friends show their "patriotism" by selling their change between the grower and manufacturer wool at the same price that the manufacturers of wool; but the inevitable effect upon the could purchase it at in the foreign market? farmer, of thus increasing the stock of wool beBut no! each seems to want the other to show yond the demands of the country, by extensive "patriotism," but not to exhibit any of it them-foreign importations, none could fail to foreselves. The truth is, the manufacturers and see. The depreciated state of the wool marwool-growers have combined to plunder, un-ket, which subsequently took place, was conder the favor of law, the rest of the community; fidently predicted, and considerable exciteand they are now quarrelling about the divi- ment produced among the wool-growers. These sion of the "spoils.' Under the last tariff the facts were spoken of freely by myself as well manufacturers completely out manœuvred their as others in my presence; and I do not recolallies; but under the present one, the latter lect that I heard them denied, though they seem to have got the upper hand, or, at least, were sometimes evaded, till I saw them conare put upon an equality. tradicted in the Journal. On the contrary, it We add a further remark. It appears that was more than tacitly admitted by a principal one object of the manufacturers was to defeat manufacturer, to whom I observed in allusion the speculations in wool, It is said, we be- to the report-"So you intend to put down the lieve in truth, that Benjamin Knower, the fa- woollen speculator." "Yes," was the reply, ther-in-law of Mr. Marcy, and the head of the" and we will succeed, too." I saw what pur. moneyed combination known as the Albany Re- ported to be abstracts of letters from Europe, gency, had entered into large speculations in as well as from our commercial towns, stating wool; and that he himself admits that he was the quantity that was likely to be purchased in brought to the verge of bankruptcy by the im- Great Britain and Germany, as I understood on portations of foreign wool. No wonder then the manufacturers account, and the names of that the Albany Argus should complain of the Campbell and Shaw of Lanesborough, Brown course pursued by the manufacturers. The whole proceeding is a fit commentary on the system. FROM THE ALBANY ARGUS. THE MANUFACTURERS AND THE of Boston, L. Pomeroy of Pittsbeld, Joshua Clapp of Roston, Walcott of Fall River, (or Great Falls,) and others (including the large manufacturing establishments at Lowell, &c.) were given as manufacturers who had received and were expecting wool thus purchased abroad. I Mr. CROSWELL: In a late communication of In the convention in November, at N. York, Doct. Beekman, pablished in your paper, it was called to a circle of gentlemen in the was stated, among other things, that some of sessions room, among whom were Doct. Beekthe woollen manufactureis had combined to re- man, Maj. Kirby of Watertown, and others to duce the price of American wool, in the spring me unknown, and interrogated as to what I of 1831, by sending agents to Europe to pur- had said on this subject. I detailed to them, in chase foreign stock for the supply of their es- substance, the facts above stated, omitting tablishments. In the N. Y. Advocate and Jour-names; and at the same time seeing Mr. Pomenal of June 20, the Doctor's statement is posi-roy, a woollen manufacturer near me, called to tively and flatly denied, and his motives, as him, and begged he would further satisfy the well as his veracity, rather discourteously call. inquiries of the gentlemen, which I think he ed in question. As I may, in a measure, have offered to do at some other convenient opportubeen the inadvertent cause of bringing down nity. the wrath of the Advocate upon the Doctor, I I repeat, I had heard nothing from compeask permission to state in your paper the parti- tent authority to discredit these facts. And cipation I had in giving currency to the report, believing them to be well-founded, I did not and of furnishing to the editor of the Journal, fail to ascribe to their influence, the enormous data to enable him to ascertain, if he is dispos- excess in the importations of wool and woollens ed to enter upon the investigation, the truth in which took place during the last year, the conrelation to the statement. sequent depression of prices, and the embarSoon after the meeting of the manufacturers rassments of the grower, vender, and manufacin New York in the spring of 1831, the report turer of wool, which marked the close of the became current, that some sort of agreement, last and the commencement of the present year. at least implied and confidential, had been en- It appears from official