Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-05-11

would come the means of paying the manu-.
iactnrer FOR his goods, if the growers Of the
exports of the country are to be stripped Of
fair prices for their productions To South
America, they would look in vain The con
diton-the policy of that country is yet con
tingent, and uncertain. But the great diff
Guilty with that country would be--that upon
the return IT peace in settled state of things,
| South America would not want any of the
| exports of the U. States, whilst Europe would
want them all. when the Bank of the United
States wanted specie capital, where did the
Bank send for il ? Not to South America ;
but To London. These, and many other de-
structive effects of the Tariff bill, must be OBJ
vIous, 1t appears to me, to the most common
| observer; but the best faculties of the human
mind would only feel their own inipOtency in
the attempt 10 anticipate all its destructive
effects. In no one instance in human affairs,
is the folly of human wisdom rendered more
conspicuous, than IN the attempt to foresee
all the consequences of great political Schemes
and changes.
When Constantine, at the Council of Nice;
| seated himself nj the feet Of the Clergy, little
did he think, by that act of affected conde-
| scension, for he was not then baptized, that
he should tantalise great portion of mankind,
for above ten centuries.
/ L
bioody crusades to meek and lowIy Chris
tians, little did they think, they were raising
| up chivalrous, gallant military spirit, which
was destined tn shake the adamantine Papal
| throne itself to its foundations.
When the Virgin Queen was indulging bne
momentary feeling of humanity, little did she
think, that she was preparing the means for
cooping up one-eighth* of the whole Eng
lsh population into poor houses 10 The year
1924 and which might, at some future day.
shake the whole fabric of the British consii.
| tuition To its centre.
When William the Sd established bank,
and funded only s 80, 900 of public debt, little
did he think, that he was laying the FONDA
fiOn of Il debt of above & SOC, 600 900 4: and
thereby crushing posterity with its ponderous
weight; and little did he think, that he was
afiording the means for raisnsa standing army
of 10000 men; and navy still more coios-
salt
When the trainers Of our constitution, with
the most patriotic holy zral, were carefully
| looking out for definite, technical terms, TO be
USED In It's formation, as bulwaris against the
encroachments of power, little did they think,
| that all their thrice ha!lowed cares and labors
| would so soon be set a, naughi, by new con-
gressional lexicographyt
When Mr.. Hamilton was proipctins the
Bank of the United States, little did he think,
that he was creating the prolific mother of
four hundred children; many of them both
deformed and decrepid. And liill., did he
think, that he was throwing back upon Eu-
rope, and driving to India, the golden show
ers, which the desolaiing European wars
were pouring down upon the U. States
When Napoleon, in splendid triumph, with
emhatiled Europe at his heels. WAS marching
upon Moscow, little did he think, he was pre-
parlng the means for reseaing the Bourbons
upon the throne nj France and for digging
his own grave in st. Helena there Ia br bu-
| ried, with all the ,ile coninmelions insults of
the savage Sir Hudson Lowe, heaped upon
his own head
When he Kentucky relief schemers, were
au'horising about forty banks, To issue bank
bills, AS a currency fer the state, and for the
relief"f the Kentucky people, little did they
thihk, OF how much more value, were the
morals OF The Kentucky people to them elves
than the exemption from The whole amount
OF their debts. little did they think thai.
the exemption of the debtor from any part of
his just obligation 10 his creditor, would de-
rnoralise society, and strip il of all CONNER
cial credit abroad. Litlle, very little did they
think; that IN less than three years from: the
PERIOD OF the adoption of the relief schemes,
mental jubilee would be- felt ihrouc huu,
Kentucky, UPON EVERY NEWSPAPER ASvuN-
cIATtoN OF AN "auto de Je"--.oF THE VERY
BANK ELLIS, WHICH, so SHORTLY BEFORE
WERE HAILED WITH DEtInInUs Joy, BI
GREAT PORTION OF THE KENTuCKY PEOPLE
AS THE BELOVED, tAND PROMISED iNsrRu-
MENTs OF RELIEF FROM ALL THEIR CARES,
AND TROUBLES.