The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-23

always fell into course of general remark the
pediency OF an unshacked intercourse between ma
TONS. They compelled to rely generaltes'
The gentleman from South Carolina had Put Tue
whole question "the eternal universal, equal rShts
of the human race!p Well; and what were these
eternal, UNIVERSAL equal rights OF the human race
Such were the gentemans words, ana words were
things" There school the world which heo
to these universal eternal equal rights OF the human
race.
| For his own part, Mr. c. never yet saw two human
beings who were equal, ever had been, elmer III
the outset of life at the time present. Gentlemen
might 90 into investigation of the whole cohsutu,
ton and onditon of man, and they never would mo
| Two of the race who in all re. poets equal rel
| the free trade for which gentlemen conended, was
part and parcel of that stem of universal equaty
Mr. c. should not apply this doctrine TO the internal
| organization of the States, or of any one OF the
| States, but only question Of GovernWehi lie
pronounced the doctrine faacy, and lis apphcaton
| To Government was still more tallacy. or what
was Government Was it not the organization OF
associated under the oIms OF law, with view
| to give to them certain exclusive advantages as
| against the rest of the world Was not that Go
vernment2 Gentlemen said that all the world ought
To share with the advantages OF perfectly nee
| trade; If So then on the principle they ought
to participate nth in all other advantages ana
| benefits enjoy L he doctrine would 60 lhis
whole length. Then all national barriers ought at
once To be thrown down and abolished Then there
should be such thing a. pairotlsm--i must cease
| OF ne n CfiHe, CURIOUS NHtuO VI Pdt'o' i"Ni
which had become immortal in poetry and IN history,
which had inspired the greatest and the noblest men
in all tinesa virtue which belonged TO mans social
existence and was its safeguard and Its ornament
ct presidiunl ct dlce deeuS-must be given up, and
| must Substitute lis place cusin polite pehVso-
! leuce for all mankind
| Mr. c. coslnopolhe. lie went against all
| cosmopohte commerce, and cosmopohte all eIse'
which against AMeRlcANIsM. 1t was the Int
of these United States which he sent TO that
| Hall IN nrom He shoulu his duty, de-
his trust and violate the spirit OF the Constltu-
tion could he consent to throw all the innumerabe
| advantages possessed by this land In common with
all the other nations of the world more especially
when, while he surrendered all, he got nothing IN
rsturn. He repudiated all such philosophy AMI all
| such politics He was against postponng the advan-
tages of this Union to the advantages of the whole
| universe. He not bound to do any such thing.
| When he ceased 10 desire and to endeavar by all
lawful and honorable means to promote the adVan-
tage of his country In preference to that OF any
other, he should to be an American, and should
become foreigner. That his answer to the
genllemans doctrine of the eternal universal, equal
rights of the whole human race. That might be
very good theory if all the people of the world con-
stituted nation and all under one govern
nent. But such not the They were Sc
parated-separaed by the act of Providence, and We
were separated from them by the solemn act of cur
fathers and 10y own approval and ratification OF
it and it the business of an American legislator
advance the Of this his native country as
against those of the whole world whenever those in
lerests incompatible.
Mr.. Clifford here lnterposed and inquired OF Mr.
| G. what amount of taxation he thought was benefit
to the Union?
Mr.. Gushing said that the question of the gentle
| man from Maine assumed that Mr.. Z. was arguing
that taxation was benefit. He was not arguing to
show any such thing, and his argument warranted
no such inference The gentleman cou d not have
| alta nded to its commencement MIR. &. had COM
menced by assuming that twenty seven millions OF
dollars must be raised to carry on the Government
We had this money to pay He had not said this
was a benefit, or that it not. But, even if he
had said that it benefit, he would not now
re,ract the position. 1t was benefit. All money
paid for value received benefit. We paid this
money TO have a G vernment and if the gentleman
could show it evil to pay it, he would at the
| same time show that the Government of the United
| States evil.
A voice, And so i. is-a necessary evil"
! The Chair here interposed and prohibited inter
ruptions of a member speaking.
! Gentlemen might say that Government was
necessary evil but it must only be IN the in
which all government is evil. 1t was not an evil,
comparatively, but the reverse, since it freed us from
a greater evil. In that sense it was benefit Mr.
G. denied that it evil; it was blessing in
whatsoever hands it might be. 1t had now existed
for sixty years and he asked gentlemen to remember
what had been the history of the rest of the world
during that period of time. He would have gentle
| men true to their position Americans. Our
Government had conferred blessings lnnumerable
and beyond all price. During all the time of its
endurance had our people ever been burying their
swords in anoher's bosoms! Had we witnessed
bloody instructions and civil wars Foreigners
in the habit of reproducing with occasional
legislative disorders and violations Of the peace by
mobs but all the cases they could muster in this way
had not feathers weight in comparison with what
was daily occurring in other Governments.
He would not ask gentlemen to go far as the
Government of Spain, which, during all that PERIOD
had been rent with civil wars of the most ferocious
and sanguinary character; nor to look merely at
those Governments which were ultra monarchcal in
their principles and form of proceeding but he
would point to England herself and ask if she had
| been free from the tumus of faction and the evils
Of civil strife during all that period Among us not
a political death had yet occurred, nor political
Punishment. With all our party heat and momenta-
nv connections, we by far the happiest nation
on the globe And as to the reproaches heaped up
on us on account of the suspended debt of some of
the States Ca fact which Mr. c. regretted as deeply
as any man could,) he would ask Europeans, before
they INDUCED IN too severe strain this point, to
remember the millions of suspended debt in Spain
to recolect what amount had been repudiated by Hol
land and not to forget the whole French debt of the
Revolution which had been sponged. While loading
our States with reproaches let them look at
what was passing every day before their own eyes in
some of the Oldest States of the old world.
But he had been led from the argument. He had
been observing that the only mode in which man
could enjoy the benefits of social existence and avoid
perpetual anarchy and wars, was to submit to sepa-
rate national Governments. Now, the unavoidable
condition of taxation was complaint from some of
those who had taxes to pay. And with state of
things having been established by the order of Provi
dence it remained that every patriot should strive
for the good of his own country, to the exclusion
and rejection of all new-fangled theories of free
trade
I There was but one other element in this question
of protection. We were all agreed raising reve-
nue. by duties on imports. Taxation, in some form,
we must have. Now he would set gentlemen to fig
uring, and ask them to tell him how to be
laid so as not incidentally 10 confer greater advan-
tages some persons some interests in society
i iL..al athnrs