Western Carolinian

              1 i t&i 4 is *_' _*& lz%j r mmm m % w$p ltev si ti wise lo '.-* nn from laws which however wise and got i in themselves have the semblance of inequality which find no ri i he heart of the citizen and whieh will he evaded with little remorse th i'.m.'fl islati-.n is ospocmll men in p-afti ar jaws on conscience dr chaining burton craioe-i sau8rury r'"f»vv pott\*py s c ... iom v u»w1 3 m rvot mt n 20 i'm tonorahle 11 ■'■"■- ft^tzzitm^m op n'.ittu canolwa concluded j ,, a,t suppos i that i anl wrnno in nil son this subject i that there ' . no eonstituli il impediments — nil he initiation and tha flagraiii inequality ,,.,,,, f the system are denounced k all the principles of an enlightened po m j philosophy the inequality of its op ',, 1 upon tbe different advocations of tike ,„• community ia flagrantly unjust i,i niaupob the great motions ofth jni l.-r i'-y considered with reference te the rand geographical division ef the u i.rv that the inequality rapacity and ipprossi ni i d 0 bystem.are mo.1 maai ifst and mo.1 rubious ll is built up by wfi»h interest amoci ntcd together forbelfiah purpose ; with no priuoiple of cohesion but a mean baae i ,.| f.r money unredeemed by any treat public snd patriotic fruits ; and un jniti ited by tbealighesl forbearance in tin pluu ler'of all tl.er pursuits of indue irv ibr the benefit of tbe protected class rl v sir this structure bo huge and z . itic,'i reared by the aggregation ol j .,. dissimilar materials ; here the polish el parian marble there tlie rough miasha pen rock piled upon each ather in per fect q intemiit of symmetry beauty and k c.i iral utility sir it ia money—nothing jj u , , u ney and money exacted from oth er vithout equivalent that holds tooetli er thi sy-.t-.ui those bandit interests have linen rallied to its support by u thirst for rapine and tho b.iltlo in its defence with a vigor proportioned to tbo magni tude and enormity of it exaction sir upon what prineiple nf justice is it that the people of thia country aro taxed four millions of dollars upon the single ar ticle of sugar 1 upon this necessary of ilie universally in use among tl.e pnur as fruli as the rich ? it is seen that this tax is not needed for revenue how then can this government justify itaelf before the people levying upon them three million nine li indred thousand dolla for the pro tect on ofthe sugar planters of which two millio is two hundred and filty thousand do'iars go into tlmir private pockets ' that this i lhe fact is inoontestfbly pro ved bv ihu statistics before me und which are ir ought tn lie on the table of every senator the case then ie that thirteen millions ol ameriean people are compell ed bv this tariff ayatem to pay to seven r i hi hundred rich bugar planters in louisiana two and n quater million of dollars tn re for the sugar thny consume lha i they would have to pay were this tariffrepleoled whore i the justice of taxing million of the poor to awoll the hlr lady overgrown wealth ofthe lew hun dred sugar planters of louisiana 1 what right 1 1 i '- eye of heaven or the si-;ht ot xv has these eight hundred propria t 0l valine the niost fertile land on ,;,, , it in the in isl fruitful climato t . , n those wh toil in a mere re ue an ofte i worn out soil more than ju f dollars to go into their j | . ket.l sir.it is n stupendous m tr is system ofiujuatioe no ti . nai i tain it short of keoping the ponpj i nuance is there a senator pr . •. nn believes that if this tux of tho in v i'or iho benefit of the few in stead t being raised indirectly so that ti people do not perceive it operation — vas levied by direct taxation with the avowi i lhal i was laid to give it away lu bounties in eight hundred siyer plan ter lo maintain and support thoir busi ness — i ask s here any senator present who believes that the people would bear ii for a single year ' would they not with honest ind.gnatjott hurl front iboir i plaees ■ _! the fiinctitinaries of this mtnent who bad dared lo participate