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THEODORE H. CREMER,
The aJorritNAL" will be published every Wed
nesday morning, at 152 00 a year, if paid in advance,
and if not paid within six months, 50.
No subscription received for a shorter period than
mix months, nor any paper discontinued till all ar
rearages are paid.
Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be
inserted three times for $1 00, and for every subs°.
luent insertion 25 cents. If no definite orders are
given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu
ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged ac
cordingly.
NOTICE.—At a meeting of the Trustees of
HUNTINGDON PitESBYTERIAN CONGREGA.
Tutu," held on the 19th ult., the following resolu
tion, of which all persons interested are desired
to take notice, was adopted :..
Resolved, That the subscribers for the erection of
the new church building, who have not already
made full payment, be and they are hereby required
to pay the rematning, portion of their respective
subscriptions, on or before the 16th of October next.
GEORGE TAYLOR,
Secretary.
Sept. 11, 1844
(r7SUDDEN DEATH, APOPLEXY, BURST
ING OF VESSELS, &C.—Wright's Indian Ve
getable Pills are certain to pri. vent the at
bove dreadful consequences, because they
purge from the body those morbid humors
which, when flaatiog in the general circu
lation, are the cause of a determination or
rush of blood to the head, a pressure upon
the brain, and other dreadful results.—
From two to six of said Indian Vegetable
Pills, taken every night, on going to bed,
will in a short time so completely cleanse
the body from every thing that is opposed
to health that sudden death, apoplexy,
bursting of blood vessels, or indeed any mat
sidy, will be in a manner impossible.
Wright's Vegetable Indian Pills also aid
and improve digeston, and purify the blood
and therefore give health and vigor to the
whole frame, as well as drive disease of
every name from the body.
Beware of Counterfeits.—The public are
cautioned against the many spurious medi
cores which in order to deceive are made
in outward appearance, closely to resem
ble the above wondertul Pills.
_ _ _
Oasnam—Purchase only of the adver
tised agents, or at the office of the Gener
al Depot, No, 169 Race street, Philadel
phia, and be particular to ask for WRIGHT'
Indian Vegetable Pills.
The genuine medicines can be obtained
at the store of Wm. Stewart, Huntingdon.
William P. Erhardi,s
FANCY CLOTH AND FUR TRIMMED CAP
MANUFACTORY,
No. 42 North Second street, Philadelphia,
......{.0....-.
The subscriber respectfully informs his
patrons and dealers generally, that he has
removed his Cap Manufactory, to the upper
part of the building, No. 42 N. Second
street, below Arch, (entrance through the
store,) where he manufactures Caps of
every description and pattern, of the best
materials and workmanship. Having a
large assortment of C aps always en hand,
orders can be supplied at short notice.
WILLIAM P. ERHARDT.
August 21,1844.-2 mo.
PICTURE OF HEALTH.—HeaIth is
characterised in an individual by the ab
sence of all pain, suffering or affection in
any part of his body ; by the free and regu
lar exercise of all his functions without any
exception. They consist in having a good
appetite at meal times, an easy digestion,
free evacuations, without looseness or cos
tiveness at least once In every twenty fout•
hours, and without heat, dryness, or burning
at the passage ; the free issue of water with
out acrimony or burning, and without a red
dish sediment which is always a sign of a
present or an approaching pain ; quiet sleep
without agitation or troublesome dreams;
no taste of bile or other bad taste in the
mouth upon rising in the morning ; no sour
ness or disagreeable rising - of the stomach ;
a clean tongue ; a sweet breath ; no itching,
Pimples or spots on the skin ; no piles ; no
burning heat upon spy part of the body ; no
excessive thirst when unexposed to laber or•
other known cause ; na interruption to any
natural evacuation, nor pain at their period
ical return.
Where the state of the system does not
harmonize with the above picture of health,
it is of the greatest importance that no time
be lest in sending fur a doctor, or in the use
of foolish remedies too often the result of
speculation ; instead of this course let a dose
of Brandreth's Pills be taken, which will
not deceive, but will at once restore health
to the organ or part that requires, it.
All who wish to preserve their heed', all
who are determined to defend their life
against the encroachments of disease which
might send them prematurely to the grave,
will, without hesitation, have recourse to the
Brandreth Pills, when the state of the sys
tem does not harmonize with the above pic
ture of health. .
