Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-15

made out and the citizens Of the south the cheapest
aaparento ALL The consequence Of such traffic is ruin
inevitable ruin This assertion requires no proof 10 sus
tain It, Every mans common sense how ever small may
be ms share OF that the best OF all st of sense viii
sure him of this. Let any man, for instance deal for his
supplies with country store for any length e and he
VIII hnd the most ample estate melting away. Why this
but that while he obtains Tor his produce low price he
has to pay in many instances, hundred per cent upon
many articles of necessary for the supply of
ms family and estate: Such will be found to be the ope-
ration the Tariff as shall be able satisfactorily prove
to tho Senate before take my scat.
IL reduced prices appcrain equally 10 all things, then
matters go on happily and hounoncusy. II only requires
the same quantity OF produce TO purchase what is
ns, anu no evil arises But the reverse is true, when
produce is low and articles of consumption high Let
illustrate this by the panest example. IL tobacco or
corn cotton. any other article raised the soil
Vor the result wli equally apply to all; but for the sake
OF simplifying, take tobacco fall from ten dollars hun
drcd TO five, and broadcloh fall from ten 10 five per-
tecy obvious that the same hundred weight of tobacco
purchases yard OF boadcoh il did before the fall in
price; buif tobacco fall to five, while the broadcloh re-
mains at ten dollars the yard then the tobacco planter
mas to exchange two hundred pounds OF tobacco for
yard OF broadcloh. In other Words ne has either TO o
Ole his production, mourning that process great add
nona expense to be satisfied with only hall the broad
cloth as formerly or TO ia debt for the residue. Now
SIR these arc effects produced by the high tariff of duties
and this has made the advocates of that despised
ming called free trade, and for this il has been said that
we advocate policy which would recoonizc America
The mpuation is uijust-against Mr.. Gees system our
ancestors protested and against that system we would
wage nevcrcnding hostility. Sir oppose this Ameri-
can sysem because it rests upon the same principle
What was the English system, and what this? England
SAID you shall buy only OF us and pay i'm the bar
gan-what is the language of this? You shall buy only
OF northern mechanis and he heavily taxed the bar
gain Is not this the language of the American system i'm
elect Is 1t not declaration that shall buy only of
domestic fabrics, and that at exorban price as shall
presently show unless we pay burdenSome duty the
privilege oil consuming foreign goods?-a duty, which, i'm
some instances operates heavily TO shut importa-
ton altogether and in every instance oppressive and
burlensome to the last degree Do not both equally in
he Eeav
pressve manaces put by each: and the
agicu'turist through the instrumenay of whose labor
commercial exchanges alone be effected is made Ia
bend under weight of burden which presses him to The
earth.
Simplify this American system and what IL Il, TaLe
Tor illustration tour individuals: shall represent the
southern producer the second the English maouf,curnr
and the remaining two, northern manufacturers The
southern farmer nterchanges the valuable r
the soil at their minimum price of production with the
English manufacturer for articles necessary for his con-
sumption, at their miS1inlum price fabrication The
exchange thus made is equally beneficial TO each and
neither, Notwithstanding the great fall in price which has
taken place in the fruits of their industry experiences de
cline The first obtains for his flour, his tobacco his cot
ton or ce as great quantity OF the articles which con-
stitue the of his consumption, ne formerly did
when he obtained much higher prices; and SO does the
latter The means living as abundantly ever exists
with both, and both equally prosperous: but the two
northern capitalists suddenly nterpose and forbid this
advantageous of exchange. They shacke il with
heavy restraints, imposing upon the farmer the necessity
either oil purchasing OF them at greatly augmented price
of cncounterng still greater cxactions i'm the course of
the foreign trade They enabled TO cpaize their
pose il indeed injustice be egaliznd by the ma
iority-powor which they WELD submit it to honora-
BILE Senators, TO say, il have drawn by this exam
pie, the epitome OF the American system; and
demand OF all candid say whether the power thus
exered is not selfish, despotic and unjust Sir if this
matter was brought TO any particular neghborhood, and
made there TO operate upon individuals eIoouence and
ingenuity combined could not gloss over, hide its de-
iormity from the public eye Take three individuals
In any neghborhood, and let the article involved be
one of acknowledged necessity-onc of these suppos-
cd persons is purchaser OF for his own consume
OF hoyya
by of the superior fertility his land is enabled TO
sell his at fifty the bushel whereas the other
cultvatng poorer SOIL and aborng under other disad
vanages, can only afford to raise il eighty cents Now
who would doubt for single instant but that buyer
would be greatly benefited by purchasing his supply of
the first at the small price rather than OF the las But sup
pose the Government dared TO interfere in the matter and
eXacted of the purchaser thirty the bushe on the
corn which he might purchase from the abundant produ-
and should, moreover, assign the for such
interference, want of the part of the Co
vcrnmen but determination TO elevate The price of
corn as TO enable the second farmer command eighty
cents per bushel for his who within the lin
its OF this UniOn-who having any relish for freedom ON
the face of the hababc globe-woud hesitate TO pro.
nounce such conduct arbitrary and despoiic' an i'm
peria monarch, armed with alb olue power levied such
eXaction, would he not be Justly denounced by man
kind yrant? Was the per capita tax in the time of
Richard the H., of shpmoney by Charles l.. more in
vasion of right and bery And yet the spirit English
freedom reused to resistance in both these instances
and in both, the monarch was made to rcmblc on his
throne.
This system is only sustained from the circumstance of
its being enVeoped in mist which the public mind has not
yet penetrated. 1t presses upon with hand which
although felt is not Its action Indirect and there
fore not fully understood by the great of mankind
Sir hesitate not TO say, that its action was dir ec the
system would melt beneath the blaze OF popular indigna
ton Take any OF the taxes which il inn
poscs and levy directly individuals Send your tax
gathercr TO each and every person in the United States
in the year, to collect the exacted by this
protective system upon the articles which each has con-
sumed and you would be answcredn voice which would
you TO rembe in your high places if did not
shake you out OF them. Send your gatherer the
last day OF December in every year, the
farmer the quantity of brown sugar which he has consum
ed in his family during the year, take sugar out of no
invidons spirit because all other items the list are
equally obnoxious but merely because the process of ana
lysis is plain and palpabe. Well sir the visit
paid and the requson made; let imagine the dialogue
which would arise between the parties Our fellow-citi
somewhat nquistive, and like the people of other
countries, rendered when demands made
upon their purses. The farmer would inquire into the
of the levy upon him othrec the pound up
the brown sugar he had used Does the Government
want the money, he would ask, TO its engagements?
The answer would be given without hesitation in the ne
gative. Why, then, called on TO paw il? The ax
gatherer, having received his Instructions would answer
that the collected for the benefit of some seven
hundred rich planters in Louisiana, engaged in the pursuit
of sugar making. This would doubtless excite great as
constituent and the inquiry would promptly follow into
the motive and the object. Please tell me- Mr. Tax-pa-
therer, how am interested in this The Government le
ves this upon you for the sugar planter to enable
him TO supply the American market; and if you will
but pay the tax for twenty years. you will then get the
sugar cheap home you abroad then the
tax may So, then, to pay three cents upon
every pound of sugar that for twenty years. i'm order
to obtain il cheap then noo without the tax
How am benefited by this process' IT, at the end of