The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-12-01

an Administration, perhaps The most -eiil-
cent and energetic that has ever controll-
ed the destines of this nation, what were
We to anticipate, when our Rulers them
selDes should have become its allies. It's
party, or its paseants. In this view, ii
would have changed the character of our
Government, become part Of our political
institutions, and cnnsummaled the greatest
of all The deprecated evils that could befail
a counlrv-''lhe union Of purse and sword,
in the Federal head'-ur worse, in the
hands Of Federal party. Well may
such an institution be supposed to have
had the power 10 regulate the currency: but
i, would have been with The iron. rule of
lespotism-restraining all interests, alb
sorbing all capital, measuring all profits,
nverpowerng allcompetition. and attract
ing the wealth and prosperity of every
ntherporlion oflhe union, to the centre Of
its operations.
1t was an honest confession, Of one OF
the ab!est presiding officers Of the late Uni
ted States Bank, before a committee ap-
pointed by Congress to investigate It's al
fairs, that il was at any time within its pow
or to crush State and local institutions
What an appalling fact for the contfmpIa.
tion of the Sovereign States Of the Union!
What prophetic warning to the inslltn-
tions chartered by their authority! The
institutions Of the country to be uprooled
and erased at the bidding Of a hearlless,
soul-less. cent. per cent. calculating cor
p"ra,inn! The rights of the States, and
the liberties Of the people, TO be subjected
to the dominion Of surdid monied Au-
tocracy! And yet, such is the supremacy
over law, liberty, and the constitution, to
which such an institution would inevitably
have attained. Encroachments upon the
liberties Of the people, in other times and
nations, were to be apprehen:ed from the
swords nf conquerers, and the usurPations
of ambit Gus rulers; but experience has
shown that in our own age and country,
the strongest contests to maintain consti-
tutinnai, and even sovereign rights, have
been waged against an ambitious money
po,oer. in all its various furms, of Bank
monopolies, and protective tariffs. Well
therefore, may we congratulate the coun.
Try, on having escaped the ambitions pre-
tensions Of an institution which after inn
periously debating the humiliating duty
to the Federal Executive, of violating his
constitutional obligations, now threatens,
through the vengeance Of disappointed
party, the rash and ubiquitous retribulon
Of abnlishing the must useful and conser-
valve, Of all the prer"galives of his de-
partment.
The revision Of the duties on Imports,
justly regarded by the people of this Stale
with solici,uhe proporti"ned to the bur
dens which The Protective Policy has hith-
e,ln imposed on lhrm, has been made, nei-
,her in that spirit of equity, or IF comp, o.
mise, which we had just reason to anliri-
pate, from the principles and concessions
of the Act of '33. The history Of the op-
position Of this Slate, to a Tariff for pro-
lection, can neither be obilera,ed or for.
gotten. And the high considerations
which actuated her, in ronsenling TO COM
promise her interests, fur term OF years,
to the peace and safety of the Union,
should be Il warning. rs well as an induce
ment, TO respect her rights, as we'll as her
furbeara ce. While the government is
acknowledged to be disembarrassed of
drb'. and manufacturing interests perhaps
the least oppressed and the most prosper
Gus of any in the Union, the renewal of a
policy by indirect means, Which Is now
universally admitted to bear unequally up
on the productive industry of different
portions Of the Union, is a most fragrant
abuse of power. as well as most wantna
violation of faith. The living generation
who were the witnesses of the struggles
and pledges in the late contest for her con-
stilutionai rights, have not yet passed
Iaway,.-The monuments uf the times have
not vet pershed,-the very altars conse-
Grated BY her VOWS, still stand before us
preparations tor defence, are still in readi-
ness and requisilion,-the aye, its records,
and recolIections, have scarcely brcome a
part Of history, before the very burdens
and oppressons which they were intended
to resist, are renewed with shameful in-
fidelity, which seeks neither prelext or
Justification. A hume valuation, cash du-
ties, and an unreasonable and exorbitant
revenue of more than thirty millions, il is
believed are little less oner"us in amount
or unconstitutional in effect. rhanl the enor-
nous forty per cent. duties which the