Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-06-24

chant, who purchased by Deprecated
paper-money standard and sold abroad by
metallic standard. must be loser 10 the a.
mount of the difference. Hence an unsound
and expanded state of the currency is al
ways favorable to importations and the re-
verse as to expectations. Nothing can ae-
count for the advanced prices of tobacco
under the operation of the compromise act
but a greater foreign demand, and that de-
mand was enlarged by the opening of our
markets by virtue of the removal of proh
bitory duties and the more liberal demand
for foreign commodities, created by substi
tuting moderate for very high duties This
difference in the state of the currency in
Germany and the United States, alone in
duced shipment Of wheat for a year or
two from the former to the latter country,
and saved the speculation from being los
ing business. am charged, in the face Of
a clear and distinct admission of the postu-
late, with not regarding these foreign duties
as injurious to our tobacco trade. ] con-
slider that they have at all times, from the
very infancy Of the trade when these States
were colonies to the present day, been i'm
pedimen,s to its full success, but utterly
deny that they are the operative causes of
the existing or recent depression. May
not ADM, the evil and yet very properly re-
iect the in,ermeddling Of Congress as the
mode of curing it. | do fully approve the
expedency o: the end which Gen. Chap
man sought to attain: but do as strongly
condemn the fitness of his means. The
means proposed by him was taxation-the
panacea for every form Of public distress
with certain school of political empires
in our State mine are, economy and re-
duclion of the demands of the government
upon our foreign commerce. He would en-
poy commercial restrictions to coerce sub
mission upon the part of European govern
ments; l would try cancellation and libe-
raj policy to win them to my purpose. !
would trust, with better hopes and a more
reasonable prospect of success, to liberal
conflict Of reason with reason in our dipo-
matte intercourse than to the vindictive &C
ton of hostile tariffs Knowing, as all his
tory teaches, that no other cause, not even
war, has excited, between communities, such
bitter and deep-rooled feelings Of resentment
and alienation as the spirit of commercial
monopoly, assuming the name and mask Of
protection would rely upon the force Of
truth, and the rectlude of the principles Of
free-trade, which the lights of political
science are demonstrating more clearly, from
dav 10 day, have their foundations in justice,
benevolence and utility. The lips of their
enemies are constrained TO bear witness to
their abstract truth and excellence. The
proteclionists are forced to concede that
lree-trade men are right in theory, but scott
at its practicability. England and the u.
States and Hanover and Bremen are now in
the full tide Of successful experiment. But
is it possible that Gen. Chapman can serious
iy believe in the success of the lea tali0nns
in the middle of the 18th century 10 this
age of steamboats,, railways and electro
magnetic telegrapis, when time and space
no longer oppose impedimen:s to the inter-
communication of thoughts and the diffu-
sion of knowledge-whena sound and man
" philosophy is redeeming the human mind
from the house of bondage, and leading
forth the benevolent affections SO long held
captive by unreGec,ing prejudice or cum
ming sel6shness; when the Sultan of Con-
stantinople contributes literally to the re-
lief of furnishing Christians, and the success
sor of ST. Peter proposes sending nuncio
10 reside at the court of the Mahommedan
potentate. What might reasonably be pro-
posed by MIR. Jefferson in 1871, would be
ex,ravagan,ly absurd to do in 1S47, for
science and free intercourse are changing
the world. Look where we will, among
the civilized portions of the earth, and the
signs Of progress meet our eyes. The des-
tiny of man is onward in a course of i'm
provement, and shall we be counseled to
go back Our true position is that Of pio-
neer. Our Franklin brought down the
lightning from the clouds and our Morse
gave it a voice to speak to all nations, kin
dreds and tongues. Our fathers started the
ball of political reform 1776 and i, is be-
You'd our power to arrest it now, if we
would. The word is oonward !''"onwardn'
s:onwardr' until the destiny of the human
race is fulfilled, and peace shall reign on
earth and goodwill among men. This
consummation, so devoutly to be wished,
will be brought about by the discoveries of
science, the agency OF free-trade, and the
ministry Of the gospel; they will go forth
with the irresistible power of steam and the
rapidity of the electric fluid, conquerng and
10 conquer, until the nations of the earth
shall be, as members of family, knit to-
gether in harmonious brotherhood.
TOBACCO PLANTER.
June IL, 1S47.
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