614 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



General Jackson, in 1824, wrote: 



"It is time we should become a little more American- 

 ized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of 

 England, feed our own." 



Mr. Adams, in 1832, said: 



"And thus the very first act of the organized Con- 

 gress, united with the law of self-preservation, by the 

 support of the government just instituted, the two objects 

 combined in the first grant of power to Congress; the 

 payment of the public debts and the provision for the 

 common defense by the protection of manufactures. The 

 next act was precisely of the same character: an act of 

 protection to manufactures still more than of taxation for 

 revenue. ' J 



Daniel Webster, in 1833, said: 



' ' The protection of American labor against the injur- 

 ious competition of foreign labor, so far, at least, as respects 

 general handicraft productions, is known, historically, to 

 have been one, and designed to be obtained by establishing 

 the constitution; and this object, and the constitutional 

 power to accomplish it, ought never to be surrendered or 

 compromised in any degree." 



We desire to be distinctly understood, that we do not 

 make the above quotations from these eminent authorities 

 for the purpose of apologizing or in any way tolerating the 

 present iniquitous system of our tariff laws; but only to 

 sustain the old adage, u self preservation is the first law of 

 nature ; ' ' and to impress upon the mind of our readers 

 that the interest of American labor is as intimately con- 

 nected with a just and equitable revision of our present 

 tariff laws as that of the manufacturers; and, that this 

 sentiment is concurred in by the able authorities above 

 quoted. The many evils growing out of the system are not 



