Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-05-14

the Editor himself will the purposs-as much
as In any other gentlemen in Baltimore batting the
ticle of judgment We have question that he con-
s'ders the letter genune-the only doubt u.s. if both he
and h's cornmuncaDt may not be deceived. But il is
small Watler-not worth the controversy-and pro-
Vided we are quit OF tue subject, we are perfectly
willing that Mr. Carr himself shall believe and induce
others to believe, that the letter really and truly
written by Gen. Greene.
.4h;bama In this State, the friends of the admins
raon have called Presidential Convention to assem-
bic the 30th of this 1t said that in AIaba
na but more especially, in Mississippi the creates,
political effect was produced by tue Virginia Anti
jackson Address. Kabtuckiao of intelligence and
Jac6sonian assures US, that the grea. certainty with
which the success of the administration ticket in Ken
lucky is anticipated is to be ascrbed TO the Virginia
address rs one of the most efficient causes The same
indy dual comedies that, by tie change OF the Eecto-
raj law, the Jacksonians have lost all in that State
One District OF the three, before that change was pref
ty certainly theirs with chance for second This
the jackson men IN the Legislature well knew, but
they si voted for the law fearing 10 betray any fear
OF Tie people. The administration papers in Mssissp
p,speak In saDgr'ne tone, and it is very certain that
in that State there is least very pow tiui minority
The following iudicious remarks of the New Yorl,
Statesman, plainly show the cause of the present nm
paraileed commercial distress; and as plainly we think
the only remedy which it is in the power of the CON-
:nun'ty to supply, either alleviate present distress
or to provide against its future recurrence Our wise
men in Virginia insist that the Tariff is the cause of
all our calarnitics We should come nearer the mark
we think, if say tat they pretend TO insist nnon
III for that they really believe their own professions
respect for their understandings will hardly allow us
TO suPP"sc. What the tariff lie cause OF suferipgs
when 1t neither dimnsles the amount OF xport nor
enhances the price Of the principal commodities vi
prime necessity
! Pressure Of ihc imcs-Sedon has period occur
red, when The stagnaiion oil business and the distress o.
tie mercantile community, we'll as OF the public &c
neraiiy, were so great as at present. w arc iufrn
ed that IN this very busy month"; wi en- IN ordinary
seasons SO many goods purchased the country
our merchants find almost few sales in mid win
| ter The truth Is that ibe scarcity OF Money pre-
vents dealers in the interior from paying Tor the
stoca of goods OF last year, AMI from making new
purchases.
| The cause of this disastrous state of things is rs
plain as the sun at MONDAY. During the fAll and
winter immense quantities Of foreign goods which
were not needed and which we're purchased at auc-
ton Tor no better reason than because they were
thought TO be cheap, have been throgn into market
and have drained the country of specie. Fake for
example. the following from a thousand instances of
the same kind On the 17ih OF February, British
importer arrived at New York with cargo of pro-
badly refuse ana fmsey articles from his own manu-
factory; and two days after, another cargo belonging
to the same individual followed The goods W ere semi
10 an auctioneer in earl street; the sales continued
from day to day; and the LIST OF March, the impor
Ter returned to England with the proceeds his sales
10 ms pocket, leaving the regular chants of our
city 10 lament the sta naton of trade ana the COM
/ meIciai etrbarIassIncn.s OF TIE country.
The remedy OF these evils is papats as the CAUSE
Our excessive mportations must be checked, our
home ministry cherished articles HAT necessary
ana tnat our own mechanics and manufacturers can
make, should be effecuaily projected a very little
protection, for instance, 10 wooen
would induce them 10 bring into market three four
millions Of dollars wosth of these fabrics and lake
the place of equal value OF British cloths AT The
end OF the year swouId have IN the country that
amount more OF money, THANH protection be withheld
| w no wculd be Injured? The dye stuff the O l. and
other materials, that must he imported woud emnor
more tonnage than the imported cloth. Oar Inelch
ants would buy and sell American cloths as they now
DO. and the manufacturers would have moro ample
means 10 buy other articles OF consumption, which
The !Tan OF employment renders them unable 10
purchase Look at the great consumption OF foreign
Commodities in Rhoie Island. Is commerce DESTROYED
there: Let the merchants examine these things.
Lord Cirenvile has published Pamphlet on the Sink
ing Fund.- in which he takes the bold, and hitherto VIC
believe the nnoccuped ground least by any
Of e;nence, that tie Sinking Fund is totally Inefficient
To this doctrine, Lord Genvie processes himself cou-
VERT having as an English Minister long acted upon its
opposite. He considers it getting rid of n part Of the
national debit at the expeuce of just the shape
OF rax or in other words mere taking from Peter to
pay Paul Its curious reflection, that a system so long
acted upon with implicit confidence, and by the
eminent, so eagerly and regousy supported the
Of slowly but certainly distinguishing the English Debt,
which at first view, would subtle and urntcl-
iigble should last discovered 10 be u.ory and
deceitful
The Liverpool Albion, calculates that it would re-
qure than 2G years, IL hours per day. and 100
per minute, to count The National Debt Of England in
guireas,
The Ohio ana Chesapeake Canal bill, which has passed
the House Of Representative, authorises subscription
of 100000 to that work.