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" : ' : - " '- ' ''!' 1;, ; I ' - - t.nublishea every Tdat and Friday, dj JOSEPH GALES & SON, , M Fir Dollars peY annum half in advance, ADVERTISEMENTS v t ceedinff 16 linei neatly inserted three ? !for a Dollar, and'25 cents. for every sue- npubneation those of greater length CONGRESS OFPENN. kemarksofmiCtoj), toibetine the discussion the Bill for a Qn. opening m,rT- , Mr Tod said, ' that the subject of protect ii mannfactures. br duties On im- ports, had been so often drscussed; that apar .Shikr explanation, on the part of the Com Se, ou!d notprobably bwanteU That Zt.Jw tate the details and objects 6f the Ml and some of the reasons in t heir favor as brif'flv as possible. That there was nothing teTe proposed that was1 new in principle -t-L,& hut tn extend tind ecruithze a system which experience bad shewn to be most bene ficial and to g've to fnner aepa iuciii, m uw jnestic industry; f and other oppreed por ,vna nf the corrimur itv, something of that protection whicKotjr rlaws 'had sp liberally an 1 wiselv given to : the cn itiva- ots oi rcuou, - " , . ' " ' n .1 't.X X" 1 4-', , - 0U?arf and to au tne inxereM i ni..ii. x rP nhiect of the bill, sa d Air T. is, that, Jtehmo r -prtain rnamifactuTed articles, tlieJ as w suuv - - -i . .... v - - raw material of which exists m abundance at Idn.e, we should, hy legislative provision, give to our-own workmen, not the exclusive Ripply and command of even our own market, fcut barelv eive them a part of the business of furnishing our ownl people with the plain, rone-h necessaries of life. J; That another nb- iect (if equal importance wus, 'hat, instead ot contmuing ? xo support u ic g i itumu .uisw vi Europe, mi almost every Tnmg, we may oe oompelled, by .using more home manufactur ed articles, to give to tne tanners oi our own country some market for their prod uctsL And another Meet not inferior in magnitude to either, of the former two, was, to give to the Boiintrv that strengtli and power which arise lf0m possessing, : within itself, the means. of deience, and to rescue it irom tne nanger ang dijsgrace of habitual reliance upon foreign, na tions for the : common dily necessaries of life. That the" duties proposed were upon two distinct classes of articles. ' One class is that lijjion silks, linens!, cutlery,' spices, and some ther things of less importance ; most of which are not nece"s sari es by any means, and which with few exceptions, ! do 'not rtvfch interfere with any h'pinVpcoduc6n,'ir with any rharui febture wlacll the country is now prepared for. That most of these articles wre charg ed, in the bill, with; the identical increase re commended bv the Secretary .of the Treasury this for ihe purpose of revenue chie8y, and toj make up to the government , the deficien ies which' may probably be "Occasioned by becking the excessive importation of ither articles. But,' that the important duties pro posed in the bill were for the purposes of pro tection, and were upon iron, hemp, lend, glass, wpol, and woollen goods. . '-' . ! !Mr. 'IV. said, he was not going to trouble Aje Committee with a debate, upon the qaes t?n, whetlter our country ought to be depen dent upon the "monarchies of tuuropebr those lecessary articles, if such dependence can be avoided. Upon that matter, . he. was content o take the opinion of the' Committee such as it Was already,, and would go onto ak Twhe thpr sdeh dependence could be avoided.' It is known that almost '. everv :St54te in the Jfn'um is capable of -producing 4rjfi sufficient'! ur uie suppiy otits own population, and, ma jtf them, a great deal more ? and that this an be effected without taking a single liand uuui flourish, by giving employnient to he indus' Itnoiis, a marfeet to the tarmer, 'value to ipro- perty, nie xo every son. oi.vaiuamc uu&incss. . Pace came, and shortly after, the new ta riff. It may; said Mi-. V. he deemed absurd to argue now against a law whicti passed ejight years ;igo, and the mischief of which7 whatever it isi mav nowbe supposed to be dne and . ir retrievable. But the mischief of it js not yet finished. The, tariff of 1816, jswluit is here proposed to be ; repealed in part; imld it is ne- f cessa'.Vnow to protest against the impolicy of tne measure. v nat ai tuai ume wasxne sn uatioh of the country, every one knows. Tho most . important of our manufacturing e$tab liahroents were just beginning. ;Tjiey were yet to gain skill in manageinent, system, habit, all the indispensable requisites which expe rience only can give. Probably hine tenths at least, of the owners ..were in debt, and only getting. rIowIV out of it by the weekly profits of their business.' In a word, according to the emphatic name? long ago given by universal popular consent, they "were in every respect, infant viunufacture8.'