The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-06-13

aro when our population was but little more
than half of what is now, this Government
cxactcd $50 100000 as duties on our toreIgr
imports, aud that too, when, in consequence
Of this heavy burden OH our foreign trade
we onIv imported 64,0O0,O00. The Govern
mcnt took half the value Of the imports. as
tax on foreign trade. This outrage was
The cause of South Carolina notification.
Now the power Of the Federal Govern
mcnt over foreign commerce, is by the Con-
s,ituion precisely the same as over that
among lhc'Slatcs. ltlsa power to regulate
onlv. And the South c"ntcnded that IN as
much as the imports rom abroad were the
proceeds Chiefly of her staple exports, and
were lhercEre. to all intenis and purposes,
the product of her industry and cApHal, that
there was no rn"rc con&i,riionai right to tax
hem nn "rrir'rg in ""r n"rt$, than To tax
the products Of tic North, when shipped to
the South.
When. therefore, tho statesmen "t the
South reject on the great commercial and
manufacturing prosperity o! their country III
the DAYS Of direct taxation. and behold now
hcr dIlapdalcd cities and deserted halhnrs
rnlcr the change Of system. is II wonderful
that thcy have made the halls oI Congress
eloquent with ruin and wrong they have
suffered? Or it is wonderful that tie North,
willis, it cannot believe that what has been
~ ,,",rnon,sl rn others, shnu!d vet take
,ho S,m,,, -, lie cord rs TO its decline, and
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t'a ti,'o ,,J rocr, sl,rryv has with
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