documents, publish. tered into between several of the woollen ma-ed in the Advocate and Journal, that there nufacturers, to abstain, as far as possible, for were imported, of wool, the season, from purchasing from the Ameri- In 1831, can wool merchant, and in the mean time, to In 1830, but procure foreign wool for their establishments, Showing an excess, in 1831, of 4,953,677 lbs., for the purchase of which two or more agents or more than 900 per cent. increase in one had already gone to Europe; and the names year, and valued at $1,192,056 dollars. That of Messrs. Searle and Lawrence, of Boston, of manufactures of wool the imports were, were mentioned as gentlemen who were em- In 1831, $13,088,726 ployed for this purpose. The ostensible ob5,800,283 ject was stated to be, to put down the wool Making an excess imported in 1831, of 7,288,speculator, and to suffer no medium of inter-443 dollars, or nearly 250 per cent. In 1830 5,622,960 pounds. The effect of American agents buying up commencement of the late war arose from the wool in the foreign market, for American con- want of preparation; the loss of credit, and the sumption, would naturally be to induce fo- derangement of our finances, from the want reigners to ship largely, under the expectation of an efficient administration of the Treasury of finding here a good market: nor is it strange Department. Mr. Clay charged Mr. Gallatin that it should have produced a corresponding with having defeated the measures essential influence in increasing the shipment of wool- to the vigorous prosecution of the war in the len goods. first instance; and then with having done all In regard to the importation of yarn, Mr. in his power to render it unpopular, by reFisher states that the quantity imported was commending the most odious taxes; and, ultismall, and the quality coarse, such as was suit- mately, with having, after sapping the foundaable for carpets. This does not tally with re- tion of the public credit, sought a refuge from port. For it is stated on authority that I deem the consequence of his own intrigues in the to be unquestionable, that an individual manu- mission to Ghent. Mr. Clay confirms this by facturer (of Rhode Island) imported $20,000 Mr. Gallatin's own words: for when told, at St. worth of yarn during last year, and that, this Petersburgh, and afterwards at Ghent, of the year, under whatever grade it may have passed derangement of our finances, Mr. Gallatin said, the custom house, was absolutely intended for "If I had not foreseen this, you would not have -not carpeting-but fine broadcloths. As I seen me here." dislike to deal in inuendoes, I will cheerfully In confirmation, and by way of explanation of communicate to Mr. Fisher, by letter, should what Mr. Clay has stated, we will add that he desire it, all the information I possess upon a citizen of the west, perhaps the most this branch of the subject, with the name of devoted partisan of Mr. Gallatin living, speakthe reputed importer. ing of Mr. Gallatin's foresight, said that he was In making this communication, I disclaim all opposed to the war, because he anticipated political and personal motives; nor do I intend that, in the course of its prosecution, some into become a party in the controversy. It is due dividual, not qualified to administer the Goto Dr. Beekman, it is due to the editor of the vernment, would, by some daring act, win over Journal, and it is due to the manufacturers im- the multitude and grasp the Presidency, as the plicated. The woollens' cause has ever had reward of mere military services. my ardent support. I have been liberal of Let the reader bear these facts in mind. At time and means to sustain it. And I have a that day, the aspirants for the Presidency were personal respect and esteem for the gentlemen Monroe, Adams, Clay, Crawford, and Gallatin. above named, so far as they are known to me Mr. Gallatin had been the associate of Jefferpersonally. The reports that have had cur- son, and, as the Secretary of the Treasury, had rency, have operated to the prejudice of the laid the basis of that school of politicians who manufacturer; and if they are not true, it is look to the spoils of office as the reward of time they were arrested and disproved, at least victory. by the unqualified denial of the parties impli- Mr. Gallatin had fixed his eye upon the first cated. I will not question the manufacturers' office; but the war and its consequences inright to purchase wool or yarn where he pleas- terposed. The competiton settled down bees, or in the way he deems best for his inter-tween Mr. Monroe and Mr. Crawford; the first est. It is a pretty general rule among all was sustained by Mr. Madison, Mr. Clay, and classes to buy where they can do it to