Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1832-12-13

feaple Of tte United States.
We lay tins interesting Document before our
readers this morning Il Is SAID ~ ba from the pen
Of Mr. MeDuife, and indeed IL bears intrinsic evi-
denee Of lis paternity, which II is Impossible 10
mistake. We shall offer only few comments
10 slow some OF lis most striking ab,urdites.
It's hardly worth whe TO argue the point, @ho-
ther or not the tariff system Is oppressive To the
Southern States 10 the extern, represented by the
leading men of the utilization party. II Is elear
that they think it's and we have not now TO lean
that asinary evils are not The least Of the mala-
dies which individuals and communities may suf
fer But we mi git well doubt whether It's oprres-
sive effects are not merely imaginary, when We see
the crcamlocutory and intangible process ofroa.
soning by which this oppression Is attempted to be
demonstrated Look, FOR example nj chs effort
made by the writer of the Address to the people Of
the United Suites 10 annhlnie Of the simpes,
and eearest axloms N Political Economy, 10 lgih
that the consume, of duiicd articles Is the payer OF
the ,lutY. The Address denies this, and endeav-
ors 10 show, by sort Of egerdcmain argument,
that the producer OF the exports from this country
is the pcrson upon whom The tax ON imported ari-
eles falls. Indeed It asserts, in many words,
that the cotton eaoper OF South Carolina is 10 al
intens and purposes, the mann facturer of the for
eign fabric ! WI had hoped that this absurdity
had been rideuled out of exisence, by Mr. StW Ii
Of Pennsy lyana, during The last session Of Con
etess That gentleman, by applying tins mode 81
| mons;rated that he who bought par oil shoes
was necessarily II shoemaker, though lie mieht
not be ablc ~ distinguish an nwl from lap-stean,
--und tina, he who paid a carpenter for building n
| house. was member of that craft though no could
! not til =" hawk from n hand and SO on,
nd iqfniinm, through all the trades and professions
| of life We see how ridiculous and absurd such
| reasoning U.s. when applied to the exchanges which
The ordinary relations Of society require between
| he money OF one and the Labor Of another. 1t
IS equally so when !, relates to tho exchanges OF
conmunilles-w which afe varied only in crteni and
not in ptiacilte.
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foregoing theory should adopt another equally false
in principle, and which would bo the very essence
| ofiyraony in practice We allude TO that srn
tence Of The Address which says, that whenever
duty Ia imposed upon protected articles imported,
| an excise duty Of the samG rate should be imposed
upon all siiniIa, articles manufactured in the Uni
ted states Aad TINS proposition TO crush our
manufactures by excise duties comes from party
the first article OF Whose creed is that nbor Should
be as free air and tina, tho right Of citizens
10 direct their capital industry INTO such channels
i as they think proper should never b. lmpeded or
INSTRUCTED by legislative enaclments 1t comes too
from state whose leading politicians, some of
| them the very men who ara now foremost IN this
crusade Of determination against The manulaeiu
ring interest, were once tie foremostt to oler pro
mlums and bountes, IN o5le7 10 induce capitalists
70 e.nbark IN tiis Sefy business, and To enlls' TIC
skill and industry Of the country in VAR Of com
petition agains, the manufacturers Of England
| Their inconsisteneya5 IN per with the aisnrdt}
OF their rcasonin. --and both worthy Of mel
who, in an affected delesta,on Of the system bull
W mainly by their own hahjs, cover yNeior pur
poscs of the most odieus charaeter--pnfposes from
which We hope, time viii strip the veil beiore they
are consummaied in the dissolution Of The Union
and expose them and their authors to the dcesla
lion of the world
Blu, If the arguments Of the South Carolina Con
vention Address ate TINS nnsound, He 5tppoSlfion
when sbe makes to her CO States, and the terms II
which 1t is conveyed are calculated to astonlsh II.
Ivy their cool and calculating arrogance. 1t j.
clearly the design Of the authors Of this proposition
to DO all that they enn 10 close tha door to an ami
cable arrangement Of this yexcd question They
present themselves TO the people of tho Union no.
as equals in the language Of concllid'ion and com
promise, but conquerors dlttatng terms 10
PROSTATE foc--not citizens of the same common
country, having common share in the eIofies o
our past history, mud equal interest in the peril,
of our future destiny but as masters prescribing
conditions to ahject slaves. Why is this course
pursued, bu, to exasperate their antagonists nm.
thus to prevent the arrangement which they anec
to desire Do these brasgadocios imagine tina
their manufacturing brethren have neither scnsi
bllity to feel, spirit to resent an insul,2 ID,
they suppose that the best way to obtain what they
ask is 10 carry their proposition in one hand am
arms in the other and to accompany lis enuncja
ion with the language of opprobrium, defnnoe
and scorn No: they know better But they
have s,aked their all upon the hazard Of the die
ed % abide the consequences OF their desperate ven