Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-02-26

Ill ~ LIZ" .n.n,e co.opera.es with Others who
bear mart The other considera'i0u 100 no
the United States have the means 'hey ~
the revenues deri, Cd from commerce, e"u
States have no abundant ana easy
nublic i,come. The custom hous's Nil 'he Be'
n, raj treasury, while The States have sean'y re-
sources EXCEPT by resort TO heavy diree' 'aAe''
Under This view of things, ! thought IL h.ces
sary 10 settle, a, least for myself, some denhi'e
notions. with respect TO the powers OF 'o'e'"
men,, in regard 20 internal affairs. l. may "o'
SAVIOR TOO much Of self-commendahon 'ore
mark, that wi h this object, ! consihereo INC
constitution its judicial construction 10
:emporaneous exposition, anc the who'e "''
~ Of the legislation of Congress under II; a"u
/ arrived al the conclusion, that Go'e'nmen,
had mower 10 accomplish sundry objects, or aid
10 their accomplishment, which are now com
monty spoken Of as INTERNAL IMrRovEMENTs
That conclusion, sir, may have oeen righ', Of
i, may have been wrong. | am not ABOUT 70
argue the grounds of il al large say ohIy'
tina, it was adopted, and acted on, even so cary
as in 1915. And now, MIR. President. nave
further TO say, that made up these opinions
and entered on This course OF. pol'ical conduc',
7sucro Duce, Yes, sir, pursued, in all this,
South Car lina track. o. the doctrines oil IN
ternaI improvement, Sou'h Carolina, IS sue
was then represented in The other House, sci
forth. in 1916. under fresh and leading breeze;
and was among The followers But it my
| leader sees new iighrs, end turns sharp COR
per. unless see new tights also, keep straight
on In the Same path. repeat, that Leading
gentlemen from South Carolina were hrst ana
! foremost in behalf Of the doctrines OF lntersa'
improvements, hen those doctrines + st came
to be considered and acted UPON in Congress.
The debate on the Bank question:, on the iarin
| of 1916, and on the Direct Tax, will show VINO
was who, and what was what, at that ims.-
| The Tariff Of 1916, one OF the plain cases OF
oppression and usur patton, from which. II the
! Government does not recede, individual States
NAV Justly secede from the Government, is, SIR,
in truth; a South Carolina Tariff, supported by
South Carolina votes But for those votes, II
could no, have passed in The forh in which 1t
did pass; whereas, if il had depended on Mas
sscbuset,s votes, il would have been lost Does
not he honorable gentleman well know all this!
! There are certainly those who do, full well,
know il all. do NOT say his 10 reproaoh SCUM
| Carolna; only slate the fact, and l think Il
will appear 10 be true, tina, among the earnest
and bodies, advocates Of the Tariff as mea-
sure Of protection, and on the express ground
of pro,cc lion, were leading gentlemen oil South
Carolina in Congress, did not then, and can.
MOI now, understand heir language in any 9TH
err sense. While this Tariff Of 1916 was under
discussion IN the House of Representatives, an
honorable gen leman from Georgia, now in this
House, (Mr FORSYTH, moved TO redace the
proposed DEFY on cotton. Hr failed by four
votes, South Carolina giving three votes,
(enough to have turned The scale) against his
melton. The act, sir, taen passed, and received
on its passage the support OF majority OF the
Representatives OF South Carolina, preseat and
voting. This &C, is The FIRST, in The order OF
those now denounced, as plain usurpatiors.-
We see il daily in the list 10y the side OF those
Of 1924, and 1928, as CASE OF manifest op-
preston, jus,ifyine disunion. put II home to
the honorable member from South Carolina,
tina, his own State was not only ART and par
in this measure but The caus1 Cnusnns. With
GU, her aid this seminal principle Of mischief,
this roo, of Upss, could not have bees planted.
l have ALREADY said, and il is true, that this act
proceeded on The ground Of protection Ii in
,srfered, directly, with existing interests Of
preat value and amount. II cut up the Calcut-
"a trade by the roots. But il passed, neverthe-
less. and il passed on the principle Of protect.
ing manufactures, on the principle against free
trade, on the principle oppo'sd 10 Moi whieh kts
US alone Note 2.
Such, Mr.. President, were The opisions Of
| importan and leading gentlemen from South
Carolina on the subject OF In,ernal improve
mrnt, in 1916 I went out of Congress The next
year and returning again in 1923, thought
found South Carolina where ! had left her.
really supposed that oil things remained as
they were, and that the South Carolina doc
tr,ne OF Internal Improvements would be defen.
ded by The same eloquent voices, and The same
strong arms, as formerly. In the lapse Of these
six years. il is true, political associations had
ASSUMED a new aspect, and new divisions. A
party had arisen in he South, hostile to the
doc rrine of internal improvements, and had Wig.
orously attacked that doctrine. Anti>consoIi
dalion was the fag, under which this party
fought, and It's supporters inveighed against
Internal Improvements, much after the manner
in which the honorable gentleman has now in.
Weighed against them, as part and parcel Of the
system Of Cons olidaiiou. Whether this party
arose in South Carolina herself, or in her neigh
borhood, is more than know. think The lat
ter However that may have been, there were