Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-19


AMERICA AND ANiERICANS.-That
there should b. evils attending republican
government is not strange, as It's bcnc fits are
so e1eat III many respects, we could not expect
Ii otherwise ,han that some Of the features of
the government shouli check our national pro-
gsess and throw Us back in the scale of ma.
hons; bat this experiment of government has
proved itself capable of producing such peo-
pie as the world never before saw, possess ing
unexampled elasticity, energy and perscve.
rance--powcr Of mind and character that can
not bc overcome, or permanently prostrated.
Lock at Eng,and---a nation powerful beyond
all example. She has enjoyed the protective
policy for more than two centuries, and We, che
has advanced in manufacturers bat vefy l;t,la
further than the people of the United States
who have existed but little more than half n
century, much of that without any system OF
daties, and the whole without any systematic
protective policy. We feerlessly assert tina,
| there sno other nation in the world who could
have stool before the fluctuations i'm policy
that have characterized this government.
We need but look back To the administra.
lion OF General Jackson few ycars-to sec
the great institution of the country, one con.
nected vitGlly with all our interests. and all
our business, fall before the will Of man and
the passions Of ruthless faction. 1t reached
almost every Preside, it was interviewer with
all our foreign commerce, and was the medium
through which all our domestic commerce
was transacted. Ii has been truly character.
lied as the main spring OF all our worldly bust
ness. The foot of an arbitrary ruler was Sc,
upon 1t, and 1t fell. II carried down man,
individuals Ill its fall. 1t shook every branch
ana hbre OF the great tree that liberty has cree
ted a wise, iar-seeing, prudent statesman
justly predicted that the effect would be ruin
mat the improvements of the country would
be made desert wastes. His predictions woulc
have been perfectly and literally fulfilled bu
Tor the elastic power of the people, their un
exampled energy, perseverance and capacit,
to ward off evil The wrong was no less. the
crime was no less, and the injury was great, al
thouSha lew years wiped out the evidences Of
It, Noless than eight times in fifty years have
we seen tariff increased and reduced building
up one year and breaking down another, the
manufacturing interest of the country. Just
as capital had been turned into manufacturing
the duties were reduced and many a building
intended to be filled with machinery and busy
!aborcrs was left untenanted to decay; but
the owner gathered up the wreck of his prop
erty, turned it to other uses and went ON con-
quering and to conquer.
In the election last year, the business por-
ton of the Union were defeated. The hopes
OF many were blasted, the new administration
came into power with no fixed purposes, ex-
cept az the enemy of wealth and commerce.
The fact was enough to parali:e any other peo-
pie bat hn,ericans; butin a few short months
they have risen from the blight, and are NOV
ing onward again in the majesty Of their
strength. We have now before us the pros
pcct of repeal of the tariff OH the one hand
and war on the other; but The energies and
spirit OF onr people are the same, and though
they may be compelled to ride stormy sea
they will do it manfully and never sink under
it.