Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-12-06

system, nave Oecn Tepedie" Si'i@N :. |
Her population has been increasing faster thah I"
has ever done. Her towns, even London, enor-
nous as thew seemethbefore. have grown In size,
some of them, as London itself, almost oeyo'u
belief, whilst new ones have risen up; anu' "here
scarce fifteen wears ago you saw. IN the Co"nu''
heaths and commons, wild and sterile, anu 'he
abode of robbers, YOU may now turn your eyes
upun fields. and gardens, and manufactures. an"
schools The quantity of her grain OF all k'nas,
raised and sold at home. has increased grea''V
with the increasing amount Of her manufactures;
The whole momentum of her physical ami mora,
mower. in short. will be found to have advanced
in ratio, marking for the most part. the progress
of new, rather than old countries. Tier ar'"lts
and fleets. partaking of the general advancement
will 90 forth in greater numbers. ana 1hder mole
formidable equipments Of all kinds than here'o.
fore Her debt will not restrain her m""eh'
from war. after her interest, her amo'ion' or "e'
pride, begins to urge her on. 1t is even less 'na
/, was in Queen Anne's tlme,ln proportion 10 wei
| wealth and income. The heresy OF defending
such debt would be one thing. To look at II
in conpexion with her augmented means OF reve
nue. and aggression, and free from misconceptIoo!n
under these views, is another. III her expendi-
lure be excessive, beyond all example in modern
times, So is her power Of replenishment. vi the
| latter. her credit is the consequence and the
proof. On thus subject once heard grave Sc
nator of Britain say what may be here worth re-
pe,,inn. I heard him, and it is not more than
six wears gone by, thank his God. that his co"n
try. having borne the property tax once cou'o
hear il again; which, yielding as ii did. htteen
millions. sterling a wear, would be good, he SAID,
for the interest Of at least three hundred m".onS
more that might be borrowed, in addition to thei:
present debt of eight hundred millions; and TINS
without adverting to other and new sources o'
supply. Her government could borrow no"
| from her own subjects more money in few hours
than all the governments in Europe cou'd o'F'o"
from their subjects in the lapse ofmonths,
years Even the loans made IN other parts OF
Europe, would be under the assistance Of British
carital, directly or remotely afforded, as they
| have been, more or less, tor twenty years past,
else they would be small loans in comparison
| with hers.
Is Britain should get into the war. lam Undue
ed to believe. however eluctantly, that she would
impress our seamen. under revival of her un-
warrantable claim 10 search the merohan, vessels
of other natiuns upon the high seas. for nrr OWE
Should we get embroiled through this, or any
other causes to which the beigerent state Of Eu-
rope would open fruitful field then should we
bpoip to see in new lights the true nature ct our
late policy. Then would be apparent, gain
from the protecting system. partially as we have
adopted it. saw partially, for ii is Il misappi
cation of terms to speak of it as prohibitorv or
even rigid. when Judged by the example of ma
tons that have gone before Us. 1t may seem
strange after all that has been said about the ia
riff vet il is ethat. at this moment, IT the whole
amount of foreign merchandise, paving al valo-
rem duty. that we import from all parts OF the
world. nine-tenths of it come in under duties va
m hIrtv thrnQ am
one.third per cent. 1t is only One-tenth that
pays higher, and this tenth does not pay fifty
per cent, and some of it less. Let it be added,
that the ad raiorem articles that we import, ex-
coed generally, in the sum of duties collected
from them. the articles paving specific duty
Still, we should reap in wealth ard strength. to
the amount that we have sOwed. We should de-
rive the proper value of our manufactures, aJea-
DIV Furnishing to some extent N wooilens. IN cot
ton. in iron: all of which wdhld be Immediately
and advantareousIy extended and improved. -
Then. too. should we begin tOeee. in new lights.
our internal improvements. made at the national
cost for the national benefit Then should we
see how they facilitated our intercourse. cheap
ened all our defences augmented all our means
Then should we acknowledge the wisdom OF those
measures, and wish their execution, that were
long since projected for us by able statesmen. bv
Albert Ud!ldttn anu " >di''uuus 40 III w w
accomplished by the nations means; measures
which looked. and these were not all of them.
to the construction of well finished and durable
road from Louisiana 10 Maine. and to connecting
Boston and Savannah, by a well established line
of inland navigation. Measures of this charac
ter are due to our proper advancement as nation.
due to the deStnes to which nature and the glo-
rious freedom of our institutions are beckonlng
US. if we, the present trustees of then all, do not
sIumber over and neglect Them We ought TO
be reused to them, by casting our eyes to the
high standards of competition before us in other
nations. There is race going on. in the world.
of riches and power, as we'll as freedom, from
which sluggard nations will fall back; out of
whose bright course they will be hooted. The
prize of the last, our fathers won for us. and NAV
it be imperishable. Let US do the rest. They
would have expected it Of u.s. Let US raise up.
to the proper pitch Of social and national exalta-
ten, the country which they gave US. Else shall
we be unworthy Of such fathers; else will they
have done every thing, and we nothing. Shame
if we abandon measures of internal Improvement
,vhen the good sense of the world il ON Our SIDE