Those who live in a country where conta
gious or other diseases prevail, should often
think of this true picture of health, and ob
serve himself with particular attention, in
order to act accordingly. The wise and
rightly directed will follow this advice--the
unwise are left to their own destruction.
br:Brandreth's Pills are for sale by the
following Agents in this county.
Wm. Stewart, . fluntingdon
.. ... _ .
Al'Farlane, Garber, 8c co., Flo Iliclaysburg.
& N. Cresswell, Petersburg.
I:
Moore & Swope Alexandria;
Hartman & Smit h, Manor Hill.
Thomas M. ()wens, Birmingham.
A. Patterson, Williamsburg.
r The above are the only authorized
agents in Huntingdon county.
Sept. 11. 1844.-6 m.
ipUsTlcEs , Blanks of all kinds, for sale
at this Office.
c:::) , :mitßa)uaL__v_.t.?.. az), a f,,c1,41.
4UDIT OR'S NOTICE.—The under
signed, auditor appointed by the Court of
Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, to
apporpriate the money arising from the
Sheriff's Sale of the real estate of Jno. Span
ogle, Jr., hereby gives notice to all persons
interested that lie will attend for that pur
pose at his office, in Huntingdon, on Friday
the 25th October next, at 1 o'clock, P. M.
GEORGE TAYLOR,
auditor.
Sept. 18, 1844
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.-- fhe under
signed, appointed auditor by the Court of
Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, to ap
propriAte the moneys arising from the Sher
iff's sale of the real estate of Robert Lowry,
deceased, hereby gives notice to all persons
interested, that he will attend for that pur
pose at his office in Huntingdon, on Friday
the 25th October next, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
GEORGE TAYLOR,
Sept. 18,11844, Auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.—The under
signed, auditor appointed by the court of
common pleas of Huntingdon county, to ap
propriate the moneys arising from the Sher
iff 's sale of the real estate of Samuel S. Bar
ton, hereby gives notice to all persons inter
ested. that he will attend for that purpose at
his office, in Huntingdon, on Friday the 25th
day of October next at 1 o'clock, P. M.
GEORGE '1 AYLER.
Sept. 18, 1844. auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.---The under
signed, auditor appointed by the court of
common pleas cf Huntingdon county, to ap
propriate the moneys arising from the Sher
iff 's sale of the real estate cf - Kneedler,
hereby gives notice to all persons interested,
that he will attend for that purpose at his
office in Huntingdon, on Friday the 25th of
October next, at 1 o'clock, P. M.
GEORGE TAYLOR,
Sept. 18, 1844. Auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.--The under•
signed, auditor• appointed by the court of
common pleas of Huntingdon utility, to
make dist ribution of the assets in the hands
of Randal Alexander, Esq. and Nathan
Rickets, assignees of David W. Rickets,
hereby gives notice to creditors and all in
terested in said distribution, that he will at•
tend for thrt purpose at his office in Hunt
ingdon, on Friday the 25th October nt xt, at
1 o'clock, I'. M.
. - - --
GEORGE TAYLOR,
Sept. 18,1849. Auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.--Take notice
that the undersigned auditor, appointed by
the court of common pleas of Huntingdon
county, to distribute the proceeds of the sale
of the real estate of Samuel Caldwell, Ntll
for that purpose attend at the office of Isaac
Fisher, Esq , in Huntingdon, on Friday the
18th of October next, at 10 o'clock A. M..
when and where all persons are required to
make their claims known, or be debarred
from coming in upon said fund.
JACOB MILLER,
Sept. 25, 1844. .4uditor.
FARM FOR SALE.-- The subscriber
will offer at public sale, on the premises, on
Friday, the 18th day of October inst.,
that valuable tract of land sitate in West
township, about three quarters of a mile
above Mr. John Neff's Mill, on the little
Juniata river, containing 155 acres, with the
usual allowance, having thereon erected a
large two story log and frame house, well
finished, a bank barn., and other necessary
outbuildings. There is an excellent spring
of water across the road front the house,
and a good well at the door.
The land is of the hest quality, well water
ed and well improved, acd is within 1 miles
of the Juniata Canal.
Any person wishing to procure a desirable
situation will please call on Mr. Benitmin
Brubaker, who will show the property,
matte known terms, &c.
TOBIAS KAUFFMAN.
October 2, 1844.—t5,
TO ALL IA HOM IT MAY CONCERN.
