Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-09-01

OF the great Middle, Western and Eastern States
T lie is narrow politician indeed who looks forward
tothe downfall of the System Alter the ne st CEN
sus OF the~U. States, it will be placed upon basis
so strong and unmoyeable, that faction will spend
idle rawlings in endcavoring to dethrone it,
The people Of the tariff states canriot live without
market for the products of their labor. fall the
exports TO England, we ofhe South, with our tobae-
CO, cotton and rice, enjoy monopoly of at least nine
teen twenteths whilst of the imports from that coun
try we consume but an nconsiderable portion. We
are the last peoplein the Union who ought to COMPLAIN
of the tariff BY improving the home market with
out affecting the foreign, we should without it have
been infinitely more distressed and embarrassed than
we now are or ever have bcen By fatal repeal of
protecting duties who could aunt the misery and
distress to the nation which would ensue from the
prostration OF manuactories-ue ruin of Capitalists
and the turning out of thousands and tens OF thou
sands from employment. Should we receive more
then for what we sell or pay less for what we buy.
No man OF common understanding will answer in
the affirmative. On the contrary would not Eng
land who chiefly supplies US next to our own artizans
receive whatever her monopozing avarice and Gu.
pidty would dernand' We put these questions to the
serious and solemn consideration of the public
But 1t is not to Gen. Jackson's letters alone that
we are To look for his decided opinions on the ores
tons of encouraging domestic manufactures and in
ternal improvements. His votes in the Senate on
the Tariff OF 1924, represent bin, with his Secreta
rles Eaton and Van Buren, as supporting the highest
duties Which proposed and OH the bill for autho-
rising certain surveys which involved the constitutions
al power of making internal improvements, he voted
throughout with Eaton in favor of the measure CSce
the Cd vol Niles New Series With these facts
staring us IN the face we were moi lutte surprised
at the closing paragraph in Fridays Enquirer of an
article State Rights.
eve cannot dismiss these rapid remarks saws the
Enquirer, without expressing our hone that the
present administration of the Federal Government
VIII at he proper TINE, recoltect the great Repubii-
can school, III which the present President OF he u.
States educated. He was brought up in the
great school OF 98 and 49, He fought by the side of
the Republicans and the queries winch he addressed
to Mr., Dixon OF Tennessee pioce ,c,ut lis ,ia-
ciPics, how much attached he is to the stric inter,
probation oil the Constitution, and tn the Just rights
OF The states and of the fpople We hope IL. iue
season, tins administ ration will prove itself true 10 Mr.
lcffarson's principles-and will do all in it's power
to c'cmscr{6e the eIcrouchDeais II the Feerni loue,
and bring back the Government the first PRINCIPLES
OF the Constitution
HSurely there Is an ncnrahe madness IN tho pre-
sent times What these ear,,oactn,eais Of tie Fe
derat Fo,cer which Mr. Richie aud his puyiicuka,
school have been complaining of for years? Are
they not the Tariff and Internal Improvement
laws? Have any other roacl!mcnts been complain
ed of? If SO, wha. are they? And vet Presiden,
Jackson and his Cabinet, Eaton, Ingham and Van
Buren,, who always supported these cncroacilrnents
invoked by Mr. Richie to do all in their now
circumscri6e tiemj 1--WE DO no, say that ti,ev
will not do tive should be surprised at NOTHING
after the shameful and glaring upos;aces in public
men during the last four or five years-but what
will the nation think and say on the subject NWill
they not regard the abandonment of the American
System, by those who uniformly supported it--who
raised themselves to power its back as the most
shameless and prohgate aercliction of principle?
VIII old Pennsylvania, New York. viii Ohio remain
mute and patiently see the bread taken from the
mouths OF their citizens, for the purpose of feeding
British merchants and manufacturers? VIII those
who are interested IN the Cumberland Road, Io more
properly the Jefferson Road, since ne was is i6un-
Ger look quietly at its decay. after millions oflhc ma
tlonal treasure have been expended on il? We can
sea cely think that these things possible. The
TRUTHS, that the sct of State suts lhe minds
of our people have been kept i'll icversh and dis
tempered state by the arts of interested politicians.
The Ptrginia School sprung out of the odious and
memorable alien and sedtion acts, and its selfcrea
ted teachers and instructors have extended its doc
trines to other political for party purposes
Mr.. Madison, the founder of that school, has himself
rebuked their extravaganza. Mr.. Jefferson sanction
ed many of those measures which are now SO strong
ly denounced by such Gov. Giles and the
Editor ofthe Richmond Enquirer. We are much
the friends of State Rights as any man or set of
men, but we"cordialy despise those hypocritca pre-
fences to exclusive orthodoxy, SO common in these
days. We wish to the Federal Constitution in
tepretcd fairly, candidly and nsy-but we can
not subscribe TO the wd vagaries of Southern Hot
spurs, of such men Cooper and Hamilton and
others who would calculate the value of the Union
and PROSTATE its magnificent ark, because Of duty
on cotton bagglng and woollcn cloth "