Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-05
NATIONAL INTELLIGENcER.
FREE TRADE AND ON roRrr,mEE.


of Pennsylvania, TO fight the new Tana law ~ o.
protection of British industry and capi,al, aad -
the destruction Of Amerlcsn ManuisriuFr'- "
Home Associations Of persons friends = u'su
own country and its aris) who shall bind themselves
not to consume the foreign productions ~hieh 10
coocosm and its leaders prefer 70 our own--ihss
proposition, we say, NAV may nos md, ~ tbe
present state of party management aud snbsersien.
CIV, spirit enough to sustain II. even among The
States and the masses Of working population mas,
interested in manufactures, most dependant on their
encouragement for all their well-beng. party
ever appealing TO domestic names and household
feelings, because il is by these that men are most
easily mised; party that brands men !. Federal
ists'' for merely daring to oppose an Executive su-
premacy and usurpations that federalism never ven
ured to imagine; party that calls men British
Wings for all their conservative efforts to save
every thing really Amercan-our laws, our ins,itu.
tons, our morals, our industry; a party that
breathed flames of war for fty-four-iorty- stigma
tized as :" traitors all who shrank from that sense.
less exlravagance-then crept out themselves al
forty-nine, but still have the effrontery TO yilify
men as "partisans of England for having calmly
advocated rational arrangement; the anti Bank
party, that filled the country with banks the anti
Credit party of Reputation; the Hard-money
party of empty Subtreasuries and defaulting Re
ceivers; that party which made such cheap and
such g bloodless acquisition" of Texas, at only
the cost of our Constitution and fifty millions OF
dollars to begin; that party, we say, merits such
an extreme confidence from all Americans, from all
the manufacturing interest, and from Pennsylvania
in particular for all its achievements. that il will
doubt easily succeed las its Organ here boasts that
it is doing in persuading every body that lis doe
rines are to be believed, however fatal its dOings,
and that its theories perfectly to be relied on,
though its pledges are openly ialsitied Bless us,
Pennsylvanians and all the rest of you why, con-
slider is not this spacious, this scientific Admin
istration going to make philosophers of you all
Certainly it is. Now, it is against all example for
philosophers be rich its first step is to make
you poor! The virtues of abstinence contempt of
pain, and all that, cannot be taught to prosperous
people, but they will be easy for you to learn when
you have not copper left to cross yourself with.
To make you as meek as Job, it means you should
be as poor. 1t is going to enlighten you, but you
must pay for your schooling.
There was time to be sure, when your ances-
tors-not quite vain of their freedom you, bu,
respect to defend themselves, by voluntary prva-
ton, against legislation hurting them infinitely
less than this, and to achieve that independence
of Britain and her workshops which is now to be
taken away from you. Would you have speci-
men of what they did? Here il is-a venerable
document; part printed and part written by the
hand Of the Father of his Country.
An antiquarian friend has sent US three copies o.
the following paper one of them it came from
the press, and without the additions, in the unmis-
takeable handwriting of GEORGE WAsHINcToN, we
print them in talcs,) and the Fairfax county sigma
lures which follow. The signature of Gen. WASH
INeToN himself and Of many of the eminent names
of Virginia are, as the reader will perceive in the
list annexed
Examining the articles of the original Assoca-
ton. our readers will find that they form not merely
Tariff, but a strictly prohibitiUe one. Our colo
NAL forefathers could not legally far British or
other foreign goods but, to defend their indepen-
dence, and to make the Government which had in
jured them retrace its steps, they could renounce
the use of foreign goods; and they did so. In the
first roll of subscribers THAT at Williamsburg will
be found nearly all the most eminent names of Re-
evolutionary Virginia. The second list contains a
few more remarkable ones-as of JOHN MARSHALL,
GEORGE MASON, RICHARD HARRISON, and WILLIAM
GRAYsoN.
Inc TSS0ctdfi0n entered INTO last FTlddy, the va
instant, by the gentlemen Of the House Of Bur-
gesses ana the Body Of Merchants assembled
in this city.
We his Msjestys dudfu and loyal subjects Of Vfr-
gH'a declaring nyioabe and mistaken fidelity and at
tachment to gracious Sovereign, affection for all
fellow subjects Of Great Britain, and firm determination
support the hazard of lives and fortunes the laws
the peace and good order Of in this colony but
at the me affected with great and just appehensons
OF the fatal consequences certainly follow from the arbitrary
imposition OF taxes the people of America Tor the purpose
OF raising from Them without the consent OF their
representatives and consider it to be the ndspensa
BILE duty OF every vtuous member of society TO prevent the
rum and promote the happiness of his county by every law
ul means, although the prosecution OF such audabe and
necessary design unhappy may he derived
to many innocent eow-subjects, whom wish not to in
Jure, and who hope will impue conduct TO the real
necessity OF affairs Influenced by these reasons do
most earnestly recommend this association TO the serious
attention OF all gentlemen merchants traders and other in
habans of this colony, doubling but they will readily
cordially accede thereto And the time and every
Of us do solemny obge ourselves upon word and
honor to promote the welfare and commercial interests Of all
those truly worthy merchants Traders and Others inhabitants
OF this colony who shall hereafter conform the spirit Of this
association but that will upon all occasions and at all
times hereafter avoid purchasing any commodity article OF
goods whatsoever from any importer seller OF British mer
chandse European goods whom may know or believe,
IN violation Of the essential interests Of this colony, TO have
preferred their private emplpmen, by importing or sell
ing articles prohibited by this association, the destruction
Of the dearest rights of the people oths colony And for the
more etectua discovery Of such defaulters, it is
heofred, That committee OF five be chosen in every
If