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mark in question might pass for a grave
argument against the policy of protecting
our home industry by countervailing du-
duties on foreign imports. Taking no
account of the wide dissinilarity in the
character OF the two countries, in re-
spect to form of government-extent
Of territory, population, &c., they would
readily believe, (wilhout ex explanatory
that If a tariff led TO PERJURY and want
IN England, it would bring about the
same results with us, if adopted here.
In preference TO which, they would very
naturally be in favor of continuing to
submit to the national degradation and
ruinous consequences of paying trbute,
IN form of an average duty of more than
100 per cent, to the European Govern-
mems, for the privilege Of selling Ii
productions to their citizens, while they
are allowed 10 drain us of our gold and
silver, and reduce us to a currency of
rags, by flooding our market with the
products oftheir Pauper labor, almost, or
quite duty free.
But to the mini ola person accustom-
ed to tracing effects to their legitimate
cause, such reasoning (if reasoning it
can be called) will appear in no other
light than as an evidence of a want Of
correct information on the part of those
who resort TO it, or as a mere trick or
device by which 10 prejudice the public
mind for the unpatriotic purpose of SUBJ
serving party interest, against the only
great national measures capable of re-
deeming u once prosperous country
from the state of embarrassment and rl-
in 10 which 4 long course of destructive
policy has reduced it.
Ingenious and enlightened politicians
of all parties however, will readily ac-
knowledge, that the English restrictive
system holds but 4 very subordinate
place among the Numerous causes which
doomS the mind of the ~7ro,zirri4, OK
working classes of that country TO igno-
rance, their bodies to perpetual drudge
ry, and if, without employment, TO star
~vation.
Among those causes the most opera
tive in producing The vast amount of hu-
mar misery which prevails in tina, coun-
Try may be enumerated:
lst. That reflex of the feudal system
which dates lis existence from the Nor
man conquest, by virtue of which, the
tenure OF the soil is mostly placed in the
hands Of The MOBILES, and cntailed bv the
law of primogeniture. Making it next
to impossible for one man in a thousand
ever to become a free holder.
q. One tenth part Of the land in The
realm is set apart for royal forests, parks
and pleasure grounds, for the nobility.
Sd. One tenth part of all the fruits of
the soil belongs 10, and is absorbed by
the Ecclesiastical establishment, in addi-
ton TO which, the salaries ofthe dissent
ing clergy are 10 be paid.
4th. The interest on 4 national debt Of
FOUR THOUSAND MILLIONS OF
Doll AIRS is TO be annually met by
the productive industry of the country,
besides the support oftheir mammoth ma
Wy and standing army, which costs a still
larger sum.
9TH. And the last cause which l shall
specify at present, but far from being the
least in importance, is the excess Of
population.
If the whole of the cmllivatable lands
of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
were agrarionized, or equally divided
among the inhabitants, there could not
be more than two acres for each indi-
vidual, if as much; and no form of gov
ernment nor no system of policy could
possibly remedy the evil inseparably
connected with such an over population.
lfail Of the inhabitants of our twenty.
six United States, were confined within
the comparatively narrow limits of the
State Of Missouri, our popul'tion would
not be more crowded than the Island of
Great Britain is at this day; and then I
imagine we should be no better supplied
with u natural wants, and not more
comfortably situated than we should de-
sire, bank or no bank, tariff or no tariff,