Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-06-26

~ ask the cause OF this Odious discrimination
aoo' particularly. why they wero required to
pay ,''y per cenf. when less than half that duty
wouIu supply an ample revenue to the Govern.
mentE The collectors would. ~ doub,. renIv
~ Vne true spirit orther vocation, 'you are mis-
'aNo" gentlemen, II you suppose these high du.
'S are 'ov'ed upon your production merely for
.,' ,ahe "a revenue. This is quite n sscon,a-
consideration. The great and PATRIOTS
ground upon which they are levied, is. that IL IL
deemed quite inju, ious to the wealth anJ nrn.S
Pority OF tho free States of the north, that tbev
S"ou'u uhderSell their manufae turers, even in
y'u' own markets. with tho productions of your
own industry; aud these duties are therefore
,eVied, ny provideut aud paternal Government.
Tor the very purpose Of excluding your produce
uo"s' which would be ruinouslY cheap without
'he duties, in order that your more patriotic ri.
vars may increase the national wealth, and pro.
v'de Tor tho common defonce,' by selling the
same sort of goods at much higher prces!!'
ouppresSing, for a moment, the indignant feel.
ings which this characteristic colloquy is calcu-
lated TO excite, by the bare imagination of il. I
WI command patience to go through with the
Illustration: and suppose that the company of
planters submit to tho outrage, both of the law
and the commentary, and pay the twenty thou
said dollars demanded as a tribute. What will
be the respective conditions Of the two comma
MES, when they come with their respective pro-
auctions INFO the southern markets! Their rela
i've conditions may be briefly stated. And
mark tho result which follows with a mathema-
uca' certainty, which no ingenuity can evade or
deny. Both of the companies Offering goods i'm
inc same common markets, will as n matter of
course, obtain the very same price for ,lem It
follows ms corollary, that The planting compn-
ny will realize from the productions of their
nonest ana lawful Industry, in their own pecu.
'!ar markets, twenty Thousand dollars less than
'"e manufacturing company will receive for the
Same quantity OF their productions of the same
nt.s.,
exclusively 10y the unrighteous and onnressive
lhterteronce of this Government, claiming for
tiis very outrage upon the principles of eternal
Justice, the sacred title of 4 protecting and ma
ternai Government! Can any man deny This
VIII! any man, admitting it, dare to stand nm
and Justify or defend il
H. SIR have been successful in proving that
tne imported manufactures obtained 10 exchange
tor the staple productions OF the southern Sta es
arc the exclusive productions of the industry OF
these States, another obvious illustration ur,-
SCENTS 'se' 10 einc'daie The paipable Injustice of
this syetem.
Lee II he supposed! III a, the people of the Sou,h
made these goods by The use Of machinery II,
'he SAME manner as they de AT the North
~ouh' uley nave q 10 To- chem any more sacred
'""" 'ney now have To the imports acquired by
purchase! TINS will hardly De- pref .pd.d -
would 'hey not be as lawful a subject of tnxa.
.'oh as oar imports are now Would you mo-,
nave precisely the sane right To Contend ,i,.,
rer manu- actu ing lahur at IA dollar a Jay
cou'd not compete with slave ial,ur AT one ,our n
OF the price, AMI, upon Tins ground. clnim uro-
tect.mg ana discriminating excise duty of fort,
o' nifty per cent? There is not an iUta of cf.
ference IN the two cases, except in the mode Of
the southern manufactures AMI tho
name OF the duty levied upou il.
How, then, would stand the comparison p
duty OF forty or fifty per cent. would he impo
seq upon the productions of the south, while the
Sc
IN the very same mode, would he absolutely ex
enpted from all duty. | put it to the candor
OF mis- committee whether, if this were the form
III when these discriminating duties of protec-
t'on were lowed, there could be found a free
man upon the lace of the earth who would not
cIy OUT cravens dastards base and degene-
e ATE s'aves' 10 tie people who would patient
~ submit TO such a system Sir This
scheme of artfnily disguised oppression would
not nave been borne for TWO years if il had been
originality presented without the disguise, by
winch It's true character aud operation arc con-
cealed from its suffering victims.
ls there any error in this mode of STATING tho
nature OF This unjust and oppressive system -
am iaoorlng under some strange deusion D.
IL am, sincerely hope some gentleman will,
be able to disenchant me. But, if ] have any
reasoning faculties at all, discriminating excise
Duty levied exclusively upon the manufacturers
OF the South. exemptihs those of tho North en-
tre'y' would, IN no solitary respect, be more in.
curious or oppressive to the Southern producers
than the existing system of protecting duties is
to the southern planters.
There IS another aspect in which the gross
inequality OF this system has been frequently
Presented, which carries, TO my mir d, the force
and c!earDess of mathematical demons: rarion -
NO one would deny the, monstrous and re-
voting inequality and injustice of the system,
1t more than one-baf Of the federal revenue
were directly and papaby raised by export du.
ties on cotton and rice. the exclusive productions
oil much less than one>ffIb part of the federal
population: and yet it is fact incontestibly We
rlhed by the annual statements from the Trea-
sury, that This proportion of the revenue ia rails.
by protecting duties levied upon the very manu-
features tor which our cotton and rice are ex.
changed abroad.
Upon this state of facts il is maintained ,ba,
an import duty, actually Levied upon the goods
received for cotton and rice, is precisely
equivalent, as II regards the planters, to an ex.
port duty levied upon the cotton and rice them
selves 1t will be at Ouce perceived that this
question Is concIusively settled by a proposition
already discussed and established: for, if the
manufactures received for cotton and rice are
as truly the productions of the planters as the
cotton aud rice itself, it is obviously immmate-
rial to them whether the duties are levied on
me productions OF their industry, when they
Exist IN the form OF cotton and rice, or after thew
nave been transmitted, by exchange into manu-
features. The has been often stated. of
TWO cotton planters going TO Liverpool TO ex
change their cotton for such manufactures MS
are actually imported IN exchange for Cotton
Eacb, Tor example, takes adventure worth
ten thousand dollars, bur one Of them gives his
bond Tor four thousand dollars, to secure tlo
payment OF 40 per cent. export duty, as he
goes out' and the ether gives his boud for the