Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-07-22
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
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FREE TRApE.-I have corn and want pork. My neigh.
Dor has pork and wants We exchange. This free
trade The shoemaker makes shoes for his neghbors and
takes their gain meat and potatoes in payment That is
free trade. Would he better for him and his
make him the Government the value Of onehiri OF all
he gets IN exchange for his labo This the tariff policy
SO is with all other classes of society Free trade permits
every body to sell what they have for the best price they
! get, and buy what they cheap as they can.
farmer drives his wagon market gets the best price
he for his load buys what he and s his
turn home. IL is free trade thus far but at the boundary
Of his county his there little dollhouse, the
keeper OF which makes him pay to the Government
OF money equal third Of the value Of all he has in his
wagon This is the tariff policy. Is it better IN free
trader better than carrying home tue he has etti
Would be good thing have these toll the
OF all counties and cities, take third for all
that comes in OF its Value in money from farmers planters,
mechanics and manufacturers who always carrying the
products OF their industry 10 and fro for MARKET Would
1t be better than free uadef-Keadairs ErrOsitor.
What ridiculous sophistry is this We have
seen II going the rounds of the British Free Trade
papers for some months and wondered at the men.
who could imagine that such arguments could have
any influence over the people of this country. 81
have corn and want pork"-This is Free Trade
Now, in the name of all that's good, what bearing
has such an illustration upon the question of Free
Trade or Tariff Ifthere were a total prohibition
upon all foreign mportaiions, could not still ex-
change my corn for pork and could not the Doe
maker get grain, meat and potatoes from his neigh
bourS i'll exchange for his shoes There does not
exist. and never has existed, any tariff upon the
products of domestic industry-as is implied bv
this sage Exposition. The Tariff policy is designed
by taxing foreign labour to promote the industry
of every portion of our own people, and to increase
the exchanges among them TO take from the
Of
changes, and confine them as much as possible to
our own country.
But supposing that foreigners are rs dear To us
as our own people, that they raise articles which
want Can get them by the proposed free
trade Will they take Our corn. wheat aud To-.
bacco in exchange for their manufactures five
admit their products free of duty, will they receive
ON the same terms Have they ever done it,
will they ever do it We have more than once
reduced the duties almost to the Free Trade point
and still the restrictive system enforced abroad
with all It's rgour upon us. And what were and
must be the effects of this one-sided Free Trade
Is it not entirely at our expense Does it not i'm
poverish orr people, and enrich other nations =
Why should we thus sacrifice our best interests
and actually endangcr our independence, in the
pursuit of an abstraction DO we gain even the
thanks of foreigners for mis- placed and injud-
cious liberality, or rather ruinous folly BY no
means. We are laughed at by the people, who
profit by stupidity; and then, when by the i'm
poyerishing effects of our boosted Free Trade, we
unable to pay our debts we are abused as a
nation of cheats and swindlcrs-a fate well de-
served!
Whatever may he the virtues of a genuine Free
Trade. e. a trade free on both sides there is
and can he none in that which the British Demo.
Gratis in this country now urging upon U.S.
There is neither policy nor justice in it.
The article quoted above may be regarded as de-
monstratng the weakness of this system, the
mighty decline of Amos Kendall's Intellect man
who once made some noise in the world-and who
would not then have put forth such an argument as
this in support of the right, if he had happened to
be ON the right side. But it is highly probable that
his mind has given way with his fortunes, and hav-
ing sunk to obscurity and contcmpt-so much so
as to have passed almost entirely out of the public
mind-his mental vigor has vanished with the sun
shine of prosperity. BY the way, have barely
any mention him in the public prints for two
years. The last time his name met our eve it was
in connexion with statement that he is in prison
bounds in Washington-reiilsing to pay his debts,
and waiting impaently forthe Restoration, TO revive
his broken fortunes, by Fleeing Uncle Sam. There
are probably some ten thousand in kendall's pred
camcnt. Men who "waxed fat and kicked dur. |
ing the Jacksonian administrations hy depredatons
upon the public; and whom tardy justice overlook in
the brief month of Harrsons Administrations
These men are now inicnty looking forward to the
restoration Of the fallen dynasty hot with any
wish for the national wcliare-but that they NAV
renew their former pleasant and profitable connex-
ion with the public crib The thought ever upper.
most with them is the good things they will enjoy
when the King comes To his ain again ''-as they,
after the fashion Of the adhcrcnts of the Stuarts
choose TO regard the Presidency and Van Buren,
Should that black day for the Republic ever arrive.
we shall witness scenes quite like in kind and de.
gree, those which characterized the return of the
Starts to England after their long and righteous cx.
pulsiOn. All the substance of the people will not be-
sufficient to satisfy the ungodly rapacily OF these fam.
ished eXcs. They will consider their expulsion as a
ilagrant wrong which they will feel themselvcs pri-
yilcgcd 10 redress 10y any means in their power.
If their premise be correct-that they had an indie
feasible and inalicnabc right to the public Offices,
aud that the people had no right 10 dismiss them
their conclusion will be rresstiblc-ihat they
have q fall right 10 reimburse themselves for all
their losses and sacrifices, and take revenge ont of
every man who aided and abeucd the original
wrong.
o. The Globe, while in the daily receipt of
Government patronage, continues to wage most
furious war against the Administration and every
thing connected with il. Towards Democrats parti
cilarly, who become Jy'eriscd, il affects the intens
n. hn-iiliiy and hrlas rinhl and lnh with tho vim