The Arkansas advocate., 1831-10-05
POLITICAL.
From hts PeaaIeton IS. c.) Messenger. OPINIONS OF THE VICE PRESIDENT lpnthe Relations of the Stafes and the Gen
 eral Goperument
 TfsoS


 eral Gopernment
 CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAsT.3
 Those who have not duly reflected OH its dangerous and inveterate character. suppose that the disease will cure itself: that events ought to be left to take their own course; and that experience. in d short time, will prove that the interest ot the whole community is tho ttElc s;iifiss ii reference to the tariff, or, at least, what ever diversity there may now be, time will assimllate. Such has been their laaeaagge g frem ttlh.c ssscgiiiiififlg sscgiiiiififlg, but utl- fortunately the progress of events has been the reverse. The country is now more divided than in 1891, and then more than in iSi6. The majority may have increased, but the opposite sides are beyond dispute more deierm:n- ed and excited, than at any preceding period. Formerly the system was re- sisted mainly as inexpedicnt; but now as unconstitutional, unequal, unjust, and oppressive. Then relief was sought cx- elusive from the General Government: but now many, driven to despair, ,arerais- ing their eyesto the reserved sovereignty of the States as the only refuge. live turn from past and present to the future, we shall find nothing to lessen, but much to aggravate the danger. The increas- ing embarrassment and distress of the staple States, the growing conviction from experience that they are caused by the prohibitory system principally, and that, under it's continued operation, thier present pursuits must become profitless, and with conviction that their great and peculiar agricultural capital cannot be diverted from it's ancient and hered- itary channels without ruinous losses, all concur to increase, instead of dispelI- ing, the gloom that hangs over the fu- ture. In fact, to those who will duly reflect on the subject, the hope that the disease will cure itself must appear per feclly illusory. The question is in re slliiy onebetween the exporting and non exporting interests of the country.-- Were tbere no exports tsere uou!d bc aso to- g g;g. It would be perfectly useless. On the contrary, so long as there are States which raise the great agricultural sta pies with view of obtaining their sup plies, and which must depend on the general market of the world for theil sales, the conflict must remain if the sys sem should continue, and the disease be come more and more inveterate. Thei interest and that of those who by higl duties would coniine the purchase 0 their supplies to the general maket, must from the nature of things in referenc to the tariff, be in conflict. Till ther we cease to raise the great staples col ton, rice. aud tobacco. for the sam markets, and til we car find some othe profitable investment for the immens amount of capital and labor now en ployed in their production, the preseI unhappy and dangerous conflict canne terminate unless with the prohibition system itself.
 In the meantime while idly waitin for its termination through its own a ton, the progress of events in anotht quarterisr rapidly bringing the contest an immediate and decisive issue. W are fast approaching period very no q in the history Of nationss and bea