Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-07-28

OF not more than eight dollars a barrel, when
1t u well kaowa Fact, tested by the records
OF the country, that 1t has cost on the from
tier, as high a. ,lxty dollars per barrel, and
other weighty articles in proportion. Why,
the extra expense of supplying the army du
rins That war alone, eccasioncd by The lack
OF these canals, was more than would have
made them both. The benefits resulting
from those facilities in transporting OF troops
and munitions OF war by land through the
interior OF the Union, are equal, ii not great
er than those of the whole navy. The naval
establishment essis US about four millions an
nually, (and money we'll laid out too) Let
there be the same sum judiciously laid outin
well dgested system of general Internal
improvement. aud three years war, oil the
grade of the last. could be prosecutsi more
efficiently with one half the number Of men,
and Instead OF costing us nearly four hundred
millions as that did, it will not cost us bali
the sum, and without interfering with, and
and almost extn gushing every branch OF in.
dustry in the counlry | think | am not ex
agserahng when say, that the aid Of those
two great works 10 the States Of New York
and Ohio. would have saved the government
OF the United States more than one hundred
millions of dollars, while the whole works
themselves, have not cost twenty Millions
But the President and a majority Of his
cabinet say, there IS no power IN the Con
stltutlon OF the United States granting to Con
gress the authority TO make such improve.
ments
The Constitution gives to Congress the
power to establish post Offices 1id pos. roads
Now suppose Congress should think IL pro
per that the mail should be transported on
rail road from Philadelphia aud Baltimore TO
Cincinnati in couple oil days, instead OF
sending by way of country roads III twenty
days, as they used to 90, have they not the
power? Or, in other words, If they have the
power, and 1t Is their duty TO transport the
mail from one point OF the Union TO another,
have they not the power OF choosing the
means by which they will tIanspo itp Or IL
they can establish post reads, can they not
establish rail roads and call them pest roads,
And would they mol in fact be post roads?
Again, ''Consress nave power to declare war,
t. raise armies, 10 support them, aud are
bound to defend the Union Now, as they
have the power 20 do these things, and are
really under solemn obligation to protect
tue people against foreign invasion, and In.
testlae connections. can they not choose the
means by when they shall exercise those
powers Ii for example, they desired to trans
pert thousand cannon and a proportional
q 'autity OF other arms and munitions Of war
flom their arsenals ~ the East, to Green Nay
an the West, could they not make ca
nal or rail road for that purpose, or aid lie
intervening States ia dong it9 1t might not
be expedient Ter Congress to de any OF these
things, bat tia. they have the power, | have
no more doubt thd.. that they have the pow
er to pass a pension law"
"Since majority OF the Administration,
and OF the prevailing party IN Congress, are
evidently opposed TO the tariff or the proiec-
ton OF our manufactures by duties on foreign
articles. the subject has become a topic of
no little interest IN every part OF the Union,
including the Western country"
"l'he great objection FIRST made to the ta-
riff IN this country was, that if we manufac-
fufe all our ewn goods, our revenue arising
from importalioDs cease, and nc should have
to apply to a direct tax for raising the neces-
sary funds Tor the support OF the government,
aud they were supported IN this doctrine by
their friends In the British Parliament.
This alarmed our Southern brethren, as
they would, In that event, have had to pay a
tax for three iiftns OF their saves--such pro-
portion being represented IN Congress, and
the direct tax required TO be in proportion to
their representation. This prediction, how
ever. has entirely failed; for our revenue is
now much more abundant than then Ano-
Their ebJectlon was made, which was that
Manufactured articles would come much high
er, and that the duties being laid upon arii-
cles which were necessary ioI the poor. ibis
prediction like the other, mas failed, and the
poor man finds at this day that lac can wear
as good coat as bis rlch neighoor- made by
the hand o his own fellow citizen and that,
too. at much less price than formerly
They, have, therefore, abandoned those affir-
nations, because experience has rendered
their maintenance absurd Blu, they sill in.
sist npon it, that all duties operate as a tax
upon the people, and that the higher those
duties are, the heavier the tax This they lay
down as universal principle. Let us testit
II it were really SO, manufactured articles
would be higher than they were before the
tariff principle was adopted The reverse Of
which is the truth Experience is the test
Of theories, and SO far experience has ialsih-
ed their theories"
A Wiiness The present Editor of the ".
York Evening Journal was one Of the sup
porters of the election Of General Jackson.
lie subsequently spent soma weeks at the
Seat of Government, during the sitting of
Il ,.a. hah;n1 tLa o,.rt.,n o,I