var — putting uul i tlm view other means nf supply — ur commercial marine lo whiob an opposite polio wnuld give rapid growth and development under cover nf our gallant naw would supply all our want hut sir i it vise is it just to in flict a certain bvil upon the whole people lor the benefit of a fen to the extent ofa tax of near two and a half milii ms of doll ara yearly te guard agar the roiitinpen cv sl'n war which is nnl likolv i t hnppen bill which if it come can brinij ivitlt it in this respect bul very alight ste ts iv bi iis ' sir i",,k t i ;' iriftupon this in i ■ article and the effects a ' i.-h will be produced bv twenty five vear n rsi i i,ne t twenty five year at the and the necessarv inereasina rates the people ofthe united states will have paid lo mt • ivigflr plnntera ifl utsiana more than i rl.iv nilli'i'is f hollar — a sum nearly onus lo tha debt 1 the revolutieq — the price four 1 il>ort i •=. i"-l p»r whal benefit ? w ill they be able to purchase domestic su mr cheaper after having paid thi tax fo jsyearal so sir nor as honn ns tho foreign thc cost ofproduc tion will be necessarily renter in louis iona than in the finer climates then sit hew are the people to l 1 in demnified for paying thi eighty million of dollars to hi sugar planter ' nn oge has told and no one can tell then air where is he benefit the direct benefit j:oos oxclnsivelv to the suo.u planters — tho recipients nf ihe ofthe tax — hut an indirect benefit arises tn the other bandit interests hv securing ike yule of louis the burthen and dwindle agriculture th paramount interest i t.iv it tion ; he who toils in the earth and he who il ni hs the main ire plundered un der color 1 law of their legitime fit i.i sustain a i nd of monop iliti by contrivance sud concert have irawn into their views * maj irity nf the country and .-.'•■' r to jive law tu political parties liav ■ in ; since nssumed ■.< tone nf !..-... onto congress and the executive is it possible sir that this state iftliings run endup ' [ a it p . ibl th l the peo pin an overwhelming majority of whom nre laborers nn-l derive their su'ppnrl ruin tlif cultivation nf the • . rlh e in be much 1 lulled into acquiescence , ordrog ooned into submission — thai tli will su lain it nolic the effect of which istomaks the rtelt rich t and the poor poorer ' i'i fit difficulty consists in nooning the eye ■ f the people to their rut condi tion the most ef ihem have been too iniieh engaged in iheir necessary avoca tions to tiidv an i tn rutiiprehciiil this mill lifarinus subjecl it is the fnterosl of r , < < • nepotists of capitalist — rifall lh i consume more of tne fruits of the earth ihan they iruflut-o by the sweat nf their brow — to disseminate false opinions lo l.ti.tiin together in appropriating to them selves the bounties conferred bv thi v ! eminent nr in speculating upon the dis 1 1 sues mo-a-noiied by this ruinous and ac cursed policy sir i reonrd the adoption nf the pr sent mode of taxation as ihe the deepest i n-nl mo > uiit'niliiiinti rrnr of ihe sa_-<-s hi i i - i -.'-■ 1 .*". : and lli.it for ilie pin cl ise of florida — we shall begin lo dis rnrn some ofthe great cause which havo forced the pi fits if labor to how from the si nth i . iho \ ■ th and 11 t*t it - 1 ii mi i sl to a im i in like tl ii pilf i-.-.oii i thi oci it is iii this ii that the unequal ictio i of the government lias more thnn coun iik'f.l hie coiiiiiti of providence — thai those i lightful r.'-ti ns • f lhe s nth upon which heaven set ned to have sfui led with beneficence are silently passing itit'ii i i mid sti i lit , m nl im ii . on north is unlocking it * arms tn rec ivo t . fruits of our ., . m-tn a . isjeveul ivl.oie exhibiting evidences of prosperity nutl mouun.o 1 nf 111'ali h an i gi this view of ihc ubjec i suff!;e**taa train nf m lanchoth reffecti ns it exhibit in the stroti st light the diwrsi 1 con flicting interests nf great sections ofthe com try und confirms tl ■ r.nvirti ill fbal ilus indirect taxation through tha meili uni of imposts — reduce u as y ni may — even lo the minimum of the necessities of the vcinmenl — will sltil np rntn as it perpetual drain upon tho profit of south i'm l;tli t upon tho exporting st.tt.ie and t.