Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-03-06

nonnI,tion in State which is only part Of what
was an unknown wilderness northwest oil 'ne o"o ~
yer! "From Ohio" 81 have heard oei"'e ., VI, s
oho-most wonderful" "And yon: "from ina.,
m, uand Won, and YOU, and you? and you: ana ynu:
D declarations from Illinois, Michigan, ms
.onr; arknnsas iowa. "Wonderful Most wonderful!
And how have these great and mighty States been huf'
,,r,d mic being" ''Upon the kind and parental pa
,snnae which Won provided for them in lie Federal
Government" "What, then, has become OF State
Riuhis-wherc are they" "Gonc. Yes, gone forever
unless this patronage be now arrested And, Sir,
imagine see that shade departing with warning nm
ger pointed, and with the words ~ a'a pun. ~
ber.y and the Federal Republic will be gone too, unless
you restore the Just balance of powers established De-
tween the States and the General ny your
fathers " Yes, Sir, unless you restore that oaahce'
that shade should again rise another century hehce,
il may be like the ghost of Cicero amidst the ruins Of
Rome.
| have read somewhere, somebody has told me,
the story of scene got up by some German nobieman
TO satrze the modern Italians lie represents foot
traveller as entering Rome at night just before the
hreaans of day He tries in vain 10 arouse the slum
berng Inhabitants whom drows'ness and Darkness
and Stiffness and silence seem to reign like death where
once CITY stood on even hills, with all it's life by day
and lights by night. lie throws himself down to rest
hy the way of one OF the streets, IN the open ar
IN The mean time the ghost Of Cicero after lapse of
a,,u,;es enters inst the traveller is again rising to
arouse the lazy inhabitants. The traveller takes from
lila fob aqtch; the ghost starts back and inquiries
awhat is that "a watch, an instrument to mfa-
sure time s'Wonderful! and who invented that: 3
| sThe Germans" The traveller then takes from
his pocket almanac, and the ghost again asks
oWhat that is'" San annual calendar; and upon
hearing explanation Of the art ofprinng, II rasso
up its hands exclaimng, "Wonderful wonderful
and who invented that "Fhe Germans. rail-
inr to awaken and arouse the sluggard populace,
the traveller draws out pistol, and fires il off, 10 the
alarm of the ghost, which again inquiries. lana
what is that" "a ire-arm; and upon being INFORM
ed of the invention and use of gunpowder IN the art
Of war; it exclaiins, "Wonderiul. wonderful! mos.
wonderful! but who Invented that" "The Germans.
Great and mighty people they must be! but what mas
Rome been doing all this time? Where are her pii'
| lars with Roma Eerna upon them: where are her
temples and her household gods her legions her Be-
nate, her forum, all her ancient grandeur ana glory;
Just at that moment one Of the azaron OF Italy en-
tered yawning and gaping from sleep, and dirty and
ragged and debased from dleness and poverty lhere
now" said the traveller sis all that is lett OF Rome
The ghost vanished So, Sir, If this domain patron
age continues, our ghosts may rise but short Tune
hence in this history Of nations, TO witness nothing
but the diapdaon and decay, and ruin and lazaron'
of fallen, gone umpire! Rome rose 10 grandeur
which we may not attain; but Rome, in all her glory,
with all her provinces and conqursts never parceled
out to her legons lands such we bestow on our cI-
tizens and our States. No Consul Of Rome no Enpe-
ror ever welded patronage of domain like that Weld
ed by the President Of this American Republics patron.
age already the People, their money, their LegIsa'
lures their laws their institutions, their States, winch
is fearully and fast tending to empire which,
like all empires, must decay and fall. We have now
Government Of impcriat patronage-it must be cor
rupt-its patronage mus. be brought down
! Sir, your land ordinance has done wonderful things
for this nation but, if it cannot be changed for the
better in respect 10 Executive patronage that patronage
must not be magned and increased 1t ton great al
ready AS no figure of speech-as no hyperbolc-l say
that would vote TO give all the public lands at once to
the States rather than their influence constantly
tending 10 empire increased. l ain TAR from gong
for another system proposed, (lr Calhoun 81 but
at the proper time, when the whole snbjec; can be
taken up, and remodelled and amended, will do no.
thing, vote for nothing, on the subject by pecemeal
will propose an amendment, which cannot 90 into
now but which will be better bargain for the new
States and for the old than has ever been yet nf-
ered in the market. Old Virginia-which, blessed mo-
Their of them ALL the States fail TO deride and
abuse this floor, like good old parents ever sure
TO be abused by ungrateu children who have had ad-
vances made them before burial and testament.-Old
Virginia. say, at least one of her Districts which
speak for, will advance her children at
than them hawking themselves about in the
market they do, and than the lands she
so generously coded 6 to the common benefit Of the
Union, remain any longer just much capital onty oy
politicians TO trade md their yartisans 10 araste =
than these lands merge The States II NtS I'M
on into grand, imperial consolidation!
And, Sir, if such be the tendencies of the present
system, it is, what will they be, rather, what vii
they not be if distribution be added? Heretofore Sir
the States, only, have been bound by this alarm
ing power heretofore, the old States have been The
only check upon its progress towards an imperial des
poiism, and old have multiplied as fast az new ones
The policy which Ohio and Tennessee would have
coniended for twenty years ago, has become counter
policy to theirs AS soon as the new State.
have got well clear of their land Offices and well fill
ed with population, they then have become old States
in their land policy In all this have heretofore hnc
some check, security, though not enough, know
against this domain patronage But, Sir, what if dis
trlbuton be now added 10 the system and this power
full patronage be extended to the old States as we'll
the new This is oil that is lacking to make its powe
absolute and irresistible. This will consummate the
evil There will then be check, no security =
Catching the States ensaved BY State debts, the "bor
rover is the slave of the lender; catching them Sub
dued by taxation, with "dcfciencics" which they can
not supply by duties on imports Having the power
10 supply the "defeiency of the Federal Government
by high tariff here the friends of consolidation tempt
their weakness with this bait this fatal lure and, oh
God the old mother, Old Virginia hcrself-no, not
tage-may, perhaps, be seen with toothless gums &c
exc out her labby lips to take OF this land PAP
from the Federal spoon! May God in his mercy spare
that sight. She is, though old and stripped Of he
ancient vigor out Of debt and proud as ever though
poor. She will not trust sell her old Republican
faith for a mite only of an immensely which she once
gave away!
Sir, in the combined operation Of the principles of
increased protective tariff and of distribution, the ma
nufacturing States will have double profit, and the
agricultural States will bear the whole loss.
The first will get their full share Of distributions and
the whole profit of protection. The second will pay
The full tax of their consumption under the tariff which
will more than exceed their full share under the distr
button To the former there will be double gain, and
to the latter there be certain loss; and this
TO great extent whether duties laid upon the pro
tected articles, upon uxures unprotected articles
involving countervailng terminating duties; be-
cause all countervang regulations, reanory by Other
nations upon our commerce, must fall almost wholly
upon exports which are the products Of agriculture
States | shall, therefore, oppose increase Of the
tariff at tbs Time and distribution of the from
public lands at all times.
Gentlemen ask, then, nshat 'oiH do Sir, | will
postpone the tariff question long | can, and
leave the present laws 10 operate they will, with
on additional legislation, until know there is per
maacm deficiency in the Treasury. My opinion is
that when trade and commerce and currency are re
s,or,d and confidence revves, there will be mporta
tons To The amount of 100 200 millions per
and that, upon such amount Of mportaons, the
from the present ofduties will be nj am moi