Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-30

slightest conflict between the two governments,
with our passions in fame, and our injuries
eoadinl US to fury and madness, VINO is mere
10 stop this awful surge that must lana US 10
utter ruin and desoiation! AS wen may you
nope 10 obs,ruc, Niagara with pebble. nus
much for the tendency Of resistance let US no"
consider few moments the power VINO"
Legislature may possess, TO coeree No"s'e'' "
repeal The tariff.
Among oil the gentlemen who have given
toas,s, made speeches, or written memorials, 50
far as have seen or heard, but one single pro-
iect has been recommended, by which the lie,
rislature shall exer, this power. ! except OF
course the gentlemen who have had an eye on
the custom houses. When such man as Mr.
M'Dufhc, with his range Of intellect and sur
passing powers as an orator, Hying across we
mighty deluge of our SORROWS, can ma no resi-
for the sole OF his loot" bui on TINS hrrara''
this excise system, II is fair TO conciuae 10
better Can be found. IF this in truth De our on
ly hope, better at once "give up the ship Than
attempt as sailors say, 10 fight her. there WI,
be no illustration of Mr.. Madison's beautiful
figure. no humanity tearing down me co'ors
tina, vaior had nailed to the mast. Inc very
name is ominous. In is greatest energy as i"'
tended, il is but paralysis oil human industry
In treating of this measure Of coercion, cam
no, hut regret, that analogous circumstances,
i%nown 10 the present generation, and which
have only just become subjects oil history, seem
to he en'ir,ly forgotten. The great error oil
napar,e's governmcn, fom Inc eii'Its 10
sustain which, many believe, all MS m'''or :
tunes may Be traced, was this very sys'em-.the
attempt TO exclude British manufactures from
con,inental Europe. need not refer to ms
tremendous power, lis awful police, as scrun-
ming, almoS, as certain, as death. Europe
,remGed beio"e him. With spite against
England. q which all France participated, and
relieved rom al! the EMBELLISHMENTS aud de-
Laws, incirnt so free institutions, IN bringing
criminal law 10 beer against offenders. he had
but 10 will il, and his interdict was perfect
Few, if any, viii deny thai, With MS means, his
rl.k was easier than Gus can be; yet his failure
was most signal. Have we also forgot the ell
forts Of our own legislatures 10 prohibit the in
PRODUCTION Of slaves? 1t may be replied that
the law was contrary to the disposition Of the
people, does tina, apply also 10 the present law,
in,erdictins free persons Of color from entering
the State, and slaves returning from beyond the
Potomac? The associations formed IN Charles
ton and elsewhere, 10 enforce the first, can best
tell how lily the law is executed; and as 10 the
last. perhaps there is not a country gentleman
Of any Of the districts, who ight not give evil
dence if he would. There is anoiher piohl-
bitory law, dependant on the same means tor
execution, and with which, am sure, the dis
position Of society accords fully In every
town, village, and probably neighborhood, there
is certain description OF hucksters, whose
practices m " be called land priva,eerIng; hey
literally prey upon the agricultural interest,"
from one end Of the State 10 the other; and a
galnsl whurn ,ha Law "ni in blood,
certainly in severe penalties. W. may see their
back doors open every Sunday, and every night
that we choose; yet SO rrpulslvr is the hrst
sep towards their pun shmen', we submit TO be
mallrea,ed and robbed, and our slaves demo-
relized, rathe' than sustain II. How is 1t, ihGt
this law too is almost dead letter? Simply
because ii is morally impossible TO melt down
the Southern character into iha, Of an informer.
II is not irrelevant to the subject, to ask the
gentle men Of the bar whether there is that in
rnsic diff renee in The domestic fabrics Of the
States, mot household manufactures by which
he good, OF New England can be Distinguish
ed from those Of New York and Penns ylvsnia;
or of these las, from those OF Maryland, Fir-
gInia or North Caro!inai VIII, ther Kentucky
horse may be known from one raised in Green
hriaf county, Firgluia; or hog OF Buncombe,
from one OF Tennessee? 1t is quite inmate
ri,l where the line Of interdcl shall 5e drawn;
the Roanoke, Potomac OF North River; il would
seem, il must be drawn somewhere, 10 Justice
10 ourselves and our friends IL such dis,inc-
ton does not exist, and most clearly ii does not,
by wha, other rule will YOU discriminate them?
There is none But have been told, the sys-
TEN will be, to exclude ali domestic goods what
ever. shall not occupy any portion OF your
paper, with an attempt 10 drmonstratc-the
proposition is self. evident-ihc txtravagaDl in
justice Of involving friend and foe, saint and
sinner, in ons indiscriminate in,erdicl. only
ask, what is 10 become Of the other potent mea
surcs Of coercion, no absolutely recommended
by any body, but squinltd at by many-a Con-
vcntion Of the Southern S,ales 10 counteract
he Tariff? Having pro lifted tie introduction
O! the fabrics of any OF them. can man be
found in the State Of sufficient effron,ery TO ask,
in the next breath, that State 10 combine with
US for any purpose Whatever? II appears TO
me, this is fatal discrepancy indeed. 1t has
been asserted, with more freedom than discre>
ton, that ifthe Southern States would prohibit
New England manufactures, the tariff would be