Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-09-16
From ne National hisHiseseer.
FREE TRADE AND oURFoREFATaERs


The late proposition OF Sir. Andrew Stew
ort OF Pynu,yivania, To fight tn new Tariff
law ior The protection of British industry aud
capital. ari for The destruction of A,usricsn
Manufactures, by Home Associations OF per-
s'ns Uri"nts OF their country aud its arts D
" 10 shtli oini themselves not TO consume
'he ioreten productions which I.ocoloeois,n
ani It's leads prefer TO our own. hat propoSi-
non, we say mas or may not iud ian The prrs.
eht state ui parry management and suhseryi-
en'H spiut enough Ia Sustain IL, even among
IN states aud the misses Of working popnla-
toA most interested in manufactures, most
otP ,n'cni on their cDcolTsg.nen Tor all IN il
Ms"'o n'S' party ever appalling to do
uleHuO names and household feelings. b cause
u 10 by these that mrn are most easily mis-.
ted party that brulrls m n II d rslIs,s" for
rely daring TO OppOss an Executive supre-
macy and usurpaiions that deraiisin never
,Sntufed 10 Imagine; PARTY lbst calls men
DfIitsa W hlSs ior their conservative efforts
every Thing really American--our laws. our.
institutions, our morals, our INDUSTRY; party
tAat breaihed 0am. Of war for hity-iouT- forty
i-siisinaiiz a. 'traitors" all who shrsuk
irom that sensel.ss eXtravuesn cc--theu crept
ont themselves al forty mime. but still have the
aHfonity TO Willy men a. "pirtiSous OF Eng
lana Loo having cdlnly advosatcd q rstional
TIE country with banks; the anti Credit party
oi Repudia ton, the Herd money party ofeinp
~ subircasuries aud defaulting Receivers; that
pltiy which hos made such cheap nd blood
less acquisition OF Texas, at only the cost OF
our constitution AMI ii'ty millions Of dollars
20 beGini That party, Ne SAY, merits such eN-
trene confidence from all Americans, from
oil the manufacturing interest, aud from Penn
sytrsnia IN particular for oil its achievements
that II will no doubt easily succeed (as its
organ boasts that il is doing) IN persusding
ever body that It's doctrines are 10 be bvliev-
| ed, however lutal It's doings and that its he
oIi-s afe PERFECTLY TO be relied on. though its
! pledges are openly falsifed. Bless us, Penn
syl'dnlans ami the rest OF you! why. consider
! Is not this SPACIOUS, this scientific Admins
t,a'ion going To make philosophers OF you all1
Certainly II Is Now, IL il against all exam
pie Tor philosophers to b. rich So its first step
Is 10 make YOU poor, The virtues oil absii-
nencr, contempt oi pain. aud oil that. cannot
he taught 10 prosperous people, but they will
be easy for you 10 learn when YOU have not
copper To cross YOURSELF with. To make YOU
as meek as Job, it means that you should be
as poor. IL is going To enlighten you, but
you must pay Tor your schooling.
There was time, 10 b. sure, when your
ancestos-not quite SD vain of freedom as
~ wv HibAN NdlCluA VI u, idu YET SNulIltnl
pride and selirespect TO defend themselves by
voluntary pnvation against legislation hurt
ing them infinitely less than this, aud 10 a
clleve that Independence Of Britsinl and her
workshops which is now TO be taken away
from You. Would YOU have a specimen OF
rhdi they did! Here II is-a venerable doc
um nj; part printed and part written by the
hand ot the Father OF his Country.
An antiquarian friend has sent us three COP
les OF the following paper; one of them as IL |
came from the press, aud without the addi- I
tons, Ia the uninistakable hand of GEORGE |
w AsHlNGroS Eve print them in itdiics) and
The FairlaX county signatures which follow.
The signature OF Gen. Washington himself
and OF many OF toe eminent ndines oi Virginia /
are, as the reader viii perceive, in The isl all
utxed
Examining the articles OF the orr ginal esso-
citation, our readers will find that they ioral
not merely Targ, but strictly prohibiiiUe
one. Our colonial foreiatheTs could not lie.
gally lar British or other foreign goods but, TO |
defend iheirindependenoe, & TO make the gov
eminent which had injured them 10 retIsce It's
steps. they could renounce tue USE OF foreign
goos i& they dad ~ la the first roll al subscIi-
bers( taiut illiamsburg)w will be found nearly
all the mos, eminent naiurs OF Revolutionary
Nlfginla. The second iist contsins a lew
more icmarSsbla Ones--ss of John MARSHALL
GeasgeM Mason, Richard Harrison, aud William
Gnyson.