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Daniel Webster And Joshua Leavitt

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
June
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Webster proposes to give np prolection of our Iron, Woolen, and Cotton Manufactures, (if we understand his fiallimore speech,) proiJed Englund will receive the productions of ave labor, cotton, rice, ond tobáceo, on easy erms: and as a polvo íbr the Noríh and YVe.t, ie says, you miy just Uirovv in your Lidian cora at a nominal duty - coni that wou Id not ear carriage to any foreign country! Joshua Leavitt's famous wlieat nieuiorial, n the ollicr hand, proposes that our Wheat, Hour, Purk, Lard, and other productions oí' e eartli, viz., bread and meat, ehall be reeived by Great Briiuin, dulyfrve; and in reurn ihat we will limit our tax upou lirilish nanufactures to twenty per cent., (aboui the fferenceia Jreigkl, in proponion to valué) udlhusmuke the ndvantages tqual to both ountries. Senator Tappan (denounced by je VVIiigs, as an tarín" Locofoco,) emraced Leavitt's commercial treaty report, had ie memorial printe ', and was prep-ued to re;on and deíejid a bilí of this detcriplion. - Yet Tappan, if e believe í he Whigs, is n w wages Anti-American Loco, and Daniel Webster, is a pitriolic high protective Whig! Alas, tbr party ñames! Our lariff papers are jenerally copjing VVt'bster's speech, while hat ma6ter-piece of lobular ingenuily, Leavitt's wheat memorial, remanís unpubhshed by them, to thisday. So much for the

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Signal of Liberty
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