 7 r. ftiIr nnrt. I IllUSIlclUUIl . n usicill laiuicis acuu nii-u win. ' . . . .. t hay and oals, thousands ol dollars wortn, every vpsr m ilift F.nstftm market, not in its rude and orio'mal form, but in the form of hogs and hor- . ..i ses; they give their hay-stacks life and legs, and make them trot to market with the farmer on their back. ( A laugh). So the British con - i verted their produce, not into hogs or horses, but into cloth and iron, and send it here lor sale, And. viewing the subiect in this light, he could demonstrate that there was not a State in the r . WQrlh of Briish agricu,ura produce to one dol - lar's worth she consumes of theirs. Time ,d u him t0 inu, details; bul he . . - ... toni,i rrn:Bh ,n1 pimpnm fmm which anv one , would furnish the elements Horn Mllcn any one . - COUIU make the calculation, and exportation Assuming that consumption are in proportion to nonu ation. men wo impon au minimis ui . - t . r-i-i ii r British goods, and 25 millions one-half is apricultural nroduce. We export to England o . , agricultural produce (excluding cotton and to- bacco) 2 1-2 millions. Divide ihese sums, 2o and 2 1-2 millions, by 223, the number of Rep resentatives, and it gives SI 12,1 08 as the a mouiit of British agricultural produce consumed 1 in the form of goods in each Congressional dis trict; and $11,210 as their export to Great Bri tain of agricultural produce. This gives the ttronortion of ten lo one. Yet gentlemen are c.i .i ...:,t, c.;ii r..rii.r ir. i n r rtn 1IUI Sdiisiicu, aim wiau ouu iumw the import of Biiiish goods, and still further ,.. nmi .lstrnv thn American farmer and M" ; mecnanic a,1(i laboring man to favor foreigners. jy ihe effect upon currency, as well as , j ,, 0ae lhe entleman from Vir - uvi ivni'ii. vi f Mi'i'uw n-"-- : ,i Bayly wauls a new coat: he goes fJ a j3rilish importer and pays him S20, hard ; monev and nard to ret. England takes none of! ' hl Awav it froes. in yuui i ul; iuuuu y - J o ' jcb We sec no more of it; as far as cir- ' culation is concerned, the gentleman might as well 'have thrown it into the fire. I want a coat. I goj i to tne American maiiuiacvuic. anu uUJ( of American broadcloth, (lie wears no otner.i ! and he would compare coats with gentlemen on the snot. (A laugh.)- Well, the manufacturer, thn npxt dav. !?ave it to the farmer for wool : ho rro vn if tot Up. hnfimnltpr. the hatter, and black- 'smith; they gave it back to the farmer for meat and bread ; and here it went irom one w ', YoU might perhaps See lllS busy and bustling S20 i . - i r I This I IIUIVi Ub Jl JIA . I .1. ...w j -.1 l . t niontv Tint wliRra was the nentle- j iimut. iiiuiiui f""";- a , man3 hard money ? Aranished ; gone to reward 'and enrich the wool-growers and farmers, shoe-1 makers, hatters, and blacksmiths oi .kngiana. , Now, 1 go for supporting the American farmers and mechanics, and the gentleman goes for the - "i t. 1 .British that's the difference. Can the gentle- rnan denv us i neru me uui " a.uco u i matter, the British and the American side; and the - . rti ...... I . 1 1 a...,. ,,.tno in rnis i lithium i MittJLiuii izia t w cimnlo oiipstnin is. whicn side snau we taue i 1 'j;ne jrreai struggle is between the British and jit. Mr. S. would here take occasion to state ajaci that would startle the American people. The British manufacturers have, at this mo ment, posseasion'of this Capitol. Yes, sir, I tell you and the country one of lhe principal committee rooms in this house is now, and has ! been for weeks, occupied by a gentleman for merly residing in Manchester, England, wtio has a vast number, perhapt hundreds of speci mens of goods sent from Manchester (priced to suit the occasion) to be exhibited to members of Congress to enlighten iheir judgements, and in the Tangtiageof his letter of instruction from Manchester of the 3d January, '46, accompany ing these specimens, lo enable ihem "to arrive at just conclusions in regard to the proposed al terations in the present tariff." Yes, sir, agents, spocimens, and lelters from Great Britain in structing us how to make a tariff to suit the Brit ish. Mr. S. here expressed lhe hope that the peoole uf the North would send on specimens of American manufactures to be aho exhibited in the Capitol, not only lo .show ilu-ir perfee- ! lion and extent, but to correct on the -p.it t ho false representations made by iheso Mandie ler men and their agents in regard to the chnntc ter and prices of Bniiah and American gonU-.. Speaking of the President's hibssi, ibis Man cheater letter writer exclaims "a second Dun. I come to judgement, a second Richard Cobdeir." and so delighted were they in England wnii Mr. Walker's celebrated free trade rejnrt ill u was oidcred u be pruned by the W-mdb ul" Lords. After all this, having our President au l secretary on their side, they ouhi to han been content, without sending iheir letters nf instructions here to direct Us what kind of a ta- riff ihey wish us to pass. But if their chancel lor had sent lia a revenue bill, he could out have furnished one to suit Great Britain bel ter than the one furnished by the Secretary of ihc Treasury. Parliament would puss it by acclamation, sir rumen reel understands un ' business ; he proposes to take the duties off . lirantLl itfL inn ft r m olarlnK: f ill I ' 1 1 ! tiko 1 I uiguuqiui tanvi ecu ihuiuhuij ui miiu.i uj v by their manufacturers, and remove every bur den, so as to enable ihem to meet us and beat us in our own markets and in the marked of the world, where Yankee competition is begin- ning 10 give iliem great uneasiness, lt year. unci pivmi uisciiniiiiainiH uunus un nc-i n lr nuvliicr Olsprmiin.itlna Unlit; imti.iv.