—Take notice that the members of the Ist
Presbyterian Church of the borouh of
Hollidaysburg, by petition at August 'I cm,
last, of the Court ofCommon Pleas of Hun
tingdon county, have made application for
a Charter of Incorporation for said church ;
and if no sufficient cause is shown to the
contrary, the said court will. on the second
Monday Of November next, decree a charter
of Incorporation to the said church.
JAMES STEEL, Proth'y.
Protleys. Office, Hunt
ingdon, Sept. 11, 1844.5
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FARMS FOR SALE..—Four very supe
rior contiguous tracts of land, adjoining
Penn's Manor in Gretn township, Indiana
county, Pennsylvania, comprising 1290 or
more acres.
The neighborhood is one of the best in the
county—the land is very fine—well adapted
to growing wheat; there is lime-stone and
coal iu abundance on it. The proportion of
land now under cultivation is about one
third ; the remainder in woodland—timber
excellent—White oak, Hickory, &c. They
are distant about 12 miles from the canal, 8
miles from the county town of Indiana, and
1 mile from the village of Greenville, and
very convenient to mills, meeting-houses,
schools, &c.
There is a flourishing German Settlement
in the immediate neighborhood. These
Lands will be divided into Farms to suit
purchasers. The title is perfect and the
terms will be accommodating. Such an op
portunity of obtaining a fine farm—on as
reasonable terms as the above will be offer
ed---seldom occurs in Pennsylvania.
Apply to
EDWARD SHOEMAKER.
Ebensburg, Cambria co., Pa.
October 2, 1844.-3%
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JITTOILVIEI
UUNTINUDON, PA
[From Me Philadelphia Forum.]
P Z3L.T—
OF THE
HON, JOHN M. CLAYTON,
Delivered at the Whig Mass Meeting held at
Delaware City, (Del.) on Thursday, Sep-
tember 26, 1844,
Fellow citizens:
The contrast between the state of the country as
it exists at this moment, and as it existed at the
time of the last whig meeting held in this place
prior to our last biennial election in 1842, is so great
that I must entreat your attention for a few mo
ments, while I compare the present with the past.
At that time all the whigs who could be assembled
at our biennial meeting at this place, scarcely fil
led two rooms in yonder hotel on the banks of the
Delaware. Few in number as they were, the mere
remnant of a noble and patriotic party, but betrayed,
dispirited and disheartened, they met to mourn the
misfortunes of their country, resulting from the death
of one and the treachery of another whom they had
helped toelect to the highest offices of the nation.—
In Ju1y,1842, when that meeting assembled on
this spot, thousands of laborers were to be seen
throughout the country vainly seeking amp loyment;
our commerce was paralyzed, and the newspapers
were, literally, filled wills notices to creditors from
hundreds of the most industrious and enterprising
of our citizens, seeking relief under the insolvent
and bankrupt laws of the country. Public securi
ties of every description were discredited; the Na
tional Government groaned under an enormous
weight of debt; our Treasury was exhausted ; specie
was constantly passing from us to foreign countries;
and our credit abroad was utterly prostrated.—
The exchanges of the nation were entirely deranged;
industry met with no adequate reward; and the cry
for relief from our distressed countrymen was sent up
from every section of the Union to the first Whig
Congress that ever assembled in the Capitol. At
the same time, our political opponents, whose de
structive doctrines about five trade and hard money
had reduced us to this state of distress, had invented
and propagated a gory, which could have origina
ted only with a genuine locofoco, that the Whigs in
1840 had promised the laborer, in the event of
their success, two dollars a day and roast beef,
and they continued to propagate this petty falsehood;
of their own device, until many a one among them
actually believed it,—
—Like one,
Whohaving unto truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory
As credit his own lie.
So that, during the general gloom and distress of
the period I have described, our opponents rejoiced
in the opportunity of taunting us with the question
—"Where now are your two dollars a day and
roast beef'!" (Laughter and cheers.) At the same
time the measures proposed for the relief of the
country by the Whigs in Congress, had been de
feated by the treacherous doctrine of the Acting
President, and the stoutly, persevering efforts of a
reckless opposition, which labored without ceasing
to baffle or embarrass every Whig effort for the
good of the people. But the harvest was over, and
the summer was just ended, when the patriotic
Whig Congress of 1842, to the deep disappoint
ment of their enemies, succeeded, amidst unexam
pled embarrassments and difficulties, in passing the
glorious Whig Tariff of that year, which has since
not only saved ninny a poor Whig from want, but
enabled many a locofoco to earn two dollars a day
and eat roast beef, who at that time, as he wander
ed about the country for want of employment, wa
ved his ragged hat in scornful triumph over what
he called the violated promises of " these rascally
Whigs." (Laughter and cheers.)
