The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-09-22
polltiral.
Protection to American Industry.
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From the Speech delivered by Hon. John Bell,
IN The Senate Of The United States, on the
26h Of May 1858, upon bW thcn pending
TO authorize a loun Of SIS 900 900.
THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY.
The experience of the past teaches us to
what dangerous results the extreme party
action Of the Government may lead if no
check to its intensity can be provided. The
same experience teaches US that TO do tins will
be an easy achievement. No sooner is one
great struggle for tic possession ofpower and
its gli,ering spoils decided, than the contest
is renewed between rival aspirants for the
Succt ssiou. Invention is again upon the rack:
the whole moral field Of adventure, from
Arctic to Antarctic pole is explored for the
discovery Of some new device, some new
scheme of policy by which the popular sym
pathics and passions may be excited Since
politics have become trsde an employment
in which wealth as well as honor and perso-
ma! distinction may be won, the vot1rlcs Of
ambition are not over scrupulous as to the
means of success. When all other resources
are exhausted when foreign intervention for
the protection of trodden. down nationaities
fail them: when schemes Of annexation and
further national agrand,Zenent offer no i'm
mediate prospect OF success in winning pop
uiar support when no quarrel can be picked
with any foreign rowcr, favorite resort of
many in seeking to reach the popular heart,
the more desperate do not hesitate to try their
fortunes by exciting and fomcnling sectional
jealouSies and rcScntmenlS; anything hut
general quiet is desirable to them. That
would be destruction To their objects. They
abhor political calm as much AS nature is
said to abLor a vacuum. Pace is not what
they want. If they had it they would fling
itaway. They prefer sword. And thus
the country seems doomed to one eternal
round ofexciements and agltations. Twice
within the short space of ten years have we
seen from such causes the government
brought 20 the very verge of dissolution.
Happily hope may now be INDUCED that
these sectional dissenslons, which have been
80 unfortunately fomcnted. will cease We
have at least, truce an interval Of rcpose
which may be improved and ripcned into
permanent quiet, ard the downward tendency
Of the Government arrested by a timely diver.
sion OF the public mind to questions and
measures Of public policy, national in their
character, and more in conformity with the
purposes and objects for which the Govern.
ment was established To do this we must
economist time. If we loiter by the way, If
we hesitate we are lost The evil spirit
which has been so successful heretofore IN
sowing discord is ever awake aud OF most
inventive genius.
Sir, speak melancholy truths, hut [ do
not altogether despair Of the Republic. The
circumstances of the times appear to ME to be
most suspicious for determined and success.
full effort to accomplish a great rcfprm.--
Besides the app, Extensions as to the future,
and the diminished confidence IN the stability
OF the Government. itself prevailing in the
minds OF many of the best men of the country,
TO which have before alluded, the mass of
the people have become weary and tired of
the stfiie ard agitation growing out Of these
sectional ISSUES. Thousands aad tens of
thousands of them are suffering prlvation
from the PROSTATE condition of trade and
many important industrial enterprises of the
country and ell the business classes feel
that their resources are diminished, and their
productive energies more or less crippled and
iaralyzed by tine late unparalleled monetary
and commercial rcvulsion. Happy will it be
if this shock to the great interests Of the
country, this check to the general prosperity,
shall awaken such a spritof inquiry among
the people, as to the causes which produced it,,
as will restore the Government TO its regula lar
and constitutional action, and require the
public functionaries, the trustees of power,
and those who aspire to those great trusts, to
give more of their attention to the public well
fare than to the ways and means of retaining
or acquiring them.
THE QUESTION STATED. H..
Two things are clear: the extent and val.
Tie Of the foreign trade does and must always
depend upon the quantity and value of the
products OF internal or domestic industry {:
the greater the activity Of internal trade and
industry, the greater will he the quantity of
surplus products, raw or manufactured, to
swell the outward current Of trade, and the