Mr. Lord moved, that this convention recommend to their fellow citizens, to petition congress for the establishment of a home department of the general government, to be charged with whatever relates to the statistical internal trade, arts, manufactures and various productions of the country.-Which resolution was, at the request of the mover, ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Lord moved that the report of the committee on cotton, be recommitted to the committee who made the report, for the purpose of amending the same. Which motion was agreed to. Mr. Meeteer moved that a committee of finance be appointed. committee. Mr. Forward offered the following resolution. Resolved, That it is the opinion of the members of this convention, that the manufacturing of iron, including cutlery, wood screws, and wire, are objects of great national importance, and deserve further protection from the government. mate made on the importation from Russia in 1822, as data, require at least 4,521,700 pounds of flax, valued at $542,600 and the use of 15,000 acres of land, for the growth of the raw material for the manufacture of those articles from Russia alone; to the manufacture of cotton bagging, that was imported in 1826, it would require at least 3,300,000 pounds, or 1,473 tons of hemp, valued at the same rate as in the treasury report, viz. $125 per ton, would give an amount of $184,125, and would require the cultivation of eight thousand acres of land to produce it. 542,600 From the foregoing items, the following estimate is made of the quantity, and value, of the raw material, reWhich motion was agreed to, and thereupon the presi-quisite for the manufacture of the hempen and flaxen fadent appointed Messrs. Meeteer, Roberts and Fisher, said brics imported into the United States last year, together with the quantity and value of hemp and flax, in the raw state, imported in the same period, viz: For sail clotb, ravens duck and other coarse articles, imported from Russia alone, it would require 4,521,700 lbs. of flax and hemp, valued at For cotton bagging, requiring 3,500,000 hemp 184,000 For cordage, twine, &c. 1,949,915 hemp and flax 147,426 Of hemp in its raw state, was imported, 9,869,000 lbs. Of flax, estimated at 600,000 lbs. Hemp and flax, 20,239,715 lbs. requiring the cultivation of nearly 50,000 acres of land for the growth of the raw material, giving employment directly, to 7,000 hands to manufacture it, and indirectly, to very many more. Which resolution was, at the request of the mover, laid upon the table. Convention adjourned till 3 o'clock, P. M. Convention met. IN THE AFTERNOON, Mr. Colt from the committee on the subject of hemp, reported as following. The committee to whom was referred the subject of the growth and manufacture of hemp and flax, beg leave to report the result of their investigation. It appears from the treasury report of 1827, that in the year ending the 30th September, 1826, the amount of imported articles, manufactured out of flax, not subject to 25 per cent. duty was All other paying duty of 25 per cent, All other except cordage, Of cotton bagging there was imported 2,204,822 yards, valued at Of cordage, twine, pack thread and sein twine, there was imported in the same year 1,949,915 lbs. of which 325,641 lbs. was twine, pack thread and sein twine, valued at $62,827 $4,774,781 274,973 551,757 72,000 $1,497,783 In the foregoing estimate, the quantity and value of the raw material is not included, which is requisite for $2,757,080 the manufacture of various articles of hemp and flax, in229,946 cluded in the treasury report of the amount of the value 1,738,846 of the imported articles, manufactured from these mate48,909 rials, the committee confining themselves, in bringing to the notice of this convention, nothing but the most prominent articles of the coarser fabrics, and such as can be readily manufactured, and the raw material grown in our own country. But, though the coarser article is principally alluded to, in this report, yet the finer articles of linen manufacture, of shirtings, of sheetings, sewing and shoe thread, and all the articles of finer fabrics of hemp, 147,426 and flax, would be materially promoted, and the manu facture of them encouraged by a judicious protection. 551,757 Of the ability of the manufacturers of this country to meet all demands, for the manufactured articles of hemp and flax, not only for our own consumption, but also for exportation, there can be no doubt in the mind of any person of common observation, when he looks to what has been done in the manufacture of cotton, iron, nails, glass ware and many other articles. 