- To expect that, under such , circumstances, .our countrymt n should he able to rival in cheapness, the; old, estab lished foreign manufactures, was to expect what never yet rhapnened in any J country. So that, what iri 1816 wassailed n moderate protecting duty, would scarcely1 have' been adequate protection against a fair and liberal Kuropean competition, but- was abs'luteJy nothing against the little tricks f oppression by which wealthy foreign manufacturers! can aflbrd to throw away cargoes of their goods, atreducejl prices, or at no pricepi; in order to break down' a growing rival, and indemnify themselves by ileecingAhe whole country af terwards. ": t ' . i , . "I ; It was ncti continued Mr. T. said noii.be- believed, that there was any desigri iy the tariff of 1816," to put tloyvn pur rising manu factures; But rthe mistake was most t?r cious. 7. " : ,;: j . . , It-was tne tasnion ot tne iay to consider toe question of pfot ction .to domestic jndustrv, not as a question between our own) countrv and foreign nations, but as a q'uestioh men ly any stimiiluy,! except that .of a m.irkt. U ' J As to hemp, it 3ws .hot extravagant to say, V Of first rate hitVlanrh fnr pv.rontiP arrf tich can be fouili throughout all Enrope, We have, perhaps, ten acre, cleared; and not applicable to any other profitable cultivation. hat m lead, we may?challenge the globe, wng not mines only, -but whole tefritorics w the richest ore, perfectly inexhaustible, and FJls mthe vicinity of navigable waters, i That, IS"? t WM .certain that not' only every V?? Ut every flist,'lct of every State was ca jole of producing enough, at least, for all owtv uses. 1 hat glass, the materials are ,y where. If Providence, said MrT. ever jjant any country to be Independent of o rs, for the means of subsistence, that coun ty is oyrs. The question then comes, Have' people industry and spirit enough to make ot these natural advantages of the'r eoun V, v OIll-v flctual protection, general ifc 1 lCb OUr manufactures ever had, was by l a;twar- . Thus, possessing bv accident , at otner nations e-iv"riv Tstat-.n people, the .command of the home mar- our workmen made a nrotrrpM that ted tr?XCeedcd an-V where; : Iron, was fabrica- of tlf r?"- auuu& uul aoui ovAti tons wtioJe Consumrtirri of 'tli" ur .woniun r. r so J ooUen manufactures, though not quite &r- a j r crc camexi- on with equal -nd with, the same prospect of ultimate soon & or.mh5r ith the same ceitaanty of red S,,,ur home s"PPly of.white and v. shot ws equally sufficient. sSSeS e Seated in immense 2 J l f uSf WUh elece beginning to orkmanship- of Europe.? In c-W ot: only: bes-an trtriv ht .2. Except workmen of England. lPphed altop-etlir f&Trf ' fk tD &LAXJ.E lll wooZ Tl4idUH- earthen . ooUea and cotton good flourished. were factur. we manu We sav that they also caused the countrv to And Varied from that but Inconsiderably, untii iQ4z, wnen it amountecitxo oi,iw wns. n same year, t Iron J rotls a Pig! Iron has1 manufacture rs oh the one between our own side, and all the remainnnfr classes or our own people on the other; and that whatever could be withheld from the mechanic was not to be lost to the nation, not at all, but only divided among the farmers, the planters,! 1 t!e merchants. Then there was the cry bout taxing ,lhe maiiy f . r the benefit of the fe w and, monopoly. But what had chief ef fect in destroying dur manufactun s, anji al most! bringing t us?' back again intl colon'af bondage, was that theory o foreign specu lative writers called politicarecon!orhisfs A tloctrine which Is now mentioned b); cause h is y et adliered to, and if not p; osejd, isjnow as conclusive against this bill as It wiis in 1816- against: ariy efficient rotecton of do mestic industry.! This,' octrine teaches that all interference like the present, legisla tion' has merely the effect to force capital from 'one tmploynietit into another. That this, forcing can only be from ah -employment more productive into an ennpl63Mient less productive, to the, certain injury, of jthe com munity. 