Show I 1 WAS IVAS THU OIA SOUTH SED in BV protection great is the power of steady misrepresentation said charles darwin it has been so often said that the chith Ci uth ith was wronged by protection that some have believed it but a passable school history and even the poorest encyclopedia should prove the contrary in virgina had seven names on the declaration cl ot of independence new york boric had tour four massachusetts four connecticut tour four new hampshire three rhode island two virgina was tho the loading leading state of 0 the union and of our first six presidents she gave us four the tariff system it is true be gan as early as 1789 but with madison to introduce the bill and washington to sign it we can hardly believe that it was a cruel blow to tho the south we had measures favorable to pro lection in jeffersons time ills his embargo forbidding all foreign trade did injure some ot of the planters but was less hurtful to them than it was to the shipping interests ot of new eng land there were new englanders who so resented the measure as to talk ot of disunion but there was no such talk in the south burr was nu no southern man madison followed his chief ile ho and monroe both of whom urged protection were men of national in mind ind no one accuses them ot of unduly inin favoring the south but th they ey certainly would not have urged pro lection had they thought it injurious to the south in matisons Madi sons s time there arose an orator whose speeches tor for protection were quoted everywhere a man so eloquent and logical that lie he seemed unanswerable ills his name was john C calhoun and he lived in south carolina ile he believed that the south would develop great manufacturing fac turing capacity his later views do not now concern us when he argued so powerfully tor for protection lie he certainly thought that the south would get a fair shae sha e ot of the dividends can anyone believe other 1 wise let us add that in 1924 andrew jackson said that it if six hundred thousand persons were withdrawn from agriculture and employed in manufacturing that would give us a larger market for foodstuffs than all europe gave us jackson was a tennessee planter he had been byln a merchant he had practiced law in south ern courts his military exploits had been in defense of the south from indians on the war path and from soldiers bound for new 1 leans jackson must have believed that some ol of the factories would be on southern soil paying wages to southern operatives and buying southern products it Is out of 0 the question to suppose that he be in a year that swung hopes of 0 the pros denoy dency before his eyes would advocate a measure which ho he believed to bo be hurtful to the south dut but by this time the south was divided A strong and growing party held that protection would build up the northern states when tree free labor prevailed and that the slave labo section would fall all behind in the race calhoun before long joined this element and right or wrong lie ho always spoke persuasively whatever Wha teve he said carried weight because lie he said it in an evil hour for the south the democrats chose calhoun rathe than jefferson jackson or denton benton for or their leader still in saying this we should keep in mind that the great whig leader was henry clay of 0 kentucky in Ren kentucky tucky in virgina Vir giua in north carolina caolina in louisiana everywhere in the south clay had a strong colloy ing there were planters ban bankers k era r cei chants enchants ship owners who declared that he was the greatest statesman fo his time for years ho he had plenty 0 of southerners to agree with him that protection was essential to national lonal prosperity when we read that the tariff ot of 1842 plundered the south it should be said that john tyler ot of virginia was tho the president rho signed it this is not saying that he did it with delight tar far from it f but he cannot have looked on the measure as ono one ol of wholesale spoliation ol of southern estates zachary taylor the whig elected in 1848 was a planter who chose chase tor for secretary ot of the trea lury william 1 M am meredith a protect Prot crt onist from the keystone state one of his Loul louisana saia friends like him a protectionist vas a the father 0 of the latt chief justice white taylor he did not net succeed in repealing the low tariff of 1816 earnestly desired to repeal it ile he was a genuine protectionist broad enough to favor the admission of california as aa a tree free state but certainly not eager to do harm to the south there were tariff men in louisiana years ater rough and ready was gone before lincoln we choso chose for pro si dents washington jefferson mad ison monroe jackson harrison arrison II polk and taylor all from the south john adams and his son soil came from roin Massac hetts van buren pierce and Du buchanan chanan aero elected because th south wanted thorn them at what th kimt prior to 1860 could a tariff liotis li hostile otil to the south have been enacted enact sd when was tho the south bound gagged and prostrate anywhere from 1930 to 1860 ono one may find southern speeches declaring that protection oppressed the south but these always meant that free labor was more edi clent thau than slave labor where are the facts when was the south a helpless victim when was she the prey of protectionist profiteers the south gave us or chose for us alt all our antebellum ante bellum bollum democratic presidents the whigs elected to the presidency were harrison and taylor both natives of virginia the first republican candidate was john C fremont born on southern soil and son in law of thomas 11 II deil bep ton was the south up to isco eked about like a football in oil supreme court the chief justices fr trad 1861 to 1864 were john Marshi 11 and roger G B tancy the south was not without representation I 1 the american economist |