Delaware journal., 1828-10-31


and if he be not sincere not trust to be lon
ger gulled with empty promises of Free Ifade TO
British Ports scared from the paths of policy
and interest by denunclat0ns OF greater restrictions
which Mr. Husksson and his admirers dare not, il
they had the power to enforce. | say they dare
not. Is this mere bravado on my part What are
our articles of exp0r to Great Britain, and from |
what section of the United States do they go: |
shall not enter into an exact enumeratlono of all the
articles which Great Britain condescends under hea.
w duties to take from when it suits her commerce
to do so, and when she does not apprehend that our
resources will be thereby increased in any fearful |
proportion. Suffice it to specify the most important
the deduction of which from the list of exports to
Great Britain, would make trade to that Island
unworthy of one moments consideration. What
these exports Cotton, tobacco, rice, tar, pitch
a1d turpentne. From what section Of the United
States do these articles go? From the Southern
without exception. Even these articles are receiv
ed upon condition of the payment OF duties, which,
III Laid by an American Congress, would be called /
unconstitutional, oppressive, unjust. taking from
the many to put into the pockets Of the few. The
market of the American farmer, CT rather that mar
ket to which the American farmer mas been taught
to look from habit from the policy of his Govern
ment, IA policy not wholly wise at its first adoption.
but rendered worse than unwse by the change IN
condition Of this country the change in the State oi
Europe, and most Of all the increased oppression of
the British Commercial SYSTEM is wholly cut off
Let England raise the duties on tobacco, cotton.
rice, &c. in any material degree above what they
now ARE, and pronounce that the American plan
ter will be put into the hopeless, hapless con-
dtion in which her m0nOpoilsng system has long
kept the American farmer, real Prometheus, upon
whom her hearteeding vultures have incessantIy
proved. Dare she (G. b. do this ? Dare she unite
this country in the tariff policy Has she not Graf
| tily counted upon the opposton of the South, be-
cause of the admission of southern staples into her
ports Let recOlect the history of the two
tries in connection G. B. has tried the united en-
ergies Of this country, and you may take my war
ming word FOR it, that in regard to the United States,
her motto now is '',livide ct impera." What was
her during the late war, and which were the
interests aud the divisions of the United States,
Wherein the necessary measures of defence bore
with particular and oppressive weights The cas-
tern aud northern parts of the Unlon are commer
cal and maritime ; at the period OF the late war
they were almost exclusively manufactures hav-
ing then made small progress, there. The nuniIri-
portation, and the enbargo produced OF course,
great distress III the commercial sections OF the u.
States, and ultimately, great dissatisfaction with the
war. What was the course OF q. B. at this crisis oi
our affairs !? Is it not known that she fostered the
discontents o the eastern and northern people, by
y the basest arts, and with the most ndefatigable
L perseverance. hoping thereby to force the u State.
: 10 abandon dsgracefuy all the grounds upon whcr
II she reluctantly made resort to arms or by con
e tinuance OF the war, to endangcr the existence o
tie Unionl This is the tsreadul alternative win
: which q B. hope, tn be ready to present Us
-lwhenes er pursue unsulted to nigh and
s Mountaineering behests. Snail this be borne by na
e non boasting o its intelligence freedom and powers
What these proud names, il at every CRISIS The
;. fear Of the faction drives Ms to tame surrender
; Of the dearest interests and brightest honors of
r Repubc Can any man indulge such scepticisn
le as would Ike him doubt that of the objects
which & i. had in view, by her depredatlons OF
re commerce, neutral and begerent, lawful and un
H. lawful, to alarm the commercial and marine
l. sections of the o. States TO deter them from al
se thoughts of resistance to her maritime supremacy
ST and to make them hnmhly kiss the trident which sh
Is haoghtily waved over the commerce Of the world
. If he he may Shakespear says, doubt trutl
ot TO be liar" Sc. sc. AT that time, the southern
d States were the peculiar objects of her wrath h
eastern and northern States she then hoped 10 draw
y from their allegiance TO the Republic partly b.
~ menaces and partly by seduclng and nefarious pro
u misses. Now the game is shifted, the northern am
! eastern States are the prime movers OF the o.
! her darling manufactures. and the southern State
= are to be sednced by willy promises OF furnishing
:" them with manufactures cheaper than they can eve
- be made in America; and, moreover by lluskisson
Az grand scheme for the berations of trade, the alter
" alton Of the corn laws. and such like probable an
- pretty stories manufactured to amuse their faithit
= friends in the southern States For one, shall n,
: consent to he duped by such barren hopes an
more decetfu promises. There is no truth in thes
promises. | can tell the people ofthe u States,
they tie up the hands of their Congress from repe
ling and counteracng the schemes of British con
,e nercial and political monopoly, upon the unledge
no idea that Congress have constitutional power
ot rcpel and to couneract them, they will be huggir
tes chains of more than colonial bondage, and drawn
as their posteritv and their country to pclhe cruml
* of subsistence granted by British liberaiy ar
to favor, when they should Indignantly spurn the s
led wish idea and put the country and the people upo
!. 1hnir n,un abundant and hnnnllpss resn1rcna