Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-01-06

o! Europe in exchange for cur agricui.
iural products, duriHg long succession
al yeas, While the markets Vt the w0rld
have BEEN ppen TO them, and at prices
rrcNamplcd IN The annals of commerce
and whatever advantages We may have
derived from The operations aud employ.
mcmts incideni 10 such exchanges, | feel
no hesitation IN pronouncing an opinion
thai period has arrived when but a
single alternative is left to nur choice,
VIZ: either TO retire voluntarily from a
a.ition Of our former pursuits, while onr
di,posab.e means are worth preserving,
aud While the industry AVID enterprise Ut
the country shall yet possess ,igor and
animation, (already very much impaired, }
az be drives from them, at no remote
period, by the force of necessity. with
our means exhausted, aud The sp,ris Of
the cnnn'ry depressed by a conlcmpla.
lion III The unfortunate contrast bci~ cen
our then condition and that from WHICH
we shall hut recently have fallen. Aud,
sir, when We contemplate that The Zap.
pincss and pfosperit, oil the people are
undeuiablY The fleets al judIt i0us aud
wls" administration OF The government,
and thai by an iDjudicious administration
directly the opposite effects viii be pro-
duced aud when VT also consider that
our institutions, which are the pride OF
freemen Throughout the world, have no
other support, and can have 10 other,
than The affections of the people for whom
they were ordained and established, are
we not called upon TO employ our best
efforts 10 prevent such a state of des-
pODdency as may exiinguish, all lee lngs
for the government but those OF cold ia
difference And is there not some dan
ger that, should We continue TO : shape
our measures 10 the maxim Of "lelting
things alone" and that, toe, while other
nations are pressing upon us with their
Germ laws, and their ether prohibitions
aud restrictions in one hand. and their
bounties and premiums in The other, a
state Ofpnblic feeling NAV be produced
ahic h shall cause the ph,ian,hrupists uni.
versaliy 10 aeep for the danger to wilC Ii
Gus Institutions shall be expnsed?
IL Is universally admitted, so far as my
inlormailon ex,enhs, that. b. the ac,s ut
government What they may, the period
viii come day arrive, when thus country
will cease 10 took 10 Europe, or elsewhere
Tor lis mosl meedlui manufactures ana
che g'eai difference of opinion which ma.
sh uld, '.y It's measures, accelerate the
ARRIVAL If Hat period OF li,ther il should
hot rather" let things alone :" and leav,
10 chance nr the force If necessity, tie &c.
compHskm'nt Of tint great national Object
We's we nation having no intercourse
:. III the msiofiie ORD Ill woul tainly
he my policy To :" lei things alone ;" aad
would nav IN so, wiili' regard 10 Tie in
L,
try of The citizens. Bui, Wide | would
do this, Iwou!i en,leavor that they should
also be ki alone" by The peGp!e and
governments OF other countries. Moth
Ing 10 me appear mere uBwise, ihan for
this country can be permanently pronoi-
ed by "a course of measures which shall
have been adopted without any regard
t. ,he condition or policy OF other coun.
i'lcs. And gentlemen will permit me IA
enquire, hrw long. III their opinion, the
'' star Spare!ed banner" would WATT rium
phantiy "pom The mighty deep, should the
gorernnlent " let u alone 2"
have no desire. sic, TO see mannfac
lures forced into exisienc. by tie acls of
ihr government ar otherwise; but de-
sire most sincerely. la see such measures
adopted az shall gently iurite our national
resources TO be forth coming IL, the form
of manufactures, 10 the full extent Of The
real ~anis at The country {; aud, cnnse'
quruliy, sufficient To place us beyond The
reach 1f those pressures 10 which other
wise, we must ALWAYS b. exposed, on the
occurrence OF war, or other interruptions
of commerce which shalt give smcl, vigo
TOns activity 10 cur national eBterprize
ami industry, rs shall OF itself maxi an
American citizen proud OF his country ;
aud form The basis OF new and lasting al.
iachmebtS 10 our institutions; and which.
finally, will afford some protection a.
gainst that kind nftoreigninHuenc which,
through the magic otfash'on, puts all The
tallrs. milllners, and man,uamakers in
reqnisiion, on the arrival OF a ship from
Europe or the Indirs; an influence, tie
Suppression 81 which .oGld form new
and honorable trait in our character, and
d'ffuse proud rational feeling through
out the community.
aoprebeud il will be universally con
,"ie'i, tina, prohibitions on the import
0i disIi:!"! spirits and malt liquors, would
g'"a'ly promote The agricultural, an!
sibscrve The general inter. sis of The conn-
try and that no essential interests would
ma erially suffer, should such preinbilon
BIZ made 10 take effect at an early period.
While, then, would propose that L
prohibition should not 'ake effect upon
manufactured articles, till time shall have
been allowed TO bring ouy establishments
to a suitable degree Of maturity, and en-
able the great interests of tile country
to accommodate themselves 10 THE
chang. and Oh" government 10 organ
ize its finances, | would exclude spirits
and msii liquor at tbe Termination Of
a period barely sufficient TO give effect
o. a system thar should bring into The
Treasury, from domestic liquors, a
rvrnue equal al Last TO what j. now de-.
rived from foreign. Aud in the mean
lime, instead OF general modification
81 the tariff. "a suggested at The last sea-