Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-07-14
Two more New Hnmbuss.

W Il CORA 70 me ' Inf6ttgeRC6T.-"e 40 not mean
10 be turned aside by the numbering criticisms on our
"Views of the Presidential election. 1t is difficult for
US to find room for our own IielcS; much less, to reuiew
the Rsrieoer. We can say, for good and all, that there is
not a title IN these criticisms 10 shake a single PROPOSE.
ton we have advanced; to soften a single charge we
have made against the Federal principles and revolving
heresies of its candidate, Gen. VIM. II. Harrison. Be.
sides, we do not mean to change the character of the
war by any elaborate sophistries which may be invent
ed by the n. lnteiigencero or its allies. We mean prin-
cipally TO carry the war into Africa-not to defend the
Citadel Of Rome. With this remark, we have now to
say, that We have read the 9Th No. of the Intelligent
Ger (of July 9th) IN reply to our 9th No. on the Ia
riff. We published every portion Of Gen. Harrlson's
Agricultural Speech, which even the Intelligencer
deems pcrtinent-and that sufficiently shows, that we
had no desire to garble the speech or do Injustice 10
the Orator. The reason why all the extracts were not
published in the Crisis, was, to tell the 4aple truth, be.
Cause there was not room in its columnS%though there
was sufficient to explain the true spirit of Gen. HIS
opinions on the Tariff. Butthere is another part of the
criticisms which requires notice. We never intended,
as the National lntclligeneer is pleased to insinuate,
10 substitute a direct tar for duties on foreign goods.
We have just laid down the principle on this
subject, in the remarks we submitted on Mr.. Hun.
ter's Letter. We go for no higher duties, than are
sufficient, along with the proceeds of the Public Lands,
to pay the expenses ofthe Government most economi.
cally administered.-Bu the duties must be as high as
this, but no higher! Lay duties, if you please, upon
such articles of luxury as are now exempt, or raise them
higher upon other articles oflu%dry, as wines, silks, &c,
&c. But do not lay the duties, as Gen. Harrison would
prefer, for the sake of a Protective System. The df.
ference between the two schools is this: Mcssrs. Clay,
Harrison, &c, &c, would strike off the Public Lands
from the available means of the Treasury, and then sup
ply The vacuum by a higher Tariff; and the spirit of the
Protective System, to which they are attached, would
induce them also TO raise the duties on protected arti.
clcs-Whereas, the other school, TO which we belong,
would, after cutting down the expenses to the most eco
romical standard, apply the proceeds Of the public lands
to reimbursement, as we'll as lay on such duties, as
would then be necessary for revenue only, but not for
protection. We stop, therefore, the in-idious sugges-
ton of the lntelligencer at the very threshold. We
differ with Mr.. Rhett, as at present advised, about a
Direct Tax. Such is not the policy of the Administra-
ton, nor Of most OF its friends-let The y. Intelligcnccr
insinuate what il may, or let MI. Caleb Gushing write
what he plcases. In vain does the National Intelligent.
Ger throw out such insidious remarks as these: I" How
the People of the United States will relish an excise
system in a time of profound peace, we shall have
an opportunity of trying, If the politics of tine En-
qulRER and Mr.. RmErr are TO he carried out into
action Such is not the politics of the Enquirer. Such
an idea never entered into our imagination-Ve re-
member too we'll the dispute, which took place on
John Adamss direct Taxes, young as we were; we
were too deeply impressed with Mr.. Jctferson's views
with Mr.. G1llatin' 5 "View Of the Finances with the
arguments Of MIR. J. Randolph and the Republican par
t.: the immense cost ofcollecting the taxes, the greater
patronage it would confer on the Executive, the OBJ
noxious presence of excise officers swarming over the
land, to abandon without the most urgent necessity,
the objections which we then found against the system
of direct taxes and excise. As for MIR. Rhett, he has
displayed, since this allegation was made in the n. In
telligencer, that moral courage, which has always dis
tinyuished him. He has come forward, to arrest the sly
insinuation of the \. Intcligencer. Whatever may be
his own opinions, he disclaims any right to speak for the
Administration.-Bu the last Globe does speak 4 Ian
ruage, which even the N. lntelligencer can scarcely
affect to misunderstood. In its article (of Saturday
last) which we shall r~epublish, it reprobates 'the brazen
and villainous impudence" which "pretends that the
Administration, which has broken down all (the WhIg)
schemes of taxation and speculation upon honest la.
bour, designs to introduce new taxation in its most odi-
Gus ~form'-and contends, that "the uincs and silks Of
tic .4ristocracy will be made to pay for the extravaganza
and waste, of which the Federal representatives in
Congress are guilty in voting appropriations beyond the
estimates Of the Departments"
But this is not all, which the Inteligencer has had
the meanness to inSinuatc. We were aware, that
the Federal Wings were attempting to spring a mine
upon us in regard TO the Census. We were informed,
from time 10 time, that the Wings were beginning TO
raise capital out of it-that this is one of the new hum
bugs, which they intended to raise, IN order to produce
a false prejudice and an unjust clamor against the Ad-
ministration. We have been preparing for this new on.
slaupht-and had collected materials to prove, that Mr..
Webster in the Senate, and Mr.. r. Garland in the II.
Of R., had been the most busy, in charging the
sphere of enquiry for the new census. But thanks to
the N. IntelTgencer.-it has begun the open battle too
soon for its party-It has had the infamous audacity to
assert that this minute Census was connected with It's
own chimera, sthis new scheme Of direct taxation. =
The issue is now, then, openly, directly made before the
country-and the Globe has met it in the proper spirit
and with overwhelming success. This pistol OF the
enemy has missed fire. This new bumbug will now be
fnllv appreciated-and we undertake to say, that it
viii descend to the Tomb of the Capulets, along with the
Standing Army and the Hooe Case. What next
\ What new device viii this d~espicable brood of slang
wbanpers start, What new gorgons and chimGras,
to fright an enlightened people?