-;iii-i-i it benefits of the north end east in ikin-oxportini states it also af fords a - lu.ion f the foci of tbe constaut and steady opposition ofthe plantation btates to high taxes and prodigal expen diture : and tl.e equally steady end por severing efkirls nf other teat sections uj the confederacy to augmenl the revenue and squander the sun ins iii i|i|ii"|iriai predation and mpi te by dissimilar and .- tllic.ing interests ... lay under cun.ri bul m whole sections and lithe profits ti peculiar to thnao sections bir il is thi viea of the pubjeel which is most •!. . l interesting to every individ ual id i llvt - by the cnltivntiun of ine earth in lh - i outhern states tht south is subj * i •! to u sv stem of oxa it n iu ', ;,.. |, , uevei ir.-'-n !■ ti : i'm i by an free people up n tl a globe i shall id an r tn illnsiiate this posl it ii not by a i tit ••> political nietaphy n i.ni l pti-i nting th ■-•• fuels id . i rntionswhieh lie upon th aurfac of things mid aie level lo tlm meanest ca pacity i 7 - - ■ ,.*. tl tumrs nf our dni.ie«tis - ports i lake a year which is believed in lit .: i'.n av t i y i nflheil relative prepor tu t.;i i is for several \ oars i'll whole . xpor.s ofthe 1 t.t i btates for that yosr of the growth md produce of the i'liit'e st it .,:',, nnl x ss l.»,*~t l.l.i 0 surrender forty ti-e y rda in the hue ired the planter then retains only fiv yards though im has honestly earned inn un drod the northern inaoiifoctuier ii no • nnv permitted tn keep hia wliol piece nl i hint d yard hut by the interven lion ofthe taiit he is en dtled to s iii i a an advance 1 forty or forty-five po ce it upon the natural nriee ruts the sf ions tha casii > more tire two ine wh have each ehincd nc hundred yards o cloth by their lubour worth xm hundred do lai s per pure nt thn natural price — 1 inciin bj natural prion tto cu.st.if produc tion the southern man i cuiiipi.'.l d to tiive up forty-tyrh yards and is j rm 1 lo keep fill five yur.ls — worth fiflv five nolluis tne north.ru mauufai tu ■> iti nol \ permitted to keep his 100 yards ninth one hundred dollars but bj ho aid of lha tariff he is enabled o s,d his one hundred yard say for one buo.lrod mid forty ilollars that is the on i'lin lit'd dollar worth of labour of fh '•„ t.h i.n man is in lhe ion run hy t t r veutinii i if the tariff made to i worth eighty-five ilollars hiss than ti . nn drc.l dolluri.woi.il of labour of ti - th orn manufacturer i exclude - y d liaiieou ni of the price of ihe t live piec is — because in the pracucnl up rution ihey are purchased i'.it cnsuniptun ia it is*ibl't to eunceivo a case of it i.e rf vo'ting hardship 1 and yet ti.is diustiatea truly the operution nf the tar.lt tn do equal justice thn j icrti.t ent ftp it taxes in imp st tho souther i n u.'e piece of cloth when imported boul.l also t i w sxoiss ho northern iiiimuf.c.ure r'*j ( >.' lli-t w li.ilo niiioiuit the arlii ic i of southern pro du lion only am lint as follows to wit : . 81,053,489 24,086,038 6,383,831 the if ne to (' it ll to tobacco to for ii heat naval ,; t"i es nf all soi ts and other exports from the s ut it cannot be precisely itsvortained but is believed tu he about 5,000,00 86,811,080 i who formed and itdhpled he r*titsn7nt^tfl actions from the great planting interests it t so artfully dis/nised that it may in of the country sir i there any intelli sinuate itself into the community reach ent man who believes that if the sugar every class and condition of society di planters were tl.e only pereons in the j minish the profit of labor and impair thr country seeking protection from conressl spring of industry unseen and almost un ten votes aye a single vote could be ob 1 suspected it enhances the price efal li.inod bevand the limits tf louisiana in most every thing — ofthe salt thai seasons favor of an imposition ol an annual tax of i the poor man's dish tin iron thut points four millions of dollars for their benefit ? j his plough lhe woollen that covers his n . mai believes it body the glass thai liyhts his dwelling if then this subject has nothing intrin the beverage that slakes his thirst it bur sic to justify this tax how does it acquire then almost all the comforts and enjoy an additional merit bv its connexion will meutsel h.s life in eating and drinking other protected interests i sir this tax . '" hie raiment in walking in r.d.no ,„ haa ne merit and ou-rht instantly to be reading and in sleeping—and un artietdo reduced to a mere revenue tax even i mortis it clings to the eoffln that roceivm then it would be mote enenuraged than all his mortal reman aud tbe spade that the other planting interests sir i shall prepares hi ilaat home whare he may not stop to refute the allegation sn often put sleep with his others and mingle with forth that thc home competition has re mother earth duced the price ofsugar i will offer one i sir his indirect tuxatinn has operated j illustration however it baa been seen as a withering blight upon all the fruits that th whole domestic production bears i n f southern industry — it is converting the about the same proportion to the whole finest region i'the earth into hopeless , quantity of foreign sugar aa two or two sterility and comparative desolation and half inc to one hundred how can : look sir al the relative condition of such an immense mass of the foreign ar the grand divisions nf the confederacy at tiele be essentially afrnted in its price by ithe adoption ofthe constitution the un udditiou t the whole quantity of only north and east wero not only coinpartive two per cent 1 suppose a merchant has j ly but positively poor — the south with on hand ninety-eight hogsheads of lugar la genial climate and a kindly soil was each worth tjioo hut another merchant i teeming with the rich fruit ofthe earth hrieosintn the same market two hogshead and rejoiceioa in the midst of abundance making tbe supply greater than the de the export of raw material of the pknta mand—-in that case the price muttfall ; tion states gave employment to the prin but how much 1 certainly not loan ex cipal part of our foreign tongue and tent exceeding the whole value of tbe two streams of wealth were pouring in from hoceheads why not because rather every quater of the globe upon ihat tie than let the price go lower so aa to aflfect lightful region but sir the firs urea the ninety-eight hogsheads tbe owner ol net under the new verni)ient the fund them would find it his interests tn buy up ing ofthe debt ofthe revolution laid the ithe two hogsheads or whal is equivalent foundation of a system of policy and ave iw.mld withhold from the market two o efficiency tn a mode of taxatieo which have iis own now how siumls the ease enriched mgions naturally poor and im i'ln ninety-eight hogsheads are worth t9 poverisbed regions naturally rich mlll hut'twul-ogslieudsco ne in.o mai icl ii ■.-. ha hi stntro and a lh ■ irsl " lh i'i iee — 1 i i i xx . a alio i to i'.-dilile r«**.lll:._u . lions i i all sorts of objects it e nil lea ul also lo comprehend in sonio measure that political paradox — which to a simple and plain man involv.s a perversinn.of lan guage ami confusion of ideas — lli.it a na tional dobt i.n public blessing sir it tins heen a blessing tn thai great section of this country which has been cheered and invigorated hv it refreshing streams but a positive evil upon the whole region ot the smith il enable us also to un derstand soniethin-r ofthe motives of thut ridicule ml denunciation which haw been levelled ntlhe present chief wigi strain for hi avowed anxiety to extinguish that debt uud relieve the people from a por tion of their burthens sir iln extinguishment of thenu.ionnl debt will he foil ns an evil hy thu monop olists nnd capitalist nt'tho north and l.usi inasmuch is annua il ■«• of ten or iwolv diillioii.nl dollar in that direction will be discontinued ; antl inasmuch as linger necessity for high taxes ceasing and ap prehension nf reduction at ihe moment when so much capital is l.l ln,.sn will be oct difficult and anxiety in making in vestment in pursuits highly profitable er exoi'iiitiimlx bonntied bir this part ot the subject awakens painful ii-.iii iscenees ofthe tenduncy nf govern ems in other countries and other times — ofthe humiliating tact illustrated upon almost very page of h ••■'.»