Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-07-04
VOLUME XLI.-NO. II.

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our products with foreigners, one man has a
/ risht 10 Trade with anolher-aS much right as
mere IS to exchange horse or any other article,
without The Intervention Of police cxacting &
I severe taxation. But forty or tlitv men from the
North, principally from New England, have &C.
vised system that shuts Us on, from our 10
| Iel9n markets, ana aided By Southern Wigs,
! (Gcd save the mark y have carried il into eyecu-
ton And, Great God, what a system, When,
in 1921, il was proposed, the patriots OF the South
rose up rs one man against it. The South was !
phalanx undivided and indivisibe North Ca
rolina, il | remember led off in opposition
From 1916 till 1872 the South voted unanimous
~ against all these schemes 10 impoversh The
South and asgrandizc the North. But where is
North Carolina now? Where is Georgia Not
one solitary Wing vote from the Southern States,
save one from Georgia (NIr. ChappelD voted
lor The repeal OF The terrible Tarifi Of 1872
This section Of the Union, which. from the time
! OF the serious protective Tariff agitation in 1924,
has stood in phalanx for years and years,
independent OF parties, is now broken in upon
The Wings have gone over 10 the enemy the
enemy OF the South. under some extraordinary.
unaccounlabc revolution. The people have not
! gone over. They stand where they always stood;
!hc enemies OF a protective Tariff leaders
nave gone over-with their gross. bold and extra
I VACANT arguments 10 tempt the People 10 follow
them. The People themselves are incapable of
tiese sudden and extraordinary conversions. A
/ lew men, icw politicians may turn n Somcr-
set, the individual man NAV perform great va
neiy o! antic luggcry-bu il Is irrational il is inn
possible that whole State great masses OF People
J can luIn over andturn round as quick a. Won could
say Jack Robinson. "a laugh) hepcop!c at large
look their interests, and the Peorlc oithe South
have no interest in protective Tariff Ii is anun-
just, ana unconstitutional, wicked and monstlous
TAX upon themto support the Northern States ofthis
Cnon; and II rebellion was right in l716. from
unjust but lighter taxation. il would lc lust
now, when they are plundcred and robbed. | will
mol say taxed 10 maintain pride and pomp and
apurse-proud arstocracy in another part Of the
Union. (Herc Mr. McDuie was again seized
with ut OF coughing, which interrupted his dis
course for some time.)
Ever since lS2,, MIR. McDufie went on 10 saw
have turned with contempt upon all The avenues
and temptations OF place and power and UPON all
the miserable scramble OF parties have been
absorbed and overwhelmed by the vast interests
involved in what called the American protective
system. have looked for ami prayed for the dav
when The South would oren hcireyes to the cnor-
mites OF this system, and rs band Of brothers.
rise up against it, ami stand up for principles e>-
sential 10 the liberty OF man, as well as The free
dom OF trade If the Compromise of 1899 had
been adhered tc; ifthe author OF that Compromise,
the distinguished citizen of Kentucky, had stood
by lis pledges, no man would have gone further
Ia do him honor than wou.d-nut idolatry for |
make idols of 70 men. While must admire his
holiness and icarlc>SIcsS of character must say
there never has been 4 statesman since the orga-
niZation cihs Government whose influence and
whose popularity have been more fatal to free
principles than Eeniy Clay'>. (Some cries of oh,
ohD My solemn bclici IS tlai but for him, the
whole West, the great Valley OF the Mississippi,
the natura! ally of the South, would have been
with The South on this question His eloquencc
his power, the authority oil his great name an au-
thority deserved for long time for the noble part
he acted in the last WARMTH Great Brit5in, begin
ming with the events of 1912, gave his opinions n
sanction in tina! valley, il has been found as We,
impossible 10 overthrow. (Cheer>.) And if he
had stood b. his principles then, the motto Of his
party then, Free Trade and Peoples Rights
(applause.) he would have been gra,iiied in his
ambition 10 be President OF the United States, ten
years ago, and before This, have retired with glory
prolonged applause.)
