The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-29

tecting power OF the Legislative authority and the d
ties of the representative bodies to concate them
in harmony together. So far the object of taxation
is to raise revenue for dischargng the debts, and de-
raying the expenses of the community, it should as
much possible suit the burden with equal hand upon
all, in proportion with their ability OF bearing it with
out oppression. But the legislation of one nation is
sometimes Intentionally made to bear heavily upon the
interests of another That legislation, adapted, as it
is meant to be, to the special interests Of its own peo
pie, will often press most uncqualy upon the several
component interests of It's neighbors Thus, the lc
gslation OF Great Britain when, has recently been
ayowed, adapted TO the depression of rival nation,
will naturally abound with regulations of interdct up
on the productions of the soil industry of the other
which come in competition with its own and will pre-
sent encouragement perhaps, even bounty, to the raw
material of the other State, which it cannot produce
itself, and which is essential for the of its manac
lures, competitors in the markets OF the world with
those of its commercial rival Such is the state of
the commercial legislation of Great Britain as it bears
upon our interests II excludes, with inerdicting du-
ties, all importation Except in time of approach
ing famine) OF the great staple productions of our
Middle and Western States it proscrbes, with equal
rgor, the bukier lumber and livestock of the same
portion, and also of the Northern and Eastern part OF
our Union II refuses even the rice of the South I'M
less aggravated with charge of duty upon the North
ern carrier who brings to them. But the cotton, in
dispcnsabe for their looms, they will receive almost
duty free, TO weave it into fabric for wear,
to the destruction of our own manufactures, which
they enabled thus to undersell Is the self-proec
ing energy of this nation helpless that there exists
IN the political institutions of country, 10 power to
conteract the bias of this foreign legislation that the
growers of grain must submit to this exclusion from
the foreign markets of their produce that the ship
pers must dsmante their ships, the trade of the North
sagnate at the warves, and the manufacturers starve
at their ooms whilst the whole people shall pay tribute
to foreign industry to be clad in foreign garb that
the Congress OF the Union impotent to restore the
balance IN favor of native industry destroyed by the
statutes of another realm More Just and more gene
rous sentiments, will trust, prevail If the tariff
adopted at the last session of Congress shall be found
by experience to bear oppressivey upon the interests
OF any one section of the Union, it ought to be- and
cannot doubt will be, so modified as to alleviate its
burden. TO the voice of just complaint from any por
ton of their constituents, the Representatives of the
States and People will never turn away their ears
But so long the duty of the foreign shall operate
only bounty upon the domestic artcle-while the
planter, and the merchant, and the shepherd and the
husbandman, shall be found thriving in their occupa-
tons under the duties imposed for the protection of do
mesc manufactures, they will not repne at the pros
perly shared with themselves by their fellow citizens
OF other professions, denounce violations of the
Constitution the deliberate acts of Congress to shield
from the wrongs of foreign laws the native industry of
the Union. While the tariff of the last session of Con-
gress was subject of legislative deliberaton, il was
foreold by some of its opposers that of its neces
sary consequences would be to impair the revenue It