Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-07-16

from c.,can icaac, l,n pu-ied ulo France; Vet Ia
,farga.4 p'aarrs Lat he !ea't ch,rsrs sm'k"sa s@
me6eSS, cto consumt a.
ii " iay Gniies amounting 70 ten millions Of dollars
m Ere ii vines who would pay il, Not lie v'nl'
aers OF France but tie Muryian planters ana others
who drink French vines ~ .nrrica
What II, u does Mr. Johns"ns argument lead to-
Just this Decause Franc. cho"ses TO make her people
,av ten millions Of dollars American tobacco, We
should rcaliae BY maans cr people pay Ten millions
on French wines
What VIII France care foi THAT She will tell us,
.svou lite off your nose 10 spite your face An odd
way tns 10 relieve our tobacco panters-taSng them
ten millions Of dollars merly because France taxes ie
chewers, smokers and shutters les MILLIONS:
But The tobacco planter may say, hiGh GUY on
French wines Will lessen tin quantity consumed, anu
so far impair the market f.! them rs to induce frace
10 reduce her duty on tobacco H..
MIR. Johnson scyS tha ~! not DC lhe ei'ee'' ~
him: 81 will venture to ST the consumption Of wine
will not be diminished hy~ 'y Of twenty per cent -
Does member of Congto> rink yomr Lisbon VINE q
seventy five cents; Go asSVhem. No, they apply 70
the dealer and ret the best hn has IL IS matter u
MEASURE and pride-it sE Injury 10 have the best wne
and TO know that il is costly This feeling VIII Keep
up the use of vines and viii eend to your Treasury
the needed revenue.
If this be true what will France care for your duty
She will sell us inst as much wine she does now
and ., inst as rood a price Our tariff will not at
fec, her interests in the least and this mighty mea-
sure OF retaliation viii end in naked tax on our own
people.
! Further: Il The principle here LAID down be true;
if In. h,gh price OF uxnr,es does not dimnsh the con-
su,np;on why do MIR. Johnson and his friends make
such an ou.cry about the high ariifmposed ID Europe
on American lobacco3 They do not pay the duty, and
r The consumption be not essencd, how does Il Affect
their market:
| THE MEDITERRANEAN sQranRnN.-MR. STEVENSON.
On our FIRST page viii he found the correspondence
sent In Ire Senate by The Secretary oi the Navy
spccting the return Of the Mediterranean Squadron,
and the first thing that str rs rs Is The extreme lnds
erection Of publishing Captain Bolton letter oi the 'th
Of MAY !, having been accidentally omitted III lis pro
pcr Mace Under the Of the call, the Secretary
might have withheld he whole or any part OF It, and
GOOD sense and right feeling would have dictated one
Or the other undcr every possible view o. the
case. ;, :,
Asto Mr. Stevenson letter 70 Commodore HUI,
We are 20 iudae of 1t not by things rs they now stand,
but as they stood when II wrote y, ana i'en was
highly proper. Our cA"Es aoroaa and our pnohc I'M
ns.ers most soec:v are apt to Enk and frei a they
should 40 about linz rights dad ho:pr 81 their country
Nr Stevenson could never have supposed that Co
vern,neot meant TO assa the English doctrine Of
o sur having no right to Mcleod aud yield Eng
land s threats lie nes aud have believed oeiore
hand that meant 50 10 humble Itself, any more tian
could our spirited and r'g minded iriow-tow nsman
john Hare Powell whose letter 10 Lie Commodore,
lhouah not written Tor puhcato0, and marked conf
dental nevertheless does him honor, and Wight well
have been approved By lie Secretary of Legation
lr. III.
by s,5mission and il ~ that have preserved
il, for a time, under Lny!ahG nsuient demand, ana
threats, in McI.eods cast
We observe shat the Governor General Of Canada
in his recent speech 10 the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, gives " 10 understand, while
speahinn of l.cnd that he has the 90 ueen com
mands" 10 protect him and all her subjects in Canada
''wh the whole weight other power Thus IS threat
number three, for alr. Webster and the Admlnistra-
ton to dires j, is the threat collateral, the threat
colonial lie had the threat metropolitan not only
once but tcicc, in Mr. Fox letter. first, where he
is warned Of the "s?rioas consequences which must
ensue from u rejection cf the demand; and, secondly,
at the close of The letter, whore he assured Of the
national resentment Ma an iaLibiy be e1ci,cd roush
out he ulote Of tie British empire, should any harm
come 10 Mcleod
Mr. Stevenson as patriot could surely never have
believed that his Government would yield 10 such
threats and did right to put Commodore Hull on his
guard, under the extreme probability Of war which
then existed. The Webster school Of politics would
have given peace in sig by kneeng down 10 Eng.
land as seeks to do and if the Prestons, the
Choaes, the Cushngs, the Clays (not Ike noble Clay
Of 1872 defend this course now 50 did the larpers,
the Caleb Stron.s, the Qmnceys the Gcnveneurs, the
Morrisses the Daniel Webscrs and the Faderalists
body then They iact,ously denounced The Demo
Gratis as seeking war wl,l, England without cause.
But the people Of the u 5 vii never sanction this
kind Of policy always az injurious in The end is
base in the beginning. They have been betrayed, and
in nothing than by Mr.. Websters appointment
as Secretary If State. The Fedcrasts became ashamed
Of the part tsey acted in lo2 AID viii the moiera
Wings If what they doing Then viii the
n@er d can Perl Nc has acted 70
be properly appreciated b. his whole country i; IS,
at present, b; his Democratic friends. His letter to
Lord Panerston, Of the I'D Of May, 1888, describing
the outrage upon sovereignty III the attack upon
the Caroline is the cearest, strongest and best pub
c document which that .ranscendant erormily called
forth, and ,as the ner. Of having been the frst-lor,
the instructions under which he wrote IT, consisted Of
bu. few lines. All the argument--ail Is yigo!, were
his own. Ii - worth Thousand such letters as Mr.. ,
Webser's The is polished, feeble, and submis- 7
s!ve, with abundance Of f-ng in the to cover q
shameful The other spirited, manly, and re-
soute, became the representative OF great and
powerful nation. How the present Secretary OF
S.ae ever write spirited, manly, rtsolute letter TO
British Minister, when The very Office IN which lie |
daily sits contains evidence of the thousands Of i'm
pressed Americans whose ne refused espouse
leaving them to the horrors Of British prison ships
Another Fourth OF July has and gone. ne
hare nal tacn possession c Tie disputed territory get
but il IS the first Fourth o! july the Curious l
Of &c that has ever Witnessed tarEised honor
We have often had difficulties with foreign nations,
but never until nov. have yielded 10 threats
never until Websierism asccn!ent = councils
Can b. possible that S,rginian iills the Executive
char?--the State tia; gave birth TO Washington
PENNSYLVANIA.
DOMESTIC.