The North-Carolina standard., 1843-12-13
CONzMU.1.KCaTEOWS.
For the North Carolina Standard.
To the Frcemen of North Carolina.
80 No. 15 .


FELLow-cITIzENs: W do not know which most to
admire in the whg party, the ingenuity with which they
hunt out seemingly plausible arguments to lessen the
objections Of the South to protective Tari-the zeal
with which they press them-or the pertnaci:y with
which they adhere, aerfhe sophstry is exposed
They still rate in your and for the truth of this
appeal to you) 'hat goods cheaper and point you
cut nails to domestics to calicocs, &c. proof Of
the- position. Now. we do not deny that the nominal
price of many articles has fallen. and argument
would suffer nothing by the admission that the real
comparative price had been lowered by the very u
ties which intended to operate bounty, when
show. ths this not the end aimed at but rather
the consequence of the high bounty offered which slim
tlGted the manufacturers into the
making more than there a demand fer. Then came
the runous competition. forced upon them by this pie
thors abundance, uRt they compelled TO rtter
down the profits, to less than remuneration, of the
outlay.
Suppose that from some cause, you had reason 10 be-
leve that for all fhe corn you could grow, cad get
81 per bushe Every farmer would bend bis energies TO
the planting oethat grain each would clean up his
very "hedge rows and plant every "nook and
Thus from the quantity which would be raised, there
would be twofold than would supply the demand.
Do you not see that. 10 prevent the from being
wasted by the weev4, you would be compelled to sell
j
high duties imposed Spedcel them think that by ex
GLIDING the foreign fabric, it would open tna:kct
home for all they could make. Capitalists quit other
pursuits, and men without capital to manufaet
ing-aH anticipated high prices aud This expectation
led to productions and then commences the fears of
the manufacturers "Weesl"-po. It is yeorse-a naDth
which sunceasing in its efarts, ana aceumulates pigh
and day The interest Of heavy debt has to be provided
for, by forced sales of The manufactured article
These things so for here, too IRE have some little
experience
If then to admit the arguments Of fhe whip
party of the South that protective Tariff did in reality
cheaper the gods, and that shosld not be oh
jected to, (which as general rule dchy you might
possibly cotnept their shrewdness, but certainly it
would be at the expense Of their morality. For no ulan
in his sober senses, unless he ar gone in neral obqu
", stand forth the advocate of policy whose ten
Gency is to entrap and catch fhe HnSary No man. Who
is man, hold to the manufacturers oftLe Ner
and West high prices, yet at the ti1e believe if
they embaik in the business, thai ruin ensues.
What IS this but the open atvosacy Of the broad,
qualified aphorsm, thai the "end justies the means''
Why II is than ''Swartwouting tue ''vuIgar
herd" The ''loco-fo himself keald blush avow It.
And yet, to this mis- efable shit have call The aecency
been driven! They are either waning in nerve, the
South, to sustain the 'American SYSTEM upon ptinci
pie, they wanting in principle in protesting friend
ship for the manufacturer, whep they say HAT The course
they recommend cheapens his goods. They may take Ell
thef horn Of the dilemma.
But we have disposition to assail we deal with
facts, not motives and will fxonerate the great ass
from any thing Like mPutation against their integrity
The truth is and We belrpVe Il much exist.
eRce that the leaders Of the 'shg party those who give
itupon this point tone and sentiment yet wanting
the moral to advocate the Tariff upon prnSpe
and that the Simultaneous efforts Of the Press and Of
OF the orators, to do away Southern opposition kind
of eelers thrown out to il it will take with they
fearful to commit themselves to the broad policy,
lest 'otheos occupation were gong hence the mise
rable, dsngenuous. and unmanly shifts they reduced
hence the constant gently 'appng Of the bush, to
if the bird was tame
Just so, citizens, does the rule hold in every
thng-it is either right wrong. it is correct poll
cy, be defended upon 6orret principles butif not,
it has to be sustained by deceptive argument.
A WESTERN FARMER.