•>-, thai all governments have been so cunningly de vised und curiously e instructed as to bur then the imri.lt and benefit lie few — to in creaaethe strength i tlm powerful and perpetuate th lbebtoi..,s of tlm weak we iiml believed that ur devolution which was achieved for the sake •! princi ple an ! mi to escape fin m pratioal ori praaaien hadnpened upuii lhe world hrigh ui hope we had hoped thai our cou stitiiiit.ii whioli rests upon tbe immutable rip'.it ot man and the principles f star mil justice would guaranty te teeblaese support and privlroli-.i and imposu upojj sl.-|,th*.-.','i!u from the foregoing statement h appears that tlm bout horn st hits comprising md nnn third of iln wh de |> ipulaiicn of iho i nnn actually exp nt nnunally to toreign countries hear tin • 1 mis of thu whole expoile efdobie.tic growth and produc ti'iit how is it sir that wilh sii.li an i.n niensit expert ilie south is growing pon er mow ia i thai the nm lit tin deputa tion comprising two-thirds of the whole population expt r ao more ilmn niie-|l>urt1i ami yet are about ling in all um comfort and luxuries of toreign c untriea and in creasing lii.ily in prosperity ' lln.v nn the no niialili'tl ' ■ buy and consume such a proportion of foreign import 1 it is i.nt because ihnj biij them with produce exported nu s . il is nut by mt-nnl ,,| invading th ir capital that they an nu ahled so to multiply their enjoyments — they are too prudent for thut and besides their i . iro.tr to prosperity i constantly rm ward then air hew i it that ihef can consume nearly two-thirds ofthe wh le importation when they do not wed abroad of their own produce one-third uftho v.l u ofthal whieh they consume ami when the il not invade their capital ' sir the most that lh would bn anti tied tojia the value of their exports en hanced by tin profits ef freight upon ex porta and imports and yet tnoj consume more han double the whole amount , i their exports and freight howiak donel ii ia through ihc instrumentality of the tariff avstem which i will now explain tbe tariff by enhancing he prioe i the foreign article lo tlm v.i»ie a.ununi of the duty enables the domestic na.iuf".ic tin r la bring ins muoufneturea f like kind into tbe market and sell them for . price eqtu£or neatly equal te lhe foreign article burthened aa it is vith u high du ty the loiiiisint article i sunt to ih and nld for high prr.tilh nd drama piece to the same amount — u ul wherefore ni lit not this to i the easel iln nut the southern tnnn just .* much earned by his lib iir hia piece as the norther manufacturer has earned his by his lab ur t thia is one ef the bitter rmts i i idin-at taxes anil to whatever amount the r.-v venue may he reduend the aninc pn n do will in t anil the like results to thut extent will he produced sir thi ia tho rpat secret of the ru no.is ii'iiusl'er of tho profits uf southern la bour lo augment ibe prosperity of the north und east a nin it i said that thc consume pay the import duties thou . i r utf seuting to that proposition i will u mat principle .. this nt „... ... this gnvernnicnt collocts n rovp-nn : t n,f rt nf suy two ity throe mi t t v ar tlie south exports throe-four . i tlifer products i inch nro exchanged for the tn p'.rl upon which iheie twenty-three mil lion ure levied — that is to say , scv-ntoes million of lbs duties arc levie.i on ._•. da exchanged for the products of soui.n.ro labour repeal lhe ta.n1 and the south would be entitled to consume or to sell throe-fourth vf ilio imports i!,.t n tdey existititi . irciii.imtunces — say th south ii*iiu..h one halitlio iuiportar it xm smi.ii as consumers pay duties r ' xes nf eleven and a hu if millions thc othen half is consumed in the north and k.