72,000 Of hemp, unmanufactured, there was import- Take for data the following schedule of the imports from Russia only, in the year 1822, viz: 40,554 bolts heavy sail cloth, the average quantity of hemp or flax, required to make it would be 45,767 bolts, raven's duck, would require 37,194 pieces of sheeting 151,620 archines, broad diaper 3,983 20,247 92,082 20,981 492,824 5,864 narrow broad linnen narrow drilling crash huckubuck There are in the United States, seven establishments, containing 2,620 spindles, for spinning of flax, which if fully employed in the manufacture of sail cloth, could make 19,500 bolts of duck annually, requiring 870,000 pounds of flax, (for it is of flax that it is made in this country,) the cost of which would be $104,000 and when made into duck, would sell for $273,000, yielding to the industry of the country $169,000, and giving employment to about 650 hands, exclusive of those employed in the agricultural branch. lbs. 1,621,760 If within the period of five or six years, we are enabled Total amount of pounds required of hemp and tercourse made a report which was read. sent from the house of representatives to the senate, a Mr. Tallmadge moved to refer this report to the comduty of 25 per cent. ad valorem was imposed on all goods,mittee appointed to draft a memorial to congress. manufactured of hemp and flax. The senate, however, Which resolution was unanimously agreed to. disagreed to this item of the tariff; so far as related to Jeremiah Morrow, a delegate from Ohio, appeared cotton bagging and sail cloth, a compromise took place, and took his seat in the convention. the duty on cotton bagging was fixed at 33 cents per square yard, and a duty of only 15 per cent. ad valorem, imposed on sail cloth, which, with custom house charges, will only amount to one dollar and eighty seven cents per bolt, even on the best kinds of Russian duck, thus placing the manufacturer in a worse situation than he was in, previous to the revision of the tariff, by a reduction of at least twenty-five cents per bolt. Small as this proportion is, still the manufacturer is in a measure deprived of a portion of it, by the evasion of the laws relative to drawback, as sail cloth is sometimes shipped in vessels bound on long voyages, entered for the benefit of drawback, a landing certificate procured, but the canvass is made up and used on board the ship by which it was exported, and the duty on the importation is returned to the shipper, under the idea that the article was landed and left behind in some foreign port. In England the manufacturer of canvass is directly profected, in as much as every English ship, whether naval or commercial, is clothed with British manufactured sail cloth; and if a merchant vessel should during her voyage, be compelled to use any foreign sail cloth, to replace the sails worn out or destroyed, the captain is obliged, on his return to an English port, to enter all sail cloth so used and pay the regular import duty on it, even though the duck may have been in use 18 months and worth little or nothing. This protection is secured under heavy penalties, and gives to the English manufacturer the opportunity of not only supplying the canvass necessary to navigate the ship, but also what may be necessary to meet the wear during the voyage. But our ships, as it is well known, frequently leave our ports with barely a sufficient stock of sails to carry them across the Atlantic, and, when arrived out, they are supplyed with foreign duck, thus depriving the manufacturer of the supply. to the committee appointed to draft an address to the peoMr. Mallary then moved that the report be referred ple of the U.States. Mr. Ingersoll moved that the motion of Mr. Mallary should be postponed for the present. The motion of Mr. Mallary was postponed. Mr. Ingersoll, from the general committee made a report, which will be found inserted below. Which report was read and ordered to a second reading. The first section being read a second time, and while the same was under consideration, the convention adjourned, until to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock. FRIDAY, AUGUst 3. The convention met at 8 o'clock, A. M. The minutes and proceedings were read and approved. The president laid the following letter before the convention. Hallowell, Maine, July 26, 1827. SIR: We enclose you a copy of the doings of a meeting of the people from different parts of this state, that you may, (in case of our not being represented), be apprized of the views and feelings of the friends of the American system" in this section of the United States. Notice has been given to such of the delegates as were not present at the meeting, but such as have returned answers are unable to attend. We regret that the meeting in this state had not been held at an earlier day, that gentlemen could have had time to prepare for so long a journey, and so interesting an investigation as will be had at Harrisburg. JESSE ROBINSON, SANFORD KINGSBURY, & Committee. S. G. LADD. } The president of the convention to be held at You will be at liberty to make such use of the enclosed Should the old cry of monopoly be raised by the objec-as your better judgment may direct. Your obedient sertors to any further revision of the tariff, and the charge vants, of fostering and pampering over-grown establishments, and their proprietors be reiterated, the answer is ready; they are referred to the effect of competition in the manufacture of coarse cottons, of window glass, nails and other articles, which are now furnished to the consumer at lower prices than when they were imported from At a meeting of manufacturers, wool-growers and England under the old tariff. An adequate protection, friends of the agricultural and manufacturing interests of and one which would not prove injurious to the revue, the state of Maine, held at Hallowell in the county of would at once give life and activity to the several