Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-03-22
Richmond, Friday, March ID.

We retort upon the Telegraph the falsehood
which 1t has charged upon us. Its Editor knows,
as well as we do, that John G. Calhoun was an adj
vocate OF the Tariff system in 1Sl6-that he went
out of the war, an ultra stickler for the powers of the
Federal Government-that he supported the Bank
a general system o fInternal mprovements-and the
FrofectiUe System as the permanent pollen of the Go
vernment. The loyal Telegraph knows. and his DO
IItical master knows, that in spite of his late equivo-
eating speech, he was the advocate of the bill of 1916
that there is not one word about raising reUenue in
his speech of 1916; and that he insisted that manu-
features should be established by protection beyond
NE reach Of contingency-and that{le strenuously sup
ported the oppressive and odious system of mini
mans. In his late reply to Mr.. Calhoun, Mr.. Web
ster let him very gently off-but as far as the follow
ing extract from his speech goes, it is correct:
"Ihe Tariff OF 1916 was introduced, carried through.
and established, under the lead of South Carolina. Even
the minimum policy is OF South Carolina origin. The
honorable gentleman himself supported, and ably support
ell, the iatih OF 1916. He has informed us. Sir, that his
speech on that occasion was sudden and oil. hand, he be
ing called upon by the request OF a friend. am sure the
gentleman so remembers it, and that it was so; but there is,
nevertheless, much method, arrangement, and clear ex-
position, in that extempOre speech. 1t is very able; very.
very much TO the point, and very decisive. And i'm ano.
ther speech, delivered two months earlier, on the proposi-
ton TO repeal the internal taxes, the honorable gentleman
had touched the same subject, and had declared, othat a
certain encouragement ought TO be extended, at least to
our woollen and cotton manufactures" do not quote
these speeches, Sir, for the purpose of showing that the
honorable gentleman has changed his opinion; nv object is
other and higher. l do il for the sake of saving that tha,
~ I'""'y "u pdipduly UNCONSTITUTIONAL, as to
warrant resistance TO law, notification, and revolution.
which the honorable gentleman and his friends have here
toiore agreed to, and acted upon, without doubt and with.
out hesitation. Sir, it is no answer TO saw, tina. the tariff
OF 1916 was a revenue bill. So are they all revenue bills
he point is, and the truth is, that tho tariff of 1916. like
The rest did discriminate; it did distinguish one article
from another; it did lay duties for protection. Look to the
case oil coarse cottoas, under the minimum calculation .
the daty on these was sixty TO eighty per cent. Some
thing besides revenue certainly was intended in this; and.
IN TACT, the law cut up our whole commerce with India in
mat article. 1t is, sir, only within a few years that Caro-.
lima has denied the consttuionality OF these protective
laws"
We knOtO further, and we have no doubt, this mise
rable sycophant of MIR. Calhoun knows the same. tina,
as lar down as 1924, he was in favor of building up
manufactures by the scaffolding of the Federal Co
ernment Finding, however, that his ultra doc
tlnes were becoming odious to the South, and that
his ambition could never be gratifed by this course.
he was compelled to yield to the force of Southern
sentlment-cooled towards his federal doctrines
gradually came over to the cause of State Rights
but, like all new proselytes, hurried into excess. and
plunged into the other extreme of Notification. And
now his powerful mind is devoted to the task of
denying his old opinions, and of supporting his neD
ones-never right-but always on extremes.-A po-
htician from 1915 down to 1888, utterly unsafe and
not TO be trusted.