Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-09-03

tons and mapufacturss Consider her haprovaa ms.
Shlnery Consider, then, all this power combined; and
men ME- u say that we prepared and able 10 os
ter his psea do american SYSTEM against such splendid
power, such splendid poverty splendid degradation
Gould we then require a stronger proof Of Mr. Cay's
own insanity, than by advocating a System which is
fraught with so much folly and inius,ice.
Each nation has IL own peculiariues and adyan
tages The soil, the climate. labor, capital, SC. Of
each Is different They flourish best by the old prin.
cipe Of Division Of Labor You might az well expect
that each man should make for himself oil hat he
wants his own clothes, food, lodging, his boots, pins
&c &c as that each nation should make for itself oh
mat at wants. Am dependent upon my boomaker for
making my boots-or Is he dependent upon me for max
ing ms bread! Are the U. States dependent upon
rance Tor raising US Burgundy and Champagne-upon
Onlna or raising US teaupon the Molucca islands for
spice-or upon Great Britain for cassmeres and ohs
o sue not as auch dependent upon for raising
eouon We are more OF agricultural people than the
English-and they are more Of manuiact,riny peonle
Not that c. b. not calculated for great deal of ar
culture, and we tor good deal of nanuEac urng; -6ut
she Is absurd In the enactment oil her corn laws and w
even more so in Tariff laws. Let ne alone il the
language OF common well as sound Political
economy who is wiser in the making of boots and of
clothes, than the very engaged in the business,
Are the men at Washng,on! Does Mr. A. r. mr. g ]
members Of Congress, know better what suits INV in
terests, than MYSELF Is the government wiser than
me naton-the servant than the master? IL has bean
well said, that good business needs no artificial pro
lection; and that if il does need it, does deserve it
Does TINS government pretend TO tell us how much
breadstuffs, how much tobacco, flax and potatoes we
TO make-hen why does il interfere with our looms
and shuttles We must have many of theses and there
Is no fear We will get them. We were coming on We
ry well in manufactures, before the Tariff was
iaid-and now is stimulating the country arti6ciay
10 extravagant speculation the part and oppres-
sive taxation the other. The odious Tariff causes
one part to make too much Of hngs; and her
part too little Of others.
How much more wholesome and genial the influence
oil light duties and extended commences than this forced
and infiainmatory stimulus, resulting from artfcialy
patching particular interests-by an karbitrary in.
reference with the domestic concerns of a free people
those concerns, which intended to be left TO
the management Of the People, and TO be gulacd by
themselves. AMI one OF the consequences Of
this American System is that it alters the very charac
ter OF our Federal to break down
he barriers which separate its powers from thcRighs
iof the Staes-ntruding. like the very frogs of Egypt
into our ovens and into kneadng ghs-threaien
,ng us with consolidation with dsnon and divil-
Ing one great people into oppress0rs and into insurgents
And who is the aIthor OF this false American Sys-
lem OF Political Economy! Henry Clay--a man who |
has so badly managed his concerns aud il poor
an economist at home that he conesses his own fences
ara broken down, and his corn-feds run with
stalks! SENTINEL.