There is a single manufactory about sixty
miles from Boston, which gives a livelihood to
2000 persons, where the wages of men vary from
12 to 15 dollars a week. This concern is called
the Sandwich Glass-works. The pay of the fancy
cutters is still higher. I understand, they ran earn
nearly three dollars a day, and eat roast beef.
(Cheers.) There are many glass factories, perhaps
of equal dimensions, in other parts of the United
States; and the laborers in these factories consume
breadstuffs and agricultural produce raised by the
farmers of the Middle and Western States, for which
they assist in supplying us with glass. It is stated
that the sand of the Sandwich works is brought from
Maurice River, N. J.; the coal to heat the furnaces,
Are., from Virginia, seven hundred miles distant;
and the straw for packing the glass from the State
of New York. (Cheers.) Take off the duties on
glass ware, and establishments of this description,
numerous as they are in our country, will! cease to
furnish the means of profitable employment to
thousands who now help to constitute a home mar
ket for us ; and we compel them to compete with
us in agricultural labor, thus increasing the sup
ply, and diminishing the demand for our produce.
In that case, they may get roast beef enough ; but
where the two dollars a day are to conic from I
cannot understand. (Laughter.) I hold in my
hand certain published statistics of the Lowell man
ufactures, as they stood on the Ist of January last,
which, lam assured, are compiled from authentic
sources. Eleven manufacturing companies at this
place employ a capital of $10,650,000, and fur
nish profitable occupation to 2,345 males and 6,-
295 female., making in all 8,640 operatives. They
make 71, 141,600 yards of cloth per annum, and
consume 22, 880 000 lbs of cotton. The average
amount of wages in these establishments paid per
month, is $150,000; and they annually consume
4000 barrels of flour for Mulch in their mills, print
works and bleachery,—to say nothing of the amount
of flour consumed by the operatives in bread. They
consume in these factories, annually, 12,500 tons
of anthracite cool; 3,290 cords of wood ; 67,849
gallons of oil ; 800,000 His of starch, and 600,000
bushels of charcoal. (Cheers.) Observe, that I
am not attempting to give the statistics of all the
factoriesat Lowell, but only part of them. The wa
ter-proofing establishmerts, the powder mills, the
Lowell bleachery, a flannel mill, blanket mill, bat
ting mill, paper mill, card and whip factory, pla
ning machine, reed machine, a foundry, with grist
and saw'imills, are not included in these statistics.—
But I wish the farmers of Delaware, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, this day assembled here, to dis
tinctly understand how that home market is created
and maintained, without which their agricultural
labor could not possibly meet with any adequate
reward. Let me be still more particular about this
matter. One of these eleven establishments, the
Middlesex mills, now consumes the fleeces of 1200
sheep daily, as a friend informs me, who has with
in a few days returned from the spot. Fanners!
here, then, is a single establishment which supplies
you with an annual market for the fleeces of more
than 300 000 sheep; which supposing each of you
to keep olio hundred head, would consume all the
wool raised on more than 3,000 of your farms. At
the same time, this single establishment consumes
15,000 gallons of lard-oil annually, and also 5,000
gallons of sperm-oil.
I hold in my hand a statement, prepared by Mr.
Childs, of Philadelphia, of the manufacture of
woollen fabrics in that city and its vicinity, in 1844,
showing that those manufacturers consume 84,-
500 lbs, of wool weekly, or 4,394,000 lbs. per
annum. He estimates that about 100 acres offend
will furnish pasture and fodder for 250 sheep the
year round, and that a single nanufocturer of
cloths actually requires, and works up all the wool '
which can be raised on 30,000 acres of land. But
take off the duties which protect American wool and
woollens, and American cotten goods, by repealing
the Whig Tariff of 1842, and how will matters
stand then? In that ease, if these establialiments
could continue their operations, they would buy
their wool from foreign countries; and you and
your sheep might go to grass together, before you
could find a market for your wool. (Laughter.)
