Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-03-23

| which persons feel themselves as much
bound to oppose proposition after it has
become the law of the land, as before. s
The bill of 1897, limited, as l have said,
to the single object in which the tariff OF
| 1924, had manifestly failed in its effect.
passed the House of Representatives. but
was lost here. We had then the act Of 1928.
need not recur to the history of a measure
so recent. Its enemies spiced It with what
soecer they thought would render it distaste-
fnl its friends took it, crugged as it was.
Vast amounts of property, many millions,
had been invested in manufactures, under
the inducements of 1924. Events called
loudly, as thought, for further regulation
to secure the degree of protection intended
by that act. was disposed to vote for such
regulation and desired nothing more; but
certainly was not to be bantered out Of my
purpose by threatned augmentation of
duty on molasses put into the bill for the
avowed purpose of making it obnoxious.
The vote may have been right or wrong,
wise or unwise but it is little less than abb
surd to a!lege against it an Inconsistency
with opposition to the former law.
Sir,as to the general subject of the Tariff
have little now to say. Another opportuni-
ty may be presented. remarked the other
day. that this policy did not begin with US
in New England; andyet sir, NewEngland
is charged with vehemence, as being favour
able, or charged with equal vehemence, as
being unavoidable to the Tariff policy, just
as best suits the time, place, and occasion
for making some charge against her, The
creduity of the publick has been put to its
extreme capacity of false impression, rela-
tive to her conduct, in this particular.
Through all the South, during the late con-
test, it was New England policy, and a
New England administration, that was aAict-
ing the country with Tariff policy beyond
all endurance, while on the other side Of the
Allegheny, even the act of 1928 itself, the
very sublimated essence of oppression, ac-
cording to Southern opinions, was pronounc-
ed to be one of those blessings, for which
the West was indebted to the generous
South"
With large investments, in manufacturing
ESTABLISHING nts and many and various inter-
ests connected with and dependant on them
it is not to be expected that New-England,
any more than other portions Of the country,
Will now consent to any measure destructive
or highly dangerous. The duty of the
Government, at the present moment, would
seem to be to preserve, not to destroy; to
maintain the position which it has assumed,
and for one, shall feel it an indispensable
obligation to hold it steady, as far as in nay
power, to that degree of protection which it
has undertaken to bestow. No more of the
Tariff.
Protesting to be provoked, by what he
chose to consider charge made by me
against South Carolina, the honourrble men,
Der, Mr.. President, has taken up new cru
SADIE against New England. Leaving Alto
gether the subject of the publick lands, in
which his success, perhaps, had been neith-
er distinguished nor satisfactory, and letting
go also of the topick of the tariff, he sailed
forth in general assault, on the opinions,
politicks, and parties of New ENGLAND, as
they have been exhibited in the last thirty
years. This is natural. The marrow pol
icy" of the publck lands had proved legal
settlement in South Carolina, and was not
to be removed. The "accursed policy" of
the Tariff, also, had established the fact of
its birth and parentage in the same State.
No wonder therefore, the gentleman wished
to carry the war, as he expressed it, into the
enemy's country. Prudently willing to quit
these subjects, he was doubtless DESTROYS of
fastening on others, which could not be trans
ferred south of Mason and Dixon's line. The
politicks of New England became his theme,
and it was in this part of his speech, think,
that he menaced me with such sore discom-
future. Discontinue! why, Sir, when he
attacks any thing which maintain, and
overthrows 1t; when he turns the right or
left Of any position which l take up; when
he drives me from any ground choose to
occupy; he may then talk of discontinue,
but not till that distant day.
What has he done? Has he maintained
his own charges; Has he proved what he
alleged? Has he sustained himself, in his
attack on the Government, and on the history
of the North in the matter of the publick
| lands? Has he disproved fact, refuted a
proposition, weakened an argument, main
tanned by me Has he come within beat
of drum of any position of mine? Oh, no,
but he has " carried the war into the enc
my's country" Carried the war into the
enemy's country! Yes. sir, and what sort
of a war has he made of it? Why, sir. he
has stretched drag net over the whole
surface of persisted pamphlets, indiscreet
sermons, frothy paragraphs and Tuning pop
ular addresses, over whatever the pulpit, in
its moments of alarm, the press in its heats,
and parties in their extravaganza, have sew
orally thrown of, in times of general excite
ment and violence. He has thus swept to-
gether mass of such things, as but that
they are now old. the publick health would
| have REQUIRED him rather 10 leave in their
state of dispersion. For a good long hour
or two, we had the unbroken pleasure Of
listening to the honorable member, while
he recited. with his usual grace and spirit,
and with evident high gusto, speeches, pam
phlets, addresses, and all the ct ceteros OF
the political press, such as warm heads pro-
duce in warm times; and such as it would
be discontinue" indeed, for any one, whose
taste did not delight in that sort Of reading,
to be obliged to peruse. This is his war.
This it is to carry the war into the enemy's
country. II is in an invasion of this sort,
that he fatters himself with sha avrartat;or