Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-10

Chief Magistrate? Is there any thing 10 ns
administration you disapproye! Did you
country ever derive greater blessings under any
administration than under the present. Nay
not ask, then, Why Join these revolutiohlIfss
and the violent men Of the nation, TO chans.
The President ard discourse Of administrator.
And WHY alter. Fundamentally. the Consu'usioh
ITSELF have said that the approaching CON
,es, for he chair of state is one OF prlncipie,2
and mo, of men. When men hold The same
nr;ncinles. and profess to pursue the same ''ne
Of nolicy. as has happily been the case WIN Uu,
Scderal administrations from the eecton %
jefferson to the present day, change OF = -
,iden,s is but change OF men; and nence y "as
hammered that, OF the three presidents WIZ P'e
coded Mr. Adams, there has been SC aree ah o',
,,os;,;on to the Presidents serving the period
,h,, the great Washington did. From these
prrs;dents nursning the American system oil
nolicy. each succeeding incumbent has had an
onnoriunity to amend and revise the errors oil
the preceding administrations without resoln-
ton. until thew have brought the admnis'ra-
lion of the federal government tolts present
state ofperleclion.
The opposition, however, is not founded up
on advancing candidate TO the Presidency, up
on his supposed superior personal claims, not
upon de,ermina,ionto revolutionize the whoie
course oil American policy, with regard to the
regulation Of foreign commerce and lnteinai lin;;
proyements; and 10 radically and Fundamentally
change the Constitution itself. AT an early Pc
Rod Of Gen Washington's administrators, II
became the settled principle OF his policy, TO
cherish domestic manufactures, and to exclude
gradually those offoreign nations, asthe manu-
facturers Of our own country multiplied, by
tariff on such articles Of foreign manufacture as
we were capable Of supplying by our own arti-
sans Pursuing this principle, the tariff IN time
has amounted to aprohibition, or TO an enhance
meht Of the price Of the foreign article, accord
ing as the supply of the same article al home
was sufficient or partial Thus the duty upon
leather, saddles, boots, shoes, hats, sc. amount
ed almos, to total exclusion, because we had,
at AN early period after the revolution, acquired
a sufficient knowledge III the manufacture OF
those articles, to supply the domestic demand;
while in the manufacture Of cloths, fine linens,
and salt, the duty was laid to raise the price oil
those articles, in order 10 cherlshthelr produce
ton or manufacture in America These duties
were laid with al Intention, from time 10 time,
to increase them 10 the exclusion OF any article,
whenever our domestic manufacture oil that ar
tce should be found sufficient for domestic de
mand; many articles have since been SO tariff
o.,
all that il has been owing to this policy, that
these United States have made, and are still
making, such rapid progress in all the branches
of domestic manufacture. This system has
been always denominaled the American system,
while the contrary policy, to wit, that Of re-
De aling all duty upon British and other goods,
except what was necessary * indispensable for
revenue, has been with equal justice denomina-
ted the British policy. On this important prin-
ciple Of administration, an unhappy difference
has been for years increasing between the plant
ing States and the Eastern ard middle States.
This difference is.now maturtd, and the enc
mics of domestic manufactures are determined
10 measure strength with its friends; and, by
gigantic effort, to PROSTATE every thing that
has been done 10 cherish and mature our manu-
featuring Establishments. They have also Of
late wears, called 10 their aid the novel doctrine,
that the general government, under the powers
expressly granted to il, OF regulating commerce
between he States, Of establishing post Offices
and post roads, OF declaring war and making
peace and of making all nerdful and necessary
laws TO carry those powers into Effect, has not
power to make a post road, nor build post Of
hce, nor power TO open communication by
land or water, between the different States, tho
such canal, road, river, or olher Improvements,
shall connect two or more States, and be essen
tial TO the intercourse of all the States; ina,
through all time the national mail is TO drag
through mud, and be liable to be swept off by
the freshets, without power in the nation, Ell
ther 10 construct better road, or build a
bridge upon which 1t may pass. The party de-
ny the power Of the government to tax foreign
produce or manufactures beyond the indisprn-
sable supply Of revenue, and maintain tina, all
laws which have been or may hereafter be pass
ed. laying tariff with view TO enc ourage CO.
| mestic manufactures, or any portion OF our az.
riculture, is Unconstitutional; SO that tie issue
between the present Administration and the adj
vocates Of General Jackson's preiensions, is
emphatically the great question, shall the Ame-
| rican system be abandoned, and the national re-
sources be expended upon objects of foreign
commerce and war? The planting States are
now the champions Of the anli-imprnvement
and anti-manufacturing policy; and, in the same
proportion as their politicians are vehement a.
| gainst the tariff and internal improvements, is
their zeal for General Jackson's success, and
thus il happens that the General is the unuues-
| tionable favori,e Of the Carolinas, Georgia and
! Virginia. The latter Stale, although she las
every !nducement to turn a portion of her in