Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-01-21

State prosperity, must be the intent OF d'suh'on-
ists and nullifiers; without having the power 10
repeal, they try to prevent the operation OF 'e-
dersl laws. and are always busy to dissolve the
Union. Are there not members OF congress,
DESTROYS to separate the West from the Eas's IL
this was not the case, they would not speak anu
vote against the measure designed for Its Preser-
vationl Are there not others, who desire to Sc
narate the South from the North; could Virginia
be induced to be positive State, it might be ef-
fected, or at all events attempted. The ProJec-
tors of anti.federal schemes have always been
confirmed opponents to national improvements
unwilling to encourage native manufactures, un-
Friendly to the Supreme Court, willing to put
down the United States Bank, ever ready to les
sen federal revenue, that national improvement
may have no support, and they never cease con-
irving to take from Congress the public land, to
give it to the States, that they may be rich aid
strong, and the Union poor and weak. The pro-
liability is these purposes Of indefinite disaster
will be effected, there being 40 deficiency Of de-
termination and perseverance Of men confederat'
ed BY anti.federal and nullfying malignity, to be
gratied only by the prostration Of national pros
perity. If successful, IN a few years, the Fede-
raj Constitution will be a schedule of insignii'
canoe; to be condemned by the weakest member
of the Union, and to be remembered that there
was a time when Rhode Island defied the autho-
rity of the confederation. If public sentiment
will not denounce and exile from public conf
dence these persevering misdoers, the time IS
near when Delaware may with IMMUNITY seotf
federal authority, and, If not more patriotic than
south Carolina. dare to put forth Pretensons TO
control the majority of the States; demand the
repeal Of the Tariff; approve the malpractice Of
the Post Office; delight in prescription; call Tor
the ruin of the United States Bank; laugh at the
Supreme Court; ask for division of the public
land, aud even protest against involuntary slave
~ and make it cause to separate from the unlon'
NV fellow. citizens. YOU may ask, what is it your
| correspondent would have. He wants the Unit
ed States to assume all the debts the States owe
for internal ,mprovements-He wants the i'm
movements to revert to the Union-he wants the
States to have charge Of them and prohibited to
take a foliage higher than will be necessary To
provide fund to keep them in good condition,
and bound to render to Congress an account OF
the money collected. and how expended. This
is what, by late law Of Congress, the State OF
Ohio Is authorised to d. to preserve that part OF
the Cumberland Road within her limits. The
roads and carals. BY some such regulation, will
be always 10 good repair, and made better and
better every year. The people will be relieved
from heavy State taxes-the traveller and inter
nal trader will escape the payment of foliage
tax not less than Is to 90 per cent on every.dol'
lar h,s commodities are werth. transported on
the improvements to an export market. The
earnings Of industry will safely, quickly and
cheapy reach emporiums Of navigation; these
facilities, united, will yield, especially to the
agriculturist, considerable saving, most well
come profit. Whatever cheapens expectation,
extends foreign commerce to the advantage OF the
general welfare and increases the nett gain Of
sellers. and they will buy for their own consumP-
ton merchandise at reduced prices. The tariff
of duties on foreign fabrics should be gradually
reduced, to correspond with the stability Of ma
tive manufactures. In short time all impede
men,s to free trade would be removed, except
such impositions deemed by the representatives
Of the people, to be necessary to sustain the Gre
dit Of the nation, the ability to awe foreign Go
vernments and to carry national improvements
for the use Of the people of all the States
Then every member Of the federation might en-
Joy its reserved sovereignty without restriction,
(real or imaginary the people not vexed by State
taxes would be contented, and their domestic le-
gisatures. by discreet laws, become SO dear
to them, that no Congress would venture to in.
trude on any retained or reserved right, making
disunion or consolidation impossible; which will
perpetuate the honor and glory Of repubicanism,
and sustain the prosperity Of people free and
happy as human frailty allows them to be-; not
only for few centuries, but for duration Of
time mt tn end before the promised Millennium