the best Mr. Adams; the last was selected as the chief advantage. At the same time the public will of that disciplined corps who had been trained decide upon the purity, or patriotism, of the by Mr. Gallatin. With an art, worthy of his motive. J. BUEL. chief, he retained his position, and continued the operations of the party, through the Treasury Department. "THE CRAWFORD PARTY." The Richmond Enquirer of the 20th, con- The fruit of their joint intrigues was, the tains the following statement, in the shape of joint nomination of Crawford and Gallatin, by an extract from a letter from Warrenton, North the Congressional caucus in 1824. The result Carolina : of the canvass satisfied the most ardent parti "It is calculated, that the former friends of sans of Mr. Gallatin, that he never could be Mr. Crawford, and the real, original friends of elected President; and the party were comGen. Jackson, will, at the next election, sup- pelled to choose another pretender for the port Jackson and VAN BUREN. If so, there crown. Accordingly, the Crawford party ocannot be a doubt of the success of the ticket Georgia voted for Mr. Van Buren as Vice Pre in North Carolina." sident. The observant reader, who notes the cur- Even at this day, there are none so ignorant rent of events, can be at no loss to understand as not to know that the "former friends of Mr. the apparently contradictory course of the Crawford" were the most violent and abusive "former friends of Mr. Crawford." In the opponents of General Jackson. Mr. Forsyth, late debate in the Senate, Mr. Clay gave some the bosom friend of Mr. Crawford then, and of important facts relative to the origin of that Mr. Van Buren now, was among the most acparty. Although it bears Mr. Crawford's cog- tive of those who, from 1819 until the defeat nomen, it is, in truth, the party of the wily of Mr. Crawford in 1825, endeavored to cover Genevan. The disasters which marked the the "old Hero" with disgrace; who used ev ery effort in Congress to pass a vote of censure can ascertain that Calhoun will not be benefited upon his proceedings in Florida. (We know by Jackson's election, you will do him a benewhat we say, and let the Globe deny it at its fit by communicating the information to me." peril. General Jackson has in his possession, About this time the Albany Argus began to the proof which establishes the fact; which change its tone. Subsequent events prove that disproves the charge of duplicity, made by the pledge that Mr. Calhoun should not come him, upon the instigation of Mr. Forsyth, and into power was given, and Mr. VAN BUREN "the former friends of Mr. Crawford," against came into the support of Gen. Jackson. The Mr. Calhoun, and fixes it irrevocably upon quarrel with Mr. Calhoun was but the pretext Mr. Forsyth himself. We say that the proof for doing that which had been agreed upon beof all this is now in the possession of General fore the election of Gen. Jackson, and the effort Jackson, obtained under a belief that it would to unite the "former friends of Mr. Crawford," criminate Mr. Calhoun. And we alledge the and the "old, original partisans of Gen. Jackfact, that with this proof before him, General son" is playing out the game-carrying out the Jackson did not immediately retract the offen- bargain to transfer the Jackson party to Martin sive charge, which, being made by him, ren- Van Buren. For this purpose was the ticket of dered it impossible for Mr. Calhoun to continue, Jackson and Van Buren got up, and for this purwithout dishonor, the relations of personal in-pose has a war of relentless persecution been tercourse between them, demonstrates, strong waged against every friend of General Jackson, as proof of holy writ, that the quarrel with who will not consent to be transferred like BusMr. Calhoun was a deliberately concerted mea-sian serfs. sure, intended to transfer the Jackson party to We speak of these facts as they are. They Mr. Van Buren. We again repeat, that we are, of themselves, startling; and there is no know what we say, and we challenge the pub-citizen, who feels as an American citizen should lication of the evidence to which we refer.) feel, who cannot make his own comment. But After the election of Mr. Adams, the former the statesman, the careful observer of events, friends of Mr. Crawford were advised by Mr. Gallatin not to separate-to keep united. On the vote in the House, the friends of Mr. Calhoun supported Gen. Jackson, the friends of Mr. Clay voted for Mr. Adams, leaving Mr. Crawford's party, as was supposed, the umpire. will see much cause for alarm in the success which has attended the efforts of "the former friends of Mr. Crawford" for office. We are aware that we use terms which are calculated to wound the