But it would be impossible for these establishments
to continue their operations; and you would not
now cease to feed the operatives, engaged in these
manufactories, but you must encounter the compe
tition of a great many of them, who, in the absence
of all other employment, must go to farming to get
breast. And the number of farmers and ploughmen
being increased by the addition of such formidable
bands of able bodied male laborers, the wages of
farm labor and the profits of fanning must go down
together. The female operatives will be in a still
more deplorable condition. Most of these would
be no longer fed and clothed by their own industry.
They must then live upon Free '!'rode,—which I
take to be the charity of foreigners, for, I apprehend
their own countrymen, in such a state of things,
would have little charity to bestow. Estimating
the number of operatives employed in manufactories
and the mechanic arts at this time at a million, (there
wets nearly eight hundred thousand four yea.; ago.)
and the whole capital employed in the United
States in trades and manufactories at $300,000,000,
every sensible man will by this time begin to see,
that here is something for him to think of, which is
more important to him than any local politics which
usually engross the attention of the petty politicians
of the day. (Great cheering.) He may have ca
red, heretofore, very little about partymen and par
ty strife, or who is in and who is out ; but he will
now begin to see very deafly, I think, that if this
system of protecting Home Labor, this plan of en
couraging Domestic Manufactures, or in other words,
this Tariff of 1842, shall be overthrown—no mat
ter who may be among the ins, he will probably ho
among the outs; by which I mean, that, if ho does
not expect to become an office-holder, but still to
depend upon the plough, lie will probably soon be
out of cash out of credit, and, if not out of character, it
may bevery probable, ho will soon be out at e:bows.
(Laughter and Cheering.) •
Without going into a general discussion of the
benefits flowing from the Protective Policy, or of
the evils which would result from the establishment
of a system of Free Trade, I ask to be indulged
while I briefly point out how, by the abolition of
our own Tariff; we shall become virtual tax-payers,
supporting, to the full extent of our ability to con
sume British manufactured goods, the monstrous
and corrupt government of Great Britain, with all
her monarchical and aristocratic institutions. The
whole annual expenditure for the support of gov
ernment in that kingdom, including the interest on
the public debt, exceeds £50,000,000; being about
1250,000,000, annually levied to sustain British
institutions, including her corrupt pension system
and those resulting from the connection between
church and state. To effect this, England, while
she preaches Free Trade to us, levies enormous
duties upon nearly every article we can produce,
except raw cotton, by a tariff said to average more
than 280 per cent. And also also levies excise du
tie.,—that is, taxes on such articles as are produced
and consumed at hotne,—to an amount which,
WCulloch states, exceeded, in each of the years
1833 and 1834, £18,000,000, or about $90,000,-
000 annually. To illustrate the effect of this ex.
cise system, I will take the single article of beer,
which you know, is the common drink of the la
, boring chasers in England. Iu the first instduce,
the hops to make the beer, are subjected to an ex
cise duty which, in the year 1834; produced a reve
nue of £330,000. Next, there is an axe., duty
on malt from barley, which, in the same year, 1834,
amounted to the enormous sum of 15,142,000, and
on malt from other grain, £134,000; making to
gether, X 5,216,000. Then the brewers and mal
stern are subject to other excise duties, and the sel
lers and retailers of the beer are subject to a further
excise duty, the joint proceeds of which amounted,
in i 834, to the suns of £328,000. So that, it ap
pears from the statistics of M'Culloch, the excise
levied on the common drink of the English laborers,
under various shapes and forms, amounted in a
single year to the prodigious suns of 15,934,000,
equal to about $29,000,000, and far exceeding the
present annual expenses of the whole government
of the United States.—(Cheers.) The same au
thor, in his latest statistical work on the British
empire, states the amount of all those excises on
hops, malt and license to brewers and sellers of
beer, in the year 1936, at more than $30,000,000.
Nearly all the neesssaries of life are subject to a
similar excise. This excise tax on soap and soap
makers in the year 1836, amounted to nearly
$5,000,000. There are excises on vinegar, or. tea
and coffee, glass, starch, paper of every class, to
bacco and snuff bricks, and a long list of other
ar
ticles necessary for the laboring classes, too tedious
to mention. Besides all these, and to say nothing
of the land tax, there aro taxes on all the windows
of the poor man's house, besides a tax on the house
itself, a tax on the man, a tax on his horse, a tax
on his cart, and a tax on his dog,—a tax on the
deed for his land, if he owns any,— a tax on his
receipts,—a tax on his will, and (I understand)
a tax on his coin.
