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Harrisburg Convention adjourned without controversy; recommended protective tariffs on imports like wool, flax, whiskey to aid manufacturers and agriculture, per Penn Intelligencer.
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The Harrisburg Convention adjourned on yesterday week. There was no cursory politics transpiring of any sort-and what is strange, the Jacksonites have not yet charged that body with corrupt proceedings of any kind. We hear the acute apprehensions of the Editors of the Enquirer are relieved. -The following is a statement of the duties recommended by this body, extracted from the Penn Intelligencer.
This is stated as a statement of the duties, which in the amount opiaa of the convention, after several deliberations, ought to be placed upon merchandize and wholesales, by the next congress. We have it in the era of distress, met the population of both the growers and manufacturers. That all, however present they, together ensued a considerable number, all look in it rare in the basis of the opposing declaring our intelligence and reference. We have therefore every idea, that those rates of duties are called for by the depressed state of trade and will be the means, if adopted by congress, of going to that pursuit. Health and energy, the country clothing from brown work shops, and a market here against cultural interest of many millions of dollars and literal yet. In the meantime it has not alone these: the adoption will improve the condition of all every other pursuit. In the manufacturer good, it will be an increase now, from in nation and to the mechanic and manufacturer more employment. It will be perceived by the proceedings that other interests were not overlooked. Resolutions favour of pom flax whiskey, no manufacture steel, copper and glass, were offered and unanimously passed, after discussion. On raw wool, costing over eight cents in a foreign currency, a duty of twenty cents per pound to be increased annually, two and a half cents per pound, till it reaches fifty cents per pound. 2. All goods composed of wool, or of which woolen yam a chief part (except blankets, baize, raglan, mitts, gloves, &c., and beddings, costing not more than five cents per square yard) to be taken and deemed to have cost five cents per square yard, and forty per cent ad valorem until the 1st June, 1830, forty percent until 1830, and forty five percent all after thereafter. 3. All goods composed of wool or of which wool is chief part (except as aforesaid) costing in a foreign country, over five cents, and not exceeding two dollars fifty cents per square yard - to be taken, and deemed to have cost two dollars fifty cents per square yard, and the duty charged as in the preceding sec. 4. All goods composed of wool, or of which wool is a component part (except as aforesaid) costing in a foreign country, more than two dollars and fifty cents, and not exceeding four dollars per square yard, to be appraised and taken to have cost three dollars per square yard, and the duty charged as in the second section. 5. All cloths composed of wool, or of which wool taken one chief part (except as usual) costing more than four and not exceeding six, per square yard to be deemed and taken to have cost six per square yard, and the duty to be charged as in the second section. 6. All goods composed of wool or of which wool is a component part, (except as aforesaid,) which shall cost in foreign country not more than $6 per square yard to be charged as in the second section. 7. The adequate protection of woolen blankets, is respectfully submitted to congress, so as to secure their manufacture in the United States. 8. It is respectfully submitted to Congress, American manufacturers are believed to be seriously injured by the frauds on the revenue, by which... *90**
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The Harrisburg Convention adjourned without politics transpiring or charges of corruption from Jacksonites. It recommended duties on merchandise including flax whiskey, raw wool at twenty cents per pound increasing to fifty cents, woolen goods at forty percent until 1830 then forty-five percent, with specific valuations and protections for woolen blankets and manufacturers against revenue frauds.