Sugar Planters & Manufactures: 1842. Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Date: Jan. 1998



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Source: Louisiana State Courier October 1984
Compiled by Annette Carpenter Womack, editor
Typed by: Gaytha Carver Thompson



27th Congress
2nd Session

SENATE

MEMORIAL of A NUMBER OF PLANTERS AND SUGAR MANUFACTURES IN THE STATE OF
LOUISIANA,

PRAYING

An increase of the duties on imported sugar.

JUNE 23, 1842
Referred to the Committee on Printing,
JUNE 24, 1842
Ordered to be printed

To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
in Congress assembled:

The undersigned, planters and sugar manufactures of the State of Louisiana,
beg respectfully to state:

That it is only after losses have reached their height, that events have
proved that, under the practical operation of the compromise bill our
agriculture and our commerce, as well as our manufacturing interest are not
only paralyzed, but brought to the very verge of absolute ruin.  That they
approach the representatives of the nation, in Congress assembled, earnestly
to pray them to come to the relief of an industry involving an outlay of
capital of $52,000,000, the destruction of which, be causing a national loss
to an extent beyond calculation, would lead to expropriation of almost every
planter connected with it.

That against the theories, discarding discriminating duties intended to foster
home labor, which have brought every department of our Government into
disrepute   which have made, with few exceptions, every mechanic, every
manufacture, very merchant, every farmer, every corporation, in our once happy
Union, a bankrupt   and which at length, after long struggle, are shaking our
Government itself to its very foundation the undersigned beg most respectfully
to oppose the authority of one our ablest and most honored statesmen.

In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was one of the most ardent and strenuous advocates
of free trade; his opinions, in 1816, were as follows (Niles Register, vol.
10; page 25   letter to Benjamin Austin)

Compare the present state of things with that of '85, and say whether an
opinion, founded in the circumstances of that day, can be fairly applied to
those present.  We have experienced what we then did not believe, that there
exist both profligacy and power to exclude us from the field of interchange
with other nations; that to be independent for the comforts of life we must
fabricate them ourselves.  We must now place the manufacturer by the side of
the agriculturist.  The former question is nothing short of three cents duty
on raw sugars, and other qualities in proportion, can avert the calamity about
visiting every sugar planter of Louisiana, and to add that, even setting aside
all other considerations, the sugar interest having grown under the revenue
tariff of 1816, and under that tariff millions and millions of dollars having
been permanently invested in works which can not be destroyed without the most
ruinous consequences to the parties who have embarked their fortunes in the,
it is but sheer justice to them that the same duty of 1816 should be continued
so long as a revenue is required to carry on the Government, and it is derived
from the same source.

All which is respectfully submitted.

Parish of Iberville

Achille Sigur
A Sigur, Jr.
Jno. Andrews
D. G. Heath
Henry Tennent
John R. Thompson
W. W. Montgomery
F. Lauve
N. Lauve
Wm. C. Adams
J. Achillehibert
John Nary
Paul Hebert
Robert Sewall
V. P. M. Lambimort
R. Bongere
V. S. Bangmon
H. Geo. Doyle
N. Cropper
Julia Cropper
T. A. Sigur
H. L. Vaughan