estab- | Kennebec, on the 19th inst. for the purpose of selecting lishments, which are now enabled to sustain a precarions delegates to the general convention to be holden at Harexistence, by the limited orders for the supply of the U.risburg, in the state of Pennsylvania, on the 30th instant, States navy, only two establishments being now engaged and to take such other measures as may be thought exin the manufacture of sail cloth. Give employment even pedient to elicit and diffuse ail information necessary to to the existing manufactories, and it would encourage the indicate the most effectual means of protecting and susgrowth of hemp and flax to a very large extent. No-taining the growth and manufacture of wool and other thing but a steady, certain demand, is wanting for the raw prominent staples of the country. material, such a demand as shall not be affected and ren- Hon. Jonathan Page, of Brunswick, was called to the dered abortive by overwhelming shipments from Eu-chair, and William Clark, esq. of Hallowell, appointed rope of the manufactured article, to induce the agricul- secretary. turalist to produce an adequate supply for all the wants A committee having been appointed to report a preamof the country; and thus in a measure aff rd some reliefble and resolutions to be considered by the convention, to the excess of the wheat, ryc, corn and tobacco crops, submitted the following, which were unanimously acceptby bringing into cultivation a long neglected product of |ed: our soil. Whereas a large majority of the people of this state The policy of protecting the manufactures of sail cloth are engaged in the pursuits of agriculture, and the raising and other articles of vital importance, will be confessed of sheep and growing of wool are among the most promiby all those who have the true interests of their country nent of these pursuits: And whereas the abundance of at heart, and who recollect the exorbitant prices paid for water-power and mill-sites in our state have already atcloth, and other indispensable articles, at the commence-tracted a considerable portion of capital, which has ment of and during the last war, when duck sold for developed itself in the erection of manufacturing estabfrom 40 to 54 dollars per bolt—an article indispensable to lishments of various kinds and whereas, until recentthe commerce of the country, as also for its defence and ly, the sentiment has been almost universal in our glory. country, that congress has the constitutional power and The committee, therefore, beg leave to report to this would be disposed to exercise it, whenever the exigen convention, that they consider a further protection to thecies of the country should require it, of giving suitable grower and manufacturer of hemp and flax, highly expe-encouragement and protection to the agricultural and dient and called for by a due regard to the vital interests manufacturing interests, not exclusively, but in common of this country; and that it is right and proper, tirat such with other great interests-and, whereas, we believe the reppscutations of the facts relative thereto, should be time has arrived, when the encouragement held out to made by this convention to the next congress, as shall the growers of wool and the manufacturers of that artıproduce so desipable an event. cle. By the act of congress passed in 1824, should be airly realized, and that it is important that the efforts of the friends of the "American system," which encourages domestic industry, and internal improvements, should be concentrated. two dollars and fifty cents per square yard, to be taken and deemed to have cost two dollars and fifty cents per square yard, and the duty to be charged as in the preceding section. 4th. All goods composed of wool or of which wool is Resolved, That this convention feel a deep interest in the protection and encouragement of woollen manufac- a component part, (excepting as aforesaid), costing in a tures, and the growth of wool in the United States, and foreign country more than two dollars and fifty cents and cordially approve the bill passed by the house of repre- not exceeding four dollars per square yard, to be deemed sentatives during the last session of congress, having for and taken to have cost four dollars per square yard, and its object the promotion of the manufacturing and agri-the duty to be charged as prescribed in the second section. cultural interests of the United States. 5th. All goods composed of wool or which wool is a Resolved, That this convention approve the proceed-component part, (excepting as aforesaid,) costing more ing of the "Pennsylvania society for the promotion of domestic industry and mechanic arts," in notifying a general convention to be holden at Harrisburg on the 30th inst. Resolved, That it is expedient to elect five delegates to attend the general convention to be holden at Harrisburg on the 30th inst. and the hon. John Holmes, of the county of York, gen. Jedediah Herrick, of the county of Penobscot, gen. Joshua Wingate, of the county of Kennebec, William Ladd, esq. of the county of Cumberland, and Bryce McLellan, esq. of the county of Somersett, were elected for this purpose. Voted, That gen. Jesse Robinson, hon judge Kingsbury and gen. S. G. Ladd, be requested to give the above named gentlemen immediate notice of their election, and should any one or more of them decline accepting the appointment, that they be authorized to appoint others in their stead. than four and not exceding six dollars per square yard, to be deemed and taken to have cost six dollars per square yard, and the duty to be charged as prescribed in the second section. 