Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-11-19


portion of your politicians, who DESTROYS of keep
ing up the Tariff internal Improvement. When that
period arrives, and which must arrive within years at
the farthcst there will not remain single pretext for
continuing the tariff And have said on another
occasion, who can for moment suppose that e mil
lions of tho free people Of these u States will calm
y submit to have the direction ofthc whole of their
labor taken cut of their own hands and placed
under the management of the general government;
not to secure revenue for government purposes but
that the government may at ITS discretion parcel out
the profits of the labor OF one portion the Union
bes ow It ON those OF another portions! 1t will be i'm
possible for the politicians of that day to susta this
system beyond the extinction of the public debt
Nor can conceive it will then be necessary for this
state or any other 81 ale, tn resort to Secesso Null
!ncation or Cfnvenon. TO effect this object It will
be done by revolution u public opinion which is al
ready shocked at the absurdty on such system of
inequality and injustice.
These are evidences resulting from this state of
Things and facts, that form of themselves more than
an ordinary ground of hope But there have been
some advances that practical illustrations upon
this subject. Tho almost unanimous vote of Con
Sress during the last session for the reduction of the
duty on Tea- Cnffse and Cocoa. The decisive vote
tor the reduction of half the duty on salt and
molasses. The duty on molasses considered by
the grain growing States of the West, and by Penn
sylvania very important to their interests as il
cut off the distlation of Rum from tha, article and
prevented competition with their spirits distilled
from grain. The duty on salt considered upor-
tant to the interests OF many salt manufacturers in
oiina and elsewhere, who had expended large sums
OF money IN erecting their establishments to manu-
acture salt from sea water. The salt sprinns i'm the
interior OF the State of Now York have given en-
poyment and wealth TO considerable portion of her
citizens and clear revenue the treasury of tina,
state, 900 per annu The salt sprngs in the
State of Tennessee in the State of en- rcky and in
the state of Ohio. have been considered of immense
value to the proprietors The salt springs in the
Western part of Virginia, are owned bv men of
large fortunes, considerable family connections and
Of high and honorable standing, and of compandnu
Influence. This unity of interests in those several
States, had produced influence that had sustained
heavy duty salt for fifteen years But great and
powerful as that influence was and certainly was
greater influence than what any other in the
whole catalogue OF Tarf articles could boast. yet it
could no longer sustain the duty The march of
public opinion had unveiled the imposition aud tina.
part Of the system had 10 give way. And no man who
had examined this system thoroughly viii doub, for
moment but that this salt tax was the central uiIIa
in this Colossean Fabric.
4'his vas considered an irreparable breach in
tue SYSTEM and SO declared by gentleman of dis
ting ushed talents and high standing from the state
OF MASSACHUSETTS,, who was decidedly opposed to the
repeal or that duty 9he great State of II. has lost
her strongest motive for supporting the Tariff And
will not her able and eloquent statesmen naturally
look Tor the next best expedient to promote tho in
terests Of their State! And what better e,Dedicn,
presents itself than the protection of their oreipn
commerce, for which nature has been more than
boIntiful in providing the best ports and harbours
ia the world; and to which their habits are adapted?
When you take away the motive from SO large and
respectable portion OF the citizens of different
states, viii they not necessarily abandon system
that can be no '6heer useful to them. Will they
pursue the shadow when they have lost the sub.
stance! And are all those evidences that promise SO
much to be dsregarded, because could no. ca rrv
the whole system at once?
BESIDES all this, there is Strong probability that
some other States that have heretofore ed he
Tariff Will discover they have longer any interest
pm md l.,
w est India trade which for the last five wears has
been so ecctualy closed agains our citizens and in
which the New England States we're so deeply inter
ested now just opened upon the advanta geous
terms, by treaty between Great Britain and our gov
eminent. Phis vii restore a great deal of New
England capital to its legitimate channel commerce
" course it will be drawn from manufactures and
III tha' proportion lessen the tariff interest in that
quarter. New Hampshire has been anti riff tor
some time, if she was ever otherwise. Maine has
become decidedly opposed since tue late treaty. and
vas partially so before. She was greatly interested
IN that trade. Connecticut that was never very
warmly attached to the FarR system, had also much
OF her capital employed IN the West India trade -
AND there can be but little Doubt that her capt,,
VIII be again employed in that way. The New
England capital employed in that trade, was not the
large money capital of few rich merchants. It con-
sisted of lumber Of ell descriptions and live STOCK
such as mules, neat cattle, hogs and of which everv
fabourng man could furnish portion, and supply his
own household and live a free man Can we suppose
children under master, to be locked up 10 mapufac
tnrng establishments, subject all its evils, in pre-
ference to the pursuits of husbandry which now pro-
mise such rich reward! There are MANY men of
eminent talents in New England who are as mich
opposed TO the Tariff are, who are INCREASINGLY
bringing all these things into public view and giving
them effect. Mr. Lee of Boston wrote the ablest ex
position against the Tariff system that has ever an
Peared. And which has been the source from whence
many other essays and expositions, and speeches
against that system have been drawn. What is to
even Ohios If few rich captaiissare really nro
fitting by manufacturing, the farmers and graziers who
compose the physical force of the Union are evident
~ losing. whilst they are selling little flour and
little pork to the manufacurers they have driven
the cotton planters who sormerly bought their flour
their hogs their beefcate, their horses and their
mules, In great abhdance and at high prices to
almost all those things for themselves These are
Inducements for them to return the former state of
things The people of Missouri and Illinois have mo
inducement TO continue the Tariff except few srne