Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-04-04
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/ which must ,"ke place. And | nOyy
| leave II 10 tie manufacturers themselves
80 decide whether shis plain statement
does not also disclose the elements and
causes # II revolution in their rros pcritv
fully equal to, but in dismal contrast
with, that which have shown would
take place among TIE planting States?-
How often have they told that the pro-
/ tectInn derived erely from a revenue
tariff would be totally inadequate TO pro-
I ieot them from total ruin: aud that wa
had "a well apply the torch to their mad-
uiaetoies as To reduce the duties on i'm
| ports to that standard! If these were
1 not false clasmors, what a scene of desc
alton w"ald be produced by derrvinc
Them ut all protection. and leaving them
Ike the producers Of the staples of ex.
poFtation. to seek cut markets abroad.
M'iP'e they mist encounter the equal
handed competition of the whole world
Such. Mr.. President. wculd be the
opposite and striking results produced a.
mong the planting and the manufactu.
ring States by the political change have
supposed; while the Western and North
western States wcalsl find vastly ex-
tended market in the planting States for
all the productions If their farms. obtain
ing high prices and cheap manufactures,
instead Of the lew prices they now OBJ.
ta'E, and ahe high prices they aye now
compelled to pay to sustain the monopo.
lies OF the protective system. Now sir,
! earnestly ask the question, What is it,
in the new or'lerof things | have sup
posed that would produce such extraor-
binary and opposite effects in the plan
ting aud manufacturing c0nfedeiacies5-.
II. after ten years from the establishment
ut these sepaia ate conlederacies. stran4
ger should revisit the country, who. had
seen 1t before, he would naturally in
qu're what had produced the mighty
changes that would every where meet
his eye. In the South and Southwest,
seeing eur citizens thronced with a'vast.
ly increased and prosperous population;
the silence OF our streets succeeded by
the ahinEatlng hum of active industry and
the whole industry, and the whole cuun.
try covered with ;astful and we'll furnish.
Ell mansions, " here venerable ruins or
log cabins had stood before. would
ex'laim. what god has descended TO
bless this favored region, or what coun-
tries have been plundered to produce
these Monuments e wealth and prosper
lty where ali was decay and poverty be.
foreg He would be almost .increduIouS
when ininrsled that all this had resulted
exclusively from the restoration Of these
States to the right Of self-government,
and their citizens to their natural rights.
The same stranger, behoding the fallen
u ruln0us c0ndIlin of the manufacturing
States. would naturally ask, what mon.
strouS despctism. what oppressive bur-
dens OF taxation have destroyed the pros
perity wi ich, ten years ago. distinguish:
ed these States from all their associatess2
lie would probably be still more incred-
ulous when informed that all the chan
ses he saw had been produced by prevsu-i
ting those States from taxing, as they had
done for twenty years, the productive in-
dustry Of their southern and western as.
sOciates.' .!
Now, Mr.. President, if / have not
grossly exaggerated the comparative eff.
fectS which would be produced upon the
manufacturing and other States Of the
Union. by simply restoring them to the
riaM Of regulating their own several in-
terests how enormous must be burdens
imposed upon the exporting States by the
tributary sasSalase to which they have
been for twenty years reduced by the pro-
tectIve policy: | have presented this plain
and pIactical view of the subject, in the
hope OF making palpable to the view Of
our oprressurs themselves the injustice
they are perpetratng. And warn them
that there is a point beyond which OPP
p'e>sinn will not be endured, even by
the viest sla, es ur the most yaleiiizens.
--ae@as 4.
Leop Tear. he editor of the Tems
perance Herald, published at. Camden.
south .Carollna,) en- lie first day Of its.
appearance, announced to,his fair read,
trs that tie present being leap year. con-.
te,red upon them certain privileges.
an ongst With WAS that of paying their
addresses to the gentlemen, any one of