6th Upon all goods composed of wool or of which wool is a component part, (excepting as aforesaid), which shall cost in a foreign country more than six dollars per square yard, the duty to be charged as prescribed in the second section. Which memorial and resolutions were read, and the resolutions ordered to a second reading. Mr. Wright moved to postpone the further consideration of the first resolution for the present-which was agreed to. Whereupon, Mr. Stewart offered the following resolution: Which resolution was ordered to lie on the table. The consideration of the 1st resolution accompanying the memorial presented by Mr. Ingersoll, was resumedwhen Resolved, in the opinion of this convention, it is desirable that the congress of the United States pass a prosVoted, That gen. Jesse Robinson, of Hallowell, in the pective law, at its next session, which, by its progressive county of Kennebec, William Ladd, esq. of Minot, in operation, shall exclude all foreign wool except wool the county of Cumberland, Calvin Selden, esq. of Nor-under ten cents per pound, from and after the 4th day of ridgwark, in the county of Somersett, gen. Jedediah Her- July 1831. rick, of Hamden, in the county of Penobscot, Thomas Eastman, esq. of Palermo, in the county of Waldo, Josiah W. Seaver, of South Berwick, in the county of York, and Parker Cleavland, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, at Bowdoin college, in Brunswick, in the county of Cumberland, be a committee for the purpose of correspondence and collecting such statistical information as may relate to the department of agriculture and manufactures within this state, and for communicating such digests thereof, as they may deem useful and interesting to the members of the next session of congress from this state. Mr. Todd moved to amend the resolution by striking out twenty and inserting fifteen; the question being taken on this motion, the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Lord moved to amend the resolution by striking out the word ten and inserting seven. Mr. Sprague moved a division of the question, and that the question on striking out the word "ten" be first taken. Resolved, That the secretary notify each of said committee of correspondence of their appointment, by trans-stricken out. mitting them a copy of these proceedings. Which motion was agreed to, and the word "ten" Resolved, That the record of the proceedings of this word "eight." convention be signed by the chairman and secretary, and The question being taken the blank was ordered to be that the secretary give publicity to the same in the seve-filled with “eight.” ral newspapers. JONATHAN PAGE, Chairman, WILLIAM CLARK, Secretary. Mr. Lord moved that the reading of this communication be dispensed with, and that it be referred to the committee appointed to draft an address to the people of the United States. Which resolution was agreed to. Mr. Ingersoll, from the committee, reported a memorial to congress, (inserted at the close of these proceedings), including the following propositions: 1st. On all raw wool costing ten cents in a foreign country, to be levied a duty of twenty cents per pound, and to be annually increased two and a half cents per pound, until it shall reach fifty cents per pound. 2d. All goods composed of wool or of which wool is a component part, (except blankets, stuffs, bombazines, hosiery, mitts, gloves, caps and bindings,) costing not more than 50 cents per square yard to be taken and deemed to have cost 50 cents per square yard, and forty per cent. ad valorem charged thereon, until the 30th of June 1829, and forty five per cent. ad valorem until the 30th June 1830, and fifty per cent. ad valorem thereafter. 3d. All goods composed of wool or of which wool is a component part, (except as aforesaid,) costing in a foreign country over 50 cents per square yard, and not exceeding The question then resuming on the first resolution, the same was unanimously agreed to. The 2d resolution was then considered and unanimously agreed to, as were also the 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th resolutions. Mr. Sprigg offered the following resolution to be added to those presented with the memorial, "also such additional duty upon imported blankets as will give ample encouragement to the manufacture of the same"which resolution was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Tallmadge offered the following as an addition Which resolution was read and unanimously agreed to. Resolved, That it be respectfully submitted to congress to extend further protection to hemp and flax and the various manufactures thereof, in the United States, by the imposition of such duties thereon as may be proper and effectual. Which resolution was read and unanimously agreed to. Resolved, That the committee on the address be charged with superintending the publication of the proceedings of this convention. Which resolution was read