The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-23
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pediency of an unshackled intercourse between ma
lions They were compelled to rely on generai'eS
The gentleman from South Carolina haa pa. ,no
whole question 'the eternal universal, equal rgh's
of the human race" Well; and what were .heso
eternal universal, equal rights of the human race
Such were the gentlemans words, ana "ofus "o,e
things" There was school in the world when heia
o these universal eternal, equal rights OF the nu''""
For his own part Mr. e. never yet saw two human
beings who were equal or ever had been, eanei ID
the outset of life or at the time present. oeh"e'o
might 90 into an investigation OF the whoie eo"9.
ton and condition of man. and they never "ou'u np"
two of the race who were ia all re. poets 'quhi ie'
the free trade for which gentlemen coniended, was
part md parcel OF that stem OF UNIVERSAL equay
Mr. c. should not apply this doctrine 10 the in'eii,a
Organization Of the States, or OF any one Oh W., ",
States but only question oil GoVefhmeht' ~
pronounced the doctrine iailacy, ana lis apPhca'o"
to Government was still more a fnllacy. For what
was Government Was II not the organization o'
associated under the foIms OF law, win view
TO give TO them certain exclusive adVahtaeo' NO
against the rest of the world! was not thal W
vemment2 Gentlemen said that all the world oush
10 share with Us the advantages OF perfectly nee
trade; if So then the same principle they oug"
10 participate ,yith us in all other advantages anu
benefits enjoy he doctrine wouiu =" '"
whole length. Then ali national barriers ough' AZ
once to be thrown down and abolished. linen tie'o
should be no such thing pairotism-- must CEASE
or be crime; that glorious virtue OF patriot love
which had bee me immortal In poetry ana ih hS'oi)i
which had inspired the greatest and the nooes' 'ep
in all times virtue which belonged to mans soo'"
existence and was its safeguard and ITS orham'n'
eli ~ oesidn et duIce decus-must be gwen UP an"
we must substitute in It's place cosn poe ban''o-
ience oI all mankind. ~
Mr. c.. was no cospopolte. He went against ali
cosmopolte commerce. and cosnoPohte an os''
which was against AMsRCANIsM IL was the nv
rests of these United States which he was sent 10 III
"a ,ll to promote lie should sacrifice his duty, DC
sert his trust aud violate the spirit OF the Cohs.u
ton could he consent to throw all the innuhe'auie
advantages possessed by this land IN common WIN
all the other nations OF the world more esPecia'iy
when, while he surrendered all, he got nothing IN
reurn. He repudlated all such philosophy an AL
such politics He was against postponing the auvan-
tages of this Union TO the advantages OF the wno'e
universe He was not bound TO do any such thihg,
When he ceased to desire and to endeavar ny al
lawful and honorable means to promote the adSah-
tase of his own country in preference to that OF any
other he should cease to be American, ana shouio
become foreigner. That was his answer TO the
penlleman's doctrine of the eternal universal, equal
rights of the whole human race That m'ght DC
very good theory IT all the people OF the worm CON
sued one nation and were all under one govern
men, But such was not The They were Sc
paraed-separaed by the act of Providence, ana we
we're separated from them by the solemn act OF our
fathers, and by our own approval and ratification OIL
it and was the business OF an American legislator
against those of the whole world whenever those IN
lerests were incompatible.
Mr. Clifford here nterposed, and inquired OF Mr.
G.. what amount of taxation he thought Was peheh
to the Union?
Mr. Gushing said that the question of the gentle
man from Maine assumed that Mr.. G. arguing
l. at xation was a benefit He was not arguing tc
show any such thing, and his argument warranted
no such inference. The gentleman could not have
att, ndod to It's commencement. Mr.. u. had com
menced by assuming that twenty seven millions o
dollars must be raised to carry the Government
We had this money to pay. He had not said thi'
was a benefit, that it was not But, even " ~
had said that it benefit, he would not now
retract the position. 1t was benefit All money
paid for value received was benefit. We paid thls
money to have q yernment, and If the gentleman
could show it an evil to pay 1t, he would at Tho
same tine show that the Government OF the United
States evil.
A voice, g And so il is-a necessary evil.
The Chair here interposed, aud prohibited inter
ruptions of a member sieaking.l
Gentlemen might say that our Government wat
a necessary evil but il must only be IN the sense II
which all government Is an evil. IL was not an EVIL
but the reverse since 1t freed US iron
a greater evil. In that sense II was a benefit. Mr.
C.. denied that it an evil it was blessing, II
whatsoever hands it might be. 1t had now exiset
for sixty years. and he asked gentlemen to remember
what had been the history OF the rest Of the worlt
during that period of time. He would have gentle
men true to their own position as Americans Ou
Government had conferred blessings Innumerab'
and beyond all price, During all ihc time OF II
4..u,uers UbsOinsf Had we witnessed
bloody Instructions and civil wars Foreigners wer'
in the habit of reproaching US with our occasiona
legislative disorders and violations of the peace by
mobs but all the they could muster in this way
had not feathers weight in comparison with wha
was daily occurring in other Governments.
He would not ask gentlemen to go so far as tn,
Government of Spain, which, during all that period
bod hean with ri oft he
and sanguinary character; to look merely a
those Governments which were ultra monarchical il
their principles end form of proceeding but hi
would point to England herself, and ask if she hat
been free from tue tumuts Of faction and the evil
of civil strife during all that period Among us no
political death had yet occurred, nor a politca
Punishment. With all our party heat and momenta
ry connections, were by far the happest nation
on the globe. And as to the reproaches heaped up
on account of the suspended debt of some o.
the States, Ga fact which Mr. C. regretted as deepl,
as any man could) he would ask Europeans before
they INDUCED too strain on this point tc
remember the millions of suspended debt in Spain
to recollect what amount had been repudiaed by Ho
land and not to forget the whole French debt of the
Revolution which had been sponged. While loading
our new States with reproaches, let them look a
what passing every day before their own ewes il
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 mar
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 a state OF
things having been established by the order of Prov
dence, it remained that every patriot should strive
for the good of his country, to the exclusion
and rejection of all new-fanged theories of free
trade.
There was but one other element in this question
OF protection We were all agreed on raising reve-
nue. by duties on imports. Taxation, in some form,
we must have. Now, he would set gentlemen to fig
urng, and ask them to tell him how taxes were to be
lald so as not incidentally to confer greater advan-
tages on some persons or interests in society
than on others Was such thing possible? Mr.. G..
confessed that he knew no mode in which this could
be DONE lie never had heard of any, could he
ceie any system that would act with perfect equality
on all. Those, therefore, who argued against all
pLotecton-that is. against giving by