The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-11

| IN time oil war, because un all Ill iittt
grail strength of the Republic and how far IL might
| be wise TO keep the duties jewelry below the
smuggling standard, of which could be carried
on shore in the mouth has been the case, might be
worth consideration. But look at the situation Con-
gress is placed in by this partial dlstracting rival
discrimination proect-memorials and petitions from
manufacturing companies Of every description pres
sing for high protection and discriminating duties
Can we crafty ALL Can we discriminate for all to
the extent they would WISH If we give one a hun
dred per cent? another eighty another sixty another
forty, and on, will your variety OF determinations
and diferentials and projections, satisfy all Will
some of them not accuse you OF injustice, of partial
y of ignorance of the compexity of interests you at
tempt TO regulate and build up How can Congress
egislate for the changing notifications necessarily
belonging TO industry, through supply and demand,
and the other numerous circumstances that operate
upon il You cannot give TO some without taking
from Others il and twist IT, and plan and sophis-
tcate il as you may Large manufacturing establish
ments will be subject, like banking, to uctua
ton, expansion, and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on sup
ply and demand the former unlimited within the cap
ital and credit and the latter uncertain to the extreme
Hence the sad reverses in condition among those
ployed and dependent on them in England and indeed
in our own country You should not by legislative
enactmens disturb the equilibrium of equal rights in
industrial pursuit for by doing you mslead distract
and Cypress the free, natural impulses Of the People
in conserving their efforts towards getting a lW-
ing and their pursuit of prosperity and happiness each
in his own way. Man is eve" endeavoring TO assist
his happiness by promoting whatever he may believe
to be his interest and it is natural the impulse
evnces and itself through all the qualifications
of association for Government, in the individual the
family, the industrial class, the local community
This is the general action of the People in the bus-
ness of life, and their Government should not inter-
tere with il under the idea of regulating and improv
ing what cannot possibly understand, from its count
less variety of cause and effect and diversified result
And believe me, MIR. Chairman, this discrimination
process, with all Difference for the judgments Of the
gentlemen who concocted it, evlnces very imperfect
knowledge of human nature and Of the spirit OF the
Federal Constitution for the former certainly thrves
best when it is left free to manage its own concerns
III its own way, and the latter never intended that
equality of right among the People should be inter
fered with by legislation. If these proposed indirect
tax duties to the amount of the Government eXpen-
ses, will be protection and encouragement to indus
try, is represented, let the benefits extend to ALL
do not render the operation partial and inydious by
discrimination, for the People cannot be made believe
that inequality in taxation is an indiscrmlnate bene-
fit, tax their honest, unsuspicous credullty as you
may.
And more do not talk so much about assisting the
poor by the art polite of taxing his labor through
the medium of his consumption of necessares after
having contributed to his poverty by unwise legsla-
ton, in promoting and aggrandlzing 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 oyerweenng charity for he
is freeman and wants none and will have none let
him stand upright with his fellowctizen in the
nomy of his country which his right and all that
he demands pass no laws TO place him at disadyan
tage, that's all there will be sufciency of Unequal
y of condition, which, in its extreme, isthe bane of
freedom, without passing laws to promote it, as all
partial ones do. My constituents did not send me
here to assist in forming tariff OF revenue mposts
that will be medium of dispensing bounties, and pa
and snpcial nriyIeCp anu a1v
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
egisate for the great whole, not for section class
company, or interest," and particularly where it con-
ficts with the veal of all that am construe the
Constitution it literally is, as far as words have
plain meaning, not to strain it out of truth merely
make out ga ~ that am ever to bear in mind
that the Union demands this impartial exercise of the
action of the Representative for that Union is fed
Grafton of States, giving up portion of their powers,
as defined the Constitution for the better preser
walton of the whole, compact that must be rigidy
adhered to, the integrity of the Union depending
upon it.
1t will be perceived, Mr.. Chairman, that neither
speak nor think in sectional spirit in sola-
ted iron, or coal, or cotton, woollen, tobacco
discrmn ating-tarIh spirit: nor in a mere agrcul-
tura or mechanical, manu- featuring, or commercial
discriminating spirit No, sir, speak IN dis
interested Western spirit-ln what believe by way
oil general prOpOSltlon eSseiltlally, all autariii
live and let live Ohio spirit. | speak think, and
feel in spirit that embraces all sections all classes,
all industrial pursuits and interests spirit that
IN its expansion all past, present, and to
come, of the Independence and happy prospects OF
this broad land-this glorious Union. In word,
speak in an american spirit.
The Constitution never could have intended this
policy IN duties on imports, because
it would have been violation of equal right; and if
it could be pretended to be so construed, we would
have go behind the instrument itself to the equal
rights of the people and the States that formed it,
standard of rcdrcss-a test too plain and Just for
the pretension to stand. know it has been argued
that policy and expectancy demand discrimination,
and it is expected that the Constitution, heretofore,
must bend to both. No such thing We will none
of it. Policy We always talking of policy--a
W, I'd in great demand; | do not much like it it
might be called ndefnism of vague crooked
features, but nesse prominent one 1t has an air of
roguery about it at times; it should not be at home
in Republic wish we would think less about such
a hackneyed, perverted available of wiseacre legis-
laton. Let us have the unpublished, untainted, un-
twisted policy of plain, direct truth The word to
my mind conveys the idea of hoch-potch, tortuous
scheming or hating between wisdom and cunning
p" Honesty is the best policy" as the old adage says,
and why Because honesty is no policy at all Pol
icy, petition and privilege have given the good Peo-
pie of this Union no 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
ttion reproducing policy and policy and privilege re-
producing petition and SO they go producing and
reproducing constantly to the serious annoyance of
the peace and well-being 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 famy--a family that seem deter
mined to barrack the labor of the country as long
they permitted to inhict the imposition; which
will be, it may be supposed until the People dstil
into Congress, through the alembic of the balotbox,
much wisdom as will oblige this Ioang family to
go to work maintain themselves or starve.
have always been surprised, Mr. Chairman, that
Congress should have ever entertained discrimi-
mating duty proposition, much less carried it into eff
feet; measure so paIpably unfair in its operation