Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-04-09


| a more solid currency.
| with Gen. Hayne had put the question plainly
VIII the honorable gentleman be good enough to inform
u. sinc,iy OF what use the North is to the Souh!-
what are the benefits derive from this Northern u
uioa! The South has joined in gratuous quarrel, to
defend northern interests; what southern interests
snch has ever required northern protec tion. These
Questions however have not yet been put so as to ELI
cit an iDtellgible reply.
Let us see then. perhap, may b. able to furnish
these northern gentlemen with lev hints toward uc
detail They will serve at any rate as "materials for
thinking in this part OF the country, whatever may be
| the northern estimates OF their value.
And trsf, all modern have their origin in terri
tortdt cupiIity; commercial cupdity, in mdnufactu.
ring cupdity. We are happily out OF danger from the
| first source.
The last with Great Britain was northern war
Originated in the clashng interests the unfair prac.
uces, the exaggerated complaints of the merchants
both countries, and their influence on ther respe
governments Ihe war-cres were free trade and sailors
rights, free ships, free goods sie-the accus-
toned trade, ard perpetual allegiance on the other;
ooth governments partakng OF the mercantile preudces
ana commercial eaousies that in fact originated the
contest Should we have another war (and nothing is
more probable) will be the result of
cupdIty on both sides. Naval superiority is oil itself
OF no use but to protect by the strong OF power,
mercantile and manufacturing speculatons. Persons
VINO are competitors, who pursue the occupations
and whose Interests in perpetual collision all
the world, are OF necessity liable 10 disputes On the
contrary perous whose dealings so different that no
competition can exist between them, quar-
rel
Hence, nations whose climate is the same, whose pro-
duce Is the same, whose pursuit. are the same,
whose customers are the same, who are comve-
hors in the same articles in the same markets
are liable to all the OF dispute which irr-
ted sei-in'erest on each sile il apt TO engendsr
ms IS the case with the ates north Of the Potomac,
ana Europe, V'reat Britain Tor instance.) They are
rivals in produce and in manufactures they are rivals in
Their commerce, they competitors in their shipping
anu IN me carrying trade on every sea. Quarrels and
wars, therefore, may be occasionally looked tor
them while these causes of dispute exist in activity
both sides OF the Atlantic.
The states south OF the Potomac raise nothing that
IS raised as staple in Great Britain. They manutac-
lure nothing that is manufactured in that country They
interfere with Europe in no market throughout tn
world. They sell what Grea, Britain wants, they wan,
what Great Britain sells With France their intercourse
s'he same. No source OF jealousy, OF rivalry, Of
quarrel does exist or can exist between the Southern
states and these foreign governments. England and
France are beyond all comparison the best the
SCUM possess Lett TO themselves, undsturhed
oil peace OF mutual benefits and good will would conii-
rue Tor at last century TO The South may be-
rs she has been drag gcd into quarrels by of her
connection with the North, in cases where she has re-
ceived no injury and has no just of complaint but
never can war upon the south take place but through
that northern cion II the not Tn is even now so
ready to quarrel with the south about her manu-
ac'ures, ~ an European quarrel improbable? Under
me present northern system OF manufacturing monopo-
~, restricted commerce, and projecting dues-Inder
the selfish feelings, unreasonable Aalouses and mutual
mist ust which that system is well calculated 10 ORR
ginae aid 10 noursh-peacc can hardly be counted up
on as oil hall dozen dura ion. The South there
fore is continually liable TO be forced into an unnatural
war, not with her own enemies but with her regular
cns'omers-n support OF Interests adverse her own
in support OF class Of politicians who for seven years
have constituted representative majority anil are like
y to continue majority that has bur,hened the in
dusry OF the south beyond all reasonable endurance
prosuaed her rights and sacrificed her interests the
plans OF northern monopoly.
or such wars, insgateh by northern ie aIouses and
undertaken for northern claims the burhen falls not on
the north tut on the south. All the war-expenditurs
ami Tie enormous profits arising from it. centre in the
north-the taxes expended for the enrichment
OF The north-in support OF northern and northern
manuiactures-affordng occupation and profitable EN-.
ploymen Tor the surplus population of tn. north /.
reasonable the South should incur the burhens and the
evils oil war for the benefit Of ton Of the Union
who treat the South with defiance and con,empt-Who
are busy every session in taxing without mercy for
their exclusive beneht-n reducing the value Of our
stapies-irritang our misunderstanding 10 lay
cut our earnings IN any manner that escape their
gTa'p-in perverting the plain meaning of our common
constitution for their emounent-in prosrratine
the fair and reasonable Influence of the south in the ma
onai councils, by voting down as utilities all the rights
oil minority: l. there common in submitting
to these injuries and degradaons? What kind of taste
Tor beauty must southern possess, who can fall in
love with ar Union that stares us with these hide
Gus features?
| may see these things with the iaundiced eve Of
The motives and 10 the wisdom Of able whose SEN
tinents are adverse may draw conclusions too vo-
Ieny, and express myself too har .hly. know, ac-
knowledge, am not the exclusive Judge of the validl-
~ oil my own arguments the Justice of my own ac-
cusations BE il Sc: let then the public Judge; | put
myself ieaiessly on my country appeal 10 South Caro-
lima; are these things as have stated them or not?
Here then is The first among the obvious benefits of
The Union to the South namely, perpetual liability
10 be dragged into the qnarrels instgaed by nohern
cupidy III supper, Of northern pretensions not against
our enemies but our consumers; wars in which the
south has no more real interest Than in the disputes be-.
tween the Tartars and the Chinese
Secondly We are indebted TO this Union for having
disburthencd the South Of sum of money which had
il been laid out in The South instead of The Norh would
have doubled the population, the produce the pr0sper
~ and the power Of the South hat been desirable to
nor thern politics that ha should be done. For Instance
South Carolina rays four mi lions Of dollars annr-
ally in taxes. The whole amount of custom hose lu-
ties levied in 1928, aboat % Ia millions 1929 az
much On the average, since the Revolution, during
the last 81 years South Carolina has spad 60 10
millions of dollars to the L Siaesof which il will not
be easy TO show million laid among the people
upon whose industry it has been rased.-yNuld uesti.
gid retroTSui; OF ii returns. The greater part Of
this sum has been expended, 10 protect northern
commerce, and fortiiy northern harbors; 10 equip
leets and armies in northern ports and towns, by
employment Of northern industry; to pay northern
bounes and drawb icks alswives. anil herring
and other northern notions; TO pay pensions with
out humber; TO strengthen, enrich, and beau,fv
nook and corner Of northern 'o; 10 swell the purses Of
northern monoposis; and to build up grasping doi-
nering northern aristocracv Of northern nobility The
predominant maioriies in Congress- wor.hipers Of the
American System, contemplate yearly increase tn
the protecting du'ies, long the Sorh shall he A.
bic aud willing 20 pay them, for the benefit OF the
North.
request Of Mr. Webster In set down this item o.