The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-07-11

ties, restrictions and prohibitions applied TO
American products, 10 foreign powers, our
rivals, jealous of our growth and anxious TO
impede our onward progress. Encourage
ment of domestic industry is a concession to
our fellow-citizens, to those, whose ancestors
shared in common, with our ancestors, in
the tolls and sufferings of our day; to those
vino have shared with US in the tolls and
sufferings of our day; TO those whose poster
iy are destined TO share with our posteri-
ty in the trials, in the triumphs and the glo-
ries that await them. 1t is a concession to
those who are bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh, and who in some other benef-
cial form do make and are ready to make
equivalent concession 10 US. 1t is still more;
it is a concession by the whole to the whole;
for every part of the country possesses a ca
paclty 10 manufacture and every part of the
country more or less does manufacture.-
Some parts have advanced farther than 9th
ers, bat the progress of all is forward and
onward.
Again, | ask what is to be done in this con-
fict of opinion between the two extremes
which Ihave stated! Each believes, with
quite as much confidence as the other, that
the policy which he espouses in the best for
the country. Neither has a right to..demand
that his judgement shall exclusively prevail.
What, againl | ask is it 10 be done? Is COM
promise or reconciliation impossible? Is
this glorious Union to be broken up and dis
solved and the hopes Of the world which are
concentrated in its fate, to be blasted and des-
| s.o-0l c,w,,11 NJ coII0u, ot;,oo, ~
The Union must be preserved. Inlhe name
of the people of this noble old State, the
first TO announce the independence of the
United States by the memorable declaration
of Mecklenberg, and which has ever since
been among the most devoted and faithful
to the preservation of this Union; in
the name of the people of my OWL
gallant State; and in the name of the whole
people of the United States, | feel authoriz
ed 10 say, that this Union will not, must not
| shall not be dissolved. How then can this
unhappy confictof opinion be amicably ad
, ljusted and accommodated? Extremes, fellow
citizens, are ever wrong. Truth, and jus
$ tice, sound policy, and wisdom, always abide
in the middle ground, always are to be found
il uste milieu. Ultraism is ever baneful
: aud, if followed, never fails to lead to fata
consequences. We must reject both thu
e doctrines of free and of high and exorbi
tant Tariff. The pariiZans Of each mus
c make some sacrifices of their peculiar opin
ions. They must find some common ground
!; on which both can stand, and reflect that i
e neither has obtained all it desires, it ha
o secured something, and what it does not re
q retain has been gotten by its friends ant
c~ountrymen. There are very few who dis
n sent from the opinion that, in time ofpeace
the federal revenue ought to be drawn from
foreign imports, without resorting TO interna
:. taxation. Here is a basis for accommoda
* ton. and mutual satisfaction. Let tn
amount which is requisite for an economical
e administration ofthe government, when W
n are not engaged in war, be raised exclusive
ly on foreign imports, and in adjusting a Ia
iff for that purpose, let such discriminate
Re be made as will foster and encourage OF
,e own domestic industry. All parties ougl
,e 10 be satisfied with a tariff for revenue an
.e Determinations for protection. In thus Sc
Ting this great and disturbing question, in
= spirit of mutual concession and of amicablC
compromise, we but follow the noble exam
is pie of our illustrious ancestors, in the form
ton and adoption of our present happy col
: stitutlon. 1t was that benign spirit that pre-
sided over all their deliberations, and it b;
V. been in the same spirit that all the threatel
ii ing crises, that have arisen during the PR
gress ofthe administration of the constitt
ton, have been happily quoted and accor
ID. modated.
cy Next, if not superior in Importance to Il
pit question of encouraging the national lndu
de try, is that of the national currency. |
ad not purpose to discuss the point, whether
nd paper representative of the precious metal
he in the form of bank notes, or in other form
convertible into those metals, on demrnd,
nv the will ofthe holder, be or not desirab
ort and expedient. | believe it could be eas
Id shown, that in the actual state OF the col
as mercial world, and considering the amou
and distribution of the p~recions metz
,& throughout the world, such a convertible +
rid per is indispensably necessary. But that
u not an open question. If it were deslrab
!, tthatno such paper should exist, it is not
the power of the General Government, l
oP- der its present constitution, to put it doy
,o' or prevent its creation and circulation. Su
a convertible papernaS existed, does exl
Us and probably will always exist in sp
is of the General Government. L
twenty-six States, which compose the Uni'
ad- claim the right aud exercise the right, NJ
De not to be ted, 10 authorize and
- forth such a convertible paper, according
ana their own sense of their respective interes
yes If even a large majority of the States w
the to resolve to discontinue the use ola pal
all representative ofspecie, the paper wo
q a Nevertheless be created and circulated.