Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-01-06

Ouy an EnSf0nd
Tobacco the value of which in
America is Sd per ID. pays So Cd
Turn.ntine DIS 4
Rice l3s is 0
Ashes 18s
Timber l5s so 8
Wheat worth sea 80 9
The effect of this moderate scale Of duties is to
exclude from the British market every article the
produce of lands or industry of those States, in which
resides nine tenths Of the consumers OF British
manufactures. Is il for the the imposers efsuch duties
to rail America for not continuing to receive our
goods at Is per cent Let US try them with IS
per cent, upon tobacco, instead OF 49, per 10 before
we charge them a, wanting in reciprocal liberality
There are very absurd notions, originating in ig-
norante and want of reflection, as to the several
States having different interests, and the possibility
IF such States Georgia and Carolina existing IN
dependent of the Northern States-'These Southern
States, with their climate and slave population, can
never exist but as accessories to the country north of
them but so far from the balance of benefits be.
ing against the Southern. every advantage to be de-
rived from union is there. The Southern States have
the monopoly of the Northern markets, free of duty,
for their cotton sugar. tobacco, indigo rice. naval
stores, lead, &c. At the same time they have open
to them, the shipping and markets of all the world
besides! From the nature of their population, the
consumption of dutable articles in the Southern
States is small; the Of the Union really
levied upon the Northern States, whose produce IS
altogether excluded from England, and which, as
possessing the real power of the Union, and the
means Of protecting the whole from foreign agrees
son the Southern States should wish to strengthen;
but the Tariff itself gives the Southern States, in
addition to former advantages, what every year will
Ne of immense increasing consequences-the COM
Jl"te monopoly of the consumption Of cotton in the
whnle Union.
The very diversity of the produce of the several
States, causes identity, not diversity of inter-
ests-ook at the immense c0astlng trade OF America,
In proof of this.
The enemies of the rights of the many, will find
themselves mistaken in their expectations, if they
Iepend upon the violent resolutions which
times entered into in the Southern States. These
incorporate resolves, not being founded in reflection
justice, power, die the first explosion, and are
regarded by the reasoning States of the Union,
much in the light that this country views the resolves
OF Jamaica or Barbadoes
No idea is general than that the United
States will divide, and become the prey of Aristo.
crazy and Church Government.
81 strong are the prejudices of the people of old
countries, that Oh the most important question: they
appear to be all agreed without discussion; neverthe-
less. 1t would be nearly as reasonable to say that
tropical productions should sprout up in England,
as that system Of evil and moral abuses should
rise up in America without any one of the predis.
posing causes to which it owed its existence else.
where.
The germs of the feudel system never existed in
America. To the people Of that country, primoge-
nture, privileged orders, and State religion, would
appear quite as monstr0us resumption of trials
| BY ordeal would appear to the modern English