Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-09-26
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2e, 1928
From the .4srora and Pennsylvania Gazette.

aud speakers. HOW 10 aSolu or get fiu vi ~, Ia
lending matter OF consideration with her
statesmen. Countervaiing measures have been
commenced and may POSSIBLY be rehed upon as
the true corrective; but, we apprehend, expe-
,ience will show this To be the wrong COURSE
Every dispassiona'e person on this side the AT
lantic must deprecate war between England
and America. whether of words, measures, or
arms. aud TO avoid this, truth should be sought
after. facts made known, and actions attributed
10 their proper motives. ii we may take, as
S,;r sample. the speakers in Parliament, and
writsrs in Loadon and Liverpool papers, the
view taken Of our Tariff by the British public
and covernmest is tissue OF errors. II Is will
full perverson To call ii an original act oil hosil'
litr, il IS great error 10 esteem X The WORK OF
polilical faction, and il is delusion 10 suppose
ina, the hasty threats OF Il lew southern poii>
clans will have the effect of procuring repeal
or any modification OF the law; and equally una
vaiiing will foreign retaliation prove.
That we had a perfect right TO enact the Ia
riff is rs clear as the sun al noon day; and II Is
nrrnos,erous for England TO pretend that II
affords her any cause for retaliation or offence.
Her policy has ever been 10 encourage her own
commerce, manu- features, ana agriculture, re
yardless who might be in lured Or turned out OF
employ by il. Any thing she could advanta>
eeously raise or mske, she has resoulute'y pro-
hibited She has, AT the point OF The oayone',
opened 10 herself markets Tor her manufactures,
and by The weight OF her navy, and the ME OF
her cannon, forced free passage upon the
ocean for her shipping and commerce. To
all ;his we do not object, aud mention II only 10
SHOW, the utter absurdi,y Of her complaints. All
we desire, is permission 10 reduce TO practice,
in our own behalf, some Of the forcibe and
convincing examples and preoepis, which she
has been teaching for the last two or three cen
turtles. Notwithstanding This. we are Tor amity
ard free trade. We will take Mr.. Heskisson
at his word.
"The manly course is surely this---trane on
equal terms or not al ALA system oil CONNER,
cial hostility is always TO be regretted; but self
defence is as much the law Of commerce, as oil
those who carry II on.
And we would go further, we would return
10 the first principles OF natural night and ma
,,onal comfy, aud say 10 Great Britain, throw
onrn YOUR ports To- Us, without restriction or
discrimination, and we will do the same TO
YOU. Notwithstanding the advantages she pos
sesses i'm the establishments OF commercial cor
respondence, abundance OF capital and shipping,
and the high state Of perfection Of her manutac-
lures and her. agriculture, would she, without
restraint, receive our -four, corn, cotton, rice,
bemp. naval stores, manufactures, sc. We
anprebend not. Her carrying trade, and ships
ming. would be injured by our interference with
her colonies Her land owners would be ruined
Sy our bread stuffs and country produce, &c.,
and we could even now, cut up some. OF her
home manufactures. She commenced resitlc-
lions, and persists in thrul, and all that remains
for us is, TO follow suit, and make the best bar
gains we can.
The provision in her new customs bill, low
ering the duty upon cotton imported from
-. lad n
,.ke from us the carrying Of cotton, and may
nerbaps have The effect designed, and conSe-
ourn,iy take from our merchants an item OF
rhsir business; but this may be made up TO them
nv iudicious warehousiOg bill Offering pro'ec~
ton 10 our carving trade.
Since writing the above, we have read with
rnuch benefit ard satisfaction, The two numbers
"Na,,er of Fact rs. Messrs, Huskisson and
Peel" They are triumphant and conclusive
ren,y TO The speeches Of those gentlemen IN the
Rri,ish House OF Commons; are worth reading
and worth preserving. Our circums' rioed
limits forbids the republicatioE OF extended ar
ticles, or these essays OF Hamilton should nha d
n,ace in our paper. The annexed paragraphs
tnr,, the couclusio Of the SEE ond number, and
are we'll sustained by the previous parts OF the
works.
venture to assume, that have fully esta>
blished these points
l. That the British corn laws have excluded
our wheat and -four from The markets Of that
nation for ten years; that the recen, modihca>
,;on makes no material change in our favour;
thai. unless in case Of imminent danger OF ia
mine. they viii henceforward be excluded; and
tina, therefore they prove that Great Britain
teuaciously adheres 10 the protecting system.
Q. That those laws have been transcenctntly
nernicious to the farming interest Of this coun-