Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-01-17
Richmond, Va. Tuesday, Jan. ~.
MIR. CLAWS

We shall publish, in our next, Mr. Claws Speech on his
Tariff Resolutions. 1t is in a plain and u~nassuming style.
lie begins by saying that he is "gcttng old;" that he
feels ''but too sensibly and unaf1ectedly the effects of APP
preaching age;'' that he has sheen, for some years, very
and that he has ''nothing but a plain, unvarnished and un-
ambitious exposition to make 1t is plain enough, in all
conscience. 1t is plain, that he goes for the whole pro-
tectvc system. 1t is plain, that he is for protecting the
iuxuries more than the necessaries of life; for relieving
the rich more than the poor. Iii plain, that the North
is still to be favored at the expencc Of the South. IL is
plain, that Mr.. c. goes for Is millions of revenues; thre.
millions more than the expcnces of the Government ought
to require. 1t is plain, that he is for e~nlarging the expen-
ditures and the powers OF the Government. Its plain,
that he goes for a strong, and splendid Establishment. tits
plain, that the friends Of a limited Constitution, and of a
him-The friends of State Rights, nothing-The friends
OF Free Trade, nothing-The South, nothing.
81 attended (says a Washington writer) the Debate yes
terday. The Senate of the U. States presented one of the
most brilliant and imposing views l have ever witnessed.
The Debate will be resumed on Monday.-weh have at
last arrived at the Crisis in our affairs, from which our fu-
tire destinies will take their direction. 1 have no hone
at all, that the high-foned principles of Mr.. Clay about
the tariff will be given up. There appears to be no COM
promise; no argument; no settlement of the question
which can meet the vie,cs Of the South. This YOU may
rely upon. 1t is fixed as the will of Fate. see it as
manifesty, as II the thing had happened: So we NAV look
out for the consequences, ,chaterer they may be.-Mr.
McLane's proposition in his Report is secuted by Mr.. CLAW.
upon the protected articles. He called it in the most EN-.
phatlc manner 'the slow but certain poison Of the Ameri-
can System!'
"And then the Bank! The Opposition are growing
They say they have us upon the hip, and that our fate is
sealed! And you will see the old Heroes character tested,
or / am much mistaken. / think / know the man. /
never have been deceived in him. The People of the u.
states can do, as they please, about re-electing him. I
know SO far as he is personally concerned in the matter,
he does not care a groat for it. But 1 see il is all in vain,
utterly vain and idle for any man to expect that any course
which the President will pursue or his Secretaries NAV
recommend, will give universal satisfaction.
"Now is the time for Virginia to rouse herselE-and
now is the time for l.. w. TaZewell TO come out in de-
fence of the Constitution of his country. Why is it that
Virginia, who in former times so CALAMITY led the Debate,
Is now in the back ground!'
We shall publish Mr.. Clay's Speech on Thursday.
we received by yesterdays Mail, from the hands of the
able Author, a No. of "An Exposition of Evidence, in sup
port of the Memorial to Congress, Csctting forth the evils
of the existing tariff of duties, and asking such a modif-
cation of the same, as shall be consistent with the pur-
poses OF revenue, and equal in its operation on the differ
et parts of the u. States, and on the various interests
of the same,O PREPARED in pursuance of the instruc-
tons from the Permanent Committee appointed by the
Free Trade Convention assembled at Philadcl phia, &c."-
By HENRY LEE Of Massachusetts, one of the Com
mittce. The No. before us contains the structures on
" Idres, on WooLLENs, and on IRoN."-There will be
about If Nos. in all. We shall seize the earliest opportu-
nifty of laying them before our readers.
The National Intelligencer says, that the nomination of
Mr.. Livingston was confirmed by the Senate with very
little opposiion;-a correspondent of the Baltimore Re-
publican says, by an unanimous vote. Take either state
ment, what then becomes of the charge of defaicafiOn,
so long and so perseveriDgly pressed upon Mr.. L.?-Could
Messrs. III. Clay s. Co. sit quietly in their seats, and let
this appointment pass, IL there could be found n ssloop to
hang a doubt upon?' We trust that this act of the Sc
nate has put TO rest forever this unblushing falsehood, and
VIII convince the people what little credit should be placed
in the bold assertions of mon who are determined 10 find
no good, and every fault, in the present Administration.