'The argument prevailed. We have seen the effects. '' . j '' Under this tariff, said Mr. T. first wept all the pewly erected manufactitrts oj earthen ware?.' They'antr-their; workmen; &te now no more talked of than if they never Iiad exist td.j ' ln the same way went tlie most of our (lass factories, mi r m. nufact 1 1 res of -white and red leudi5 our woollens, our he nip. Domes tic irons 'his lingered a while longer,- 'and asti?l holds a feeble existence, dwindling eve ry year, "and gradually, sihkii g under foreign importations,-. '.All the devastations land loss- es of the war ere nothing compared witlH the devastations and losses o; manufacturing capital uiuler. the tariff of 18i6. H' ' But, saidJMr. T.. the sum total of destruc tion of domestic Industry wilJ nevenbe credit ed, unless we refer Jo the public Records for the amcynt of nianufactures brought from a broadi iA which our own have been oppres sed, excluded and supplied. . In thefirstyear of peacc,-we imported, or there was import ed for v of lead and shot, tliii-teen ipilllor.s of pounds ; -of. white and red lea'd, seven mil lions ;f perhaps more than enough for two years consumption of the cpiyitry,, even j if we had none of our own, ,r The av4ige of the imports of both, since the peace, amounts, fbr each year, to 7,74968 (bsi and the ave nitre cost to hear haifa millioij of dollars a yeari-r-f-'M-' -''t " :-' ' ' i-T-'- '" '!- -:. - Coat of it, in 1821, f 510,489. 1822,' ' 1 jSr6,687 m 18 3, - 652,591 . This is altogether independent pf the nia-:ui fact-ures of IJemp, for which; jfor the last 3 yearsAve have-paid,-on ah average 819,603 a year. aa? ' ---a- 1 Earthen VYares, being altogether an ad va lorem articleV'--'themount-'lmported cannot conveniently be ascertained;, except for some few ckt.c v&rsJ " 5 " i- - "t-'i . V'-5 I..'- In 1822, wer paid for it, :l;06i,263 VV 1823, - ' 4 1,)47,708 All these values and sums, are of the imports after deducting the yearly re-exportations of the same article: and shew the quantities con sumed iri the country f Glass is partly aii ad yalorem article fo.the year 1823, it cost.us upwards of half a million of dollars.. .'. j i Upon ah average of the last three years, our tVoollen Goods hayecost us hearly nine ; mil lions a'yearj That is '-"yr- ,4Krh:-' v. In 1821; - . U A i $7,057,330 y "a822,- . ; . .,11,986,684 :? 1 . , 1823,4, m...7,716,577. ;' ' ; During-the first year of peace four country was inundated with foreign' Woollen Goods, to the amount of 14,685,299 dolls. No doubt butanpiderabie for tbe express purpose of- erluttinsr the'fear- ket Willi double the ? quantity that could be consumea. lA-A-Ah aa7s 1823 it amounted to 33.787 tons : and in the1 le consumption of imported Sheet d hoops was 7401' tons. Even gradually incipeased from 104 tons in to an importation ot j, 111 tons in 1823W Add, that all tliteel we use is i;n ported. Butf of this there i$ no complaint. Per haps cannot be fabricated at horne as good :s 1 1 imported. Steel is not charged with any additional cluty by this: bill. Add, also, the manufactures of Iron and S el, which are imported 'to the amounr of "two millipns of dof ars a year. But tliere i no complaint of this, J i Perhaps our workmen are not so skil ful i n the fine manufactories as the European. Therti is nothing so intolerable as the depend ence on foreigners for what we may. have as good or better at home , I which is the case of irorL " . '. '; t. :: .a: ' ' a'. It was, said Mr. T. estimated by buY statis tical writers in 1815, tha the-quantity of bar iron hecess-ary for ayetfrly consumption of the tf hiled States, was from 'forty-eight to : fifty thousand tons. Since that time, from theldcay in agricidture,'1 in manufactures, in building, in every species of improvement ah4 of useful business, aijkd from the frugality v liichbeIong3 to pqverty,- it is probable that the yearly consumption jof bar iron has been lessened to eight or ten thousand tons. But, however improbable, let; it be supposed to continue the; sjc, and tb amount to 48,000 tons ai year. Then we import 33.000 tons from Europe, and make for ourselves 15,000. If any j gentleman is, prepared to say this'is as it should be. he must contend, that we should be in the; high "road of national wealth, if our iurmets. were to get irom abroad two-thirds of the grain and provisions for their families It is notorious, that thesdl33 , 000 tons of Iron mav be made at home, i-that the workmen, while j not employed In - tpat business cannot be employed in anv other, profitable ousihess Tiiat the food by which. tHey could be siutain- I : .1 ' ' t: a t . ti ll cu is ifuw wiuiuut a inaritei, anu useless. 