YANKEE NOTIONS.

Ertract from the Speech of the Hon. Mr. H1 gess of Rhode Island, in the House cfa Representatives., on the IariF Blu,

 April 2l, 1928.
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must. sir, be permitted to repeat, that the American System is not peculiar to New Eng land. Those wrong the nation, who have, in this debate so often called this great plan of national policy Yankee notion.' have al ready so far illustrated this system that can mention some leal Yankee notions. The first of these Yankee notions is the art and myste- ry of making cloth with machinery moved by water power This was introduced into K. Island. and commenced in Pawtucket. four | miles from Providence, about the same time the American System was established, by the impost law of July 4th l789. What was the condition then, and what is it now of the consumption of cottoncloths in your country; l A yard of cloth, then, made by the wheel and loom cost fifty and never less than forty cts. l It may now be had at ten cents.

 1 The cotton gin is another Yankee notion. l Whitney, who invented this machine, could have had no views to any exclusive benefit re- suIling from the use of it to New England. It has probably doubled the profit ofcotton plan ting in the South. South Carolina has fair right to estimate it's value for that state gave the inventor fifty thousand dollars for the 1 right to use 1t. Other cotton growing states may tell how useful it is; though that utility to them. may be no benefit to the inventor of this notion.

 l In the last war. .redeeming bank bills,at sight with specie, was truly Yankee notion. It was l believe, little pracrsed out of New England | Nay, so great was the aversion to this prac- Il tice, even at the seat of government, that t is said to have been the constant custom of cer- tain officers, to select and separate all New England bills, from any sum going into the Treasury, and supply their places with the bills ofsuch banks only, as were known not to pay specie for their bills.

 N. England is often censured, on this floor for not having approved of that war. It is true they did dsaprove of the war. What .lthen? More capital went to the aid of that Bar from New England, than went to it from Ithe whole region south of the Potomac and ICnmberland, together with the t,co districts of the two gentlemen from Kentucky. in ad

 dition. And this was one of our Yankee no- tiOns. -

 In that war too. New England sent some other Yankee notions to the service. Such were Hull, Morris, Mac Donough,and Perry, the capturers of the Guerrier, Java, and of the fleets on Erie and on Champlain, When O. liver Hazard Perry and his little band of he roes terminated their march, and stept out of the green wilderness upon the white beach of that lake, they beheld St. Georges Banner, broad and gay," floating from the British mizen-mast over its qniet waters. He cOud not reaclf the enemy, but by the aid ofships. These stood above him in the trees tasn four