The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-07-31

I W Aho'i'0'H NOuiLy, W pdl tCipd'e WIN US
in the celebration of the 9TH of July, was recei-
we'd soon after the day it bears date. Without
consulting with the rest of the committee, and
without any express consent from Col. TuoMp-
SON, we take the liberty of publishing the letter
at length. 1t contains sentiments which will find
a response in every democratic breast Let cv-
cry democrat read it.
WHEELING, JUNE %, 1914
GENTLEMEN:-Provious engagements and pres
sing duties prevent me beng with YOU on
the coming Fourth of July This is our sab
bath day Of Freedom, consecrated by the dis
oslution of our political allegiance to England
and solemnized TO us by the death of the author
of the Declaration of Independence The De-
claraton in itself was a cause as it was the com
plete justfica ton of the Revolution. 1t preceded
the war for Freedom and it has ever since stood
as the best VlndcatiOn Of the war-the soundest
justification ofthe People making up arms, e. the
most perfect code of Political Rights. 1t is fnda-
mental 10 the Freedom we row enjoy. All the
principles of our political conduct have beer
gathered from its wise aXioms and it is only in
any hope for the future As it has saved us in
the past, it must guide us i'll the times to come
And we must remember, that the same apostle
who gave us that creed, also, in long and event
tul life gave us his own practical Illustration of
its principles, and in the solemn hour of DEATH
when his mind inyoluntarily moved over the acts
of his past life, and he felt more fully the deep
meaning of his own mission TO man. he excain-
ed, not to the attendants around his dying body,
but to the American people-"WARN TIE CON-
MITTEEs."
And although | cannot be with you, let me
ask you are the Committees ofFrecdom Warned?
Have your committees warned the people to de-
tend the constitution and 10 perpetuatc the prn-
clples ofthe Declaration of Independence? Have
the committees been warned that there is great
and unscrupulOus party in our country who con-
Zeal the most dangerous designs, or are nisead to
most destructive results, under name assumed to
deceive; or appropriated through misconception.
IThe name of whig in this country, once meant
reform and revolution, against the principles and
Tyranny of the British crown, and in England to
day that good old revolutionary name is the watch
word of deep, thorough, radical reform--opposi-
ton to the plumber OF a national bank--opposi-
ton TO a national debt, which creates and sus-
tans the High Tariff which has aided TO reduce
by its system Of protection four millions of hu-
man beings TO the condition Of ''prOtected paai-
Ipers." Are the committees warned that it is not
protection for the people which the capitalists ask,
but that it is the means ofindirect plunder which
they demand? That they have departed from
every principle Of measure Of the revolutionary
ancestors, that their ''appette has grown upon
what it has ied," and that successful fraud has
|emboldened their insolence, until they demand
that Of right which the constitution never
gave. They demand protection as constitution
al right, as tthat instrument, based upon the po-
itcal equality of all its citizens, had made direct
provisions to secure 10 capital larger gains than
to the mechanical and agricultural labor Of The
country; as if tho mere manpuators of cot ton
and wool, (not the operat ives but the capitalists
who task thom,) were entitled to special nmu-
mites, and to demand from the real process and
consumers an equal portion of their hard earn
ings The declaration of independence and the
constitution are both violated, by any such inter-
polation of unnatural right and ungrantcd power.
The constitutional power and the moral duty
of Congress is to levy equal support for the gov
eminent, by direct taxation or by imposts (arfS)
on imported merchandise, or part may be levied
in one mode and part in the other yet equal in
the principles Of their exactions The first Con-
gress adopted the mode Of raising the revenue
of the government by tariff or imposts on the
importation Of foreign goods, and did SO to afford
protection to our jntam manufactures. The col
lection ofrevenue by tariffs instead of direct tax
cs, was adopted TO give this protection. The
question was, revenue by direct taxation Cittoat
protection, or the necessary revenue by imposts
so that protection to the crten Of tic reOcaue
might be afforded This first mpost is called,
the Tariff of July the Fourth, 1889, the day of its
approval by Washingto another cause
cation of n great constitutional truth. The pre-
amble ofthat law read: "Whereas, j. is necessa-
Try for the support of government, for the dis
charge Of the debts of the United States, and the
encouragement and protection of manufacturers,
that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchan-
die imported" What is the object proposed
by this preamble to raise revenue for the support
of government and for the discharge ofthe debts
of the United States, and to afford that inciden-
tai encouragement and protection to manufac-
lures, which would be given by the substitution
of the method Of raising the revenue by imposts,
instead of direct taxation; and the preamble is
but the succinct argument of that Congress in
favor of the adoption of the tariff, instead of the
direct revenue system. This swhat have ever
understood to be and now is the democratic doc
trine, and which subsised without question and
without qualification until after Henry Clay's res
idence in, and return from Europe.
The alarming extension Of the doctrine of pro-
lection beyond revenue, was made by Mr.. Clay
after his return from GheDt, and the present
name ofthe old Federal party was assumed for
them by james Watson Webb, after he had tur-
lned traitor to the Democratic Cause, and for ac-