11 so, whatever is paid to Europe .tor Iron, is paid for what may be hid, in substance, for nothing, at home. That is, it will cost the na tion t)thipgtrior cpst hcohsumer,any more thanwjhathe ow pays,except that small addi tion which arises from a pierher fate of wages Ot lahor, a cost, w hich must inevitably be that, on cotton goods, the bill left the duties as it found them, with one exception.' The TntiiivtuTn vainaiion oivimporieq ciouis a rais ed from 25 cents the square yard, to 35 cents The intent is to give protection .to fabrics su perior in fineness, by two or. three grades, to those which are now protected. As to the verv lowest priced Koods, anil those in the secdrid and thirxl grades from the lowest, the, aaa tion nere proposed to tne uuty is merely nominal. Ttifse goods' will ne per be import ed. The duty, as to them, is already effect ual. It Ts clear, that immense benefits have acprued to he coj;i!ifry, frpmtht prohibition. V Ills valuation of 35 cents, prohibits no cot ton goods which may not be fibricated bet ter at home than : ny imported, and cheaper, too, mot certainly, as soon as foreig-n com petition is excluded, and never! before. 1 A specific duty is proposed, of 6 cents pecN square yard, on cotton bagging, It is under-! her Western y the cotton , - . - j more than made up to him, the consumer, in a hundred different ways; j Thus,jir, saidMr. T. jfbri these plain com moil njejeessaries, which our Own counjtry is so competent to produce, lead, hemp, earthen w-ares; woollen goods aiid tin manufactured iron'. we go on paying !a4rirute to foreigners ot rrioreitban thvrteen mihtons of dollars a vear; anu alitor a visionary learpi forcing capital 1. to an ijuproductiv e chamel, by protecting do mesr.tq industry, we nav ended., oy torcing our own manutacturing capital into non-exist ence and our workmen ijrtb beg&ary. What advantage has accrued tip any; portion of the community to compensate for this loss i Who is benehted ? Not the farmer. His share of the gainsrfrom ' the suprjjression of manufac tures is pmy to have thfc production of his farm left perisbine: pn bi hands for want of a market. As little has the government gain ed, which, twice m tun of peace, has been compelled to re'sort to loalns to defray its year ly expenses. I i-i-: ;; . ' ' , . It id supposed, said tr. Tod, that during tli e w ar, our manufacturer took advantage of tne situation 01 our country, and extorted higli prices, and that now, hi may be, enabled to lay hs neighboi guilder contribution, and ex tort prices exactly in proportion to tlie increase of the duties. It is -probable enough, that during the late War, and at all other times, our nmniiTacturers : hay taken the highest market price fbr their goods. Buy where you Can buy the cheapest is-the maxim pf the cai economjsz, wriUloui inquiring wne you buy from a friend or an enemy.- ther this maxim Li right 01 not, one thing tdf c rtain, tliat sell where you can sell the highest has been the general practice of eve ry seller sipce the world began, and to expect otherwise, is to expect an impracticable re finement in the molality of trade, and useless, even If it.Were practicable ' Bui, said Jlr. Tod, ;the objection, seems founded on a total mistake in another respe d. High duties on the rival imports are not for' the purpose of enabling the manufacturer to sell his .wares high, and never can have that effect , but precisely the opposite effect, j Mr. Tod spoke onlyjpf thope articles which jean be made a home to any; necessary extent and the raw material of , whjch abounds at home. It is protectipn only vvhich enables the man ufacturer to sell iAei cilieaply. -Ajid protect tion iwiU be tound invariably to have that ef- ev rv polit they VliC England, in Erapcc, in this