Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-02-10

WorW. KIT staple SoutlouitleS were Sent Ia
a ready market, AID commanded prices.
that Showed she shared in a monopoly oft
Thin as her population is tnot abnys twenty
Inhabitants 10 the square mile the value at
lands every where rose considerably ou
the islands, in particular, Ia eight, or ten,
and even twenty times as much as they
were rated at thirty years ago-whe that
of slaves and other property also greatly adj
vanced. The citizens of this state might
then contemplated ratio like that in question,
itnot>witbout disapprohation, at least without
dismay, ADD although they did protest. AS they
had right To protest, against an impolitc
and premature encourageme nt of manufac-
lures in country like the United States,
wI>Se there is SO much good land unoccuped
and in woods-and against the music. of tax
iug, so.heavily, almost all classes of the com
munity, and almost all the States ofthe Con-
federation, Ia fill the pockets of comparatively
II few spectators and monopolists yet, as
they did not perceive at that time the PERM
cious tendency of the measure in its whole
extent, they would probably have acguiesced
under il, had il been adopted without much
murmuring certainly without any open and
,is'ent resistance. But things are now in a
very different situation with them, and the
whole subject has assumed more serious and
gloomy aspect.-The cultivation of cotton,
encouraged by the very prosperity which has
been Just noticed, has been so prodigiuusly ex-
| tended in this and other States, as well in
foreign countries, that notwithstanding the IA
precedented increase Of the trade in England
every market in Europe is already glutted
with II. And as the evil is every day growing
with the growth of the new countries, into
which enterprise is pushing its adventures,
there can he no doubt but that in the course
ofa very few years, this commodity will, like
I. m ~. han fhur., .ca
IN trade, be reduced to the lowest possible
piice. In the mean time, the effects that have
already been produced here by this mighty
! revolution, are deplorable in the extreme-
Property ofall kinds is deprecated beyond
example, feeling of gloomy dependence is
! beginning Ia prevail every where in the lower
country. Estates are sacrificed TO pay the
last instruments on the bonds given for the
purchase money. Nobody seems disposed TO
buy, what every body is anxious to get rid f
at any price. In short, it is manifest that the
extraordinary prosperity which South Caro-
lima ia common with the other Southern States
enjoyed some years ago, is gone by forever,
and 1t wliirequire all the skill and industry of
@nr agrlcuiturasis, in future, 10 maintain their
place In the market, even at the most reduced
prices of produce. And is this iuucture, your
hlemorialists beg leave TO asks this iunc-
tare 50 critical and perilous at best, seasonal
Die one Tor the measure in question p? Is il
at this moment, when the cotton trade, upon
which, net the prosperity alone, but the very
existence olsome parts of the Southern States
| depends, Is sinking under its own weight
when an American Statesman ought TO be
! taskiDg his invention for expedients 10 pro-
| trct and preserve that very lucrative portion
~ II, which Is at present enjoyed by the Unit
Ell Statcs--ls It at such a moment as this, that
we are seriously discussing measure like the
Tarlli Bill When the people of the South
are already experimenting the exclusion of
their produce from foreign markets, by fair
competition or by the partialIties of European
colonial systems, shall we provoke our present
customers To measures of retaliation, by ceas-
ing To be Their customers Is il wise and po-
lite To try experiments on so vast a scale p
Is it prudent to hazard so much real and pre-
sent good Tor the attainment of 81 little, and
that too IN mere vision and possibility
Such is the language which your Memorial
lists think ought to tie addressed, and which
they cannot hut fatter themselves, will be ad
dressed with eject To the wisdom and patriot-
ism of your honorable body hut the occasion
49, M their opinion. go momeptous and alarm
ing, that they feel themselves warranted in de-
clarinS, as they now do in the most emphatic
manner, that they regard such measure as the
one under consideration, if their view of its
nature, and probable consequences is correct
as a violation of the spirit OF the Federal
Compact. Your Memorialists would remind
the advocates Of the Tariff, that there is a wide
difference between confrderacy of indie
pendent States, or 6overeiSntes, and ma
lion living under simple and consolidated
government. The relation of the parts TO
each other and to the whole, is much more
intimate in the latter, than they can ever be
in the former case-and as the interest of
each individual part, is lin the theory at least)
there considered as completely identified with
that ofthe whole, 81 il is understood, that
whenever occasion may require it, great ma
tiOna objects mast be promoted, whatever
partial evils may be occasi0ned ny the meas.
tres adopted for that purpose. But in Con-
federacy, although the States are united for
certain purposes, yet as To all Others thew
continue distinct and independent, and have,
so Tar, oil course, distinct and separate inter
ests-D0r is 1t possible to conceive any situa-
ton in which one member of such political
union, can be required to sacrifice itself i'm or
der To promote the welfare, or even to secure
the existence of the rest. In 81 consolidated
and single empire, If il were necessary to Law
waste whole tract Of country and TO keep
II Tor ever so long time. desUate and in ru-
lbs for the purpose Of preventing the incur
sions of foreign foe upen the rest Of it, there
can be no doubt hat that the individuals in
habitins that tract of country would he Oblig-
ed 10 submit 10 the Inconvenience, because
requisite according 10 the hypothesis, for the
safety OF the whole society, or in other words,
of the majority, which in practical politics is
the same thing, and because their interests as
individuals are considered as swallowed up
and lost in their interests as citizens. But in
Confederacy, no such case az this could
possibly arise, from the very fact that it was
Coofrdcracy, aud the giving up Of a whole