Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-02-10
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
PENNSYLVANIA RESOLUTIONS.

THIS TARIFF.
We expressed IN our ate remarks upon TINS
subject, the opinion tina, the Tariff o' az Is To be
repealed, and tho principle OF Incidental eoeou-
r.s,ment Ia American Manufactures repudlaied
by tho presea, ADMINISTRATION. The party press
is beginning to demand IN eianoTous tones the
abolition OF the rsrf. aud, in some shape OF 9th
er, that Law is. before many DAYS, to DC aumbes>
cd smcog the things thai were.
useless now to attempt its defence. Ar
rument exposulstion. estreaty-oi what avail
would be their combined power, against the ire
versible edSct which the stern despoSisn Of party
h.. proclaimed They tell Us the thing
ooastisulional. In vain Po,nt to the power to
law and collect taxes and to regulate trade; in
vain we show that Madison. the father OF the Con.
.,itution, who. Of all men, oush, to have known
the object and meaning OF the various parts OF his
own work. declared and demonstrated that the
power to regulate trade embraced the object OF
encouraging manufactures: that such an use OF
the power was intended by the States when they
transferred their authority over trade from them.
selves TO the General Government. A. Is alum
dainty shown by the debates upon the Consttu
ton in their various Conventions. Thus. Mr.
Dawes an advocate of the Constitution in the
Convention of Massachusetts, observed "Our
Manufactures ate another great subject which
has received no encouragement by national du-
ties Foreiga Manufactures, and they never
can by any authority in the old Confederation"
AT wish TO encourage our ot1n manufactures.
TO preserve own commerce, TO raise the
lue OF our own lands, we must gre Congress the
potrers IN question:" Such was the common
view of the States deeply interested in manufac.
lures. We might also point to the construction
put upon the power in question by the first session
of the first Congress which assembled under the
Constitution, in which many members of the Gen.
eral Convention which formed, and the State
Conventions which ratified that instrum mt, were
present, and in which not a single soul pretend
ed to deny the power to encourage manufactures.
Mr.. Madison, in his letters to Mr.. Cabell, remarks
.'thai members from Virginia in particular, as
well of the Anti Federal as the Federal party.
the names then distinguishing those who had OPP
posed and those who had approved the Constitu-
ton, did not hesitate 10 propose duties, and tc
suggest even prohibitions in favor of several art
cles of her production. BY one, a duty was pro
posed on Mineral Coal in favor Of the Virgini,
coal pits by another, duty Oh Hemp was pro
posed, to encourage the growth of that article
and by a third, prohibition even of Foreig
beef, was suggested a measure of sound poll
. cy."
We might also add to this contemporr
neous Interpretation of the Constitution the unir
terrupted sanction given by the practice of tn
General Government and the consent of all tn
States for nearly half century. But of VIII
avail The modern Democracy are believers
the Of IL,
trine and they have discovered meaning in OF
organic law, of which the very founders of III
faith and the carly fathers of the Republic wer
entirely ignorant. The hoary Apostles of Fret
dom, Washington, Jefferson, Madison Hamilton
must give way to.the beardless commentators
a new era-to Polk and Walker, and the whol
tribe of free trade zealotS with as little ceremC
nv as st. Paul and St. Peter and the Holy Evan
gelists are now showed aside and thrown into III
.shade by the adventurous Mormons and their ne
Bible. We have indeed a singular Constitution
according to the construction of our political az
versaries,-utterly Inefficient for good omnipc
tent for evil A Bank may be proved by expt
rience to be essential to the preservation of goo
currency,-but that is unconstitutional A Ia
riff may secure our national independence, kee
us out of debt, supply our agricultural interes
with a home market.-but thai also, is unconst
tutional Meantime it IS perfectly constitution
TO establish a Sub Treasury, in imitation of Il
despotisms of Europe OF, to annex a foreio
country with dash of the Presidents pen! A
right All just But let the Wings proDos
no matter what, from that very moment, even
advocated the very day before by their advers
RES it becomes unconstitutional The bleedir
Constitution is the cry. The FEEDER as,s" al
riding over it booted and spurred! Save the Coz
stitutiOn THIS constitutional argument is ce
tainly a very economical mode of conducting
controversy, when men lack reason and argumer
TO sustain their positions. 1t has been applied
such diversity Of subjects, and with such inv,
riable success, that we know Of nothing under tn
Heavens equal to it. except a certain culinary utter
ell which very clever old housewife once recon
rnended to her daughter, who had been Just maj
Tied, and was about settling In the world: "Yo
don't want nothing, my dear Sally" said sh,
-'You don't want nothing except dish kettle
nothing else Of the iron.ware sort. Why, whe
your father and commenced, I had nothing bu
dish kettle. / used to boil my coffee in it, an
pour that into a pitcher then boil my pota
foes in 1t, and set them on n warm plate, while
stewed up the meat in it. | used to milk in 4
and always after a meal, I fed the pigs out of tn
dish kettle. You do a great deal with a disl
kettle, Sally. # you've only mind to-"
The remainder Of our comments is posipone,
in consequence Of the press Of other matters I
another number.
q. s. JOURNAL.