If you aro resolved that English laborers shall
manufacture your goods, and to that end are de
termined to break down your own manufacturers,
who alone could keep down the price of English
goods by their competition, vou must, of course,
expect to pay the English laborer such a price for
his goods as will enable him to live, and lire in
England. Of course, you must pay him for his
work, enough to enable him to pay ALL 1115 EXCIS
ES AND STAMP DUTIES. You roust pay him for
I the beer he drinks while he is working for you;
you must pay him his window tax, which lets in
the light of heaven to enable him to see how to do
the work; and in short, you must pay him the
English excise, or direct tax, on every article of
food or clothing which is subject to such a duty,
and also on every taxed article which he uses in the
manufacture of the goods you consume. In doing
this, you support the British government, queen,
nobles, church, army, navy and all, as fully as any
Englishman who consumes no more of their man
ufactured goods than you do; and you find ens
ployznent for, and support English subjects, to he
taxed by the English government. A late able
writer estimates that we pay an average of about
50 per cent. of the cost of imported articles of man
ufacture into the Exchequers of Foreign and des
potic governments, as a TAX used to oppress and
injure ourselves." Every time Queen Victoria
produces a young prince, a young duke, or a der-
IMg little princess, you will have the satisfaction to
know that you are expected to send a littto more
grist to the English mill, another contribution to
support the dear babies, which must each soon
have salaries and pensions of some hundred thou
sand pounds sterling a year. (Great cheering.)—
What a delighful thing it will be for our modern
Democracy to learn, after they shall have broken
down the system which now enables their own
countrymen to furnish them with their own clothing
that Prince Albert, like John Rogers, of red-hot
memory, has at last o 'lineman children and one nt
the breast," and that a cargo of British broadcloths
has arrived in the Delaware, the price of which has
been increased in consequence of a now excise law
passed to pension off the whole royal household !
(Laughter and cheers.) Wlsatgood Locofoco will
not feel his Democrat, stirring within hits when
he learns that a young princess has been married
to another Hessian, whose royal necessities will
require the imposition of another tax on soap, can
dles and windows ! (Cheer.) In such a state of
things, would not South Carolina be jubilant with
joy. (Cheers.) To prepare us for this happy
state, you may have observed that the London
Times," a high Tory paper of England, gives an
account of a meeting of British capitalists held a
few weeks ago, at which a lags sum of money was
subscribed, among other purposes, to supply us
with snes-Tasne PUBLICATIONS, to be printed in
New York will, of course, instruct Bro
ther Jonathan lsow wise we would be to have Brit
ish goods duty free, and break up what the English
trifles call our American system of monopolies and
commercial restrictions. (Cheers.)
My fellow citizens, the value of our own Homo
Market for agricultural produce may be judged of
by you from one single fact which I am now about
to state from the public documents, and which I
beseech you to investigate for yourselves. The an
nual value of all the agricultural produce of the
United States, not including cotton, rico and tobac
co, has been estimated by competent judges at
$844,000,000, in round numbers. During limiest
twenty years, the greateat amount of all these agri
cultural productions purchased from us by all the
foreign countries in the world, was not, in any
one year, equal to the value of $20,000,000. In
other words, foreign countries would not purchase
of us, even when we otiked them free trade, as we
substantially did in the year before the resew) of
<~ a©LUL)
the Whig Tariff of 1842, one-firtieth part of our
ordinary agricultural productions. (Cheers.) This
then, is what we are to get from Free Trade, when
we shall have been persuaded by British capitalists
to destroy our own Home Market by repealing our
Tariff. On the other hand, it is estimated that
our Home Market consumed annually $200,000,-
000 of the surplus products of the Farmer, or
more than ten times the amount purchased qf us
by all foreigners. (Great applause.) It has been
shown that New England, alone consumes, in flour.