-t lhal i to nay they are consumed iu af si.l ration nl their exports — and 1 com on pay us consumers ix milliuiiu of rlo.am — but the north uud gast are also ie con sume the residue of the imports upon whieh live and a half millions of duties are lo be paid now how are tho non-ex porting state cither to pay ihe five end it half millions or to acquire ihe whole lin ports upon which thu sum is levied ' il is dune precisely in the manner be fore stated that is tu say — althouj .. tint south pays only half bn taxeh in first in lance or any other proportion whicli aii^ittro^^j h***hh hogsheads ofthe ninety-eight ere wihheld — uud the price remain firm and the ninety-blx brought into market are worth 0,61.0 and so it is demonstrated that if the two bogabeada reserved arc entirely st which in practice would not lie th feet vet the loss bv the increased supply nf two per cent is onlyflw equal to two per cent upon the value ofthe whole applv these principle to the price ol the whole supply in all the markets ol the world and the rosults will i similar in truth identical that is .., sav as our whole domestic prodnce is only two or two and hall'|.er cent ol the whole supply of the article so tne introduction of our into the market ofthe world coald low er the price at most only two or iwo nnd f per cent an.l yet we see by refer once to the prices that brown sugar whicn ,„ l**lu was worth from twelve t sixteen is bow worth onlv from bix to eight cents i„d in cuba the qualities which in 1816 and 17 wore worth fr.-m mx to 1 bl cm ta are now selling at from two to three e_u the allegation therefore seem to me as 1 think it must seem to all im partial person aa utterly prepqeteroua in the sense and to the extent put forth the causesofrcduclion of puc ■*, which have alike affected protected and unpro tected articles lie much deeper than tba tariff laws,.,r 18 b.1834;and 1838 1 will not now stop to investigate the b.r tl views which i have presented i relation to the article of sugar with others which mi^hl be suggested to en ,„„■«• nu detestation ofthe inequality , i ee and profligacj of this system apply with equal or nearly r-|u*l force lo afitlie other protected article to in i -,. -, ■ . wane wee i as v rbeos ,-,,. ., classes of industry are boun.ied un tot *'>'.• 4 oft«i i 8 ua -' vf purs it , lu e-."t r .,„ „,- i,:x s,r we ham long enjoyed this t,|»l then planter lorjia cotton and ulla , ti , ttp | tlw ,„„„ £ rlw.^r.ci«s pleasing delude tat »* not delmuon abaco-ad th.-so profiu . . n.«dc by lcli , t n .,,„ „. uth lmhgl|j oo_e^x^wv[he^h t °" p w " l z «■» 7 s the mnnulhefiirjir en.blee h.m to conrome j fc , i ". ariv w od o th o eminent ' »'• >>"• '" ** »' i|u ' " « '" i "*;" v " ' s " li " "." »'«" "'"""""'"'; no * v lh southern labour by th enhanced prb ih w ole » r debt of 1 ,' k • lut , was enimeiu of the many for the benefit ... the rage al all lhe d has been ccurately ntinufocttirns a sua fond i hr 1 « ll"l '"""- v " a cwr s d j calculaie . d ll exceed i-y-fivo per n - , „ mn.'a ea i rn s,hws m,d e truth that itis practically a gnvern ....... the south therefew pay upon ( ureis^^x^-n ment ofthe smallest nuwbh majwrty all they conwmee.ttor forty-five per nent , £ kfj^^^tfttoresx-lsn verthe largeel poaaible n nty-ih.t u|m1 . a the pnoe f it be the fern ga nr - , j > unj ., , the largest portion oi tne reeiow mis urgert minority u lmd under cmrtn tic o or aboul the same amount in lha en . . _. ._ i j i r sjs l 6 .^ t "'.,: kin.1 n,,l,..a^,e,a,eo.exac need price of the demos article 1 1 m the sou pev directly and the w , - el f t he sev • i st_t tions the majority is let down te tlie rsinthiseilhaa 1 j.ncr produc-d by the 1)cl(roo | cousuinp'tio neap 2 i ltthe i ht o tlm new jover '»*- « ft i "" ••" l '" nc , "'" * ' '" i '^ *■ "** ' xx ™* thre.,.f',urthsl-xceodi g two sirtu oft r«t ft mtstifam s,l ,.;. be tbe divide.de and that th a-..r from south a targestare id^h..r prof of no gevernnie.it colloct uiere w , ," v ' r h ' hie .