Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-30
From the Providence Gazette.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.
The opponents OF the present Admlnistra-
ton begin to evinee. alarm al the unexpected eff.
feet produced upon the people by the avowed
intention of the Jackson Combination, should
they get into power, to subvert the whole poll
cy of the national Government in reference 10
Internal Improvements and Domestic Manu-
features. Even the Immaculate Richmond En-
quirer begins 10 talk about the benefits Of a
moderate Tariff, and seems to admit the posi-
bility that the Government may cons.itutienally
lay out a little money in making roads and Ca
! nails. There is, tosb be sure, mingled with this
an affection Of regret that Gen. Jackson is a
Tariff MISUNDERSTANDING which the Inqui-
rer most magnanimously resolves to yield a
little in the strict construction it has hitherto
put upon the Constitution, aud lend its intlu-
ence 10 gel Gen. Jackson into the Presidential
Chair! This is a mere subterfnge on The par'
Of the Inquirer, and we only notice it as a most
striking evidence OF the supremacy, among the
people, OF the doctrines Of national internal
improvement, and protection TO Domestic In
dustry.
This hypocritical regret about Gen. Jackson
being a Tariff man, is got up ior the sole pur-
pose ofdcluding that portion ofthe people who
cannot, whatever may be their other objections
to Messrs. Adams and Clay, bring themselves
to aid the election Of a man who is known to
be opposed to these leading principles so init
ma,ely connected with the prosperity Of the
Country Gen. Jackson still remains silent
He is to make no commitlals," * in the mean
time his partizans are to represent him as be-
ing a Tariff man 10 gull the Middle and Wes-
tern States, while at the South they are to hold
him up as the great slickler of the Virginia
State-sovereignly doctrines, and the determined
opponent of the American system
In the first instance, Gen. Jackson's claims
were boldly urged on the ground Of his oppo'
sition to these measures, his partizans believ-
ing they could, through the Southern influence,
carry oil before them. The tremendous reac-
ton going on in Pennsylvania and elsewhere,
and the strong party forming even in Virginia
in support Of the American system, have Great
ed no small doubts in the minds of the leaders
Of the Combination, and they begin 10 DE Sc
riously alarmed lest by this policy they should
lose more in one section Of the country than
they can hope to gain in another. The friends
of Gen. Jackson are thus reduced 10 a serious
dilemma, either horn of which threatens 10 in
volve them in defeat. The Southern influence
cannot be gained for Jackson, bu' by a pledge
that his administration will oppose the home
policy; and the Western and Middle cannot be
retained but by a directly contrary assurance
If Gen. Jackson avow his determination TO be
in favor of the American system, Virginia and
her followers mus. abandon him. lfhe pursue an
opposite course, the other states, without whose
aid he cannot be elected, will give him up. If
he remain mysteriously silent, the former may
be %pacifed, but the latter will construe his 81
lence, as it should be construed, into secret
hostility. The mighty genius of George Can-
ming has been in vain exerted TO reconcile the
aristocratic notions Of the naughty opposers Of
Catholic emancipation, with the liberal views
of its friends. The advocates of Jackson, with
but a shadow of the moral power welded by
Mr.. Canning, will find it still more difficult 10
unite the enemies and the friends of the Amer
lean system in a support of their man for the
Presidency; and unless they can bring about
this unnatural union, Gen. Jackson will never
reach the Presidency,