Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-06

pl1s,.,. ~ nu, ,ou-,=.e ro,e inan ,rom 5000 10
SO,CcJ bales OF cotton annually. will take oil our
hands, AZ the Euiopea. p,'Css, 6OOoVO " will lie |
bseye that The appetite Of ploug hman, on tuthus
weaver, wal hc 50 riuC' Improved that the sun in>
gain we have bi.er,o been accus,Jmed tn export
10 Europe 0il' De consumed AT home - buddy
We believe tttat orr manufactures are most eNiaNa-
ganty projected already. la England II ~ calcuat-
ed that every manufactured pays Two ds,s labor III
the week ia has government. This Is ~ boun-
~ oil - - per IN favor OF the American
pe,iinr add TO this freight insurance, ,ssiOns
aud tie various ohei charges incident 10 transport
Ing the commodities OF one country 10 another, and
sou exhibit aggregate sufficient 10 protect who
could I've ssIisiied with moderate gains hut when
proceed 10 add To 'his he present heavy Tariff du-
tirs, the proit ciun Is 20 enormous, that sur
priced 10 Ind an indsdua ~ shameless as 10 ask io
NOR.
| fTLe scheme of INCREASING national wealth hs
Keeping our money AZ home is scarcely worthy at
| serious notice. Money rs not wealth, hat the o,ere
| representative ofn: the farmer purchases every
necessary with the produce oi his land and labor; We
would there fore respectfully suggest to your honuia
ble body, the policy oi permitting him send his
produce to that market, where he obtain the
highest price, and TO purchase whatever necessities
| he may require wherever he can Obtain them the
cheapest terms. fthe wealth OF AN individual is
measured 10y The quantity oil necessaries aud luxures
| he can command, we have 40 doubt the wealth oil
every individual would lie increased 10y this policy,
and as national is but the aggregate Of individual
wealth, the national wealth would certainly be in
I creased in the ratio.
| We need not remark how congenial such policy
would I've both Ia the leter and spirit of our cOnsu
ton, how adverse to both the project Of compeli
Ing so large portion ot cizens abandon those
pursuits for which education and experience have
best qualified them, and anniiilaiing 10y single act
great part OF the capital vested under the faith OF
former acts and guaranteed 10y the letter of that
! st',uion wr.stcd to- destroy IL.
We find no powers, either expressed implied,
| gran'edio Congress 10y constitution, TO iosrer
manufactures by ruining commerce and agriculture
and he it remembered that the project now before
you l. not commercial regulation, but manufac-
turing scheme. We find however that unequal taxa
ton is expressly inrerdiced 10y the constitution, and
unhesiIatiugly affirm that this interdic essen
ttl to the enjoyment OF equal rights and TO the per-
manent duration of our union, would be directly
violated 10y the projected alteration of the Tariff,
| as 10y low declaring in plain language, that the
states south of the Potomac should he Annually tax
eel to the Of SIX millions of dollars to he dis
! tihued among the cities north of that river and
that the merchants, universally, should pay ten per
! cent. their capitals for the same purpose. With
this New oithe subject your memorialist, respectfully
! end earnestly p,av, Ihat their Representatives will
guard their interests and their liberties from the
Gus effects og the bill for the alteration of the Ta,iH
duties nov befule your honorable house, a measure
pregnant with lie most fearful Consequences heing
incompatible wit! the principles OF Justice ds is
with the spIiit ard letter OF our cunstiIutou.
JOHN ii. BROWN, Chairman.