and agreed to. Mr. Ewing offered the following resolution, viz: Resolved, That it is expedient, so far as may be consistent with the interests of the country, to discourage the importation of foreign distilled spirits, and also to discourage the distillation of spirits from foreign articles." Which resolution was read and agreed to. Mr. Lawrence offered the following resolution. Resolved, That the committee appointed to draft a memorial to congress be requested to notice in that instrument printed and other cotton goods in the same manner as hemp, flax, &c. Which resolution was, at the request of the mover, ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Meeteer, from the committee of finance, made report as follows: The committee appointed to devise ways and means necessary to meet the expenses incurred by this convention, ask leave to report, That the expenses of printing, door keepers, &c. which will be incurred while the convention is in session, will be about $100 Ten thousand copies of the address to the citizens of the United States, and such other documents as may be necessary to print for distribution, the committee believe will not cost less than $400 $500 No other method presents itself to the committee for raising this amount than a contribution in advance, by each delegation, equal to five dollars each member, this sum to be reimbursed by a collection in their respective states. 'The quantity of printing included in the estimate of $400, cannot now be determined, but may be so graduated as to cover the whole sum. The committee would recommend that, after paying the expenses incurred in this place, the balance be placed at the disposal of the committee for preparing the address to the citizens of the United States. The convention adjourned until 3 o'clock, P. M. The convention met. Mr. Ingersoll moved the consideration of the memorial to congress. The memorial was read and unanimously agreed to. [See the memorial below.] Mr. Lawrence moved to take up the report of the committee on printed cottons. The report was taken up and read, whereupon Mr. Lawrence moved to add to the report the following resolution-"Resolved, That it be respectfully submitted to the consideration of congress to impose adequate duties for the protection of printed and other cotton goods, by increasing the present minimum or square yard duty." Which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Mallary moved that the report as to commercial intercourse between the states, and all the documents collected by the convention, beferred to the commit. tee appointed to prepare an address to the people of the United States. Mr. Niles, from the committee to prepare an address to the people of the United States, made the following report: tainable at the present moment, and other retarding circumstances, superadded to the needful attention of the committee to the general business before the convention, have, all together, induced your committee respectfully to suggest a continuance of their appointment after the adjournment of the convention, that all things may be the more carefully considered, and the matters of fact already collected be collated and published, with such strict examinations as shall appear due to our own character and the goodness of our cause, with a proper respect for the public intelligence and that frankness and courtesy which we would extend to our opponents; some of whom have grievously mistaken our views, and depreciated their own right peaceably to assemble and petition for a redress of grievances, in the condemnation of our motives in advance of actions to shew what these motives were— if any of the reasoning and dispassionate public truly apprehended that this assemblage was improper and that the persons here met to carry into effect the will of their constituents, were capable of doing wrong to any of the people of this republic to subserve their own purposes, and of aiming at a power to act upon the consideration of the national legislature, in any other way than as a decent but decisive expression of the desires of what they believe to be a large majority of the people of the United States, should have influence over their representatives in both houses of congress, in the support of principles comprehended within what is commonly called the "imerican system." It is manifest to your committee, that the growers and manufacturers of wool are suffering great pecuniary loss and ruinous embarrassment, from the pressure of circumstances which threatens the general destruction of interests whose annual product, in sheep and manufactures of wool, would amount to the sum of fifty millions of dollars, and probably had reached that value. The committee cannot believe that these circumstances are of a temporary character. They think the time has arrived when the vast capital, exceeding eighty, and perhaps amounting to the great sum of one hundred millions of dollars, vested in or variously applied to the breeding of sheep and manufacture of woollens, will be exceedingly diminished and lost to the national wealth, and a very numerous population dependent on these branches of national industry be dispersed, if protection, by the national legislature shall be longer delayed; for it is an unquestionable fact, that many of