Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-05-28

ry remarkable degree this deletero6s influence 1t is
existing system Of prohibory and high protective duties
was laid not single law passed upon the subject
bsen free from il, The frs. in 1876 the very time
when toe political campaigns by which the country has
ever since been conyuse5 chaked out and the
first movements made. Those which followed were in
1871 1928 and 1892. Immediately the Presi.
denia' contests OF those years been remarked by
an experienced aud sagscous man, who in Congress
on several OF these occasions, aud attentive observer
n' a' ne has never yet seen tariff hill passed when
The Influence OF the proposed upon The politics of
The country obviously more operative consicra
ton than the effect il have upon its
commercial and interests To the ius,ness of
th's reinark there is Tar too much TO suhscribc
Great as We're the difficulties which the subject would
have presented under the favorable circumstances
they were UNNECESSARILY increased by the cxcut TO which
had become interviewer with matters with which it had
no natural exon and by the degree in which the ac
non OF congress upon had become subjected party or
g'mha,on and snbservicDt to party politics
Win that sagaey which has always led him to select
e proper point as well as the proper of attack and
winch has never yet failed in whatever field OF action he
may have been engaged put him upon sure road to
victory the President embraced the earliest
prescDtel ITSELF TO bring the public sentiment IN no A. anon
ms mischief which IL alone could subduc. In his fin
message 10 Congress, he thus expressed himself:
I'm dellperang, therefore, these sting subjects
'oca ecnngs and prejudiccs should be merged i'm the
pauoc determination to promote the great of the
whole All attempts to connect them with the party con-
e OF the day are necessarily injurious, should be
dscounienanced Our action upon them should be und.r
me control OF higher and puer motives Legislation sub.
!ec'eh 10 such influences be lust and will, no,
long retain the sanction of the people, whose ,,ve mai,
r'osm not bounded by sectional limits nor nsensbe to
That spirit OF concession and which gavo c ~
our political compact and still susains IT, Disc,,In ~
calculations OF political ascendancy the North the Sny,
,ne East snd West should unite in diminishing any bur.
'hen oil winch either may justly complain"
More and more convinced as he proceeded I'm his admit
ni.'raon OF the inpossiby of cecting satisfactory
settlement OF this difficult and disturbing subject mil
greater influence should be allowed TO this pS,roc al
vice. he, in his next annual message again il nm
On Tue attention OF Congres."That deljcraon (says
ne upon this interesting subject should be
ny 'hoe partisan conflicts that ncde mt 10 free
tons the erveni wish OF my heart To make This erea,
question, which unhapply much divides and xri,os
The public mind subservicnt the short syhed yc ~
hcuon must destroy all hope OF settling il IN
"e great body OF the people, and for the general interest
cannot therefore, on taking leave of the subject too
earnestly Tor my own feelings the common good arm
you against the bightng consequences of such course
ihese admonitions were, however, in great measure
maze III YAM Nothing short Of the voice of the ArnerS
can People. again procIaimng tone not to be minn
nersood, their seadast confidence in Andrew Jackson
thcir concurrence la his views, and their sympathy in hi;
enlarged PATRIOTISM, and again their vol
10 support man of his stamp against all the
combinations OF local and particular interests tot could
be arrayed against him,-nohing short of ,h,t vo;co
II seems sufficient exercise the evil sniri, Will
r was necessary to subdue and 10 drive away. Its
cWcacy, however, has soon become manifest IL has
induced better consideration Of the subject even in
e quarters rom winch was least TO he expected and
al once, gave decided turn it, which i, rapIIv lca
my 10 potter state oil things The attention the great
mass OF the people has been for the first time awakencJ 70
~ anu genera pubic sentiment is already against all
urher use OF this vitality intere subject as stills for
politicians to stalk upon. The sentiments which Cen
Jackson has for the last four Yeas been so earnestly in
cucating, have been adopted BY Mr. CLAW himself for
whom up to very late day, has been claimed az HE
proudes boast the parensge of this SYSTEM and IN.