The friends of the so called American system
come before uS for our favor with MANY soft
words and Is many delusve nalne> There is
patriotic devotion in them when they speak of
protection 10 "homc industry" and when they las
The ilaneIiEg JUNCTION 10 their souls. that by Law
ing these heavy duties upon Us, they ere protect
ing domestic industry" Domestic industry -
What is ii? When make one hundred bales OF
IL,
is mol that lame industry! And is not protection
Is much nay mere needed for that than Tor IN
doors inw1ought Notwithstanding industry -
Yet the delusivc idea is got up, that there is no
h0.ac industry, but that Of the manufactures
The work Of men, and the work OF women in the
Southern States is no b0a'c industry but the work
OF mechanics. of tools of iron and steam and
wafer that iorSooth, is ho,ec industry that needs
mus; d. projected and supported BIZ the South
What docs Henry Clay mean by the American
system" by 'home industry" Does he mean
that threc-tourths of the people of this Union
should work for the support Of the other one
fourth! Why, for the twenty years past, that this
American system has been in operation, what
has ii done but impovcrish the South and create
4 purse proud and naughty arislocracy at the
North? Within these twenty years, the pride
and power and wealth Of the South have been
broken down, and an unnatural and INDECENT
ariSocracy OF beggarS and robbers have grown
up in the North. Looi al the South, at the pre-
sent moment, and contrast il with the North
See the difference between the conditions ofihe
two people and ask yourselves what has caused
this difference. A man is blind mol TO see it,
Visit the South. AID ven see the vast majority
Of the people living in log cabins. or in frame
houses going To decay You see their floors with
out carpets and their windows without curtains,
and every thing dcnotng gradual deterioration
Great God, what but the robhcries oil the
North have produced such a state of things, God
did not make The laws that have done all this 1t
is the work OF the North. In his seat in the Sc
nate of The United States he had heard Sena-
Tor from Massachusetts, sitting but two seats
from him, declare, that if the policy Of protection
was abandoned he, as Massachusetts man.
would abandon his State, and fiy for refuge to
the wilderness OF the West That Senator also
declared, that in such an event there would not
be farm in New England worth possessing as 4
gift What a confession was this oi the pcrfdy
of the system OF Protection Why, ask you
again, are We impoverished? Why, have We no
more money and no more return Tor our labor
than we now possess 2 ] have heard one cause
given for this state OF things by the friends OF
Protection and have been eravcly and respect
fully told, that that cause was 10 be found in tie
tac,, that VIC had no industry at the Souih-hat
we were law, indoleni people. No industry at
the South The charge is false, totally false. IL
is a libel upon the South, and upon Southern men.
| have travelled over the South, and once OYER
New England, and have visited Great Britain
and France and some other parts OF Europe, and
no where a; home or abroad have seen 4 more
industrious people than those 10 be found between
the Potomac and the Sabine. have seen it is
true upon the railroads ard in the large cities OF
the North, persons better clothed than al he
South or than the farmers OF the West have
seen Boston clerks much better dressed, ana
making much more show than all the farmers oil
Virqinja but this was neither industry nor
proof Of industry. In travelling from Washing
ton TO Baltimore the other day, ! also observed
throngs of people in the cars-you would not see
the same in the South, Tor there the people can
neither afford it. nor do they indulge in such bu-
sincss. OF the company travelled with, three
tourths OF them appeared TO be females and chill
drcn. At the South they would have been al
tending to their household duties-in their
Kitchens or their diaries looking after their do
nestle affairs in and about their homes. What
was seen every day at Baltimore, was seen in a
! more marked degree a. you went farther North
4 The whole exhibition is one of a purse proud
aristocracy ard so Tar from fndingmore indus
try al the North than could be seen at The South,
upon my responsibility declare, that every man
! South OF the Potomac, does four times as much
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