our best and most economically conducted woollen factories are really loosing concerns; not affording even the ordinary interest obtained on capital-not earned in this business, but diverted to it from other pursuits that it might have circulation and be made useful to its possessors and the public. The committee seriously impressed with the importance of the facts suggested, (and their general accuracy cannot be denied), are exceedingly desirous that they should be laid before the public in such manner that the deep interest involved in them cannot be mistaken by an intelligent people; and they are also particularly solici tous to shew the immense loss which would be sustained which our manufactories supply, and in the increased by the agricultural interest in the want of the market competition in agricultural pursuits which would inevitably ensue were the manufacturers driven, by want of employment in the factories, to the only employment which would then be left them, that of raising their own. bread. They would also exhibit the intimate relation which exists between the growers of grain and wool and The committee to whom was referred the duty of pre- the manufacturers, and point out the vital importance of paring an address to the people of the United States, the home market, in consequence of the restricted foreign on the causes and objects of this convention, and in rela-demand, principally caused by prohibitory laws, and the tion to the subjects presented to its consideration and dis-resolution of foreign nations to protect themselves. At cussed and approved thereby, respectfully beg leave to the moment of preparing this brief report, the commitreport-That, having made some progress in the per- tee learn that, by the adoption of the duke of Wellingformance of the duty assigned, it became manifest that ton's amendment of the corn bill, the people of Great the leading purposes of their appointment could not be Britain will not be allowed, any farther than they have accomplished in a manner satisfactory to themselves, re- heretofore been, to consume our bread stuffs, though spectful to this convention and its constituents, and useful tendered without cost, the establishment of the minito the great cause of domestic industry, within the short mum and the rate of duty imposed, amounting to a geperiod during which our sittings will probably be continu-neral prohibition. We have many valuable facts to iled. The want of copies of the reports of the various com lustrate the importance of the market produced by our mittees and of a large and interesting body of statistical in- manufacturing establishments, one of which only shall be formation yet in the possession of individual members of mentioned at present as fairly representing their ordinary this convention, with reference to books and papers not at- operation. In 1823, the Great Falls company commence Which resolution was read and unanimously agreed to. Tibbits, esqs. for their early, constant and eventually useful exertions in promoting the great cause of American industry and internal improvements. ed its establishment at Somersworth, N. H. and at this! time there are between 1,400 and 1,500 persons engaged in the business of the company or subsisted by those directly employed by it; and these persons actually consented to Hezekiah Niles, Mathew Carey and George sumed in the year which ended with the first of last month, no less than 1,931 barrels of flour and 6,059 bushels of corn received from the states south of the Hudson. What has taken place at Somersworth, presents a fair sample of the close relations which bind agriculture and manufactures together-and, united, they aid and extend the commerce of the country. These and other highly interesting matters concerned with the business of other manufactures than those of woollen or cotton goods, (especially the making of iron), which demand a thorough investigation that they may be laid before the public, with information of the domestic demand which they furnish and the internal commerce between the states which they support, are well calculated to astonish those who have not reflected upon such subjects. The probable amount of flour and corn exported from the middle to the eastern states and therein consumed, is far greater than the whole quantity shipped to foreign ports; and it is confidently believed that the growth of domestic manufactures has greatly increased the tonnage of the United States, without diminishing, in the least degree, the revenue thereof, but rather tending to increase it, in the increased consumption of certain articles not the growth or product of our own country. These imposing facts, with others bearing upon or connected with them and relating to the population and wealth, the progress of happiness and real independence of this nation, must be brought into view, and, if presented correctly, will require much time and undisturbed reflection to give them the adamantine character of truth which belongs to them. The difficulty, nevertheless, of performing this great duty to our country is much augmented by the want of a home department in which should be collected and arranged information of the internal concerns of our country, a knowledge of which we regard as absolutely necessary to a