Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-06-08

Copederacy and becoming relatively more anu more so
every day. property will be at the mercy OF hos.e
najortes which may as fairly cohsliug power out "
the Constitution TO create Protective lar OF 10 apo
Itch s,averv as to establish Bank. We believe that
industry should be burlhened with no taxes, "helel
direct or in the shape OF duties on imports but what
are absolutely necessary for conducting the Govern
on, with efficiency and economy: and that no right
exists in Congress TO make discrimination IN laying
them to encourage and protect one pursuit or ofahc
Of industry at the expense of others: we believe
national debt to be national misfortune, and II ere
ated without necessity, as fraudulent preteSt ~,
raising the taxes, or means to provide caPita'
for Bank, we regard it as national calamity whca
will deseryedy entail execration on all who support II.
AT the head oil the which II IS understood
will be pressed upon Congress, is the Distribution ol
The Proceeds of the Sales OF the Public Lanes
AMONGST the States These amount on an average TO
abon, IS 900 900 annually At the very time th's pro-
position is made TO take out of the public treasury
S3 900 600 and TO divide it as gilt amongst the
States they declare that the treasury IS not aoie 70
nav the ordinary expenses of the Government aud
borrowing at least So 900 900, for immediate exgen-
cies and also that they must annually raise several
millions more beyond the SoOOUOoO thus distracted,
bv increasing the taxation the people through the
Tariff And at the same time, be 1t remembered, we
ore almost on the point OF with England the most
powerful nation Of the Globe, upon questions OF bound
ary and national law of the greatest Importance and
charlottesville we arc unprepared-our towns and
coasts being almost without tortihcatlons-our forts
without soldiers arms-our arsenals but inciiereny
supolled With munitions and military stores-and our
Navy. inferior in numbers and behind Their contempt
raries in equipments of the improved implements oil
modern warfare If the public service require money,
this should be used for that servceif be not need.
ed there excuse for increasing the burthens oil
the country by raising the Tariff. II they increase
taxation on the people raise money to give back IN
the States, we should see little 10 admire at in the
scheme, but its stupidity and folly. Unfortunately,
however, there is which, 50 lar as we are con-
cerned, makes it wantonly oppressive, because II WI
tax our people than FIVE dollars for every one !,
qyes back to our State II the treasure OF the
nation as bride TO degrade the States into miserable
dependencies FEDERAL patronage and taxes Us, te
| eope to make up the deficiency thus created IN the
Treasury-it is an unconstitutional and deossing use OF
the public moneyit goes TO destroy the independence
of the Sates-it stimulates them 10 reckless ekpend-
lures and nparts spirit OF extravaganza su5rersire
of those max ms of economy which are the best seru-
rites of Republican Governmental ~ the entering
" edse 10 assuming the debts OF the States-ant $ IN
| violation of a compact BY which large part o. the
public lands were ceceo ny the States 10 he hcitiai
| Government.
The next leading measure is tic increase cfa iTo'ec-
tire Tariff England, into whose very vals tie hack
les of the protective system Tor ages nave worn en-
| lirheued By such inquiries as her Parliament alone
| makes, through committees Of her wisest statesmen
and examinations Of her abest economists ana most
practical merchants is preparing TO break ard cast
away these foolish letters OF barbarous and BY gone
theories and 10 adopt the wise policy OF lie" m
nerce with all The world. The odious Corn Laws
which sat incubus upon her manufacturer, starving
the poor make the rich monoPos.s richer the most
cherished error Of her SYSTEM with all its JUS
brood of monopolies and exnctons, IS IN the &C cf
being swept away by the force OF truth and me claims
of Justice, at the moment that our j!ers arc
seeking wickedy and wantonly 10 RAISE ;aScs and IN
lict the burthens Of Protective Tariff on uccpls
The distribution Of the revenue from public lines
adopted TO create deficiency in the Treasury, gives
fraudulenty the argument Of public necessity, ID
what would otherwise be without even the shadow Of
reason or excuse. We told, however, that the
Compromise shall be observed! We ask how Observed
According to its true intent end meaning for revenue
purposes only? laying du;ies equally and fairly and
only for raising much money as is necessary 1r he
economical administration OF the Government We
hazard little IN answering, No. We have many
dcaons that the history Of the past If not forgotten,
will be disregarded far it dare be: and tla Sc
ern industry and slave labor will again be ma 10 Ear
the bur,hens Of partial legislation and unes Va
ton. Under pretext of taxing luyuries, ines + nj
silks, which largely exchanged for oN sta cs,
have already been selected for heavy duties Ito
a revenue, absolutely necessary, all luxurlcs. re
equally taxed, we should have Of compliant,
if the taxes now imposed on nccessaries wee re-
duced and the sum lost thereby made up BY equal taxes
on all Injuries, we should see to applaud mea-
sure which would afford essential relief 10 tie lahoring
rcasses 1t is not that silks and wines 10 be taxed,
but that amongst Injuries, they alone, which const
tute so large portion of what is exchanged for the
products Of our labor, should be seiccied-t is this
odious OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES new Southern Wing phrase
by which is disguised the principle of protection, and
which, if admitted, will make the Compromise worth
less than the paper II 10 written upon. Let the prin
ciple of protection be given up as promised, and the
Compromise be carried ont according 10 its true intent
and meaning, and it will be bond of union strong as
brothers love. We will agree, il taxed fairly aud
equally, to divide last dollar with the Government;
but deny lis right 10 enact Protective Tariff to
wiring from by unconstitutional legislation The pro-
ceeds of our honest labor and South Carolina is no
more prepared now, than her history proves she ever
has been, tamey to submit TO oppression and tyranny
Concident in point of time with these measures, aud
forming part Of their great scheme Of operations
they purpose the creation OF public debt and the re-
peal Of the act establishing Independent Treasury
with the fraudulent intent 10 furnish such
cuse in pretended necessity for establishing Nation
al Bank, and furnishing, in the stock issued for the
public debt, capital 10 be subscribed for it. First the
public treasure to be unconsttutonaly wasted by
distributing it among the State, that deficiency may
be made in the public revenue-moGey mus, then he
borrowed to 10000 900 OF dollars upon stocks ls
sued the loan-and the Constitutional Trea
srry abolished to make way for National Bank, n
large part of the capital of which will be subscribed for
and paid in this stock the capitals Of IFS predecessors
both were. BY thus barerng for their support, the
indebted States are bought up by distributing the land
revenue the Tariff interests by protective duties and
the stockholders by the establishment of Bank and
all those who for Internal improvements and other
extravagant schemes OF lavish expenditures because
these follow the natural and almost necessary result
of their lattudinarian principles.
OF all these measures that which is the subject Of
their most strenuous efforts and the object OF their
most ANXIOUS hopes is National Bank-a party Bank
the great to cement their party, to perpetua,e
its ascendancy and to override and crush down the sp
rt Of Republican Democracy and constitutional free
dom. We deny that Congress has any constitutional
power to incorporate National Bank. 1t can only be
carried on by an Incorporated company. The Const
tuition contains grant of power TO establish Bank
ON the contrary the journals of The Convention which
framed the Constitution, shew,
That power to make National Bank was asked for
and refused:
Tha, power to grant charters of incorporation
asked for and refused
And this proposition though varied in man? ways
and often repeated, az often deteated-ndeeo ea
lousy the power Of incorporation regarded, nat il
refusing It for canals and Internal Improvements, Mr.
Jefferson tells il from fear that such corpora