Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-09-04
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The late proposition Of NJ. Andrew Stewart. OF Penn.
sylvenia, to fight the now Tariff law for the protection Of
British industry aud capital, and for the destruction Of A
mcriosn Manufactures, by Home Associations OF persons
(irends OF their own country and It's arts) who shall bind
themselves not to consume the foreign productions which
Locoiocoism and Its leaders prefer To our own-that prop
osiion. we say, may or may not hnd, in the preeent state
Of party management and subseriency, spin, enough to
sustain 1t, even among the States aud Masses OF working
population most intsresisd in manufactures. most depon-
dani on their encouragement for all their w~elLbeing. A
party ever appealing 10 domestic names and household feel.
ings, because 1t 10 by these that men arc most easily mis-
led; a party that brands men "Federali.ts" for merely dar-
ing TO oppose an Executive supremacy and usurpstions that
federalism never ventured to imagine; a party that calls
men British Whigs' for all their conservative efforts to
save every thing really American-our laws, our insutu-
lions, cur morals, our Industry; n party that bfcathed hames
Of war for fifty four forty-stgmattzed as "raitors" all who
shraDk from that senseless exuavagance-thon crrpt cut
themselves at tortv-ninc, but still have the effrontery TO
Willy men AZ "Parussns OF England" for having calmly
advocated n rational arrangement the ani-tank party,
that filled the country with banks the anti Credit par
~ OF Reputation the Hard.money party Of empty Sub
treasures and detaulting Receivers ; that party which
made such a cheap and such 4 " bloodless acquisition " Of
Texas. at only the cost OF our Constitution aud fifty mil
hons OF dollars to begin that party we say, merits such an
extreme confidence from ali Americans. from ali the man.
uiactunng interest, and from Pennsylvania in particular for
all its achievements. that II will no doubt easily succeed
las its Organ here boasts that il is doing in rersuadlng
every body that ITS doctrines are 10 DC believed, however
fatal its doinFs, and that is theories arc perfectly TO be re-
lied on. though its pledges are openly fslsihsd. Eless Us,
Pennsylvaniars aud all the rest of You whv consider. is
AAN AhAN AaN NANhAA LAAAl INAlZ lO
make philosophers OF you ALL Certainly II is. Now, IL Is
against ali example for philosophers 20 Do rich 50 It's inst
step is 70 rake you poor. Tie virtues Of abstinence, con.
tempt Of pam, -nd all that, csnao;, DC taucht to prosperous
people, but they will be easy for you TO lrauL y hen yoa have
not a copper lea To cross yourself with. To make you -
meek as Jon, u means you should be as pnor. Itis goiby
10 enlshten you' bisyoa must PaAior your schooling.
There was a vne, 70 be sure, When your ancestcIs-not
quite so vain OF their freedom rs you, but more careful ofii,
had yet sufficient pride ami sell respect TO defend t5emsel-
ycs, BY voluntary pnvanon, against a Legislation hurting
tnem infinitely less than this, and 10 acchicy, thai indepen-
dence If Srtain and her workshops which is now 20 be taken
from n. Would you have = specimen Of uehsf gheg
iiG1 lie e TtIs-1N venerable document; part printed ans-
part written b. ue hand Of the Father Of his Country.
A. sstiGuu.aa fntRd as sent Us three copies Of the fol-
lowing papa. one OF thom as 1t came iuE, nc prSs, and
Ae additions, in the unmisisko15ie handwriting ri
&c Washington, I'VE PRINT them IN ifaicsl and n.
+ = innN county signatures which follow. Inc signature
Gen. Washington himself and OF mapy o! the eminent
names 81 Virginia are, as the reader will perceive, in the
list annexed.
Examining the articles Of the original Association, our
will and that they form not merely a Tarf. but a
surety %prOhibifipe one. Our colonial f~oreiaihers could not
legally tar British or other foreign goods but, TO defend
their independence, and 10 make the Government which
had injured them reirace it, steps, they could renounce the
OF foreign goods and they dd SC. In tie FIRST sll OF
That at Williamsburg will be found ueary
al. the most eminent Dancs OF Revolutionary Virginia. The
second list contains a few more remarkable Ones-as OF
John Marshall, George Mason, Richard Harrison, an3 VIII
Gsayson.