The Arkansas banner., 1843-11-04

eu 0l the advantage oi seeking supply O his wants on equal terms at home or abroad , at his option. The prices of foreign manu. : lactures and other commodities. are arbitraril, fixed high, to force the consumer to purchase what, under such restriction can be procured cheapest, which must be domestic manuac- tures Here the manufacturer is the favorto of Government-legislation directly confers on him peculiar advantages, while the agri- culturist=pays him tribute, and is in depend ence upon him.f-Dawson' Digit of Res. 1l9 to l22.4
 6. In confirmation of all these doctrines. and that they might be more solemnly re- garded as the deliberate opinions of the peo- pie of Georgia, the Legislature, anticipating the civil war with the tariff party, which came so near breaking out at a later date, adopted the celebrated ssProtest to the Senate of the U. s. of 20th Dec 1S28,'' wherein Georgia, in her sovereign character, protests against the tariff of 1928, as sslraudulent, op- presslve, partial, unjust, unconstitutional, 5 and ruinous to commerce and agriculture and the Legislature say: ssThe State of Georgia expects, that i'll perpetual testimony thereof, the deliberate expression of her opi- nlons will be carefully preserved among the archives of the Senate, III justification oI her character to the present generation and to posterlty."
 The protest Georgia against the proceed ings and principles of the tariff party, is now of record in the archives of the Senate of the U. s. People of Oglethorpe! Did not the Legislature, ill their reports and resolutions, protests and memorials, utter your own i opinions /? Did they not truly represent the creed of the State Rights Party?
 Fellow-C -Citizens-lt is important at this time, to compare this creed with the opinions of the sFather of the American System,n the head of the tariff party, Henry Clay. Mr. Clay is before the country as candidate for the Presidency. A powerful and talented party, even among ourselves, advocate his election, and, that too, at time. when the ta- riff party are startling the country by the ex- orbitance of their demands and the perfect drill of their forces. In this emergency, one question naturally occurs to us: Will we of the South, who are citizens ol all agrielltu- ral, cotton country, gain or lose by Mr. Clay's elections? Government is established for our benefit, not for our hurt Will the government of Mr. Clay and his party, be beneficial or hurtlul to our region of the Union2 Our people, and the people of the Southern States, having clearly asceftained and declared that the protective tariff system is ruinous to Us of the South. To suppose, then, that we, or the Southern people, could support tariff man, or the tariff party, is to suppose us ignorant, inconsistent and unwise. How then stands NIr. Clay on this subject? Let him be judged by his own words and ac- lions, and let his party at the North anu West be judged in the same way.
 To specify all that Mir. Clay has spoken and done, during his long public life, in sup port of the protective tariff party, would be tedious, and require a volume. To the intel ligent reading people of Oglethorpe, it is enough to say, what they so well know, that Mir. Clay has long been called by the manu- lecturers and taritlparty, the 9Father" of the tariff system. He has long been its most in- genious manager, and most eloquent advo- cate, and he is accordingly held by that par ty in high honor. But his friends who seek to reconcile you to his support, have endea- vored to persuade us, that since the memoua- ble compromise tariff bill was passed, in March, 1853, Mir. Clay has not advocated a protective tariff, either in docnnle or practice, and that he does not now differ from us on this subject. In other words, they would have us believe that our opposition to the protective tariff has been successful, and that Mr. Clay and his great Northern party have surrendered to us, and have abandoned their faith and practice on this subject. Let us see how far this courtship of our favor is sustain ed by truth.
 The compromise bill was passed on the Sd of March, l833, to avoid the pressing dan gers incident to nullifcation by South Caro- lima, and other Southern States which 1t was apprehended would join South Carolina. By that bill, according to the universal under standing of the nation at the time, according to the plainest reading of the letter, the doc Urine of protecting manufactures was aban- doned: the tariff was to be gradually brought down to a rerenue standard of 20 per ccnt., on the kinds of imported goods that were taxed; and the long list of free articles TO. taxed by the act of lS32, were to remain free, unless it should afterwards turn out ne- cessary to tax them too; in which event, with some specified exceptions, they were to be taxed also as high as 20 per cent, like other goods On these terms, the South agreed to bear the tariff about ten years long CT, or until 20th June, 1842. After that time, the tariff was to stand at 20 per cent, or a mere reeenue rate. Protection was gone, or so we of the South fondly dreamed But i see how we have been disappointed. On the 23d February, lS42, Mr. Clay introduced ten resolutions before the Senate. The Sd reads as follows:
 Resolred, That the rate of duties on foreign imports ought to be augmented be- yond the rate of 20 per cent, so as to pro- duce nett revenue of twenty six millions of dollars twenty two for the ordinary expens- es of Government; two for payment of the existing debt; and two millions as reserved fund for contingencies.o
 In the debate on these resolutions, MT. Calhoun objected to Mr. Clay's plan, as a violation of the compromise. In reply to