Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-07-21
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WSHcAh 3tc.sNtNNs, JULY 1872
Correspondence Re Ijir;G:-Thc following very
Interesting correspondence the Tariff, was sent us
III extra publications. from Pittsburg.
The preparations for another great struggle on the
p-otcctivc policy, busy and audible on all sides.
The aggression this occasion, comes from the en-
cunes OF The system Its friends are on the defcn-
stve They are content to let things abide as they
are, until cEpericnce demonstrates the wisdom or the
m'schievonsness of the policy, fully. The
sharp Zeal ot lis enemies will not brook the delay
winch experiment requires, but urges them attempt
~ once. Inc overthrow ef the whole svstCm.--
They will probably find its friends urrrcporct iar
tue encounter, or less superior in force than they
have pro!ed themselves in every conflict. We are
glad 10 ind one concession made generally, by both
friftics 1t Is, that terminate it may, thc battle
which IS TO bo fought at The next session Of Congress
VIII decide the fate of the great question Of ptocc-
ting manufactures, if not forever, least for the
present generation. If it is by It's friends re-
rhaiod victory will shaw the hopclcSsncss ofthe con
test and the repeated decision Of the AuIcriCuu pea
pie thri'gh their repi cscntatves, affirming the SAINT
sentence Of consttutionaty and expedicncy, vii: and
ought to be respected by all goods citizgns If its
enemies triumph, after many defeats and after the
system has had such length oftime 10 recommend
Itself, 1t VIII cvince such revolution n public opn-
i4n ought to lead to its abandonrncut ard 10 n
return to that Free TRADE, more properly speak
ing, that prostitution of national independence to
British rapacty, the benefits of which are so loudly
Vaunted by British capitalists and their American
factors. Ofthis latter alternative, we see no prob,-
hy Tor TO o!r apprehension, the protective policy
Is firmly rivetcd on the Judgment and affections of
vast majority of the American people "a majority
increasing every day, and which we believe at no
distant period, will embrace the entire Unien with
the exception OFFS Carolina and GEORGIA. and certain
Portions of The trading community. We hope the
idea will be steadily encouraged that the result of
the next Congressional enquiry will be final and that
whatever is then determined shall be deemed the de-
Aberate and irrevocablc decision of the pcorc that
the country at length, may have some respite from
the peculiarly deeterious fands cugendered by
question Of this nature, and that the policy of he u-
ton whether right wrong in principle, u,ay derive
the nutriment and vigor hieh perinanency ONLY
gan 81 Settled policy any sort, is better than
perpetual flctUaton between better and worse.
When it is known that three Of tie caDdlatcs
addressed Jackson men, their reply to the Pitts
burg meeting is little remarkable in merely
political point of view. The direct thrust at Mr.
Col!lount!l1 expressions 1.-The time has now arrived
when Pennsylvania, holding the balance of politica
power, should resist every effort to amper with, OF
destroy tie means by which she lives" that ssho
Iods the system too sacred to be connected with
P2,S"nai ambitions and too precious TO be sacrificed
10 the Of any man, ia 3ove On, 0. M oore,.."
That sit viii prcrta, let who will rise or ftU" and
tat 'whilc Pennsylvania will not consent that it
shall DC used rs the stepping Office, she
wili stcrnly proclaim, that he who would rise on
the ruins of our manufactures, shall expect no help
ing hand in his promotion, from this united Com
'nonweath" these significant EXPRESSIONS we say,
show that the political clements i'll Pennsylvania havc
already assumed new combinations and new afin
tics. That people nave at last imbbed serious alarm
'or the safety of policy which they were the first
:, recommend, and have been the most consistent in
sustaining, and for the first time to be bccorn
ng sensible of the suicidal effect of their attachment
TO men. lin the great approaching struggle, they
SHALL fad the whole influence Of the Executive Go
ecrn'nent urrayed against them and numerous JOS
facies from men who have no other opinions than
hcse ofthe rulers for The time being they cannot in
Justice blame any body any thing, but their own
iGatuation. They were warned that the wolf dis
guiscd the shepherd was entering the shccpfold.
They cautioned againlt the 'Ju,Iicious Tariff
and its advocate Bat our maxim is, never s'to cry
for split mix" bu consider the past rs OF no far
1Ss. con,squencc, than as it may cnlightcn the fl-
furc. We rejoice these decisive evidences of re-
turning rationaty in the people Of Pennsylvania, to
whom old democratic rccolcctions graphic us as
with 1ooks of steel We rejoice at the prospect Of
her throwing or tl3 degrading livery Of men, the
vassaiago imposed upon her by Interested dclaa-
gog9es and her own mistaken no.ions of the obHgg-
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