Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-11-10
FOR THE ENQUIRER.


10 the cutivators of the soil, and the CONNER
cisi community of the Southern States, there are
nothing but disappointment aud gloom in the pros
pect before US We have been saddled with an
enormous tariff, in consequence of which, we are
compelled TO pay extravsgant price for salt,
IRON, steel, and all the merchandise we consume
Many articles taxed % high as TO prevent them
rom being imported at all; and we are compelled
to ouy them OF inferior quality from our Northern
heighoonrs. Such good, are not prohibited
come to US charged with heavy duty which we
must paw, or purchase OF our good friends Nor,h
OF the potomac, al price equal 10 that asked for
ihs foreign article. We read of the great distress
| among Tue English manufactures the unex-
ampled low price of every species of gools-of the
thousands that out of employment in G. Britain
and suffering Tor bread We read also of crowded
warehouses OF goods that cannot be sold Vet
when we 20 To buy yard OF cloth and ask the
merchant how it happens that under these cir
cumstances, the price is so high he shows US what
he mas paid INTO the public treasury for the poor
privilege al importing and selling il. We 20 10
the retailer OF domestic goods and saw. sir. YOU
pay no duty on your cloth, we expecl to get il al
lair price. The retailer asks the same rrice. and
insists that II Is cheap, that it can't be made for
/ less; and dehes us TO find any imported goods
cheaper. linus " e are compelled to buy ore or the
o'her. II we buy the Imported goods. we nav ,he
tax INTO tie treasury, 10 oe squandered away In
unconstitutional projects OF internal improvement
| or tor the promotion OF some visionary ,cbeue II
we buy the domestic article, we paw the tax INTO
the pockets OF The manufacture, who is the favor
! lie OF The goverDment and the Treasury Will no,
| receive money enough TO support the government
and carry on lis pretty schemes better our cund-
| ton The deficiency must be made IN the trea-
sny must be hlled-and we are taxed i'm son 9
oiher way Tor that purpose. This result has actu
ally occurred Itis understood the revenue will
| year and
good, by new loans or new taxes The deficiency
! is probably owing TO the diminished amount of i'm
| portauons Merchants would not iu,port goods
that were not only to be subject to such heavy dn
Ties; but TO he brought into such unfair com nett
iIon with domestic articles. The manufacturer
| are not SalShed with his; but holding meet
/ Ings, and tiIUnng Congress 10 increase the far,
! TU! he President i : tariff mans surrounded
by tariff cabinet; and it is 10 be feared the major,
| ~ OF onsress are tariff men. What, them have
we poor huSoand;nen 10 hope! We must take the
nara earnings OF our labor enrich the spinners
and weavers-to FIJI the Golfers OF the government
and en'ole then 10 carry on their splendid schemes
OF improvement, oiior ihca,ions-and of berterine
our condition, whether we viii or not or yvhe her
we are able 10 pay for it not. This is TOO kind
IN our rulers Ii they not so lavish of our
money IN sqiandtring it upon useless foreign mis-
slons-lazy and incompetent officers and f,l con-
tracts TO personal friends and partisans the lining
would not be quite so bad.
10 favor the ship-OwEers, our great STABLES
have been either negota ed or legslaed OUT of ma
ny OF the msrkets In which they once met with
ready s'le What is nov The price of breaI sutfs;
There IS no foreign demand, that we are permitted
to supply, and we must lei supplies roi on our
hands, or take 'he miserable prices offered in our
towns. IL is true there is vent for tobacco and
cotton; but al what prices. the cutivaiors know
to well am not so well acquainted with the
agricuf ura Interests Of the Northern States but in
The South our embarfassmenls evidently grow ou
of he qnixotic tsmpering of The governInent-man
uiaciuring monopolies- commercial restrictions
prodisa expenditure of public money on favor
lies with elecionserins views. These several
liens would each afford tie ground Work of a yo-
lume, if fully developed But such is not NV Dur
pose. would only call the attention o! The South
ern planter to he excessive buIihens imposed upon
INN, and to the preparations making by the manu-
lecturers TO increase them. Let him reflect " h,t
portion OF the expense of the uast schemes of in
ternal Improvement p rjeciing by the federal GOV
eminent, and particularly for the benefit OF the
vest, VIII iaiI upon him What prospect is there
OF rise la the prize of our productions that will
enable us to ielr the-e accumualing evils, The
very persons 10 whom owe all our present en-
barrassments; who have hecome rich at our cost
have turned great philanihropists, and seem deter
mined upon disturbing the relations between the
/ can but barely alluds. I do not intend entering
into it; for nothing / rould say would add 10 the
determination 81 every nan among us, TO spurn all
in erfeI ence in the ratter
The constliuiiOnalIty of tie mad career of The
government, leave to the discussion of the p0iiti-
clan. For myself bad AWAY thought the federal
government was created to act upon a few great
national subjects, on which the States could not
act with sufficient union concert, and 10 take
charge OF the external relations of the county,
but the doctrines of MIR. Adams ould give 10 the
government poNe to do what it pleased 10 think
tor the good of the people He discards the idea
OF a limited government. Under this construction
oil the powers and duties Of our federal government
1t Is that 0e have a tariff which robs one man to
make another more industrious or sklilul-a pro
jected system OF roads and canals under which mil
lions upon millions TO be -quandered in those
sections Of the country that will support the pow
eTs that be, and bow t. the law of " safe pfece
dents. Under this reading Of the consiitu-
ton, our slave properly Is to he invaded and Our
education and morals are 10 be " regulated" n
well o"r industry. Ia short we are 10 have ever,
thing managed after lhc fashion Of our cd ircads
at Washington. From too much gycfomentai
regulation, and from e.s disposition in our
rulers to manage our affairs and 90 better our con
dnons," good Lord deli er W, is the prayer of
AN AGRiCULTUHIST.
bE-Je The Freehol@er- Of Amelia are requested
not 10 consider NE a candidate for the county
at the mex, election Private business. requiring
my absence from he county for a month Or two in
The Spring, puts it ont of my power 10 crafty my
self Or my friends In that way.
J. Y. srOCKDELL.
Amelia, Nov. 81, 1926.