Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-12-16

RESTRAIN her a monenN from war, amer Ter
interest, her ambition, or her pride, b ginSto
urge her on. Its even less than Il was in
Queen AIMS time, in proportion to her
wealth and income. The heresy ofdelending
such a debt would he one thing: 10 losk al h
in connexion with her augmented means Of
revenue and aggression, and free from mis-,
conception under these views, is another. RI
her expenditure be excessive, beyond exam
ple IN modern times, so Is her power Of re-
fundamentally the latter, her credit i, The
consequence and the proof. On this subject
| once heard a grave senator OF Britain say
what may be here worth EepeatiDg. head
him. and it is not more than six years q
by, thank his God, that his country, hayif
borne the property tax once, could bear
gain, which, welding as it did, fifteen mil
lions sterling a year, would be good, he said,
for the interest Of at least three hundred mil
lions more that might be borrowed, in addi-
ton to their present debt of eight hundred
millions; and this without advcrting to other
and new sources of supply. Her government
could borrow now from her own subjects
more money in a few hours, than all the go
vernments in Europe could borrow from their
subjects in the lapse of months, probably
years. Even the loans made in other parts
Of Europe would be. under the assistance Of
DiIiLSb tulatdi, NfsNNkl) VI iChb1NSsJ ~sOAoSu
as they have been, more or less, for twenty
years past, esise they would be small lsansia
comparison 20 hers.
HBritain should get into a war, | am indu-
ced TO believe, however reluctantly, that shs
would impress our seamcn, under a revival
OF her unwarrantable claim to search tho
merchant vessels of other nations upon the
high sess, for her own. Should we get EN-.
broiied through this, or any other causes to
which the belligerent state of Europe would
open a fruitful field, then should we begin to
see IN new lights the true nature of our late
policy. Then would be apparent, our gain
from the protecting system, partially as We
have adopted it. | say partially, for it is a
misapplicatioa of terms to speak Of it as pro-
h%lbitory, or even rigid, when judged by the
example of nations that have gone before us.
Ii may seem strange, after all that has been
sand about the tariff, yet it is true, that, at
thus moment, Of the amount of foreign nler-
chandise, paying ad valorem duty, that We
import from all parts Of the world, zine tenths
oil 1t come IN u.derdutles varying from twelve
per cent. to Thirty three and one third per
cent. 1t is only one tenth that paws higher.
and this tenth does not pay over fifty per
cent. and SEINE Of il less. Let it be added,
that the an eaLorsn articles that we import,
exceed generally in the sum of duties collect
ed from them, the articles paying specific
duty. Still, we should reap in wealth and
strength, to the amount that we ha We sowed.
We should derive the proper value of cur
manufactures already fiourishing to some ex-
tent IN woollens,, 10 cotton, %in.iron; all ofwhich
would be immediately and adyantageously
extended and improved. Then, too, should
we begin to see, in new lights, our int, rnai
Improvements, made at the national cost for
the national benefit. Then should we see
bow they facilitated our intercourse, cheap
ened all our deienees, augmented all our
means. Then should we acknowledge the
wisdom OF those measures, and wish their Ak
%ecuiion, that were long since projected for US
ny able statesmen, by Albert Gallatin and
Mr., Calhoun, as ht to be accomplished by the
nations means; measures which looked, and
these were not all of them, to the csnstruc-
ton Of a well finished and durable road from
Louisiana to Maine, and to connecting Bos-
ton and Savannah by a well established line
OF inland navigation. Measures Of this char
acter are due to our proper advancement as
a nation, due to the destinies 10 which pa
ture and the glorious freedom Of our in.titu-
tons are reckoning US, if we, the prese ut
trustees OF them all, do not slumber over and
neglect them. We ought to be reused to
them, by casting our eyes to the high stand
ard Of competition before us in other nations.
There is "a race going on, in the world, Of
riches and power, as well as freedom, from
which sluggard nations will fall back, out Of
whose bright course they will be hooted.-
The prize Of the last, our fathers won for us.
and may it be imperishable. Let us do the
rest. They would have expected il Of US
Let us raise up. to the proper pitch Of social
and national exaltation the country which they
gave us. Else shall we be unworthy of such
fathers; else will they have done every thing,
and we nothing. Shame if we abandon mea-
sures of internal improvement when ths good
sense ofthe would is on our side, and after
majorities of our own people have repeatedly
come to decisions in their favor on the score
both of the constitution and OF expediency.
Having begun with them, let us 60 on, with
wisdom aswith resolution. They would form
the great highway Of a profitable traffic to US
In peace, and of our most important opera
tons in war. Every year, every day, they
would he leading 10 new Developments OF
our agricultural and mineral products, as our
ma nuiactures are beginning to DO; to which
they should be as inseparabie handmaids.
and in conjunction with which, they would
every where be enriching and cmbellishing
our land BY the states individually, they
will never be done. They cannot be done.
Unless the nation does them, they will re,
main forever undone, 10 our defrime Mt in
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