Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-06-09
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TUESDAY MORNING, June %, 1890.
u AT this tirpe when the trumpets ure raliyiny
the forces OF the enemies of the Tariff for grand
assault upon the protecting system the next session
OF Congress, aud when it is boldly proclaimed that
the authority of the President aud his Ministers
IS to be arraycd against protection it is wise in the
American People to look abroad und especally nj
England. TO see in that country the conclusioSs Of
long experience, upon state of things not dissirn-
lar to that which prevails in own country. THE
silk trade was the first and considerable selected
for Mr. Iiuskisson's experiments in "Pree Trade.f
The consequences are sufficiently set forth in the
Debate in the House Of Commons which We publish
to-day. The silk trade is adone up" and hundreds
of thousands operatives who drew their subsistence
from that branch of manufactures, are starving In
1924 d. since, the enemies of protection and the advo
Gates of the misnamcd Gree Trnde" system pointed
tothc PRINCIPLES then newly proclaimed by Mr. Illus
"se" a',. English poty, and smear,
iigy asked # the letters of the protective system
were to be rvcttcd on tho u States. ut the vc,,
moment that England after the experience of cnnto
riea was struggling to emancpate herself from them
i'ihere were not wanting sagacous Statesmen in this
country, who pronounced Mr. Huskisson's doctrines
from the beginning, fetch, to arrest the progress Of
protection 10 this country, and other parts OF the
by pretending that the experience of Enqand.
had at last detected the false principles upon which
The system of protecting manufactures proceeded
and that her Statesmen resolved to repudiae it.
1t this idea were successfully incnlcated. other na
TONS would abandon their infant manufactures to
perish for want of protection. and ENGLAND wonld
regain her monopoly of supplying the world. But
whether Mr.. Huskisson was sincere or not. in hs
Free Trade principles and in his attempts gradually
TO introduce them and unshacklo British commences.
what have been the results Of his experiments as far
as they were made, Unfortunately for the silk man
ufachrers' their industry was pitched upon us the
SUBJECT and that once Furnishing branch of trade is
consequently laid in rnins Other causes for their
ruin arc indeed assigned but if as is certan they
eminenty flourishcd under projections and have fall
len into "the and yellow Leaf the moment that
protection was withdrawn, or Jeff insufficient there
can hardly he two honest opinions on the question.
We refer to another part OF the paper for the Debate
Tie score compiete.-George w. Hill, editor of
the Vermont Patriot, to be Postmaster ut Mont
pelicr, (Vermont,) in place of J. Y Vail, reu,oocd
Mr.. Hill is the Goth editor upon whom Gen. Jack
son has bestowed Office lie is the brother of Mr.
Isaac Hill of the .Nsw Hrmpshiye Patriot, made Cd
Comptroller of the Treasury. What pdtriotc ia.
mily the Hills are.
When Mr. Clay, in 1927, transferred the public
printing from Kendall of the Kentucky Argus, and
Hill ofthe New Hampshire Pat,.iot, to two admins
iraton editors, has the public forgotten what ter
rIoie Tout Mr.. Richie and his compatrots made
about IT. How they charged Clay with bribing and
subscribing the public press, and what CONSERVATION
they were IN for the public liberties, so mainly de-
pendent upon the purity and freedom of the press?
Where are now Dir. Ritcbies alarms and Jerefliads?
Fhc gentleman is mute. Twenty editors have been
made salarled officers upwards of 100000 are an
distributed from the public Golfers among these
20 cdltors it is plain that the presses whose editors
are thus feed by Gen. Jackson, neither are nor can
DC free and independents yet all these circumstances
have not been sufficient to extort from the consistent
SIR Ritchic, one syllable Of disapprobation!
Pire Ia baS1ieltel-Tbe Editor of the Alexandria
Gazette thus humourousy gives notice of his inten-
ton to apply to Mr.. Clay for "rewardp-a la mode
The Jackson Editors Ie must not expect to escape
tire wrath of the independent Mr. Richie if he sue
coed. When Clay becomes President, all Mr. Ritch-
les fears for the liberty of the Press will return.
Know al men BY these presents. Whereas the
president IT TIE United States, in his wisdom, has