party pride and self-love of many highly respectable citizens. We know that the leaders, having seized upon the usages of The policy of Mr. Adams was to recruit from the republican party, carried away with them this independent force, and accordingly his first many of the most valuable of the rank and file appointments, Mr. Rush, of Pennsylvania, and of that party; but these are times which require Mr. Barbour, of Virginia, were made from that a bold and fearless exposure of the truth, and party. Mr. Van Buren was a candidate for the we feel called upon to discharge our duty, let mission to England, made vacant by the ap- the blow fall where it may; qualifying our repointment of Mr. Rush, and accordingly the mark by saying, that they are intended to apAlbany Argus then, as now, his organ, excom-ply only to those leaders, who, being initiated municated the Washington City Gazette, because into the secrets, were combined for the "spoils" it had commented in terms of severity on Mr. and used the party discipline as the means of Clay's vote. While Mr. Van Buren was paying transferring their honest but deluded followers. court to Mr. Adams and Mr. Clay, Mr. Cobb, who None but such will take offence at the truth. had been the active associate of Mr. Forsyth in An honest man who regards the interests of this the prosecution of General Jackson, cast his great republic, and who desires to leave our eyes to the Hermitage. The tendency of all wise institutions as an unimpaired inheritance to this was to place "the former friends of Mr. his children, will feel that he has a higher intęCrawford" in the market. Accordingly, in rest than party. Such will see in this declaradue season, after Mr. King had been sent to tion of the Enquirer the secret basis upon which England, we find Mr. Van Buren on a pilgrim- the new coalition of Jackson and Van Buren age to the residence of Mr. Crawford, in Geor-rests. Mr. Van Buren is to bring in the “old gia, and on the 14th December, 1827, Mr. friends of Mr. Crawford,” and General Jackson Crawford wrote to Alfred Balch, Esq. of Nash- is to bring in the "old original Jacksonians." ville, (the brother-in-law of William B. Lewis,) Will the people ratify this "bargain?" Is a letter, from which the following are extracts. the love of office, the power and patronage of "If I understand your letter, you appear to the Government, capable of controlling our ethink a public expression of my opinion on the lections? Is Gen. Jackson's popularity such approaching election to be proper." that he can stand every thing? Can the combi"When Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Cambreleng nation of "Jackson and Van Buren" put down made me a visit last April; I authorized them, the Senate, and destroy every man who refuses upon every proper occasion, to make those o-to devote himself to the election of Van Buren pinions known." "The only diffi- as Jackson's successor? ployed this State has upon that subject is, ject was kson should be elected, Calhoun will speculator, power. I confess I am not appre ich a result." THE NEW TARIFF. "Foreseeing that the payment of the public "If you debt would necessarily lead to a reduction of EDITORIAL REMARKS, &c. duties, Mr. Clay proposed a resolution which and sanction to a bill founded on those princi- "Mr. Hayne responded to this resolution by another, proposing a gradual reduction upon We are here told by the Globe, that the bill both protected and unprotected articles, and by a modification embracing both classes, of Mr. McLane was drawn up "in accordance adapted it so as to secure adequate protection with the views" of Mr. Hayne, and to meet to the American manufacturer. In accord- the proposition of compromise in the spirit in ance with the views thus advanced by the which it was made." Could we have bee leading representative of the southern inter- surprised at any thing coming from the Globe, ests, Mr. M'Lane, when called upon by Con- we should have been at this. It is scarcely gress, drew up a bill to meet the proposition possible for two propositions to be more oppoof compromise in the spirit in which it was site than that of Mr. Hayne and the bill of the made. This bill, with a slight change, would Secretary. The former, as stated by the Globe have received a general support from the sou- itself, was based upon a gradual reduction thern section of the Union. But the tariff ma- of duties." The bill of the Secretary was jority in the House, under the auspices of Mr. avowedly to be "permanent;" and he assigns, Adams, changed its features so as to make it in the accompanying report, as a reason for adopting this principle, that he had ascertained more decidedly a manufacturers' bill." The above is from the Globe of