The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-09-11

w we arc undeT renewed ObllgallOna
TO the attentive and accommodating clerks
Of the steamers Laurel, Dime, RichIand and
Reliance, for late papers.
SeI1-lnlcrest-P amTC-NRaking.
We think that it will be universally adj
mittod, that there arc some men who are so
accustomed to look at every thing through
The medium Of self interest, that they never
make movement without it has a direct
reference to their pockets. They have no
fixed moral principle, and are always pre-
paredfo advocate or oppose any measure, in
accordance with the dictates of selfinterest.
Such men are always the slaves Of avarice.
They cannot comprehend how others can
be influenced by pure and disinterested mos
tives, because they have never themselves
felt such emotions UGH men are unwilling
TO believe that others can condemn the
British Tariff act which has lately become
law, unless with view TO make money by
the operation. They feel that such would
be the inducement to themselves, and hence
they impute the same motives to Others.
They crawl through life without a single
noble or honorable impulse, and will sneak
to their graves without leaving a single
friend TO lament their departure. That such
men should charge upon the friends Of do
nestle industry the design to create panic
is not to be wondered al; for they meanly
suppose that interest instigates the move,
meat. 1t seems TO he expected, that the
American workman should submit to- be
driven from employment, and TO be deprived
Of the means of support, without uttering
n complaint against the grievance under
which he labors. lie must close his mouth
less be should give offence to some one who
is revolving upon the sPoils Of government,
ar DO charged with cndeavoring TO excite
panic. We are among those who have uni.
formly supported measures for the PrOtec>
ton Of home industry; and we shall persist
in our course, without stopping to calculate
whether it will ben6t or injure US in a pecu-
mary point Of view.-Openly and above
board, we advocate the preference Of Ameri-
can TO foreign labor; and therefore sincerely
and cordially condemn the act passed by the
late Congress, which is to deprive oul own
citizens Of bread, for the benefit Of, the
European workman. We do not desire to
have pnnic-we are no panic makers-but
We do wish to SEQ those who are injured by
the passage of said law, speak their minds
freely and feallessly. Those who passed
the law are the real panic. makers, for By
this act they have struck terror into the
hearts Of the people.-Men naturally en-.
quire why the late prosperous condition OF
country was disturbed? Why hazardous
experiment should be tried at q moment
when much injury and no good could result
from III Was il done in mere wantonhess?
or is 1t the serious purpose Of our rulers TO
discourage American manufactures and me.
chanics, and to promote the interests Of
those of foreign counties? Such will be
the effect, if it he not the intent Of the law,
II the Tariff Of 1912 had imperfec,ions-
if reductions could have been advantage,
ously made IN the duties upon certain arti
cles, why was il not carefully revised ant
amended Where was the necessity o
sweeping she whole out of existence, ant
substituting an entirely new principle
These things will be enquired into by The
people, and public feeling and sentiment
will be expressed. We have no fears tina,
tho country will snccumb under the opera
ton Of this British TariR-for, however
widespread may be the ruin which it will
produce, the people possess a rccuperative
energy, and an independence Of spirit, which
will sustain them in all emergencies.