country, in country, that we know of. . - iThe rea- son Why protection trom roteignivals should be so absolutely necessirv, to the cheapness of any mahufactpre, nejeirlpiot 'be jabcurately inquired' into, when we; know the invariable factJ Feriaps itisthit clieapnessildepeods esse ntially jiipbn the assurance of a .market ; aj steady, demand. ' i he great marketj the home market creates this demand. The pro fits of business to be very small, must be ve ry certain, j This certainly can .never be had ?wd;tkoutan exclusion of : accidental bupplies. Vrobably an auction bf cargoes of cotton goods, every month, in the neighborhood of the! best; established; Cotton trnanufatftory in England wbuldntwo years time be suffici ent to break it downSuch exclusion is pe culiarly necessary to manufacturing establisli-' tnents when begmmng, Iwp industry, no skill, no. economy can hold hem up if abandoned by tlieir jgovernment. ) So familiar is tliis to th two greatest rnamifacturing nations in the wprld England and' France, that when they mean peculiarly to cherish, any "manufacture.- (which they invariably, do every manufacture J winch their people are or can be made jcom petent4 o)- they dp not content themselves thra duty p$i5:.oLiffipe itlem. rival i com modi tvJ- hut' triwi mh o Hri Domestic Baf jtep made the long stood f iat the war ' which excluded importa-, .ion), gave to Kentucky and o States the opportunity to supp growers with! bagging A trade not hunfui to either side bu; which -is now prostrated. T ic duty pC 6 cents is intende d to be. pro tective arid prohibitory, and to give to thos 'States which manufacture the hL'ging, and which consume vast quantities of cotton, an advantage corresponding in a very small deT gree 1 with the protecting dutyj enjoyed by the cotton grower, of three cenijs a pound. , As to tiu specific duties on sundry articles of hardware, Mr. T said those j w ere taken chiefly from a list furnished by the Secretary of ' tire Treasury, some years ap, in answer to a Call irom. the House. This was from a desire to ; substitute specific duties, wherev er practicable. Complaints arej made, that, in s me items, the change ' proposed will be inconvenient.' If the committee think "so, thesej will be struck out. . . : ' If,1 continued Mr. T. the prevalence of smugglings apprehended from this increase of the duties, a reflection will perhaps shew the alarm to be unfounded. The. duties here pi oppged are not extravagantly high, not amounting to one half of-the ususit protecting duties in other countries. Tlre seems no just reason to apprehend, that;' the practice ever can be carried on in this country so as mater ially to affect any provision of the lawl either for revenue or for the protection" of j captain, incurs the risk of " forfeiting stiip and Ci-rgo for the sake of evadifig the duties on' such articles as' can be clandestinely' land ed This dread of smuggliiig i perhaps im ported from Great-Britain, and received here, like many other impressions, without much inquiry whether it; is applicable! to our situa- ..iou. iiie cnusu coasi is, pernaps as ex tensive a our own. France lies within sight A. boat may sail from orte country to the Other, probably in less than one night. The English duty on French silks, is. said tof be between eight and. nine dollars per pound. So on brandies, their duties are very high. ' So on laces. The English smuggler, ii successful, gains enormous profit win. reas here, there are not only all the difficulties! arising from distance, bi H there is no such temptation, of profit. , rake t lie article said tt be charged with the highest duty in our tarift" for the pur pose of protectioii, that of coarse cottons, which are said to pay a duty ofjlOO percent. Suppose they could be landed without dc ection would they be smuggled.? No. Because smuggling can only be of those' arr tides which can be bought very cheap .and sold very dear. . So, take any article charged the highest in this bill for the purpose pf pro tection. Take those Woollen cloths, subject t6 the tniTizmiitn calculution of f O cents, : or those subject to that of 80 cents ; so far from any just ground to I apprehend;smuggling, reason and fact wilt 'shew that a reduction of their price oelow the lowest; that can j be imported, .will inevitably, follow tneir protection.