the 10th it would be more acceptable to the manufacand the confession it contains, together with turers. According to the logic of the Globe, the falsity of some of its assertions, sets the the "gradual reduction to a fair revenue sysseal of condemnation upon the new tariff. In tem" of Mr. Hayne, and the "permanent" the first place, it candidly confesses that the provisions of Mr. McLane's bill, are in perfect proposition of Mr. Clay to throw the whole tax accordance one with the other! However anxious the Globe may be to conupon articles of necessity, and exempt the luxuries, "was in effect to convert the reduction ceal the real nature of the bill just passed, the of the duties into a grievance, as it increased truth will now and then peep out, in despite of the inequality between those whom the tariff every exertion to conceal it. It accuses the benefited and those who bore the burden." tariff majority in the House, of changing the This is, no doubt, true, and the south are fully bill so as to make it more decidedly a manuaware of it; but what strikes them with sur-facturers' bill." And now it is "more decidprise is, to find the Globe and so many presses edly" such a bill. And yet, in direct contraprofessing similar sentiments, advocating a ta- diction to this declaration, the Executive organ riff embracing these very principles, so much and its satelites are loud in its praise, and are denounced by them. We are sure that no can- constantly congratulating the south on the glodid man will deny the fact; and we were not rious compromise offered them by the manuat all surprised to hear Mr. Clay assert, in the facturers of the north! The Globe relies too Senate, that the bill was founded upon the much on the ignorance and gullibility of the principles proposed by him in the early part of people. the session. Well might he exult, as he did, BARBOUR IN TENNESSEE. over the friends of the Administration, and A meeting of citizens of Williamson county, over the south in particular, that, after having denounced his proposition, they were Tennessee, favorable to the election of P. P. compelled to accept the former with joy, and Barbour, was held on the 23d June, at Frankthe latter with bitterness of heart, a tariff found-lin Court-house. Committees of vigilance and ed on those very obnoxious principles; and correspondence was appointed. Resolutions compelled, not only to accept it, but to praise were adopted at the meeting declaratory of it, and to denounce as enemies to the Union all their opinions of Martin Van Buren, and of P. who would not join in its praise. Never was P.P. Barbour. They declare that the former, "Whilst indulging in hypocritical expresthere a greater transformation produced by the course of events. Like Balaam of old, they sions of regard for State Rights, the whole began with curses and ended with blessings! tenor of his votes while Senator, furnishes We were struck with the exulting sarcasm of practical evidence of his adherence to those Mr. Clay, when alluding to it in the Senate; loose views of the Constitution, which carried and nothing was said-for nothing could be out to their results, which constitute this a Government of unlimited power. A supporter of said-in denial of its truth. So conscious are the friends of the Admini- the protective system in its full extent; he sancstration in the north of the truth of it, that it is tioned by his vote and influence, that "bill of made a merit in the President to give his aid abominations," the tariff of 1828; and thus be praying the confidence of the whole southern David, and reign over the seed of Abraham. My delegation, with whom he had professed to act. hope has been realised, if his has not. That which A tariff unjust in its principles, odious in its fea- to him is still but hope, and hope deferred, to tures, unequal in its operations, oppressive to me is estatic reality. I am in its full fruition; agriculture generally, ruinous to the planting lapped in elysium. But never until now, did I interest; and if not unconstitutional, at least, a feel the fullness of its joy. As devoted, as for palpable perversion of a constitution power. years I have been to him; clinging the firmer, A system which has given birth to the most the more he was villified, never did I feel todangerous of all parties; those defined by geo-wards him as now. I confidently anticipate graphical limits, and which, unless abandoned that the shameless flock of raven printers next or settled upon just principles of mutual con- will croak, that this message is not his. Who cession, we sadly fear will cause the fairest fa- cares for their croaking? Who cares whether bric of human wisdom,designed for the preser-it be or be not his, id est, worded