The Arkansas advocate., 1831-10-05

I ~ w ' VI WiiiCn aTCNldeUCe Id. implanted for wise purposes so deepl, ii inc human heart in all of which ereat , ohJeets, every portion oi our country Widely extended and diversified as it is. Has a common aad identical interest. Ii we nave the wisdom to place proper relative estimate On these more elevat- ed and durable blessings, the present
 and every other conflict of like eharae-
 ter may be readily terminated but if,
 reversing the scale, each section should
 put higher estimate on it's immediate
 aha peculiar gains; and acting in that
 spirit, should push such fayorite meas ofes oi mere policy, without regard to
 peace, iaafinohy, CT justice, our section
 al conflicts would then, indeed, without
 some constitutional check. become iii-
 tefmlnabie, except by the dissolution of
 the Union itself. That we have, in fact,
 50 reversed the estimate is too certain
 to be doubled, and the result is our pre-
 sent distempered and dangerous condi-
 tien. Ihe cnre must commence il, the
 correction of the error; and not to ad-
 nit that we have erred, would be tie
 worst possible symptom. If would prove
 tile disease to be ihcnrable, through the regular and ordinary process of legisla- ton; and would compel, finally, d resort
 to extraordinary, but still trust, not on Y constitutional, hut safe remedies.
 No one would more sincerely rejoice than myself, to see the remedy applied from the quarter where it could be most easily and regularly done. Itis the on- ly way by which those who think that 1t IS the only quarter from which it can constliutionally come, can possibly sus- tan their opinion. To omit the appli- ication by the General Government. would compel even them 10 admit the ruth oi the opposite opinion; or force them tp abaBdop our political system iil despair; while or the other hand. all their enlightened and patriotic oppo- heats would rejoice at such evidence of moderation and wisdom Oil the part of the General Government as would su- Pefsede a resort 10 what they believe to be the higher powers of our political system. as indicating q sonnder state tsfI public sentiment than has ever hereto fore existed iil atty country, and thus af. iordlng the highest possible assurance of tie pernetnatiea et l,,iiiou l,,iiou iiistiiu- tIotas to the latest generation. For as q people advance in knowledge, in the s''ffie degree they must dispense with mere artificial restrictions in their goy- ernment; and wemay imagine, Out dare not expect 10 see it) state of intclli- geace go universal and high, that all tie guards of liberty may be dispensed with, exceptin enlightened public opinion ac- ting through the right of suffrage, but it pre-supposes State where every class and every section of the community are capable of estimating the effects of cy- cry measure, moi only as il may affect itself, but every other class and section; and of fully realizing the sublime truth, that the highest and wisest policy con sists in maintaining justice and promot- ing peace and harmons and that com pared to these, schemes of mere gain are but trash and dross. I fear experience has already proved that we are far re- moved from such State, and that we must consequently rely on the old and clumsy, but approved mode of checking poWerin order to prevent or correct a. buses; bat ] dc trust that though far from perfect, we are atleastso much so as to be capable of remedying the present disorder in the ordinary way; and thus to prove that with us public opinion is so enlightened, and our political ma chine so perfect, as rarely to require for its preservation, the intervention of the power that created it. How is this to be effected?
 The application may be painful, but the renedy,a conceive, is certain and simple. There is but one effectuaI cure, an honest reduction of the duties to fair system of revenue adopted to
 the just and constitutional wants of the
 government. Nothing short of this will
 restore the country to peace, harmony
 and mutual affection. There is already
 a deep and growing conviction in a large
 section of the country, that the imposts,
 even as a revenue system, is extremely
 unequal, and thatit is mainly paid bJ those who furnish the means of paying ] the foreign exchanges of the country on
 which it is laid and that the case is not
 varied, taking into the estimate the cn. tire action of the system, whether the fl producer or consanaer iisajj.s iii tie tiTs1 l instance.
 Il do not propose to enter formally in to the discussion of point so comple,