Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-07-21

people, know what is for their interest, and If thcy
systematically and tenaciously pursue 4 certain |
course and if besides, that course brings overflow
ing prosperity, must suppose, that they have
not mistaken their interests.
We arc frie ably to the Tariff. What personal a
interest can have, to embrace that side of the
question: Do get subscribers by ii TO our paper'
No-but we lose them. Arc we engaged, or any
of our kindred, in carrying on manufactured Not
so. Have political purpose to subservc by lit
Surely that purpose if it exist, would be better
promoted by Ginning in with the known and great
| ma iority-fattsripg their prcjudiccs as we SEQ
others do, and laborng to perpetuate, instead OF
| TO remove them. Why then should we be friendly
| to Tariff Because honestly and intensely
believe that il is for the permanent interests and
| independence of the country: Because we believe
the people of the South, have been wilfully mslsd
| by men who possessed their confidence, and who
got up this tariff excitement to WELD il for ambi-
tious and Presidential purposes. Because we be-
lieve, that if the South would engage in ,narufac-
lures, and draw off surplus capital aud surplus
labor from Agricultural pursuits, that agriculture
relieved from the pressure, would rlso her droop-
ing head: Because think it more wisc, beneficial
aud patriotic, to disburse the same amount of mo-
ney at home, than in England: Because sure =,
| II virginia would engage IN anuloCtufes hRe
Pcnnsyl vania and Massachusetts,, that like them,
she would flourish as garden: Because we do not
believe that hairspttcrs like P. p Barbour, know
better what the constitution is than James Madison,
who made it; and therefore derpisc the light
and new tangled doctrine, of the unconstitution-
atty of the Tariff These fe,r of
sons: e psu-it~s hunnr. We cannot in the limits
of newspaper, and between the hours of 8 and
| IL, A. NJ, to which confined, pretend to
assign oven outline of the great arguments of
experience, which have demonstrated the utility
and the wisdom, of the protecting policy But
are for holding to the Tariff in all its parsi
Noalthough convinced that it is for the great and
general good. Give up erery thing for peace
union and liberty. If portion of our brethren
think they are oppressed, even though it be
than the natural effect of peace in Europe, south
ern Incidence, and southern extravaganza, yield to
their mistake and to their prejudicos. Whosocver
lives to the Union dissolved will see this coun
try and especially Virginia, the most dreadful
abode for civilized man that the sun shines upon
Virginia from her geographical position, and natural
military strength, would be the Flanders upon
whose blood-stained soil, the North and South
would contend for Empire. Any sacrifice then to
maintain the Union.
But we beg to rctort tho question upon our cor
respondent Can he possibly believe that the per-
sonal & peculiar interests of the manufacturers who
probably to the people of the United States are in
proportion of one to one thousand, are the only in.
terests which the friends of the tariff consult in le
gslation, that their interests, if hostile all
other interests could have prevailed, all Others
where all others equally represented, s. free to
combine against the common enemy? Impossible.
The fact proves that in the opinion of the people of
mid G., oT(
interest was the agricultural the general interest
Pennsylvania is manufacturing state, but much
more an agricultural state. Pennsylvania is almost
unanimous for the Tariff. Have that shrewd and
| fiourishing people widely mistaken their inter-
ests7 Let her wonderful prosperity answer the
question. Or have We, in opposing tho Tariff and
in refusing TO engage in manufactures mistaken
our interests7 Let our condition compared with
hers, give the answer. 1t is a great mistake and
the mistake which has engendered most of the
southern opposition and irritation to suppose that
the Tariff is intended for the benefit of one peculiar
interest," or that its good is confined to the manu-
facturers Undoubtedly, the agricultural states OF
the Middle, West, and North, have imposed the TIA.
riff, and unquesonaby for the benefit of Agricul.
: ture.
eve cordially admit that national prosperity
depends more, much more, upon Agriculture than
any thing else, or all other things put together
Therefore, we for Tariff. Must not tho raj
sers of Corn and Wheat, have market7 The grow
ers of Cotton and Tobabco, have European mar-
kets But ought not tho former to have market too
1t Europe continue at peace, and England retain
her Corn laws. where is this market to be found2
You can only find it at home. If all are Agricult,.
lists, who is to buy the surplus2 If all the manu-.
actures that the U. States consume are fabricated
here, a market is at once provided permanent stea
E dy and uniuctuating, for the surplus of Aprcul-
ture 1t is thus, that Agriculture and Manufactures
are IN strict alliance.-t Siamese twins-who if one
hourishes, the other nust flourish, if one falls sick
and languishes the other must languish also. The
reasoning does not apply in full force to the Tobac
co interest-for the single reason that Tobacco is
! not necessary of lfo-is not bread and meat,
though good thing notwithstandDg-th manu-
! facturerS are not obliged to have it-sut as the
3 Tariff does not exclude tobacco from England and
as the growers of Tobacco, buy all things cheaner
with the Tariff than they did before it-tho Tobac.
co growers have no cause of complaint against the
Tariff. Much less has the Cotton grower, for the
Tariff gives him an American market, besides the
markets of France and England.
We did not mean to be so long winded when we
commenced.
Amos Kendall denies in the Globe, that hs had
any knowledge Of or participation in, the plot a..
gainst Mr.. Ingham.