The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-09

II Is time that ii should terminate its dependence
on the market Of country whose production does
not and cannot keep pace with our own, and which,
therefore, has, and must continue TO haze, in each
successive year, less to give in proportion to what
II desires to receive The adoption of the policy
needed for the correction of the oppressive system
that was denounced by the author of the IPeaiM of
Nations, would bring the market home and enable
1t TO consume on the land a large portion of the
product of the land, it's exchanges being chiefly
made with people whose productive power in
creased as fast, If not faster than its own so
that instead Of giving more and receiving less it
would be giving less and receiving more Let the
South now do this-let il make tselfindcpendent-
and the lands of the South will speedily double in
value, and the world will to be astonished by
the declaration Of it's belief that slavery is ga bless
ing" and then it will to hear of abolitionism
or free-soilism, because harmony will then have
been restored.
The people Of the South have no friends like those
whom they ruin-no enemies like those whose favor
they court. Let them look to cultivate the friend
ship of those who are willing to be their friends
and they need care little for their enemies Let
them fail now to do this--et them continue to COM
pei the majority to obey the will of the minority
and the result must, as think, be most disastrous
to themselves and their institutions-to both the
slave and his master. Their safety is to be found
in the continuance of the Union, and in that alone
and the Union cannot be maintained if the few shall
continue to govern the many, to the ruin of all.
Review, pray you, the whole proceedings of the
South, and satisfy yourself, l think you may.
that every step it has taken during the last twenty
years has tended to diminish its strength and then
determine whether not am right In asserting
that it never can be streng thened unit shall learn
to act in harmony with its only friends, the people
of the North.
And now let me add few words on the tendency
of public opinion on this subject as manifested in
| the last twenty years, with view to forming a
Judgment as to the future.
The tariffs Of "a and '2s ,rere tie ,co,k of the al
rays Democratic middle States. General Jackson's
faith on this subject that of those States. He
believed with Adam Smith, that the British system
was ga manifest violation of the sacred rights
of mankind" and great encouragement of ag-
riculture'-that we had been too long dependent
on the policy of British merchants" and that il
our duty to provide better market ''lor our sur
plus produce" by diversifying the pursuits Of our
people-and his opinion the subject was fully
and freely expressed. He transferred to his sue
cessor the support of party powerful any
that has ever yet existed in the Union; and yet that
ceived most signal defeat because he had departed
from the old Democratic faith. The election of Mr..
Polk was due to representations that he was more
favorable to protection than Mr. Clay, and but for
those representations, he would have been defeated
He gave the tariff of 40, and the result of this
subsection of the majority to the will of the pnor-
ty was seen in the election of encral Taylor, who
holds to the old Democratic doctrine of the middle
States, which teaches now, as il has always taught
resistance to the British system; and it is as be-
lever in that doctrine that he will be reelected if
a candidate.
The middle States have received, and are re-
ceiving, from the tariff of 40, lesson that will not
be forgotten, while both at the North and South
there have been great changes, and greater ones
will yet take place. Many Of the warmest friends
Of the tariff OF ~ came, you know, from southern
States whose delegations had been unanimous in
their opposition to that Of IS, and every new mill
that is built makes converts, because the advan-
tage Of bringing the consumer TO the side of the
producer is thus made manifest. Judging of the
future from the past, s there not then good reason
to believe that until tre shall haze conquered free
dom Of trade by the humiliation of the monopoly
system by aid of which Great Britain has taxed the
farmers and planters of the world, candidate for
the presidential Office will ever receive majority
OF the Notcs OF inc people VINO IL not known 70 DC
honestly and decidedly favorable to the doctrine
which teaches that resistance 10 the British system
is much the duty of the men of 1850, a, it was
of the men Of l776?
Ten years of adequate protection would accom-
plish that object by placing the manufacturing in
dustry ofthe Union at the head Of that of the world
whereas a century Of the present system will fail TO
accomplish il.
pray you now TO look TO the fact that the only
two cases in which candidates for the Presidency
have avowed themselves advocates OF what is now
called free trade, tohieh consists sustaining The
English monopoly system, we're those ofMr. Van Blu.
rem, at his second term, and Of General Case, and
that both OF them were defeated, although the
inces of a party that has known other defeat in
half a century-and then determine for yourself
how long 1t will be before there will be another
candidate for the Presidential chair bold enough to
claim popular support on the ground Of HE willing
ness to sustain the system which Adam Smith de-
nounccd, and against which the people Of '76 re-
bclled.
am yours, very truly,