The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-02
From the Petersburg { Va.) Statesman.

II Ii is curious feature in the political drama o
the day, that the Federal Clay Whigs-the boosted
advocates Of the called American Systematic
woud-be exclusive patrons of "home industry" and
champions Of Irrational Independence Wings
themselves, in paro1ysm of faction, striving to
put abrupt end to the entire mpost system of the
Union The Richmond Wing tacetiously says that
it now goes for FREE TRADE! The meaning of all
this is, plainly, that the Wing faction failing in their
efforts 10 revolutionse the policy Of the country is
bent embarrassing the administration and distress
ing the country, with the noble purpose of making for
themselves a stock of political capital "Rule OF
ruin" has taken the place of"Tho union of the Whig
for the sake of the Union"
To justify these remarks, it is only necessary to
mind the reader that, according to the Wings, tn,
Compromise act in its present phasis be legit
imatey enforced without further egsIative regula-
lions by Congress, and yet Congress, during ses-
sion of extraordinary length, has refused and does
now refuse to supply any such regulations. Mr. Ty-
ler upon the advice of the Attorney General having
supplied the necessary regulations is for that assalled
by the Wings with redoubled rancor, is compared 10
Nero and Charles the First and threatened with the
solemn terrors of impeachment. This article of i'm
parchment is that the President supplied the regula-
lions requisite for the enforcement of existing act
without which the wheels Of Government must have
been paralysed.
The charge amounts to this, that he, John Tyler
has prevented de faco dissolution of the Govern
ment Should the judiciary with the Wing facton)
decide that the PRESIDENT mad no constitution a-
thority to supply the requisite regulations, then dis
solution of the Government must take place What
glorious contamination of Whggery disorgan.
cation of the Government resulting from less than
eighteen months Wing rule 1t is probable, how
ever, that the Judiciary will sustain MIR. Tyler in
this particular and that the country will be saved
from the humiliating predicament into which the
rcckessness of Whggery would involve it.
For the rest wish that, according to Mr. Bentons
advice provisional temporary revenue bill could
have been passed by the present Congress, based on
well adjusted scale of discrminative rates of duty
laid with an exclusive eye to revenue. There seems
TO be much reason to apprehend that the application
of the uniform horizontal rate of duties to mulform
variety of articles of import, will not prove sasfac
torily productive of revenue. In the present ext
gences of the country, such tariff of duties seems
to be demanded as would of necessity afford that
moderate and equable protection of domestic manu-
facures which is the best protection in the long
and which is all that is desired by the more enlight
ened and judicious manufacturers 1t is incompat-
BILE with the principles of repubcanism to perver
the power of TAXATION granted for the benefit of all
TO the protection of separate interest for the benef
of few. But the Democratic party have at no pc
Rod shown any disposition to sacrifice the manufac
lures of the country by abrupt transition from the
policy under which they have grown up. And, fo
our own part, while we go for dscrimnatiye tariff
for revenue, we would not begrudge the manufactu
rer and mechanic whatever protective advantages The
production of the necessary revenue might AFFORD
great body Of the Democratic party.