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blessed US with the means of national indepen-
dence and national defence. If we omit or re-
fuse to use the gifts which he has extended to,


us, we deserve not the continuation of His


blessing. He has filled our mountains and our


plains with minerals-with lead, iron, and
copper and given us climate and soil for the
growing OF hemp and wool. These being the
great materials Of our national defence, they
ought to have extended to them adequate and


fair protection; that our manufacturers and
laborers may be placed in fair competition
with those Of Europe, and that we may have
within our country supply of those leading
and important articles so essential in war.


81 will ask what is the real situation Of The
agriculturist? Where has the American far
mer market for his surplus produce? Except
for Gotten he has neither foreign nor home
market. Does not this clearly prove, when
there is too much labor employed in agricul-
ture! Common sense at once points out the
remedy. Take from agriculture in the U. 5.
six hundred thousand men, women, and chill
dren, and you will at once give market for
moro breadstufs than all Europe now furnish
es US. In short, sir, we have been too long
subject to the policy Of British merchants. It
is time we should become little more AMlert-
canized, and instead of feeding paupers and la
borers of England, feed our own; or else, in
short time, by continuing our present policy,
we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves. II
is therefore my opinion that careful and Ji-
dicious tariff is much wanted to pay our ma
tional debt, and to afford us tho means OF that
defence within ourselves on which the safely ol