Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-05-08
FROM THE ENQUIRER.
No. 1.

The Tariff ocheners tell us, by way
of commendation to the bill and con.
ISOLATION to ourselves: that the tariff bill
is also borrowed from g. Britain. The
Funding and Backing Schemes have
been borrowed, and now the monpoliz.
lng, manufacturing scheme is proposed
to be borrowed. would respectfully
ask the Tariff schemers, what other
scheme, the British Government bath
left to lend? know Of none worth the
imitation Of these gentlemen except
her colonizing, aud contributary sys
TENS. The contributory system, | DO.
iieve, is brought to higher state Ct
perfection in g. B. than in any other
country in the world mean by the
contributory system, the art of getting
money out of the pockets Of the many,
and putting it in. the pockets Of the
few. In G. B. this art has arrived to
perfect consummation--Id do not know
whether the Tariff schemers have ever
thought of il; but | will now remind
them, that in borrowing the funding.
banking, and manufacturing schemes,
the contributory sytem, is consequent
ly borrowed with them. TIE contribu-
tory systsm is 40 essential appenda re
to the borrowed schemes. 1t affords
the means which are Indispensable to
their execution. l would ask them, in
what the actual difference between The
govern .nent of the U S. and that of G..
b. will consist, after the practical adj
min,.Iration of the one shall be borrow.
ed from the practical administration of
the other? would ask them, what
has become of all their own lofty politi-
cal pretentions heretofore assun.edp
What has become of The snblima,ed doc
trine of mans capacity to govern HIM
self? What Of the Nominations of the
whole world by the brilliancy of our
own political inventions? What Of the
promised amelioration Of the degraded
political condition of man throughout
the whole world? What of q thousand
other illuminations from the wonder
full inventions of our own Fundamental
laws? would most emphsticslly ask,
are these humble intimators, the same
aspiring, chivalrous knights, who, only
one little month before, mounted each
upon his hobby, armed capapie, resolv-
ed to take the Grand Tork by the
hand in defiance of all the legitimates
Of Europe!! Forbid it common sense !
Forbid 1t, on consistency! Under
what circumstances too, are these des-
tructive schemes to be rrahferred
from the one government, & transfused
into the other3 Can the justification
be found in any analogy, between eth
er the objects, or the conditions Of the
two governments? The object Of the
British government is to legislate for
the benefit of the few. The whole
number Of the receivers of the contri.
buttons in G B. is less than the whole
number of paupers COPIED up in poor
houses. The U. 8. profess to legislate
for the benefit of the many; or in other
words to do justice to all. This is all
that ever is desired by the many, or
could ever be for their benefit. Justice
is the only righteous object Of all legi-
innate governments. The condition
too of the two countries in relation to
the foundation of the tariff scheme, is
directly contrasted. G. B. imports
breadstutf.--the U. S. export bread
stuffs. 10 any analogy to be found here?
1t is upon this circumstance in the con-
dition Of 9 b. that her whole monopo
Using scheme is bottomed. 10 conse-
quence of requiring more breads;ufls
for her own internal consum ptions, in
years of ordinary production, than
her agriculture produces she is enabled
TO lay the foundation of her monupolis
ing system in agriculture; and she has
accordingly done it. Her first object
in her monopoIising system was. the en-.
couragemeDt of agriculture. For that
purpose she has prohibited the intro.
duction of foreign grain until the price
Of wheat in g. Is. shall be so shilliugs
sterling per quarter Of 8 bushels. This
measure so far protects British Agri.
culture against foreign competition
G. Britain generally requiring more
breadstuffs tor internal consumption,
than her agriculture produces, this pro
vison is an operative encouragement
The relative prices of wheat in G. B.
and the U. 8. during the last year, af-
for6s an exemp'ification of its practical
effects, The L. S. raising every year
more breadstuifs than they can consume,
could not by the same means afford any
encouragement to agriculture.
The prohibition of foreign grain,
would be altogethe, imperative in the
U. S. because, none comes here, with.
out the prohibition. notwithstanding
this contrasted condition of the two
countries, these humble imitators have
determined to sssimilate their schemes
TO tho British model. They have pro-