Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-12-30

Inc lime has gone by when
any careful observer OF passing events
should express much less fssl-any
great degree of surprise, al the blundeTs
or monstrositles of our Jacobin oppo-
nents when imparting instruction 10 their
followers. On political economy and
governmental policy, they have travel.
led the round Of crudities and wonder
ceases to be provoked. They have ex
hausted their invention on the subject Of
the currency, and are now busy in hid
ing the effects Of their Owl ignorance.
They have wasted themselves in run
ming down new theories in popular gov
eminent; until, as last resort, they are
taking the back track, and are reviving,
on the subject Of the Tariff and the pro
lection Of free labor, the exploded doc
trlnes Of the aristocralic school in politics
calling them by new names to dis.
guise their intrinsic character; and rOl.
lying under the exclusive banner Of
wealth and ariStocracy, as the true dem
ocratlc standard,
The inaugural Of our new Locofoco
Governor, furnishes some strange illus
t~ralions Of this latter remark. And |
shall ask your indulgence while glance
al a few Of them, not with a view TO
their correction in such wise as 10 make
them more acceptable to the admirers
of their profound author, but 10 mark
them as heresies, at variance with the
maxIms and long practice Of our repub-
lican fathers; and 10 warn my democratic
fellow citizens against their adoption, as
leading down to ruin and degrading vas.
sallage.
The protection Of the productive in.
duslry OF the country, lies at the very
foundation Of our present Constitution.
lis abandonment would be an abandon.
.menl of the principles on which it is ba-
sed; and any departure from it, would
be, 10 the extent it should be carried, a
return 10 colonial dependence, and a
surrender Of the rights and interests of
our own people, TO the promotion o. flor
,elgn interests and the establishment
among us Of the aristocratic principle,
This was apparent TO the fathers oil the
Constitution. 1t was the ineficiency Of
State Legislation, upon which these great
interests depended under the Confeder-
alton, that led to the assembling Of the
Convention from which our venerated
Constitution emanated. Massachusetts,
New York, Virginia, aud some of the
lesser States, had attempted prior to 'SS
so to regulate their trade as TO protect
end encourage their home manufactures
and industry, But they had signally
failed. The energies of The country
were Frustrated. From the close of the
Revolution, TO the year 1889, (when the
new Constitution went into operation
immense importations had taken place
overwhelming the rising industry Of
the nation, and spreading impoverish.
ment and distress throughout the land,
Then it was-when they saw and fell
the insuficiency of conflicting Stale le-
gislalion TO protect them, that the PEG.
pie cried aloud for relief; they demand
ed "a more perfect bond OF %upion," and
insisted on the creation OF a power suf
fcient to shield their industry, their
only source Of wealth, from the effects
of foreign capital and foreign wealth
combined. Their demand was granted
Hence the surrender by the States tc
the Congress OF the United States undel
the new Constitution, Of The power "Lt
regulate M Nth foreign nations
"a power granted for The express pur
pose Of accomplishing this object -
Those are The facts as disclosed by his
tory.
| will now turn my attention TO tht
matter more Immediately in hand. Ii
giving US his ideOs on this importan
subject, our new Executive starts will
the declaration that-"Measures OF ma.
tional importance have recently beer
brought forward and pressed on the put
lie mind" "The most prominent O
these is a high protective tariff, which
SO agilsted the public mind some year
since" And he adds THAT this mea
sure is calculated to have an imporlanI
bearing on our interests, either for goot
or evil, cannot be doubled!!"
From the name orapproaching thu
subject, the question might b. raiset
whether the Governor we'll knew wha
he was talking about. He speaks of
tariff for protection as a "recent meas.
ure." He speaks of it too as the on
which "threalened the repose Of tn
Union some years ago" He has ais
discovered that this is a measure "calcu
lated either for good or evil" Thes,
are profound remarks. and incline m,
good naturally 20 yield my scfuPles II