Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-11-20

"~go'tys exercising IN a confrderacv domestic
and sectlonA legislation, in violation Of .oi.,nn
o;srs@ln between the parties. and the very ob
yIos On whieh u ieglsla,es, tending to consoli.
o~''oh' must, m the end. from the most odious
u0Vernmem on the face OF the eSr,h--hs-suse
your Task Master must soon become -,
rom the very abuses and corruptions of the sys.
tenn, without the bowels Of comnass,aa 80
Joe o' human sympathy. IL the unfortunate
1reeS OF the Morea, and the Turkish serf of
nuF'ahople, has more OF his Rice wrung from
nun than ne thinks even the edict OF d.snotism
warrants, ne can throw himself at the feet of
'ne Iachs, and OBTAIN BY that natural sympsthv
witch belongs TO the chords Of the human near.
some sort OF compensation TOR the wors. Of h,'
n ~ suppression. But where are we to look,
TO the many headed Monxrch who sit, on our
hfonef Alas. he has no hear, except for his
own wv. interest. DO you want any proof of this,
"here are your loyal emonstrances--your
Hiiio'e peiitions-you almost Illuminating pray
srs ior mercy Where are theyi Printed in
deed by the authority OF Congress, but unread
unhee ded, unregarded, and have served no OH
er purpose than to swell the profits of Press.
pampered into bioated servilty. which now
Insults your misiortunes, and brands your CON
pants with the crime of Treason.
"fhe prohibitory or restrictive system is now
either the established policy of the country, or is
w me course ct progressive establishment.
through the power which the Federal Govern
menl has usurped of catering for the Internal
interests OF some States By tributes wrung
IRON the internal industry of other States.
"From 1876 down to the present time, the
South has been drugged, by the slow poison
OF The miserable empyricism Of the prohfbiory
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so long have resisted, but for the stupendousD,
valuable staples with which God has blessed us
and the agricultural skill and enterprise of our.
people. But the work of death has already
Commenced, and he must be insensbe and stu.
plhed by poverty and degradation who cannot
perceive il. 4.
"Gentlemen, the very form Of the taxation is
so deceptive, that i. 10 impossible, except by
a minute and somewhat complicate ANALYSIS, to
measure II. IL can only be done by separating
the original cost Of an article from the impost;
when th's IS done, the r suits Of the base Fri
bnte which we pay, ~ altogether as ounding
There is not man in the South whose expendi
ture amounts to four thousand dollars per an
mum. who does not pay at The smallest calcula
ton one thousand dollars in the shape of olesr
tax TO The Government and the monopoIs,s
which they divide in pretty equal proportions
between them.
with these burdens, have we no Just cause
to complain, when we see one OF the most mu-
nihcent products with which God ever blessed
The industry of man, put in awful peril, not by
his inscrutsble dispeosation, not from the blight
OF unpropisio0s seasons, not from the ravages
of Egyptian locusts. not by the siinted fertility
oil an overbardened soil, but by the grasping a.
vsrice, and nrcoRquerable injustice of those
whom we have hitherto regarded as brothers of
one family, hitherto bound to us by the natural
ties of common origin, BY the association OF
united labors and confederate triumphs. bv all
that can consecrate and endesr the sympathies
common codat'y-ooe people and one home.
"But, you will ask, is there no hope of some
returninS justice, in.the despotic msjority that
oppresses US, by which the evils will be uitiga.
ted which are grinding US in the dustl No, not
ray. When have you known avarice to .tay.
its cormorsnt appetite, when it could safe it
with IMMUNITY! When have you known profit
gate ambition 10 give up the certain means of
accommodating powerl
"i'he Tariff furnishes the most effective
means for the acquisition ofpoliticsl power, that,
In a coniederacy, could have been possibly de.
vised; because 1t brides Two large sections OF
sre conteoding for power, this subject, in con-
nexion with internal Improvements, will be AL.
ways pushed to the most desperate extremity.
Cupdy and ambition having tasted their nstu,
raj tood--will not give up the banquet. Depend
upon i, SO long as these two subjects pre- con-
sidered within the constitutions competency Of
Congress- whenever The empire is o be won,
We shall always find some political gambler v no
viii play the foul game with these most fraudu-
lent stakes "Do not lay the isttering JUNCTION
to your souls" that we can find any refuge in
the stern integrity aud inhexible justice Of that
venerable patriot, on whom grateful and in.
dignsnt People are about TO bestow the highest
mark of their confidence. lie cannot repeal
law The Government--the country is not in
the Executive. II resides in despolic sectional
majority Of both Houses. Your candidate for
the ries ideucy win have scarcely taken the oath
NJ office, before that mao who claims, with ev-
ery Jus, preteDtioD that Injustice and q mshs
nat hostility 10 your interest can give hun, tile
title ofths champion OF the .Americsn System."
will begin to push this question tor the purple
for himself, with renovated terocious uDeom-
promising zeal; aud the party opposing him
will not be outdone in This holy work. The race
will be renewed for the successorshp; and the
venerable patriot who will 20 into Office "by all
| our wishes best must remain, in spite OF his
devoted patriotism and Roman honesty, pass.
| i've specta.ar of the conflict between those fac,
| irons, whose corruption and violence he Will
have no means TO arrest.
"Gentlemen, fear have tired you, am
| oure have mvself in passing through this mser