Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-08-31

eveu mas princpal y Tor its object /" 10 make known
the general government, through its representatives
and by some formal expr ssion perhops the opn
ions OF the great majority OF the Inhabitants of Io.
ton on the measures which have been pursued in re-
Iaon 10 foreign trade for years past, and 10 show
lit strong but true colors the desterous ,ct these
measures have their concerns" The writer Aft, ms
that many of those who have had doubts in relation 10
The anli-commerciai policy have them no longer and
tina, the friends Of free trade Determined hy all hon
orabe means to come at the true OF their fellow
citizens on this very important subject. We hone this
jeerm ma ion has BEEN taken up aud will be pursued ia
good earnest This is course which Boston ha1 long
owed TO herself II, as the writer in the Boston zet,e
asserts, great majority OF the citizens OF that place
the side OF free trade, they ught TO give effect to
representative TO Congress- Th-re il political ques
ton at this moment OF more Importance, has there
heen for th"se ten years Hitherto, however, il does
not seem TO have been considered in the Boston cleo
tons. Questions OF mere party organization seem to
have kept cut OF sight. One might be led imagine
from the aspect OF the elections there either that il
was thought matter Of too liule importance TO be
ken into the account in the selection of candidates or
tina, the doctrines OF the American System met with
snch general acquiescence, that its opponents saw
possibility Of success IN Y. Z. Post.
The eleventh number of the Southern Review has
Just come 10 hand, and is lying before us. We
have not, OF course, had time examine it's coutents
which, however judging from the titles of the articles
and very cnrsory glance at two or three of them,
as various and interesting heretofore The FIRST place
in the number IL given TO essay agraran and edu-
Gallon systems i'm which the enes aud theories of no
less than six different publications considered viz
" Popular Political Economy" by T. Hodg skn; OBJ
servliions on the Sources and Effects OF Unequal
wealth." by l.. Bylesly; " The Rights of Man 10
Property" by Thomas Skidmore; E-says on Educa-
ton, from The Free Inquirer for May; the same in the
New York Daily Sentinel; and The Friend of Equal
Rights" ephemeral newspaper of which very ic W
numbers published in this city, whep, believe,
II was suddenly discontinued. The second article of
the present number is on the history OF Creek htera-
ture; the third is entitled Memories NJ Pair de
France the fourth, Ben Johnson's Works; the fifth
PhySiOiogie DIES Passions; the sixth Debate on Mr.
Roots Resolution; the seventh Halls Familiar Letters
OF Milton and the eighth the American system There
Is also an appendix, containing letter from Dr. Web
ster, i'm reply 10 review OF his Dictionary, contained
in the tenth number of the Southern Review, and the
ronder OF the Reviewer Some of these articles from
the nature OF their topics will require from imine-
date attention. The one on the American System is
written in tone and spirit which must command the
cordial approval Of every reader in this part Of The
try, and which we trust will not Re without salutary
effect wherever the candid and correct of the
thor are perused We copy to-day the Introductory re-
marks OF the writer abiding and in deserv-
ing OF all praise, 10 topic Of exceeding interest which
we are happy to see so treated in such quarter.
III the signs Of The times not less he relied
than they ever were in any political conjuncture,
issue Is likely TO be made up in the councils OF South
carolina, which no man-who has either the head or
heart Of man-can contemplate without anxiety and
alarm We shall take it for granted, in what have
10 cay upon this subject that readers feel do
IN rela ion 20 the unspeakabv important interests
voved in this discussion We shall give them credit
oT tull share of that generous sympathy, OF those
it, il hey aGR RS R.aG!i9nal feelings, which
Revolution. We shall suppose that the blood Of broth
ere, poured out freely in defence OF each Others
hearths and homes-and no where freely than in
South Caro!ina-does not cry TO us in vain from the
ground which it hSs Grated forever. We shall
take it for granted that if the Federal Government may
not still be pronounced as all once taught to
consider H. perfect model Of political wisdom, the glo
~ o! land, the c0nsolng hopes and example of all
other lands il s at least better than any substitute for
it, as yet thought of by the few the very few persons
amongst us who have avowed themselves lite enemies
nxrfI Oh a..
with us in the opinion have than ex-
pressed, that the rares thing in the history of man. and
the hardest thing in nature to preserve popular gev
eminent worth living under-that of all revelations.
the issues wrapt up in darkness and full of peril
cause il is not in human wisdom direct, in human
strength to control their courseanh that 10 justify
in subecng the dearest hopes of millions already born,
and hundreds Of mi liens yet be horn to the tremend-
Gus hazard of CONFUSION, in which those who only
thought TO g sow the wind" may chance to reap the
Whiriwind" as wise men, vrtuous and console Dtou
TO speak Of Chrsan-men, we should require an
extreme, and, otherwise, hopeless of wrong and
suffering to he made out and should be ready the
other hand to sacrifice peace. Offering almost any
merely pecuniary in'eTsst-Iuch more an imaginary,
or at least disputed interest in theoretical experiment
al policy In short, shall address ourselves those
and 10 those only who know and feel the value of pOp
lar government and OF that libery-,hat only liberty
worth the which the most sublime OF its apos
ties and confessors has characterized irrational IL
berty'-" that always with right reason dwes, anc
| from her hath no individual being"
Let il not be inferred from our ndnging in this strain
that have changed any ofour opinions or abaied one
io or tle OF zeal 10 bring back the government o
the United States 10 what conscentously believe e
be ,s true principles. Rather let the very reverse b.
inferred The dangers with which the present crisis
to he pregnant undoubtedly had their origin in viola
ton OF those principles. eve shall endesvor 10 she
this more clearly hereafter; but in the meantime, with
ont going into details, appeal 20 all thinking len
wins Their there has not been for the last fifteen years
too much Legislation at Washington. We do not speal
party men, for know that this censure lights upor
the heads Of some Of our best rends-tha it, in a man
ner, lights upon our heads well upon other PEG
pe's But this makes diff ,rence in the conclusion
to which all considerable min }s coming from com
prehensive and deliberate survey, in the clear light
experience OF the general state of government an,
country. We happily able 10 vouch witness above
all exception. We call W, with equal pride and graft
tude TO the support OF opinions and Of what con
ceive to be the interests of the southern states Ina
great whose genius has formed era in the tera
history Of his country, and whose virtues are admit
ted by his adversaes Ia be quite equal to his ge
nius. In admirable article, published some tim
ago in contemporary Journal, that excellent psrsor
has gone fully into this subject that he has LET
very little 10 he added TO bis mastery view OF H. r.
has " calculated the value of the Union"-bui he ha
done So at once with the wisdom Of sage and the no
thinks. and Isy thinks, that the preservation OF tina
magnificent scheme Of liberty ard peace ought to b.
the capital object Of national policy, TO which all o,he
oljscts, however lmportan in Themselves, should b.
made to YIELD without reserve. rB
We spoke, tbe other day, in terms of cordial appfoys
Of the temper and tone Of the article in the August mum
her ofthe Souhern Review, on bepubec of the Tariff
give abstract Of the views aud arguments Of Tho
writer hut this could not DO, without occupyinq
greater space than il compatible with the necessary
gree Of variety. The " Fedcrast," has often beer