Mr. BOUTWELL. I fear there is some misapprehension as to the opinions of NewEng and, and as I may not have another opportunity to say a word, if the Gentfrom Ohio will indulge me for a moment, I will say now that although I have no authority to speak for NewEngland or for Massachusetts as a whole, I think I am able to comprehend the general idea of the people. I think it is this: that they are in favor of protection as the general policy of the country, not protection to manufactures or to commerce or to the me chanic arts mercly, butto agriculture also. It is a policy by which they have lived and pros pered, and they are likely to remain in the support of that policy under all circumstances. If there is any difficulty today in NewEng land in reference to this bill it is not, I think I may say, in consequence of any particular interests which they think are fostered elsewhere at the expense of NewEngland. Nor is it because they think that in this bill, as a whole, NewEngland interests are not sufficiently protected. But NewEngland, as the gentleman well knows, had a long and, during some periods of its progress, a bitter warfare with other sections of the country in reference to protection to domestic industry. fIap rehcnd the sentiments and the purposes oft e people of NewEngland, they are not anxious to continue a contest of that sort. While they mean to maintain the principle and the policy of protection with reference to their own interests, with reference to the interests of the whole country, what they ask of congress and of the country is a protective system which shall not only protect the interests of NewEngland, but shall so protect all the interests of the country as to commend itself generallylto the whole country. The difficulty in New ‘ngland today is, then, not with ref erence to this bill but it is from this circumstance: that in other sections of the country, and particular] in the great West, with which NewEngland desires to be in accord upon this rent subject of protection, there appears to be determined hostility to this bill. '.lhis is the aspect, as I understand, it on which NewEng land presents herself to ‘ongress and to the country in reference to the bill now under consideration. I