Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-19

nave Away regarded as entitled TO the patronage Of
Congress, and am prepared carry them par passu
as soon financial will enable US TO do it,
These grand national works constitute distance OF
5000 miles. The engineers who surveyed the Cbesa-
peake and Ohio Canal have estimated the cost of one d.
vision OF only 40 miles, 5000 900; and another division
of only miles 10 cost another $500 900: added loo ether
will make sum OF SO 500 900, the of 75 miles ony
And Florida neck OF only 200 miles be executed
for less than 500 900 000 distance Of 27 which taken
from 5000, will leave 4725 miles yet provided for
ct these are works which Mr. NJ Dufie avows in the
public prints he prepared carry the expense Of
the government our will ena
bic $ o do it,
Governor Hamilton far support that bill as any
other man. In addition TO which he expressed a wish for
snip navigation by canal 10 unite the Atlantic with the
great Pdcihc Ocean-To accomplish which, instead of
drawing the Treasury of the United States he must
draw OH the mines OF Poosi
Where were these four gentlemen going hand in hand
lot me same grand projects to get revenue
psh those splendid public works, surpassed magn-
hcence nor equaed in cost by the Royal Canal of Lam
guedoc or the Appan way OF Brundusium, unless by
tariff and tariff too extensive and gorous han any
tarh heretofore known 10 the United States And they
knew IL We'll and gave an impetus TO the tariff beyond
any thing that could have For, within twenty
days after this bill passed the tariff OF 1924 passed like
Que was made to depend on the other he had
Tor doing so but for supporting Internal In
Provement Gen. Hayne had the Internal Improvement
Bill under his control in the Senate. His own vote with
two others would have defeated the bi being southern
man. and asking nothing for South Carolina he turned tho
scale in its favor.
As tariff man Mr. Calhoun was placed in the first rank
In his speech of lsl6, he began by divesng himself Of
every motive but patriotism. He told Congress.
SOUTH he and his constituents had iaterest but the
cultivation OF the soil:
That to afford manufactures ample protection would
enable the farmer TO sell his produce high and buy cheap
the wants and conveniences of life:
That Tariifof Protection of vital Importance to
the security and permanent prosperity of the Union:
That would produce interest strictly American as
much so as to agricultural and far commerce
and navigation:
That it would produce new and most powerful COM
ment lar outweghng any objections that might be urged
against the system:
from, q
ger-DIsUN ION, against which ought to be perpetual
ly guarded
And that would afford to the cotton and oolen manu-.
tingency"
These were among his arguments and had he succeed
ed In giving to the and woollen manufacturers
as ne declared he would would do protection beyond the
reach OF contingency would have excluded from Ameri-
can markets every foreign fabric of which the materials
were either OF cotton wool The manufacturers them
selves only ask for such protection as would enable them
compete with bat not 10 exclude forepn fhrics Rnt
IL was eit Tor MIR. Calhoun, who manufacturer,
who coming from the south, he and his constituents had
no interest but ga the cultivation OF the SOIL push porec-
reign COMMERCE from the face OF the EARTH and place
himself pre- .emineny conspicuous among
rers, as their great benefacor.
THE law passed by majority of only five Mr. Call
noun carried 10 its aid six South Carolina votes Only two
from that State voted against it, John Taylor Pendeton
District, and General Mogre Of Spartanburgh Had Mr.
Calhoun and his Ave other voters gone ist the bill it
would have been negatved by majority of seven This
Is mere sketch OF the part Mr. Calhoun Mr. M'Dufie
Gov Hamilton and General Hayne acted i'm perfectinr
those systems which they now with voice publicly
proclaim
uona as TO Justify dissolution OF the Union the price
OF blood And have said through their Ordinance that
congress must gauge the revenue TO hairs adh to
me wants oil the government before the first of Februa-
ry, or they will dissolve the Union.
lhe annals OF the world do not furnish such contrast
IN me political history OF any other that ever lived
hen other politicians change they acknowledge their
error, and atone or by endeavorng repair the niu.
ries society had sustained by those errors But those
shifted Is nd haye dar-
ing unexampled in the history acon shifted their
ILL judged and runous policy uDon the neonle nj
England.
The interest and the habits of the people of New Eng.
land were directly opposed TO tariff OF protection Their
capital was almost exclusively invested in commerce and
lhe farm winch Mr. Calhoun advocated with much
cess quite dsconceed the pursuits Of that industrious and
uga people; and who were ruined by the tariff OF 1924
opposition to which, Daniel Webster, who Mr. Calhoun
and his party have induced the people of South Carolina
TO believe, was the that had produced the whole sys
TEN, in speech that would have done honor TO Chatham
pointed TO every consequence Of which the Nuifiers
themselves complain and warned Congress that il
would prove disastrous to the best OF the Union
anu unsete all the pursuits OF the American people And
IL uhrYaed eoquence could have prevailed over error
he would have ramped the system under his feet
On the passage OF the Bill twelve members from Mas
sachusets' voted, eleven OF them with Daniel Webster at
Their head voted against the bi whilst MIR. Calhoun was
out oil doors both before and after the passage that act
earnestly ehredDg members OF Congress who were op.
posed TO The tariff to abandon their opposition Join him
IN support OF it, And at the same Tine avowng he was
prepared stand fail with his Tariff and Internal Inn
Union were involved in them.
Mr. Calhoun was public in his enreaties and avoyals:
and am prepared to establish the facts, beyond doubt
II Mr. Calhoun will say it So But he must saw il
hmsel as he responsible for the denial of per-
son.
His support Of those systems gave him his fame They
gave him the reputation Of statesman Of enlarged views;
politician OF the nalon overlooking tie sectional feelings
and local interests OF the State promote the great
terests OF the Union. They were the pauds he gained
Tor sacrificing the dearest interests of South Carolina on
the altar OF his ambition that he might rpen his POPULAR.
" III hol-bed Tor premature presdency for which no
very shortly alter announced himself candidate and
these were the only claims up his Tariff aud Internal
improvement claims.
And so far had he gained the ascendancy over the peo
pie OF South Carolina IN favor Of those systems without
which he told them, this could never be a splendid go
vernment, that when Gov. Wilson, in November 1924
for approphang $50 OO0 annually for plans and surveys
OF roads aud canals only which had been enacted by Con-
gress t preceding session, that the Legislature might
nonstrate against them; committee, Of which Judge Pn
Oleau (the broher-n-law Of Gov. Hamon) was chair
man, 10 report the subjects
Said they knew evils produced by the acts of Con.
gress; that the Legislature had power mpugn either
the acts OF Congress the decisions Of the Judiciary
and any attempt 20 do by the Legislature would be an
act Of usurpaon; and they actually postponed the cons
deraiou OF their otCn report, without permitting it to be
debated by majority OF three ourhs nd the postpone.
ment considered settling the opinion Of South Ca.
roina in favor Of the Tariff and Internal Improvement
systems tor II published 10 tho public prinr
was also proclaimed triumph FOR Mr. Calhoun, Mr.
M'Dufie, Governor Hamilton, and General Hayne, over
State Rights; which asserted had been gotten up to put
those gentlemen down.
was believed the poople did NOT bis oues