The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-06-30
[ NUMBER 40.
From the Lynchburg Fireiniaa.
TARIFF PoLICY-FREE TRADE

American people we're formerly more uni.
ted than in reference to the importance of
cherIshlng Domestic Manufactures and it
is not little remarkable tina, at the tlme
to which we refer, whatever of opposition
TO that policy existed in the South, where
now Il encounters the most violen, hosiili.
iy, was breaihed in scarcely audible wits.
pers; and that tho loudest clamors against
1t proceeded from the North and East,
whose citizens, long engaged in lucrative
carrying trade, feared, tina, their extensive
commercial operations would be seriously
crippled, If not entirely cut off. by the sue.
cess OF the manufacturing system. And it
IS still farther worthy of remark, that,
amongst the most violent present opponents
OF The policy, IN the South. We recognize
the names of distinguished gentlemen, who
assisted in laying its foundation broad and
deep, and yet who, with worse than can.
nibal appetite, now seek TO devour their
own offspring. We need only appeal to
the legislative history Of the country to
show, that, until 1924, there was scarcely
any organized sectional or political oppo.
siIlon to the Tariff policy--and that, up
TO that time, and especially after the Bit
ter experience of its wisdom end necessi.
iy, forced upon US by the suherings of
The people under the Embargo and Non.
Intercourse laws and the War Of 1912, it
was regarded, by Southern men, and espe.
cially BY The Republican party, as the true
policy Of the naton-tha, it had been re.
commended and urged upon Congress by
every Southern Presideut-aud that that
one OF them especially, who is regarded as
peculiarly the founder and apostle of the
Republican party, not only pressed il upon
Congress, but in bis private letters, (see
The volumes Of his published Corrrespon.
dence,) declared that he regarded it as Of
paramount Importance 10 the security of our
national independence. Such were the
opinions of jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Crawford, and Lowndes,--an
down to 1928, at least, Of Van Buren, also.
We are we'll aware that the Tariff of 1916
was warmly opposed, both from The East
and from the South but the events of the
war OF 1912 were then fresh in the memory
OF the people, aud the opposition, though
! decided, was not of vindIctive and hea.
led character, nor did any one then dream
! OF OuIlityIng lis provisions. That "peace.
able remedy " vas reserved for future &C.
casion-and strange 10 say, II was recon-
mended, If not invented by the very man,
who is entitled TO a full portion of the odi.
tm, # it be such, or as we regard it, to the
honor of giving birth TO the system 1t was
designed TO arrest and overthrow. We
mean, Of course, John C. Calhoun. And
We do not think We do HIM any injustice
when We say, that, though his opinions on
this subject have been as widely divergent
as the poles asunder, his motire has been
always the sane,-hkc the magnetic nee.
die, invariably pointing to the load stone.
He was Tariff man when Tariff opinions
appeared TO be the broad road to the Chief
Magistracy; but when he began to see that,
even If in this impression he erred not, il
was not at all probable, while Henry Clay
lived, that the victory achieved under that
banner would "e9ure 70 his benefit" he
flew 10 the other extreme of the circle, with
the expectation of becoming the champion
and leader OF the opposition school. But
here, too, disappointment awaited him and
after stranding aloof for awhile from party
struggles he united himself with the Wings,
again to desert them, and to take his posi-.
ton in the ranks of the opposing party, IN.
der the influence, for the first time openly
avowed, of the ambtiously selfish principle
by which his recent political career has
been colored and controlled
1t has been customary, IN the discussion
ofthe Tariff question, not TO 60 farther back
than l3l6,-in reference to which era, by
The way, it may be here properly remarked,
hat the grounds OF opposition then assumed
BY the opponents Of the measure were very
iIiferent from those now taken-the argu-
nents then resorted to having been so over.
vhelmingly reluted by the practical results
# the system, that its antagonists were
orced TO abandon them, and to take pre-.
.isely opposite positions. And we are now
ndebted 10 the research of an Indiana CO.
for calling from the records the
ubjoined resolution, which was adopted by
be House of Representatives as far back as
he year 1909, June 7th,) and which it in.
orms US was agreed to by decided and
Utmost rigidly Democratic majority:
Resolusd, That the Secretary of the Treasury
&c directed 10 prepare and report to this House,
{ their next session, plan for the application
f such means as are within the power of Con-
.ress for The purpose of protecting and foster
ag the manufactures Of the United States, to-
.ether with statement of the several manufac.
urIng establishments which have been commence
d, lie progress which has been made in them,
nd the success with which they have been at.
ended and such other information as, in the
pinion of the Secretary, may be material in ex-
biting general view of the manufactures of
he United States"
This resolution, i, will be perceived, was
dopted during Mr.. Madison's first Presi.
entail term, when the Republican party
ad the ascendancy in o7ery department Of
he federal government. Then, our foreign
nportations had been cut off by the EN-.
argo and non intercourse laws, and our
eople found IL difficuIt n snnnlv fbsm