The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-01-15

piece over the signature of .4ntitar!f.
There is no rule better established. respecting
the disposition OF every office, in which the
publick are concerned than this, dei,1r dir
niori. LID. KRNycS
1t is quite time TO distinguish between the
voice OF the people and the voice of dema-
gogues. II is quite time TO adopt President
Monroe's motto, ''priacipia non hcnai,les.n 1t
Is time to deliberate, 10 look with our own
eyes, canvass for ourselves, exercise the yoli-
lions OF ireemen, cease to be automatons, and
give our snhrages for the man best qualified to
serve ms constituents and his country. 1t is not
obligatory on the free citizen of this Repub-
hex to rally round candidate of merely neg
atlye character; or because he is a federalist:
nor ought he to be satisfied with the oual6ca-
ton OF common integrity and inoffensivs, man
ners, when these constitute the chief furniture
OF the mau. Nor is it enough that the ere
de'ldd, the political faith of the candidate. be
unexceptionable. TO extensive and various
intelligence, he should unite enterprise, affa-
ollity, an easy and digniied address, respecta-
bic arsumentative and rhetorical powers ; and
by ms winning conversation, candid and liber-
al views, together with the pursuit of a lust
ana maSnanmous policy, do something to ex-
alt the state Of Massachusetts, and dissipate
the utounded preludices Of the members Of the
southern and western States. But when a
man OF TINS tame cast and low graduation, be-
comes speculatlveIy wrong, why should he be
supported TO the exclusion Of those whose
creeds are orthodox, and whose exhibitions. at
washington, IN the private circle, in select
committees and in Congress hall, would. in
every respect, be more engaging, able, and in
huential! To send an aged man to Coneres,
who is yet in the horn-boolx of political sci.
ehce, though he may have many private viz
tues, must be preposterous and still much
more SO, IT he has imbibed capital errours in
the first rudments, and has learnt to place n
before in his alphabet. Every man, | be-
Heve, who takes common sense view of tho
Leading interests of this country, will say, Ac-
rculture Is the basis OF the whole. Commerce
stands next in time and Importance but still
Is dependent on, and subordinate to the funda-
mental interest. Manufactures are the legti-
mate offspring of Agriculture and Commerce.
and ought to be viewed as ulteriour in exist
ence and consequence, and he held in subser-
vlency TO the former, as children 20 their par
ehts. Then what perversiob, that Aericul-
lure sh" I'D become tributary to Manufactures,
and the very order Of nature and Justice
should be inverted
he independent yeomanry of the County
OF Worcester, the lords of the soil, by which
al other interests and professions are sustained.
viii be " solicitousn and s have personal pre-
objections in this AFFAIR." They owe ii to
themselves, they owe it to morality, to see to
It, that the manufacturing interest is not nour-
ished and, pampered with the vital blood of
Agriculture Cast your eyes, fellow electors,
over The Congressional District, and find
nj iahr
pure heart, and whose vision is not bleared bv
Wool and Cotton-one who would not compel
you to mortgage and sell the very land on
which you reared your flocks to purchase the
cloths made out of your fleeces but one who,
graduates things on the scale of truth and
equity; and, while he fosters all the leading
interests of bis country, will not suffer the
least important of them all to predominant.
and, by tariffs and expressions, destroy the
very root OF all our private and publick PROS
perity. Find such man, and him Is the peo-
pie will delight to honour,
ANTITARIFF.
We regret TO hear language held, so UNI
warranted by facts, and so adapted to create
III blood. Every person who has opportunity
to make observation, sees that the " manufac-
turing Interest,"" in our country, i.pigorutes
the vital blood of Agriculture. INQUIRE
OF the farmers in manufacturing towns, and
1t will be found that they obtain ready sale
for the produce of their farms, at the highest
prices.
Whether the proposed amendments of the
Tariff were or were not expedient, is ques-
ton of political economy, upon which the
greatest men in the country hold opposite O.
pinlons, and about which, therefore, it is to
be expected men of less capacity will differ.
But to use haunting language towards and
concerning large class of citizens, (whose
prosperity, like that of other classes, is inti-
mately connected with the prosperity Of every
other,) is altogether gratuitous, and seems to
us to be exceedingly imprudent. 1t is exciting
dangerous politicaljealousy where none ought
to exist.
The adjustment Of the Tariff of duties upon
imports is grave and difficult, aud quite
different subject of discussion. We have no
faith in the wisdom of those who profess to UNI
derstand it by intuition. Those who do un-
derstand it, are bound (if they connect it with
the discussions Of an election,) to impart their
knowledge to the people. For ourselves, we
are not ashamed to avow that we have not
that intimate knowledge of the commerce of
the country, which would enable us to decide,
of hand, that this or that particular duty is