Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-09-15

| ,ense ,,ro., that
: | nay not be m'srcPfesen'ea ! a,n ny am far
| /. Tie revival of a high Protective Tariff am -,
| sb,dinr by The principles Of The COMPROMISE hc',
am f,r dony what no Southern man OF lar ana cth
did mind has ever yet den'ed-gv'"g TO The country
| rrvonur g. h,ci, may provide FOR the economca "a
nj the Government, aad al the SAME time give an u"
c,den,.l n,o,cciioa TO our home industry ~ '"e'
b. here single gentleman who will deny the tafhess
and ur,pfety of this, shall be glad to see and near
v no he 10 r.
Tb;s = The disclaimer abou, "high Protective Ia
,G" which the Georgia and other Southern wings
na-,da os nrovf that Mr. Clay has abandoned Prolec-
Thev are easily persuaded. No can fail TO see,
lha, MIR Claws meaning depends on his delin't'oh OF
the terms he employs and his limitation OIL ms Wv"
meaning liz ne yer said, intended 10 be understood,
| thai he had abandoned any portion OF his protective
.vsem except a means OF preserving The fenanoet.
II is evident any man. not anxious to De deceived
That Tariff (Which gives The country revenue may
aaard what the Wings cali '.incdenal protection, TO
an dsarse The aggregate income of the whole Tariff
NAV be scarcely sufficient for The support ol the mos
careful Government and yet The duty on every article oe
SHAPED directly for protection. 1t only to keep DOWN
by higher duties, or reduce an nconveh'e
revenue BY actual prohibitions; and the adequate
oroecton wanted by every favorite interest may DC
made co,nedsnt with the revenue. The tree trace
party makes the other essential disnctlon that DO.
only the Tariff must be for revenue IN amount OUT
each duty under the Tariff must be lad on revenue
principles. Tine incidental protection which may ioi
low to manufactured articles, they think an accident,
which they are not called upon TO leg'siate Tor or
against and have no right to enquire whether u oe
"adrouate" or not. The Wing States Rights lafH
Nullfers sny that Mr. Clay has surrendered Inc Prn-
cipe when he arrnnges all the items of the duiiao'e
articles with view pro,ecton only stiPuatng thai
ne balances his prob bions that the revenue Sna
not redundant but with the express reserraon tna
the protection must at all events be adequate. h's
party agrees not TO ask for more than enough lheu
selves being judges. :
We have klr. Claws own frequent explanations OF
what he understands by "adequate protection, and
how he understands the "prlneiples ct the Compro
mise Act" in which tue Georglans affect to see his
surrender Of protection. -
Mr.. Clay is known 10 have approved OF the larl
act Of IS42 HIS Lexington and other speeches, treat
If possibly defective in details, but as good as the
Wings could gain, and an honor 10 the wing Congress
There fear the Wings could not have passed
lower duties if they had pleased, and Captain Tyler
would not have been in their way. II was US good
that 49, high they could get His e,ie. to the SAT-
manufacturers in September last, lamened the opPo
sl,lon to this Tariff. He said
"The Tariff of 1912, recently passed, provides rate
of duties generally lower than those of 1882 yet It y.
scarcely passed before the warcry OF repeal is raised
against it
He found fault with the Democrats on the ground
that they supposed to be hostile only to the land
clause and when that was struck OUT and the proiec-
left by ITSELF he expresses surprise that "they were
as unrelentng and determined in their opposition as
ever"
But Mr. Clay has left nobody in doubt as to bis views
of the Compromise act He never allowed It to be said,
tina, he had "surrsndered the principle Of Prottetion
the n or since. te bold enough TO say then, that
he waived part of his system, because he could not
else save any pa and he always declared his continued
adhesion 10 the pr'ncple and his expectation TO be
able To renstate II fully
In his elaborate speech The introduction the Com
promise act, Mr. Clay was thus explicit:
"Mr President, want to be perfectly understood as
to the motives which have prompted 10 offer this
measure. | repeat what said on the Introduction
of it, hat they are, first, TO PRESERVE THE MANU-
i FEATURING INTEREST, and secondly, TO quiet the
country 5eiieUe the american System to be an the
greatest danger; and believe it can bs placed
BETTER and SAFER at this than a;
The next.
Again.
uNlr President, It is not the destruction, but pre-
servaton of the system at which we aim. If dam
gers ASSAULT we have not created them have
sustained il on the strongest and cleures convictions
Of lis expediency. They are entirely unaltered.'
Ag.in-p!uying upon The prominence assigned him
as The father Of the system, he said -
81 have indeed, cherished IT with parental tondness
and nv affection is nndimnished- But in what
dition do find this child II is in the hands OF The
i Phiilsnes who would s-angle it, fly to its rescue
10 snatch it from their custody, and to place II
on bed of security and repose for nine years. where
to the whole people.
The Philistines, from whom Mr.. Clay would snatch
his darling were the Democratic Jackson party Of that
day
In November, Of that year, h1r Clay made his East
ern tour and therein repeated the same decara,ions
that he had preserved and ghened the protective
principle. He said the people of Worcester, Mass
ale saw the American system would be utterly
Frustrated at the coming session of Congress, unless
ha, threatened blow could be aver,ed by its friends "
"The measure the compromlse) was carried, and his
anticpstons as TO ills beneficial effects fully
realised in its general approval, as allaying the dan
gers that threatened the country, and as preserving
Il substantially The system Of policy which he had
regarded as Of permanent Importance TO our three
great inches of grculture, Commerce, and
Manufactures.
At the next session CT Congress he reiterated these
opinions broadly the floor of the Senate, and re
buked the Secretary Of the Treasury for inmating
that direct protection would be even ultimately aban.
doned He said,
"The system of protection 10 American industry,
was snalched from impending destruction at the last
Session Of Congtess-but we are now cooliy told by
the Secretary Of the Treasury, without blush, that
i, is conceded oil hands, that Tariff FOR protec
ton merely, is 10 be finally abandoned
These extracts, which are all history, show what
Mr. Clay's determinations in respect TO the
promise act, and how he "ubdersnod lis prineiples
He re affirmed them all in the broadcast terms in the
Senate of the United States, in lS42only last year
"Iie still for adhering 10 II (the Comprnmise act
as he understood its principles Those principles he
not consider incompatible with the protection of
Aneficnn industry, IN preference to any other. He
had lived, and would die advocate of the Protec
t,ve System He had changed hs principles
They the same al they had ever been-but
he submitted to The restrictions of the Compromise
Act, as matter OF necessity. And he did not even
now think prudent because not practicable, TO 20
far his nclnalinns led inn, with The friends of
Protection But as far he could go, he would and
i that was not 10 lay duties for Protection alone blu,
laying duties for revenue TO support the Government
with means, to lay them rs 10 afford incidental pro-
s,es,on He would, therefore, say TO The friends Of
Protection 10y aside all attempts beyond this stand
ard and look 10 that which is aitanabe and practca
bic
1t is not difficult, with these authorities, 10 define
Mr. Clay position he defines for himself He is
for lbe compromise act, as he understands hthat
as preserving the protective principle.
| He has changed his views, altered hia
course that sutj-.,, rAcvpt f.~ urce>shy anu
! is for protection as much ever-but confines his
to what is 'a,taiuable and practicable is, just
m uch as he possibly get
| And because the country will not bear surplus
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