The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-25
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tied goods in equal ty and free goods and articles
clearly necessary, ii any for or In national defence
time Of war because this concerns all IN the inte
grail strength of the Republic and how far IL might
| be wise to keep the duties on Jewelry below ne
| smuggling standard, q OF which could be carried
on shore ia the mouth has been the case, might be
worth consideration But look at the situation Con-
gress is placed in by this partial, dlstraetng rival
discrimination project memorials and petitions from
manufacturing companies OF every description, pres
sing for high protection and discriminating duties
Can we crafty ALL Can we discriminate lor all To
the extent they would wish If we give one hun
red DER cent another eighty another sixty, another
forty and SO on will your variety Of DETERMINATIONS
and fferentals, and projections, satisfy ailf WIN
so ne OF them you OF Injustice, OF partial
ty, OF ignorance OF the compisAy Oh interests you at
| enipt 10 regulate and build upi How can Cougress
epIslate for the chaog,ng notifications necessarily
| belonging to industry, through supply and demand,
| and the other numerous circumstances that opeta'e
| upon il You cannot give TO some without taxing
| from theirs turn IL and twist H. and plan and 'ophs-
tca. il as YOU NAV Large manufacturing establish
nens will be ever subject, like banking, To huctua'
ton eXpaI 81 m and conlfacli'n depending on sup
DIV and dena nd The former unlIned WITHIN ihe cap
TIA and credit and the latter uncertain to the extreme
Hence The sad reverses conditi n among those EN-
ployed and dependent them IN England, an indeed
IN our own country. You should not, by legislative
enacinents disturb the equil brum OF equal light In
industrial ursu for by doing SO you m'sead distract,
|
| in conserving their efforts towards getting Nv
ing and their pursuit of prosperity and happiness each
| in his own way. Man Is ever endeavoring 10 assist
| his happiness by promoting whatever he may oeheVe
to be his interest, and II is natural the IMPULSE
eyinces and moves itself through all he ramicaons
of association for Government, IN the individual the
| family, the industrial class, the local community
Tn the general action OF the People IN the ousi-
ness of lfe their Government should fot inter-
erc with il under the idea Of regulating and improv-
| hat ~
less variety of and effect, and diversified result.
| And believe me, MIR. Chairman, this discrimination
process with all Difference for the judgments oil the
gentlemen who concocted 1t, evinces very mperiect
know ledge of human nature and OF abe spirit oil The
Federal Constitution for the former certainly thrVes
best when it left tree to manage ITS own concerns
| in its own way, aud the latter never intended ha'
equality Of right among the People should DC inter-
fered with by legislation II these proposed lharec'
tax duties the amount OF the Government exPens-
es will be protection and encouragement 10 indus
try as is represented let the benefits extend TO all
do not render the operation partial and 'nvdious oy
discrimination, for the People cannot be made Deievc
that inequality in taxation is an indiscrmihate oehe
fit, tax their honest, unsuspcious creuu'y as you
may
| And more do t talk SO much about assisting the
poor man by ar polite 'of taxing his labor through
| the medium of his consumption oil necessaries, alter
having contributed to his poverty by unwise legsa-
| ,ion in promoting and aggrandizing monopoly and
| privilege in all its phases. We need not talk about
making this that and the other, cheap for the work
ing man ; let US simply do him justice and he will
help himself; do him no oyerweening charity, Tor he
| is freeman and wants none and Will have none let
him stand upright with his ieow-clzen in the
nomy of his country which is his right, and all that
he demands pass no laws to place HIM at dsadvdn
tage, that's all there will be sutic ency OF Unequal
ity of condition, which, in its extreme, IS the bane OF
freedom, without passing laws to promote 1t, as all
| parti Al ones do. My constituents did not send me
here to assist in forming tariff Of revenue imposts
that will be medium Of dispensing bounties, and pa
| trynage, and special privilege and peculiar advan-
tage, either to persons or classes, or particular
branches of industry, but to vote for equal laws,
which is all that freemen want They elected me TO
legslae for the great whole, not for sect on, class
| company or interest and particularly where il con-
ficts with the veal of all that am to, coDstrue the
Constitution as it literally is as far words have
plain meaning not to strain 1t out Of truth merely to
make out case - that am ever to bear In mind
that the Union demands this impartial exercise oil the
action of the Representative, Tor that Union Is ted
Grafton of States giving up portion OF their powers,
as defined the CONSTITUTIONS for the better Preser-
walton of the whole, compact that must be rlgidly
adhered to, the integrity of the Union depending
| upon it. n
speak nor think in SECTIONAL spirit nor in an isola-
lated iron or coal, or cotton, woollen, tobacco
discriminating tariff spirit; nor In mere agrlcuu-
raj or mechanical, manufacturing or commercial
discriminating tariff spirit. No, sir, speak IN dis
interested Western spirit,-ln what believe, by way
of general proposition, essentially, an all-ut ltarian
live and let live Ohio spirit. speak as think and
feel in spirit that embraces all sections all classes,
all industrial pursuits and interests; spirit that
comprises in It's expansion all past present, and to
come of the independence and happy prospects Of
| this broad land--this glorious Union In word, l
speak m an american splrlt.
| II Constitution never could have intended this
discriminating policy in duties on imports, because
it would have been violation of equal right and #
il could be pretended to be construed we would
have to go behind the instrument itself TO the equal
rights of the People and the States that formed it,
a standard of redress-a test too plain and Just for
the pretension to stand | know it has been argued
that policy and expedency demand discrimination,
and il is expected that the Constitution heretofore,
must bend to both. No such thing. We Will none
of it, Policy we are always talking of policy-a
word in great demand do not much like IL; 1t
might be called indefnitism of vague, crooked
features but hnesse prominent one mas an ar Oh
roguery about il at times it should not be at home
in Republic; wish we would think less about such
a hackneyed, perverted available of wiseacre legs-
lation. Let have the unpublished, untainted, I'M
twisted policy of plain, direct truth. The word, to
my mind, conveys the idea of hotchpotch toruous,
scheming or hating between wisdom and cunning
Honesty is the best policy, as the old adage says,
and why because honesty is policy at all. Pol
ICY petition and privilege have given the good Peo-
pie of this Union little trouble during their day,
and are not satisfied yet. They curious trio,
having engendered each other, and amagamate into
and re-engender each other all the time policy and
petition producing privilege, and privilege and Pc
tton reproducing policy, and policy and privilege re-
producing petitions and SO they go on producing and
reproducing constantly, to the serious annoyance OF
the peace and webeing of the People. And what
is still more curious, these worthless have produced
the discriminating protection tariff bills now under
discussion presenting to vision the very striking,
and if they go into effect the very touching, features
of the privilege family-a family that seem deter
mined barrack the labor of the country as long
as they are permitted to lnfct the imposition which
will be- it may be supposed, until the People distil
into Congress- through the aembc Of the ballot-box,
as much wisdom will obige this loa6ng family 10