Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-10-19
Here wo have ..pse,nen Of eho poisoned honey


hg H. that Adam Smith, Say, Ricardo McCuloch, and
eoneh ohers, have written their able and rrefuabe
Teanses; And yet with all the lights Of the present
age WIN the testimony against this doctrine Of tho
eminent statesmen OF this and other countries, il is
graVey put forth, principle which ought 10 be
uspued that the imposing OF restrictions upon agricu
lure and commerce. increases the demand for tho in
duStry OF the laboring classes Now, will venture
TO assert, that there amongst the hearers of Mr.
Clay, single working or farmer, who ir the fol-
lowing questions had been presented to him. would not
have given answers directly subversivo of Mr. Ola IS
position.
lsit an advantage to you to pay tax of three cents
pound on all the sugar you i'm your family
that few sugar planters in Louisiana may be enabled
| to ride in coaches'
Is it an advantage to you that you should have to pay
tax oil 2Z liz cents every square ward OF flannel
green baze you may require for the clothing of YOUR
SELL wife, and children, in order that few stockholders
vidends'
Is an advantage to you that you should have TO pay
sx oil hve dollars upon every dollars you expend
IN Inc purchase Of wooon clothes, merely for the sake
OF enabling others TO grow rich, OF saving them
from loss,
Is it an advantage you pay tax of S37 per ton
upon all the bar iron used in building houses and
steam boats, and in agricultural and mechanics mple
ments?
Isit an advantage 10 you pay you do the whole
sale merchants prof, OF ten per cent and the retail
chants Proh oil ten or twenty per cent. more, upon
these very taxes, they being obliged, when they pur-
chase the goods to pay the tax, which is Away. ncud-
| ed in the price.
that's, IT be no advantage for on to be thus heavily
taxed, mustit not be a disadvantage TO you?
would yen nave as much money TO expend in other
onIects as you had not been thus taxed? if not
could you afford TO employ the industry of as many o.
Their people, as If the tax had remained i'm your pocket
now what is true in your case, is true in every body
c'ses. Taxation takes away from people the power 10
consume the products Of the industry Of others and if
you have to pay fifty dollars year more for thing. than
yea woud have 10 pay for them, if you taxed
you will have precisely fifty dollars less to expend upon
your own comfort Away then with the absurdiy of re-
presenting taxation blessing.
D. ihat sit adds power and strength TO Union by
new ties oil interest," blending and connecting together
MI It's paris and creating an interest with each in the
prosperity Of the other"
We think this position completely overturned, by the
Iacts oil the case. The American system so far from
adding power and strength TO Union is the very
thing that is at this threatening its dissolution
greater unanimity of sentiment has never prevailed
upon any one question: in this country, than that hich
now exists in six States in ard TO this matter
There is indeed wide difference of opinion a, TO the
mode OF displaying hostility against it, but we appre-
mend that the number Of individuals who are prepared
10 submit TO II as the settled poiicy Of The conf,y is
mere handful To speak Of il therefore as bond of
strength and power, is capital and suppose
mat 1t erer can become so, is, apprchend fatal de-
fusion, and such who aspres be at the head
OF this Government ought TO indulge in.
o. mat ut secures 10 our own country, whose skill
ana enterprise, properly fostored and sustained cannot
be surpassed those profits which made i'm other
countries, by the operation of converting the mate
rial into manufactured articles
oil our country should have represented them as moi
being surpassed by those of any other naton and az
being capable OF the fullest development without the
aid OF the miserable cruch called protection A free
people arc most skllful and enerprsng when their in
du'try is left unshackled and although even with the
cords and bandagcs Of restriction about them they will
still be prosperous, in the manner that man. az
ter the loss OF one of his fingers may still get his y-
ing at manual labor yet their prosperity cannot be as
great as II would have been, had perfect liberty en-
pIoyment been guaranteed by the laws, was by the
ConshutIon To suppose, therefore, that we can, by
restrictive laws, the profits of manufactures
rcsui in other countries from local advantages which do
not exist here, such cheapness of labor the low price
oil iron Tor machinery, and the superabunance Of cap-
tall is not less cmeca than suppose thai we could
ny raising tea IN lighthouses, obtain the profits which
the Chinese enjoy. II Mr.. Clay attaches any advsn-
tage TO the possessing of the material we can as
sure him. thai bar iron is in England than $50 per
TOM that wool is cheaper than is in this country where
hgh duties are imposed purpose 10 make DEAR and
that with respect 10 the article OF cotton the Liverpool
price is very seldom than cent per pound
higher than the Boston and Philadelphia price, which,
upon yard OF muslin containing one fifth of pound
is an almost imperceptibe advantage.
L. That sit naturalizes and creates within the bosom
oil our country, all the arts and mixing the farmer ma
huacturer mechanic, artist and those engaged i'm other
vocatons, together admits OF those mutual exchanges
SO conducive to the prosperity of all and every one free
from the perils of the sea and war;
Every person who will T. II upon TIE subject will
perceive that ~ every country where the soil j. cspa
babs OF sustaining the population by moderate inJur-
n.y. the great mass OF products consumed mus, from
X.
isence, therefore, Of farmers, mechanics, manufac,u.
rers, artists, and those who engaged In her pnr
suits, Is the natural state o. Society, ard ia no more
brought about by the protec ing system than the xis
fence OF lawyers physicians, AMI clsrgymen. Wher
ever there s land occupied, there must be farmer:
wherever there are Ia mrr. there must he mechanic
manufacturer, artists merchants & c. and whether there
were high duties. or lowdu'-s duties at all this
must always he The cases with this difference however
That tforewouId he more of them If the taxation vas
low, than II II was high. DID Mr. CLAY, by enpl,y. |
ing this language to the working N" Of Ciacinua.
H. intend to inculcate tie idea that the prices of TO-
reign goods to be reduced by the lowering of the
dn'ies, TO half their present prices The carpenters
brickayers. ma'ons paisterer', painters elazi.rs |
merchants, changers, cellar.diegers carter and
others employed in building houses. would he Injured
IN thcr business! Or, that The ste boat builders
steam engine makers, heat men, csnsl men, wagopsrs
aay men, and others concerned in preparing the me
OF Transporting the increased quantities OF four petk
beet lard, hams butter, wbi'key, and other produc.
tons OF agriculture which would he called for by TO-
reign countries, ,oouId admit their produefions
al foU rates NJ duty, would he losers by the reduction
81 prices! o., that the manufacturers and tadesmen
oil mat thriving and beautiful city, empbaicaly STYLED
me Queen OF the West. tho brswers bakers, book
binders, blacksmith', habers ceopers, COME ctenet
curriers', cabinet makers, ohsirmakeTs coppsrsniths
eoach-nak'rs, coach painters coach irimIntr. Overs
dstisr', grnmiihs, grave -dggers harness makers
ha'ter', innkespers joiners livery sisbs-ksrper, Ia
horers', milkmsn, miBers, msntau makers, milf
wrghts printers, PAYERS, pump papt a,ters
poers, hoemakeTo,s boilers saddlsrs
ialors, iobaccoDsts, tallow banders tnm.n tarner
uphosisrers, wheeI-wrghts, wood sawyers ma
kerS, &C. would be injured in their occupations Or
That any OF these people, that any OF the armers OF
Ohio, or the owners Of property in Cincinnati would be
doofin unf ualir 4