by him? Say, vation of the liberties of man, to totter and if you will, it was not. Still it was done by tumble to the ground." his order-fashioned conformably to his direc"Resolved, That in the opinion of this meet- tions--containing his every sentiment. Let ing Philip P. Barbour is a fit and proper per- these snarlers remember, that that book about son to be voted for to fill the office of Vice Pre- which they prate so much, and of which, judg sident, and that he unites in him more of the ing by their works, they know nothing, was requisite qualifications than any other man who not written by him whose testament it is, but has been named, and that to support him is to only by his inspiration, his order. For one, I maintain our interests, our principles, and our care not if he (the President) never saw it (the public honor. message) until ready for his signature; can "Resolved, That we will not be duped into fairly claim it only by adoption. Tis, in itself, the support of any man who is an advocate of so admirable, that to me it should be a polar the American system, as it is called, by the cry star, though it came from the hands of Long of "persecution," or the more senseless and Harry of Kentucky, nay, even from those of hypocritical reasons that he is a favorite to Old Harry, himself. Thine, CRITO. General Jackson, and the only man who can unite the suffrages of the republican party." FROM THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER. THE VETO. inst. Henrico, July 18, 1831. The preceding most extraordinary production is from the Richmond Enquirer of the 20th What Virginian can read it and not blush at the degradation of his State--of the once noGENTLEMEN: Although your paper of Fri- ble, high-minded Virginia. We say degrada day, the 13th, has been in my house for five tion, for one such slavish spirit would degrade days, I have not read a word of the President's a million of freemen. What American but message, assigning his reasons for refusing to must feel mortified, that adulation so gross, so sanction the bill re-chartering the Bank of the servile, so blasphemous, should find a place United States, until this day. Business, not a in an American journal? We know of but two disregard to the subject, was the cause. But individuals in Virginia, who could be so lost to I have just read, ay, and re-read it, and care- every feeling of shame or self-respect, as to fully too, and never have I read any thing become the author of such a production. One which gave me such exquisite pleasure, since the is the editor of the paper in which it first ap account of the battle of the 8th January, 1815. peared. The other is a hungry expectant of What American can read it without a thrill of office, who, in order to gain it, is willing to gratitude? Foreigners even must regard it with descend to the lowest depth of degradation. admiration. Calm, dignified, persuasive, argu- Will the editor of the Whig tell us if Peter V. mentative, conclusive, it ought to be stamped does not sometimes write over the sinature of on blue silk, framed, and hung up in every "Crito?" freeman's house. It should be printed in pamphlets, read at all meetings of the people, he exclaim: made a text book in our schools-even in our Sunday schools. Nay, it should be read on a given day throughout the United States, in lieu of Henry Clay's Fast and Prayer." Old In the North Carolina Constitutionalist, we Hickory has been the idol of my worship, every observe a letter from the Hon. Jesse Speight to hour of every day which has passed over my the editor, in which he is told that the "govern head since that same 8th January, 1815. I then ment is fast inclining to monarchy." avowed a confident assurance that the day Coming from such a source, (the honorable would come, when the people of these United member was a constant attendant at the palace States would, in heartfelt gratitude for that during the last session,) the observation is entiday's work, make him their Chief Magistrate. tled to more respect than it would, otherwise, I was no false prophet. From that hour, even meet with. His situation would enable him to unto the fulfilment of my prophecy, never did see things behind the scenes which are hid from I cease my aspirations for the coming of that public view; and we only wonder at his indisevent. Never did enthusiastic Israelites breathe cretion in uttering a truth which cannot but be a more fervent hope, a more confident reliance, in unpalatable to the powers that be. If the writer does not get an office, well may "Gratitude! thou hast filed to brute beasts;" And the Kitchen Cabinet' has lost itspower!! the coming of him who was to be of the house of Some of the causes which have led to the for |
