Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1828-12-29


pens oy the eager pursuit OF some favorito ob;ecto
carried away, possibly, hy TIC powerful eloorbnee 81
lcaptvaung address Off few popular than
Selves perhaps, influenced ~ tbs saihc mislcadinr
causes III the latter test Is TO prevail every new
Legislative opinion might make new Constitution. a,
inc loot OF e,ery new Chancellor would inako new
standard of measure ''''s a .t
IL seen, with no little surprise, that an a,tc,np
mas oscn made IN highly respectable quarter, and
length reduced 10 resolution fornallv n,o,oseJ !,
Congress. to substitute, for the mower Or ,oprss
regulate trade 81 as TO encourage anuiacturcs now
or IN the several States to do So with tho consent
that body; and this expedont is derived from claus
IN the texth section article first OF the Consnfon
which says: mo State shall, without the consent o
Congress Jay any impcss duties on imports or ex
ports, except what may be absolutely necessary 10
executing us inspection laws; and the ncs produce q
al cuties and npposis laid by any State on import,
ana shall be Tor toe use cit,e Treasury Of thS
United States; ard al such laws shall be subject I,
the revision aud control of The Congress-"
TO say nothing OF the clear indications in Tho Jour
nal OF the Convention Of 1857 that tho clause wa,
htenaed merely 10 provide for expenses incurred hy
particular Stutcs in their nsnectorlaws rnd !, si
improvements rs they nught choose to make in thei,
haroorsaad rivers, with tho sanctionec Congress
OBJECTS TO which the reserved power has been applied
10 several instances, ut the request of VIRGINIA nnd
SeoF gia--low could II ever be imagined that cav
wish to tax It's own trede for the cncou-
ragement of manufactures If possessed OF the aushe.
rity, or could, IN fact, do so, ifwishing il?
y tax or imports would be tax on its own con.
sunP,ion and the rot proceeds going, according "a
the clause, not INTO is Treasury. but into the
Treasury of the United States the State ,yo,Jd ~
itself separately for ehe equal gain of all tho q, b
States; and Is fa;' the manufactures so
might succeed ultimately increasing Tho s,o,t u,
niarket and low, Sir the price by competition this
saVahtssc also, procured st the sole expense of the
State, would be common 70 al ;ke Others
iSut the very suggestion suoh an expedient 20 any
state would have an air OF nockery, VIXEN lis ez7,e,
'nceG irnprEcticsblity is taken into view No one.
VINO recoecs or recurs 20 the criod when the Bower
over eonmerce was In the inl;gilual States, and
separate attempts were mads to- c4s, or otherwise
regulate It, need be told that the attempts were not
only abortive, but. b. demonstrating the ece sstv of
general and uniform regulations, rave the ORIGINAL
impulse to the constitutional reform which provided
for such regulations.
To refer State, thorefore to tie exercise of
power. reserved TO her by the Constellation tI,,
tnposSbili:y Of exercising which was an idrcenent
to adopt the CONSTITUTIONS is, OF ali remedial devices
the last that ought to be brought forward. Ard what
renderst the more extraordinary IS that as the tax
on commerce as far as could be separately collected
instead OF belonging to the Treasury ofthe State as
previous 10 the Constitution, would be tribute To the
United States, tho State would be in worse condi-
ton, after the adoption of the Constitution, than
before, In reference TO important itere ST. the i'm
provement OF which was particular object in adopt
ing the Constitution.
ofconsent to state tariffs favor OF state manufac-
lures, and the permitted attempts did not defeat them
Selves what would be the situation of States DERIVING
their foreign supplies through the ports of other
States Il IS evident that they might be compelled to
pay, in their consumption of particular articles i'm
ported, a tax for the common treasury, not common
to all tho States without having any manufacture OF
product OF their own, partake of the contemplated
benefit
OF the impracticablity Of separate regulations of
trade and the resulting necessity of general regua
tlonS, no State sensible than Virpinia
She was accordingly among the most earnest for
granting to Congress power adequate to the object
On more occasions than one in The proceedings of
her Legislative councils II was rcctei "thst the
relative situation of the States had been found on
tat, to require Uniformity in their reu-
letiono the oHy ctGtuI policy obtaining in the
ports OF foreign nations stipulation of privileges
reciprocal to those enjoyed by the subjects Of such
nations IN the ports Of the United States for provnnt
ing anmoslies which cannot fail to arise amonp the
several States from the Etel ference of partial and
separate regulations and fo deriving from commerce.
such aids 70 the public revenue as it ought to contri
butte, &c"
During the delay and Heterogeneous experienced
IN the attempts TO invest Congress with tho nocess,
~ powers, the State of Virginia made various trials
OF what could be dore by her individual laws She
venflred on duties and imposs as source of revenue
Resolutions were passed at time to encourage and
protect her own navigation and ship buIding and in
9S1"ti'Icoi SOpnElLS ana petitions IRON Norfolk
Alexandria and other places, against the mononoli@1
ing navigation laws of Great Britain, particularly in
The trade 5etreen the United States and The ByIt;sb
WeS' Indies, sac deiberated with purpose control
led only by ncficacy of separate measures, on the
experiment OF forcing reciprocity by prohibtory
regulations of her own See Journal of Housc Of
Delegates in 1885,
nc effect OF her separate attempts to raise rcvrn
nc by duties on Imports appeared in representa-
tons from her merchants, that the commerce of the
state was banshed by them into other channels. es-
peciay Of Maryland, where imports were less burden
CD than in Virginia. [See Do. for 1861
Such tendency Of separate regulations was indeed
too manifest 70 escape anticilation. Amono the pro
Jects prompted By the want Of Federal authority
over commerce, was that Of a concert first proposed
on the part Of Maryland for uniformity Of rennlo
TORS between the two States. and Commissioner
were appointed for that purpose It was soon per-
ccivcd. however, that the concurrence of Pennsyya
ma WIS esnecessaryto Maryland as Of Maryland IN
NIrgina, and The concurrence Of Pennsylvania was
accordingly invited But Pennsylvania could no
moro corcur without New York than MARYLAND with
out Pcnnsyivania. nor New York without the concur
renee Of Boston, &c.
Three urCfpcfe Ill a..