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may be in our power to giv^e ; exercising all due care to keep within 

 the limits of rigid truth. 



13. Resolved, That we rejoice in the liberal protection designed 

 to be given to the silk business in the new tariff; and in the fact, 

 that this section of the bill excited no opposition from any quarter of 

 the country, we have a pledge that the policy now established will 

 remain undisturbed, and that such amendments as experience has 

 already shown, or shall hereafter show, to be necessary, will be 

 readily secured ; and further, inasmuch as our Congress has never 

 imposed discriminating duties except in favor of such products as 

 may be brought forth from our own fields and workshops, this act 

 is only the expressed opinion of the intelligent body that passed it, 

 that our country can as well make its own silks as its cottons and 

 woollens, its hats and its shoes, its ploughs, its nails, and its axes. 



Whereas, The present tariff prescribes a duty of fifty cents on 

 the pound of raw silk, or silk in the gum, and a higher duty on 

 sewings, and other manufactured silks ; and whereas we are fully in- 

 formed that sewings and other silks can be and are imported nearly 

 ready for the market, and yet retaining the gum, coming in under 

 this low duty; Therefore, 



14. Resolved^ That we consider this a manifest, and a gross inva- 

 sion of the law designed to aid the American manufacturer 



15. Resolved, That Gen. James Tallmadge, J. R. Barbour, John 

 W. Gill, Gideon B. Smith, Horace Pitkin and J. Danforth, be a com- 

 mittee to claim of the Secretary of the Treasury the prompt correc- 

 tion of this abuse; and, in case it should become necessary, that 

 they lay the subject before Congress at the early part of its ap- 

 proaching session. 



Whereas, From the returns made to the convention, it appears 

 there has been a large increase in the quantity of cocoons raised in 

 the country the present season, especially at the west and the souih- 

 west, so large as to give just grounds to fear that many will be lost 

 for the want of being timely and suitably reeled; Therefore, 



16. Resolved, That the early and earnest attention of the friends 

 of the silk cause be directed to family reeling, and to the establish- 

 ment of filatures for purchasing and reeling cocoons, in different lo- 

 calities where they are now urgently needed ; and that the Legisla- 

 tures of the several States be requested to grant liberal bounties to 

 encourage this important and essential part of the general business — 

 reeling silk in a manner suitable for all the varieties of silk goods. 



17. Resolved, That this convention are exceedingly oratified in 

 witnessing, as they do on this occasion, such a rich variety of co- 

 coons, raw silks, sewings, twists, braids, gimps, cords, ribands, 

 handkerchiefs, cravats, hosiery, laces, flowered tissues and brocades, 

 in great variety for vestings, plain and flowered lustrings, and many 

 other kinds of dress silks, velvets, satins, serges, armozines, and other 

 silk goods, grown upon our own soils, and under our own brilliant 

 skies, and manufactured by the skill of our own citizens. 



IS. Resolved, That our manufacturers, and other business men, 

 have now every reasonable encouragement to invest, in a wise and 



