Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-08-22

81, reduced the duties gradually and periodi-
cally for nine years. II gave nine years no
ice. Tkis Experimental Turif will reduce
all the duties upon only four monihs' notice
The latter was harsh, cruel, unjust legislation;
harsh to the wealthy. ctue. to the laborer, and
unjust to both; and the general welfare did
not require IL.
Third. The Independent Treasury. of it's
ella great change; the Warehousing act anoth.
er, aud the Experimental Tariff the greatest of
them all. will. when taken together, work an
entire revolution of our financial system.
One at a tins they nigh, have been iutroduc-
ed more safely, some OF them wisely. But,
by being - nearly united, as they will be. in
the TINE oi their commencement, IL is calcu-
latei To excite apprehension and alarm. To
put them Into simultaneous operation was,
indeed, a political movement of party too Vi.
olent aud too potent for good. They will al
tect all the business of the rcoplc most iuiu-
nously; and, with a Government expenditure
OF fifty millions and a revenue under twenty
millions. the Government iisclfmsy be crush
ell Under their combined operation. To at
tempt It when the nation was at war abroad,
ana the Government was IN lac money mar
kei, or soon expected there, as q borrower OF
nome, clearly appeared TO my mind 20 be an
wisely lroparding public credit and private
Nv NNAhAifAAN ~ NfANfll ~ W.
and certainly reforms need not always be- rev
olutions. One must reasonably fear that.
without a miracle, such strong measures, act.
ing with their combined power against the cx-
lsting order OF things in the country. may Gre
ate a Revision M trade, pecuniary distress,
hdrd Times, popular eXcitements, and sectional
a~gilatIOns, preceding another contest for the
Presidency, and do nobody any good but a few
political agitators and rich spectators. l
thought they would 90 very lar towards pro-
ducing an overthrow of the Democratic party,
II they did not entirely accomplish Il. These
consequences were too natural not To be APP
pretended; and the last mentioned result was
openly predicted by some and probably anti
cipated 10y others OF my own friends, who yet
voted for the experimental tariff bill without
approving of it,. Unless il should b. re-
pesled, or materially modified. It's Consc
q~uences now b'long to the Developments ct
the future; so ! need otI!lustraie the grounds
of my conviction by minute statements. Let
time test its correctness.
Fourth. In none of the tariff acts of the
United States in former years was the indus
try of our country burdencd by determinations
made against nom manufacturers. Their
policy was TO build up and not TO destroy, to
protect and not 10 oppre,S. Not 81 the ex-
perimcntal tariff. Md j. il not a mistake to
suppose that the republican people OF North
Carolina were at any time hostile To those acts
merely because they were "proteciiue?' Our
hostility was aimed at the CrieHi OF the thing,
not the thing itself; at erircme protection,
not protection per So. With here and there
an individual eX~ception-lor republicans in
those DAYS were allowed to diner-I boldly
affirm that dis was the republican doctrine Of
State; and thu people will know il 10 be
true when | remind them that il was precisely
the point OF our dispute with the Nullifiers.
They were against protection ont and out:
the (Jackson) republican party of North
Caralina in particular, went Tor incidental pro-
moderate protection by q "judicious
Iart. They wcre Tor declaring the tariff of
and 1882 unconstitutional, and %nullify-
ng II because II protected manufacturers.
thought it was unjust because the pro
ection wastrireme, but not unconstitutional, ;
,nt that the Union must b, preserved"
w hat the republican party OF North Carolina
thought then, ! ihought, and spoke, and
wrote.
And, coming down to- more recent events.
let me say That Mcka5@s bill of 1916 was a
!arii OF incidental protection, which YOU aud
! aud all the DendoCIuto iu congress from
North Carolina approved and sanctioned, and
the people OF our party in North Carolina no
where opposed last year, aud the press OF the
party defended up TO the Inauguration and at
forwards, and even down to the day Of the re-
port from the present Secretary of the Treas
ury. Careful study, longer experience, and
closer examination, have confirmed me in the
laith OF those times, fortified as il was by the
authority OF the administrations OF Wishing
ton, and jefferson, aud Madison. and Monroe
and Jdcksoh, all Southern republicans and
Southern Presidents. is consistency treason?
IL may bea misfortune TO me that | was un-
able TO change with the times, but il would
D. a rriinc to deny my faith. To avoid mis-
representations ] give you the words of those
WIS.,, and emlnent, and patriotic men. Hear
Washington:
Extract Of a speech Of George Washington,
President Of The United States, 10 Con-
gress, January, 8, 1890.
"a free people ought not only to he armed.
bat disciplined; TO which end a uniform and
weH-digrsted plan IS requisite; and their safe
" aud interest require that they should pro-
mote such manufactures as tend to render
Them Independent of others for ESSENTIAL, par
utularly military supplies
The advancement of agriculture, com
merce, aud manufactures, by an proper mans,
'ettt not, ] trust, H1ei recommendation"
La accordance with this general recommen-
'a'l'h Int House OF Representatives passed
a resolution directing the Secretary of the
treasury tMr. Hamilton) TO report To them
upon We subject OF manufactures, and par
'culafy as To the means of promoting such as
would tend TO render the United States indie
pendent ol ioreign nations for military and
other essential supplies; and his report was
submitted ia December, 1871, wherein he
said:
] expcdiency OF manufactures i'm the
United States, which was not long since deem
ct very questionable, appears at this time TO
be pretty generally admitted. p. 1913.
Aud again he said:
"A question has been made concerning the
C~elSuiuli"na right of The Government at the
Ohiled States to apply this species OF encour-
ascment, to manufactured bat there l. Ger
n0 g1ot foundation ior such a ouc,-
tion. '-P. 1876.
Add again be sail.