Phenix Gazette

From the Albany Daily Advertiser

MEETING AT THE CAPITOL.

The meeting held yesterday at the capitol, to choose delegates to attend the State Convention or the appointment of delegates to attend at Harrisburg on the 30th inst. to devise measures for the encouragement of domestic manufactures and wool growers, was respectably attended. The meeting was addressed by J. S. Van Rensselaer, S. M. Hopkins, M. Van Buren and Chandler Starr. The two first and the last gentleman urged the objects proposed upon the broad ground of national policy. Mr. Van Buren spoke at great length in explanation of the proceedings had at the last session of Congress upon the woollens bill, particularly his own votes, and avowed himself in favor of the objects of the meeting, if they could be come at by a reconciliation of discordant views. We shall not attempt to give an outline of his speech till it appears in his Argus, as it will doubtless appear there. Suffice it to say, the speaker made quite an ingenious oration, and concluded by warning against making the subject a party question.

In reply Mr. Starr said he did not wish to make the subject a matter of party controversy; but he could assure the gentleman that it would be a sectional one, as those parts of the Union interested in the prosperity of manufactures and agriculture would make a simultaneous effort to attain their object.

The resolutions, which were submitted by Mr. Hopkins, were unanimously adopted by the meeting.

At a meeting of the Farmers, Wool Growers, and Friends of the American system, of the county of Albany, held agreeable to public notice, at the capitol in the city of Albany, on the 10th day of July, 1827, Stephen Van Rensselaer, was called to the chair, and J. Buel, appointed secretary. The following resolutions were adopted.

Resolved, That meetings of the people in their individual capacities, or in assemblies of delegates, to consult upon matters of general interest, to address the public and the legislatures by temperate statements of facts and arguments, and to bring the just weight of their opinions and interests to bear upon the national councils, are no more than a reasonable and salutary exercise of an unquestioned right, and that in accordance with these principles, this meeting cordially approves of the proposed convention at Harrisburg.

Resolved, That the laws of Congress have from the first, assumed the principle that revenue is so to be levied as shall most encourage or least impede the various branches of commerce and of internal industry; that this principle may be, and ought to be, carried out to a more full and extended application; and that to enact laws in disregard of it, would be an undue exercise of power.

Resolved, That the laws of the United States which have tended to protect our interests of navigation, manufactures, farming and planting, against the exclusions, monopolies, restrictions and bounties of other nations, have been one main source of whatever prosperity this country has enjoyed; and that in every instance where the protection has been efficient and complete, the result has been beneficial, not to a part only, but to the whole community.

Resolved, That the exclusion of the principal agricultural products of most of the states from the markets of the nations whose manufactures we receive, operates most oppressively upon our interests, and subjects us to a disadvantage in trade, which has seldom been experienced by any well governed nation; that it calls loudly for a remedy, and that remedy is the protection of our own manufactures, and a contemporaneous protection to the growers of American wool.

Resolved, That Ambrose Spencer, Jesse Buel, Samuel M. Hopkins, Benjamin Knower, Rufus Watson, Stephen Willis, and John H. Burchans, be appointed Delegates to attend the state Convention to be held at the capitol on the sixteenth day of July inst.

S. VAN RENSSELAER, Chairman.

J. BUEL, Secretary.