Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-05-27
MID TARIEE.

Tho friends OF this abominable measure are ~at.ribu,ine
toits influence most of the prosperity which the u
States are e~njoying-They remember TO forget the
peculiar advantages which we possess in so MANY other
respects & choose TO ascribe 10 this single circumstance
all the fruits of so many other blessings. They throw
out OF view the liberty we enjoy and The liberal institu-
tons under which we hourish-the abundance and
cheapness OF land-the comparative lghtness of our
taxes-our exemption from tythes, from laws of primo.
genture and entail, corporation laws and statutes OF APP
prenticeship-the enierprishng and industrious spirit of
our countrymen, sc. sc. They overlook the astonisb-
ing pitch Of prosperity TO which we had attained under
the influence OF these causes - long before the Tariff
laws had imposed heir unnatural retsirictious ucoH cur
capital and labor. We have since pro spared NOT in ran
sequence of these restrictions, but in spife of them
The argument OF the Tarifltes IL like that Of the pc
cent advocates Of the rotten boroughs in EnyIana.-
'They tell you Gays ihs Rev. Sidney Smith) Ina, Won
Rave grown rich and powerful with ,he.e rotten bo-
roughe, and 'hatii would be madness TO pari with them,
or to alter a constitution which had produced such
happy efac's."-Anc the same reply which tbi. "most
wiIiylot reason .rs" give to ihese advocates of to,ten
Borough', we beg leave 10 offer to the Tariff ,es Of
America:
"There happens, gentlemen, to live near nv par.on-
age q %laboriDg mao, Of very superior character and
understanding to his fellow-laborers, and who has mads
such good use Of tina, superiority, tina, he has saved
what TO-, for hi, station in life, a very considerable sum
Of money, and II his existence is extended TO the com
mon period, he VIII die rich. II happens, however,
that he 10, and long has been troubled with vioIant
stomsehic pains, for which he has hitherto obtained no
relief, and which really airs the bane and torment oi
bis life Now, II my exceilen, De'gbbor were 10 send for
~ pu1rlN'huJ uhu W onAuN nun respecting this mAIadV
would II rot be very singular Language il our doctor
were to say % him, 'My good fieud, you surely vii
not be go ra-h az TO attempt to get rid of tbsss pains in
your s,omach' Hive you not gown rich with these
pains in your siomachi have not you risen under them
from poverty TO prosperity? has not your situation. .inee
YOU were fret attacked, been improving every wear ?
You surely will not be 80 foolish aud ., indiscreet a,
TO part With the pains in your stomacb" why, whs,
would be the answer Of the rustic, to this nonsepsieal
moDiiop' Monster Of rbubarb,' he would say, Il am
not rich IN consequences OF the poins in my stomach,
butin spite OF the pains in my siomacb; and I should
have been ten times richer, and fifty times happier,
II | had never had any pains in my stomach al al
Gsnuemsn, 'hese rotten bororghs are your pains In
the slomseh-aDd You would have been a much
richer ard greater people II you had never had them
at all. Your wealth and your rover have beer
owing, not 10 The debased and corrupted paris of
the House Of Commons, but 10 The manv dsnsn.
contained within lie wals. II II really were
a great political innovation that eiliss of one
hundred thousand men should have no repre,en.
for political citehss, politiearwalls,s and political make
Their rom modiiy--that a retired merchant sbonId b.
vernmeut OF twenty millions Of HE GLOW sul iecis-yet
can 'ueh asseverations be made openly befors The pso-
pIel Wi'e men, men eonverssni with human aHiifs.
but can the people ev,r he laugh, that il IL right they
should he bought and soldl Can the vshemsncs Of
eloquent demecfats be met with such srsumeDtt and
lbeoriesl Gao The doubts OF honest and enlightened men
be met by such arguments and lhsorieR TIE momsni