•,.- •'"- ""'■*" -^ i ; - '^". '» "', ' '". i iu oft*..t...g i and by the use these to k ive entire arcura dd i a id ho n est was re ul ly * - <■■'""'•"'« " ■ "' '""" ■'•"' ! "'* s ' ' -">"""* i «* •""""*">' ' '," n " rl ! "* "''" * c.y to lhe statement it is i.oc.iomry to de mdd in li ' mm • a nr are held .'. sl and adventur-m politician who . ,- to sutat.ult uelt for l r 5 "' t r i duct the mount of freight and the tax l bank and . te s na to be tuckhol de among ibeuiselveh the r.cnest spoils „„„,., the unports which ... he •»»•"•* 1|pon ,,„ amount consumed by tho who thank and interest pa ofthe ir triumph and throw but a cu.nh thn tax w.mld havo been he leg.iin.au \^ tilljl n „ we , „ j^fo by ti,e.,e..,,le to th south then unbur if m-je.d *. much-lo the u.or se,u f fruits of soulberu labour notherw.rds f ,., ,„ unpr „ e cted article ii ,;,. „ d v a ece s e lax ,,„, could make p-v and s,r where ,* lh heck ,.,*„, h product o the south the pnuoipal ef which c iiu.iii.ouy aii , combiiialioiis lor iiihi and nnpriueipl.tl , ,, r e u l ... thi ■ totui^'u eveba.^-s uro l.ur , f . lvn i ffias^^^ett^ln u -~ ' "- "*?* f t w '' ' j h " «« j ',""> t '"*" cftn t vt wb^wt ndeert sir not enlv to h he fun n thev ho i r p , ea 1 f "'"-"'^ «»'>" ' ,; " though the dommant the kluct l norther ia.*aur as bey the " tnx .. h of h ? fre r x,ou r i,,,,r ::;; i ::;; y l,j i.-ncultiiriil labor being lee pro eontributun i h-re .* no nepouoib hty be ruinous to the south -,,,„..«•*• *• .. - • hw.xp.,rii..g sim ,, we s....l duttive the people thur were an ot lr l ttr,h f other ileuc ... « again th southern plnn.er wl ,«.« the cau*e which i.vc s lh 2 in govern 1-,-u widely xte-lw confer bracing i,,t,k a hale ...... lai is us much on ifo a sst ee flr f:bc,a.es re*po,„,h,l..y nd „ ind to ovmy . „,. : , r , ,,, h halo ''' l i v.u severe ., ihcy ar upon . gr sed forth pnvinen of the principal btrge and foawuhing leg.nu n.i la 1 eloth arc the fruits el , heir labour rea , , ( w . ,.„„,,, kuow , w u„d fotnreet eri levied upon th h been tb pn ,*.-., pera.ieo of he lar pecuve lhw „ icv m . ut e nolkmel v-„hh north and bast.in tb e,ungui-l - i nr i bn it with de lu„.nce but i te "**»£«* j5te z "" < " " ol he l " ct - " " " l "" l he prineipal and internal of i - * i it my solemn duty to say it tbnt i ew it ee wl x but j t f f d...mstmiioe that this pehev l.i.un zzzzzzzzzz . • zzz.7zz7.zzz .-;-»,,;-,,:-:•;:—■';::;..„., , scheme olsuch outrageous oppres i ami yet ir this tarifl'it effect a precisely in this •>*>*, and to this , jjl jj i borne only because it is vi i'st'iotl a e there any consider ofa national character that justify i is immense tax f,r the protection of ame-ieau sugar it is wholly unto men ted with the policy that looks to national di'f-nce national safety or national glory either in peace at in war tbe encour a • ent is net necessary to secure an am pl apply it i not pretended thai the bup ly is ever likely to lio stinted or in sufficient the largest domestic supply in itiv one year was about h-j,l)00,(>00 lbs or x7.ij.10 fioiisbeuds that supply i on ly abiut two por cent of the whole pro duction ofthe nuoar regions in ihc world i he pro li.e ion abroad and iu much finer dlima.es l!i..o louisiana o»n bc almost in defoiutolyjextonded — and we are within a fin days sail of the finest sugar countries in the world in time of peace tbe sim ply linn broad will be both cheap and abundant our peculiar position on the globe and the pacific character of our people and institutions justify tie expec tali ■; f.nuiiv v.t.rs of pearl — most pro bali for a century tn oeme w shall ha*e unite r hut t»wvo»r of war our le gi at i toe fre )•• 1 wise h uld be ida f i to that state wl ■ ' ' ' '*• '''" ns-'.-d v mt like 1 , by i ssing i-f ' ' ' b u ._. taost jurahit i>ui u tire w