IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL 26, 1820.

[ON the twenty-second of March, Mr. Baldwin, of Pennsylvania,

from the committee on manufactures, reported a tariff bill,

embracing provisions of great importance, particularly as a

measure of protection to home industry, and the same being under

consideration in committee of the whole, Mr. Clay (speaker)

renewed his efforts in support of the American system, in the

following speech. The bill passed the house by a vote of ninety

to sixty-nine, but was postponed in the senate twenty-two to

twenty-one.]