MR., M'DUFFIE'S REPORT.
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Mr.. M,Dufie. Chairman Of the Committee OF
Ways and Means, on the 12th of March, made re-
mort on the state of the public finances: the ooect
of which. in long argument, was to make war on
that part of the Report of the Secretary OF the Treas


ury, recommending that protection OF our Domes


tic Industry thought expedient by the Harrisburg
Convention. the late meeting at the Town Hail. ana
by the real friends of the American System general
ly. He says--ssWhen financiers, and statesmen al
the head of afIairs'' recommend such degree o'
protection. ssit is difficult to avoid exclaming-
with how little wisdom is the world governed.


Mr.. M'Daffie and his Jackson fellow laborers 10
that Committee, seem to think that they have muc'
better views of this subject than the Farmers anu
Manufacturers assembled at Harrisburg, or OF those
who lately met at the Town Hail. and the thousands
who have in different states, expressed their apPro
baton of the Harrisburg recommendations. were
Gen. Jackson to be successful, and MIR. M'Dufhf
to be the Secretary ofthe Treasury, we must 10 MIN
the Justice to believe that he would not support ina


pocy-now recommended by '' statesmen at IN


head ofotairs.' lie would think it far better that
while the farmers of the South export annually o
the produce of their soil, some tDenfy nastl'ofs II
cotton rice and tobacco, those OF the mddle' west
en, and eastern states should continue to export
few hundred thousands, at most. AS the result o
ALL t,ier yeasoning-the report concludes thus :
"'rhe Committee, therefore, believe that the he
presenatiyes Of the People are called upon, not on