The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-08-19

population will be interested. II is
this that creates throughout the State
such anxiety for the expulsion of the
Indians. 1t is, that the people ofGeor-
gia may sport away the Indian lands,
chat the people of the United States are
TO be taxed more than twenty-four mil
lions of dollars
Gen. Jackson exhibits the singular
spectacle of a President elected by the
majority Of the nation, yet govern
ed by the policy Of the minority. Ii
the people could hare forseen the
course he would pursue, he would new
or have triumphed by their suffrages.
What his opinions on the tariff in fact
are, il is difficult To ascertain. He has
professed himselfin favor of n judiciOus
tariff. "This means any thing or Moth
ing" In the Maysville message he APP
proves of encouraging such domestic
manufactures only, as tend to Rationai
ends.
When, last Spring, an attempt was
made to celebrate at Washington the
birth day of Mr.. Jefferson, by the most
violent opponents of internal improve
ments and the tariff, the President and
his cabinet attended. 1t was a politi-
cal dinner evidently got up for the pur-
pose of putting down the tariff and in
ternal improvements, and to give coun-
tenance to the nullifying doctrine. 1t
is impossible to contemplate that dim
ner, the Maysville message which
Ohortly followed it, the reduction of
duties at the last session, and other
contemporaneous circumstances, with
out believing that the President COIN
cides in sentiment with the party, who
are preparing to overthrow the tariff.
If any one doubts that this admins
tration is anti-tariff, anti-internal inn
provement, anti-western and anti-nor-
thern, and real southern administra-
ton, let him look at its composition, and
ask himself what counsels have the as
ccndancy. There is not member OF
the Cabinet friendly to the tariff. The
Vice-President, the Speaker, and the
cbairmen of the most important com
mittees are its open enemies. VINO
then will believe that this adminlstra-
ton is friendly to the tariff!
Discouraging as is this view of our
: affairs, still the re is nothing to create
despondency. The press, though ii
has been subsidized, is free-the right
Of the people to assemble and express
their opinions upon public men and
measures, remains unrestralned-the
!. elective franchise is still possessed,
though efforts have been made to con-
troll its honest exercise-and more
than all, the mass of the people are
sound and virtuous.
We believe that the general senti'
ment of the friends of civil liberty and
American industry in Fayette county
is, that Henry Clay should be distinctly
aud formally announcedas acandidate
for President. Two separate caucu:
nominations of the present chief mag
istrate have already been made. Cor
rect information received from almos
every part of the Union authorizes the
belief that our principles, and the mel
who will best maintain them, will bt
victorious in the next great politica
contest. The patronage of the gov
ernment, the presses which 1t ha
bought, the whole official corps whom
it has rewarded, and future expectant
of the presidential Office will be array
ed against him. But the people are OF
his side, he is bone of their bone AM
flesh of their flesh, he sprang from
them, and if every man in favor o
liberty and those great interests whici
his election will vindicate, shall pu
forth his strength and influence, tn
issue will not be even doubtful.