correct legislation for the people of the United States. The facts, however, developed by the different committees of the convention, and the information brought into it by individual members, we have reason to believe, when brought together, will do more to demonstrate the means and resources, the wants and requirements of our country, than any other collection of facts yet offered to the public. With these general views the committee beg leave offer the following resolutions. Which report being read, Which resolution was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Williams offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted, viz: Resovled, That the thanks of this convention be tendered to William Halsted, jun. and Redwood Fisher, esqs. for the diligent and faithful discharge of the arduous duties imposed on them as secretaries to this convention. Mr. Tallmadge offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That this convention do tender their thanks to the state of Pennsylvania for the free use of the splendid Hall with which they have been accommodated during their meeting. Mr. Ingersoll offered the following resolution. Resolved, That the memorial to congress be presented to that honorable body by the president of this convenWhich resolution was unanimously agreed to. tion. Mr. Todd moved that the proceedings of this convention be signed by the president and vice presidents, and attested by the secretaries. Which was unanimously agreed to." MAN, Vice presidents. The following is the memorial to congress as it was The memorial and petition of their fellow citizens, the That the imperfections of the acts of congress intended to foster the woollen interests of these United States, totogether with the countervailing measures of the British government, have reduced that interest to need the early and effectual interposition of congress to support it. Mr. Niles then offered these resolutions: Resolved, That the committee be allowed further time to prepare an address to the public in support of the domestic industry of our country, accompanied by statistieal tables and other authentic statements, tending to elucidate the principles for which we contend-and that they be authorized to cause the publication thereof, (as their own report on behalf of this convention), so soon as it shall be possible to prepare the same in a satisfactory man ner. Forty millions of manufacturing capital, together with forty millions of farming capital, composing this great national concern, for want of adequate protection, have lost half their value. It is in the power of congress to relieve it from present distress and jeopardy, to prevent its utter ruin which is imminent, and to render it of the first importance to the general welfare of these United States. Your petitioners might present their views, in extensive considerations of the subject. Deprived by natural Resolved, That the committee shall have possession of circumstances of concerted action, and almost of comthe various reports of the several committees of this con- mon cause, in this respect the weakest interest of the vention, that they may digest, arrange and publish the facts country, your petitioners have been induced to meet tofurnished therein, so far as they shall appear necessary gether, from various distant places, for the purpose of and proper. exchanging sentiments personally, and uniting on this ocResolved, That each member of this convention, pos-casion in a petition to congress for that justice, which no sessed of statistical facts relative to the numbers and pro-doubt will be promptly dispensed, as soon as your honoraduct of sheep, of factories of all sorts, or matters relative ble bodies are convinced that the country stands in need to the valuable and rapidly increasing commerce between the states, and whatever else, in their opinion, may extend useful information to the people in regard to the products and concerns of agriculture and manufactures, be requested to reduce the same to writing, and hand them to the chairman of the committee. Which resolutions were severally read and agreed to. Mr. Bell offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the thanks of this convention be presented to the honorable Joseph Ritner, for the impartial and very able manner in which he has presided over their deliberations, and also to Jesse Buel and Frisby Tilghman, esqs. vice presidents, for their useful co-operation with the president in assisting him to discharge the duties of his station. of it. Your petitioners disclaim all sectional and merely individual views. They would not venture to approach the constituted authorities of the country with this memorial, if not satisfied that its representatives have uniformly recognized the interest in question as of primary national importance. Wherefore they respectfully but carnestly solicit your honorable bodies, to save, to protect and promote, what has uniformly been treated by government as one of the principal elements of the independence, prosperity, and greatness of this republic. Without further argument, but trusting to the wisdom and patriotism of congress to devise and enact such laws as the exigency requires, your petitioners submit themselves to your judgment, in full confidence that the re |