- .' " . ,f . ' . - .' - . . , 1-A.s to the question, what effect this bill, if passed, will have upon the rev ;nue f it may be answered, Mr. T, thought sutisfactbrily to eveiy friend bf the measure. The import tation of -some things may be .stopped j but if those items the most important to .the re-1 ' .. 1 x .1. 1. . f : : T venue, ; iuc rcuu;iioii u enc ameAinx. qj im ports by the substitution of domestic gpods must be more than m.de up b theaiigmen tation of. the fluty. Besides, the' Secretary of the Treasury has clearly shev m, in his com municatioh to Congress at the list session, tliat the most of what can be 1 jst to the re venue by the prevalence of hime' manufac tures may be restored in the augmented du ties upon articles which wil still be im ported. For three yearsi or perhaps longer it may be reasonably -.expected :hat the, reve nue will be increased by the change; here proposed. But, if the contrary were appre- h ended, tliat would be no reason against in crea sine: the real wealth ot the protecting'donieitic industry; v I have, said Mr. T. but one t mention. On this important ciuestioD, sup posing the matter to be in itself '.doubttul, have we nothinir bv which to direct the judgment to a safe conclusion f, We hav.e. j we nay me opiniops 01 our own experienc ed statesmen. We have the examples ot other nations. . Yte have actual fac 'and experi ment at home. Mr. Hamilton j and Mr. Jef ferson have shewn that our only source of national prosperity was in the protection of domestic . manufactures, the latter publicjy retracting an opinion to the contrary, in , his uuics uii ugmuu .; jcvcrv ficucui ui iuc Union, whenever, he has mentioned the sub. ject, 'which Bas- been very ; frequently,rhas. given tue same opunou.. ,ao every secreta ry of the Teeiisury . ; It is not I known that one puonc man, since me iorniaiioi. 01 the governnientj except . members of. 'Congress represen ti ng dist ricts ; has givtf a a - diffcre at opinion It is notorious that tlie chief nattr bns of Europe are wealthy anil powerful al most exactly in' proportion toj the vigib ce with which tliey exclude the products of. fo reign inddstry and cherish their jown Wand .i i' 1' 1 t v .- . i. . . - yiucis w cas aiiu uuseraoie ; exacuy in pro p ortipn tot their dependen .e -oh, the industry ir.;v;fiffis;a JyX 1 Monday the. 14th day of June: next,. : J w wld be sold at Nash Courthouse; in the. town of Nashviile, the following Tracts pf Land or so much thereof will be sufficient -to pay the tax due thereon for. the year 1822 T and cost of advertising; to wit-t ; ' .11 ' , William Batemau 96 acres, valued at $ country b rung more to ' : . of their neighbors. But we wab year of the peace, Was-y-vSf 12,282 tpns . i . tberit,: i a-a JIa a- AfA-i ; In817, rose to ; ; 19,47 1 lAatoeiUnllbil uoxatDpls of foreign nations. k We have an iexnejiment ofjohr pwn conclusive. I meari. saitl Mr.T. the prohibitory-'duty , imposed iiK thp year 1816 on cotton cloths, the only prohibitory duty we ever had in this, country for the pro tection ,;of domestic rndustry. Like theria- cipal articles in this bill : there the prohibi tory duty was on an article the raw material of I which abounds at t.home.T?i Now, it ought to be; ever remembered that, .when that pro? hibitory duty on the coarser cotton cloths, by niinimuin .valuation, - was - proposed by T.Mr. Dillas, then Secretary of the Treasury,- (for th i immortal honor of the measure belongs " to him") no effort was left untried' by the op ponents' of protection to crush the' measure. And, even .after it became a law, the rner chants of Salem, by a memorial to this House, he wed how detestable the measure was con sidered 1 to be bv - them, and assailed . it by. v predictions, of eye rv ruin otts consequence. jhat, thin, . were those arguments against the prohibitory duty on coarse cotton?,1 and : the pernicious consequences whichi accord- -ing to the fears of the merchants, and the books of the economists', were most, surely toj happen ? First,- that imported, coarse; cot tons were used in immense quantities, chieny by the poor yiat nothing could be more in iquitous and oppressive, than to, wring from the poor double prices for the necessaries of life, in order to divide-4he proceeds amon&ra het of ..rapacious manufact urers, who. so far. from beina able to . enter into competitioa with the. workmen of India or Bngiand, could never livei by their trade.'unless they had a chartep j for extortion, ) and were quartered, by force ojf law, upon the hard working agri- . r.i, ....i.t . 