-il In 'irpOll KM IMtt fir.l S ihcll 10 (ln:illv I 1 " " i' " " - - , . .w per , . -If . I . II . I j ceni. in uns great siruggie, otr ivoneri reei 1 comes to the rescue: he repeals the duty on cotton and wool, and bread and meat, and every i i 1 1 1 . thing used by lirittsli manufacturers to enable - them logo ahead in this struggle with the ' Americans; and what does Mr. Walker do? Just the reverse. He proposes to take off all j protective duties, anu imposes neavy uuruens ' on the raw materials, dye suffs, &c, used by . our manufacturers, so as effectually to prostrate and hreak them down. Sir Robert Peel , takes burdens off his steed, while Sir Robert Walker piles bags of sand on his-ihen crack ,heir whips clear the road a fair race ! (A i t c.u .u .i;r. i... n... laugh., Such is the difference between But- ish and American policy. Sir Robert Peel's present system furnishes powerful arguments for adhering to our protective system his object is not to favour, but to beat us; and our course is not to deleat, but to lavour ins pur- pose This will not only be the effect of the tariff nrooosed bv our Secretary, bul it is its I I open and avowed purpose and design. Is it not the proclaimed purpose of the- message and report to increase the importation of British goods, and of course, to that extent, destroy American supply? Does not the Secretary propose lo reduce lhe protective duties more than one half for the purpose of increasing rev- i en ue: and l( tne revenue is increasca uy reau- . t cing duties one-half, must not the imports bn more lhan doubled.' i nis is seii-eviuein, anu 1 if you double your imports of foreign goods, j must you not destroy to that extent American , supply? Most certainly, unless the Secretary i . can in his wisdom, devise a plan to make peo- pie eat, drink, wear double as much a now do. Bui where will we find moi nav for them? There's the rub. iJul start i i' j Wfr and extraordinary as it may appear, our Secretary, for the first lime in the hisiury of ihe word uas boldly and openly avowed it as iho ne nnvpTnmRnl 10 break down and de- j . , , ,, ,.r Stroy lis own rnauuiuuimeia iu. u.a jjuijiuao m . ,.i makinp wav for those of foreigners. In the , very hrst paragtaph of . his argumentative re- ... , w nnrt. ho sets out wilh staling ihat the revenue port. of the Isi quarter of this year is two millions less than the 1st quarter of the last, and that this has been occasioned by the substitution of highly protected American manufactures for foreign im 1 ' .i . :ui ..:i .t,:.-. ,1 ; j .u ; TJUl to; U.1U lll.S Oil, w..., ....w ........ Jfln Secretary proposes to remedy by reducing the Drotective duties, and thus breaking up this abominable business of "substituting domestic products;" made by American labour out of Ameri can produce, for British goods, made by Briiish labor out of British produce Oh but he bates the British. Now, sir, this is not only the doc trine of his text, but it runs through his whole sermon of 957 pages. No wonder it was printed by the House of Lords: and let our Secretary car ry through his bill, and Queen Victoria would gladly transfer the seals from Sir Robert Peel to Sir Robert Walker, for he will have tendered her a greater service than any other man, dead or liv ing. But this is not only the doctrine of the Treasury rftnort. but of the message itself. The revenue standard laid down in the message aims a dtsath blow at all American industry. It suggests a kind of "sliding scale" so that whenever any branch of American industry begins to beat the foreigner, and supply the market, and thereby di minish imports and revenue, this is evidence that the duty is too high and ought to be reduced, so as to let in the foreign rival productions; but let the President speak for himself here is his reve nue standard in his own words: "The precise point in the ascending scale of duties at which it is ascertained from experience that the revenue is greatest, is the maximum rate of duty which can be laid for the bona fide pur pose of collecting money for the support of Gov ernment. To raise the duties higher than that point, and thereby diminish the amount collected, is to levy them for protection merely, ai'.d not for revenue. As long, then, as Congress may gradu-
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