ose'ng OF IT'S growth to the most extravagan and mi-
table extent IL must have been with no small satslcc
lion that Mr.. Clay, whose support has been uniformiv
paced upon his unboundcd devotion the protective svs
tenn whose partisans have made il their watch word in
All ana who have summoned to their banners all
who, (accoriing 10 their vocabulary were nairioc
enough 10 prefer the interests of American that OF TO-
,egn ndus'ry-!hat Mr. Clay, himself heard at the
last session so ieengy express the wh TO see the Ia
RIM - separated from the politics Of the country"
but ths Is not the only particular which the vie s of
his opponents have been brought to hi, standard Tho
cessng spirit OF discomfort in the South and
WIN me arm OF lS2S-the attempt to make satsfacto.
ry e-adusmen OF the duties in the schemes o re-.
ssnce 10 The laws with which the country has been me-
naced by one OF the Southern St1tesand the arrange
meht al Tie last session in consequence of which the me-
Mace was withdrawn, are fresh in public recollection
Mr. Gays Bill passed both branches OF the legislature nv
sge nHJoTiucs-- received The undivided support of The
anu. d1"Pary, ana was accepted by its violent and
eNacuhg portion though an entirely sasfcorv
sun sufficient compliance with their demands for a redress
OF grievances. The Convention of South Caron, have
so pronounced it, and have made il the ground nj
ing 'her ordnance Let see what il is that ha.
gwen 10 ms measure such paramount claims the avo-
r"oe consideration OF that body, and through what nlu.
ence II was brought about The recommendation of the
OIL certainly not, that il the ground which had
Oeeh so pcremptorly insisted upon viz: the
AMY OF protective Tariff So far from this being the case
one OF tie arguments urged by its author in favor of
me Dill was, that II involved surrender Of this obiec.
o on the part oil the opponents of the pocv
ana alter unanimous vote OH the part of gentlemen
under such solemn obligations to suppor The Cons,,,
uon, IN favor OF BILL the leading object of which is re-
uucuoh OF duies because they not wanted for reve-
nue. Out Whch al The same Time for The dp0tDed puyDose
protection, raises the duties particular branch of
manufactures from fve to fifty per cent nd that branch
the very branch, too which the high duties had been
most complained of as budensome 10 the Souinl-a
such vote, may be presumed that however conscien-
uousiy may heretofore have been urged the obecon
that the laying oil duty for protection an act which vio
Hes the constitution, Will not be again heard of from the
same quarter. Neither the merits of the bill have
he
ed by 1t; iora bill which proposed much greater and
Speeder reduction, and against which majority of The
House oil Representatives had in vain been acmpied 10 he
ooaincu was by the aid OF the votes laid pon the
aoe, ana The ioImer adoptcd(e) cannot have been
accepted on The ground OF supposed pledge resrc,jnq
he congress oil the United States 10 the duties which
they may impose ten years hence. Every man in the
country knows that the late Congress had no such mower
ana must be aware that even supposing no
legislation TO take place. whether the proposed rate shall
hc continued or not must depend upon the opinion of
inc country as 10 It's tncss in regard which opinion
can now be formed Ii must have been apparent, too
that any pretenson the part Of the late Congress IN lie
up the hands OF that Of 1872, would be calculated TO de-
feat rather than secure its object.
But why waste our time in speculations upon subieet
OH which the Convention have been SO explicit I'm The
report upon which the Ordinance of revocation is founded
bcy say But great must be the advantages of these
reductions, they are small in comparison with the distinct
recoghlons in the new Bill OF great principles which
We deem OF inestimablo yauethat the duties shan ep,
udHy be brought dO,cn the Revenue standard even iii
shall he found necessary reduce the duties OH the pro-
teced articles below 20 per and that no more uone
shall be raised than shall be necessary to an economical
ddninisTdfIon Of The g0uernent1hcse provisions en-
BODY the great principles in reference this subject for
"heh south Carolina has 30 long and earnestly