1 i : r- 1." tuuuittuai, 1 iicii, mere was a cry oniiwuopui . -pnwnopoly: taxing tlie many for the oe nefit ofthe few. Was this aH ? . Not half.- The people vtovXd have India -muslins, in spite of the law smuggling would, eprrte ii fashion, and morals be- spoiled. Commerce aiid ship building would sink, together with 1 the public revenue. tJNo w, said Mr. T. if, if stating the consequences wbich reallydiave followed the prohibition of foreign coarse; cottons, t state any thing which" any gentle? , uian. does "not know tb.be the fast, lethim, c'bhsl'ler the 'whole experiment as -thrown , awaj. I Instead bi" the oppression of th!e; poor, and tax oh the community to support the, manufacturer, ' that article protected by the; -ptphibitpry duty is now afforded. It o the con-V sumer at a less price I per yard, . than those flimsy India muslins Used to be sold for j anoj, if you take durability and other qualities into view, 11 is now sola for one nair, perpaps ior one-third. Us former priced Instead' of bur workmen being found Unequal to thelndii or ltritish manufacturer they have been ablet i t contend with t h e British themselves, on I eijual ground, in every market, iubces&fully, 1 r as prbve4 by Hei;nbtorioua practice ot 1 v ji e British wbrkmeh, ;bf placing their Coarse ' 1 cotton goods Upon their customers, junder - the name and disguise of American.' Instead5 ": : o smuggling,- it 'is clear that; those J India ! muslins could not now be sold in this coun? I try, if the duty was taken offhand !i bounty allowed for their importation. J Instead of supporting th e agriculture of India, by wear- j ing their jbottbns, We create an immense marf 'v ket for; the raw material raised in our own .1 country j and another market to ' our own , ; farmers, for the immense quantities -of 'pro? I visions consumed by the workmen. Instead -of destroying commerce; itis a fact, that, 'in.;. ' the town bf Providence,, where the prohibi tory, duty had an operation as strong as in any place, the coasting trade is more than dou- ; 1 bled,". All these, benefits have followed prr. t ection, in one; instance, of an article fabrica . ted from our own raw material. Similar be nefits, in a greater or less degree may rea sdnably be expected, from a similar protec tion of woollen manufactures, and of hemp,, lead, glassr aad ironl ;--:-'. izp-A-.t$ ..V---: WinneJomer . 66 do . do Cele Joiner 92 ; do do John Rolins heirs 300 dp ' do i Wm.. Arrington 705 a do i do 1 Abel Barge 120 " do do Hardy Griswell 240 do do , Sim'n Carpenter 278 do-? dp' 4 Wm. Harrison- 504 - do - do Daniel Taylor 100 , do - dor Willis Williams 466 do -do. Benj. Atkinson 70 do , ,qo Jeremiah Brggs 150 do- do ' 66 i 66, 92 . 300 - 705 . 120 ,-.240 ,278 . :706 62 ,.466 : 70 225 ' I eremiah Nichols for Whitley Land 100 acres,' 4 vamea at jxwu. ?,..-' James Ferrell for William Ilammoas 340 do ,! Valued at $J40. , -y Bryant Lewis for Burwell Kent's orphans"29lV( acres, valued at 150. - -UV ' Bryant Barnes H8J acres, valued at $218 SOi r SAMUEL N. N. yiCK, Sheriff of I o TM -v. v r 1 .Aasu county. Marcl 8. pr. adv. Petition for the rI e real estats ,cf Isaac Beaty It abpeariher to1 I , STAT OF NORTH-CAtiOLINA. v h jiecKienuurff4Jouaty. M, UVttMW AJV xj aU4ii A m of Isaac Bearvdec'dy The heirs at " law of Isaac Beaty, dee'd. r. ', '( A.- 4 rwr toe , sausiaction pt the Courts that ' Josenh Haynes m right of bis wife Viny, Elijah D vi' inrightbf his wife Kuth, Albert Alexander an4 ; " Thomas Beaty are inhabitants of another statel '- Ittherefbrerdercy 4bat publication b?: ; ma4e for six'.weeks successively'" inthe Ri- leightlegistel-tDJitheetfi.- at lav above named, appear at the next Court cf Ple as and Quarter Sessions to be held at the Courtliouci in Charlotte on the 4th Monday In IlaynexT and plead, answer or demur to th e zzd pcti tibh otherwise'. thet same will.be tnlren bra " confesso and berd exparte against thexnJ1 1 ' ' aC:U':aP rAi .''a .- v : iaS'- -y:X:.A:: : : r a ::-aa : ----- -- - a ' AfA-A&A L- ' " 1. . ' . . ' yr,m-r . . . - . ;Ar
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