7,000,000 bushels of wheat annually beyond her
own production; which is 500,000 bushels more
than the average annual export from the whole
country. "It is stated on good authority," says
Mr. Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents, in his
last Annual Report, p. 41, " that the Manufactur
ers of New England, in 1342, used more than
200,000 barrels of flour in making starch and si
zing their goods; being a larger quantity than way
exported to England in the same period." England
never did, and never will, buy our Indian corn. In
the only condition in which it will bear exporation
(kiln-dried) it is deemed by Englishmen unfit for
i bread, after it has undergone transportation ; and
English oats arc preferred to it for horse-feed. Tho
whole amount of Indian corn exported to foreign
countries in every shape, is ascertained to be not
equal to one-half the corn crop of little Delaware
itself! (Cheers.)
Farmers ! the interests of yourselves and your
country are now in your hands. You will decide
its destiny, and your own, by your votes in Novem
ber. If you are not satisfied with the prices fur
nished by your own Horne Market, you may try
Free Trade; and if that does not leave your sur
plus bread-stuffs to rot on your hands, there is no
truth in political arithmetic. The only alternative
I know of for you, is to give up your occupation,
and let your fields grow up in filthy weed.; and
then our good Democrats will have poke-bushes
enough to hang upon every hickory-polo in the
country. (Great laughter.)
There are two falsehoods current with the ene
mies of the Tariff, which, though often refuted, it
is necessary again to expose. The first of these to
that the Whigs are in favor of prohibitory duties.
Mr. Clay has over and over again, in all his public
speeches, repudiated a prohibitory tariff. If them
be a Whig in the nation who is in favor of duties
amounting to prohibition of foreign articles, I do
not know him. The second misrepresentation is,
that James K. Polk is in favor of our Protective
Policy. This is now known by all who circulate
it to be a falsehood, and shame will soon overtake
all who have given that falsehood utterance. I now
hold up to your view, and invite your attention to
a newspaper called the Pennsylvania Statesman,"
published at Carlisle on the 19th of this month.—
You see, it is a Democratic paper, and has tho
names of Polk, Dallas, and S'hunlr, in staring cap
itals, at the head of its columns. It contains alto
Proceedings of the Democratic Tariff Meeting in
Dickinson township, Cumberland county on the
31st of August last. Those proceedings set forth
a copy of a letter addressed on the 22nd of July by
a Committee appointed at a previous meeting, to
James K. Polk, inquiring of him whether he was
in favor of the Tariff, and whether if elected, ho
would support it I Then follows the Report of the
Connitittee, stating that noreply to their letter had
been received front Mr. Polk, after the lapse of
jive teeeks. (Laughter.) They then proceed by
resolutions, to denounce Mr. Polk, as unworthy of
their support. (Applause.) After this, follows an
Address to the Democrats of Cumberland, conclu
sively showing that Mr. Polk is opposed to the
Protective Principle and the true principles of the
Tariff Democrats of Pennsylvania. (Cheers.) To
all of this! invite the attention of the Tariff Dem
ocrats of Delaware. Would to God that men of
all parties !night prove themselves as honest, as
manly, as intelligent, as independent and as fearless
as these Tariff Democrats of Cumberland county I
They have shown that--
All the ends they nitn'd at were their country's ;"
and it would give me indescribable gratification to
know them and take them all by the har I. [Cheers.]
But should I ever see them, I will tell them, that,
proud as their position now is, and justly as Penn
sylvania may boost of such citizens there are some
among the Blue Hen's Chickens with hearts as fi rm
and true. [Cheers.] Without alluding to the
ninny in Delaware who have followed their exam_
plc, I rejoice with exceeding joy in pointing your
attention to two of my friends and neighbors here
present, members of the Delaware bar, and both of
them gentlemen of the most distinguished private
worth, who have avowed the same opinions expres
sed by the Tariff Democrats of Cumberlond coun
ty, and, although heretofore among the champions
of Democracy hero in Delaware, now determine
With all their might
" To stand by the right
"Of our gallant Clay of Kentucky.l"
[Great cheering.]
But the matter to which I desire specially to di
rect the attention of all present, and particularity of
all madcrnDemocrats, is the leading editorial of this
Polk-and-Dallas "Pennsylvania Statesman" com
menting on the proceeding." of the Dickinson
Meeting, and denouncing the infamous conduct f
n the travelling orators and township drill-sergeants
and whippers-in of the party" for their falsehood
in representing James K. Polk, and the Democratic
party under its present organization, as being in
favor of the Protective Principle. 'l'ke editor says.
lens of thousands of tho honest democracy of
Pennsylvania Ire at this moment cherishing tllis