Constitutional Whig. [volume], January 19, 1830, Image 2

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_ FOR THE WlttU.
TV the Dictator, who had %itwo tones in his voice. ’
A man renown’d for repartee,
)Will seldom scruple to make free
With friendship’s finest feeling;
Will thrust a dagger at your breast,
And say he wounded you in jc-t.
By way of balm for healing.
There is a voice that prompts desire,
W hisper'd is deeds of fame;
A breath that (aus ambition’s fire.
That makes the minstrel’s tuneful lyre
To raise an envied name.
But voice of Fame can never break
Thu reign of sorrow’s gloom;
The minstrel’s song can never make
The “Tyrant” welcome, or awake
The s'umbur of the tomb!
There is a Joy in Friendship's ties,
When Fortune smiles elate.
But Penury’s hand destroy.-* the prlz**;
1 is interest, oft in Friendship’s gtiise.
Oft cancelled by stern fate.
But there's a pearl that shines more bright
When sorrows darkly lower;
A star that cheers Misfortune’s night,
That robs Affliction of its blight,
In Grief’s corroding hour.
If is the tear of Sympathy.
That soothes the anguish’d heart;
mm offering, Sorrow's sigh,
*1 hat feels for others’ misery.
And seeks to bear a part
Fon Tiif Wma.
1’jle fond illusive dream is past,
And thou art also one
Whose love whs nil too frail to last,
A dew-drop in tho sun.
But never rtiorc my heart shall wake
To aught of hum in mould,
Since thou affection's cords could break,
And love like thine grow cold.
Yet. why should I mourn thee now.
When every hrtpc is o’er?
With cheerless breast and throbbing brow, i
Why should I w-1.1 deplore? * f
I led ’Lis vain—but cannot break
The spell that bound me thin«:;
My tortured bosom still will ache,
My soul will yet repine.
I thought, (fond fool ) tho’ till slmul J chano-a.
Thy faith would ever last,
That nought could e’er thy heart estrange,
But ah!—the dream is past.
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brum Cartka^cna—By the arrival at Charleston
ortho echr. Fortuna, Capt Armstrong, in 22 d.ys
trot? £arlhagcni1' we learn that Con. Harrison, and
Ool. Torrens, Mexican Charge d’Aflhire to Colom
bia, were there; waiting a conveyance for the United
.The Colombian Convention was to bcnn its
deliberations in Junuavy. Bolivar was expected in
Bogota about 25th December—it was proposed to es
tablish a Monarchy in that country, but Venezuela had
declared its opposition to such a system, and would
separate trom tin; rest of Colombia in that event; this
resolution of Venezuela, would probably alter the plans
Ot the friends of Monarchy.
Peace—A treaty between Colombia and Peru had I
been signed and ratified.
'lhe U. S. Ship Natchez bad been expected more I
than a month at Carthagena, to convey (ien. Hnrri i
stjn to the United States.
Pile Fortuna brought despatches for Government.
Passengers in the Fortuna, Ed. T. Taylor, Esq.
bte Secretary U S. Legation to Colombia, aad ser
vant. Count Szeliski, S. Leidersdorf, und servant,
M. Stcard, and J. Pereyra. ' [Deacon.
„ From Julies' Register.
Baltimore a.nii Ohio Rhit. Road_On tue 4ih
irifit. tWenty-four ladies and gentlemen, the Postmas
ter General being of the party, all seated in one car,'
and drawn by a sqjgle horse, passed from the viaduct
tt> the end of the rails (a mile and a half) m six mi
nutes, or at tho rate of Id nida£an hour; and imune
iTiately afterwords, another Jbe drew eighty per
sons, easily, at the rate of ei*m-miles an hour_The
weight of thfcse, and of the carriage. was estimated
at more tintf**etght tons. Like incidents are now
of daily occurrence.
The improvements muking iu England seem al
most past belief. They now talk of travelling JO or
ftU miles an hour on a common road, and thixTk that
one hundred is practicable on a rail way! The loco
motives are ascending steep hills, drawin* three
times thenp own weight. It is already calcu/ated that
nearly 100 millions of pounds sterling a year is to be
saved by the disuse of horses and drivers, and said that!
the horses require a» much land for their support at. j
would maintain 14 millions persons, &c. &c. A'
great revolution in the value of ‘ horse flesh,” is j
Mirely at hand —and scores of thousands of persons j
woo have subsisted by their labor, in various ways,
Hindi as in supplying their food and taking charge of
ftiem, will be thrown out of employment. What* are
these people to do, in a thickly settled country like
England, already in a state of over-production, thro'
lue aid of scientific power? We have yet room
rmough, and shall have—at least, so long as the pub
lic lands are sold at 12.r> cents per acre.
ttj* An English writer, who seems to speak very
sensibly on the subject, rather admits it as being pos
sible that a carriage may be driven at. the rate of 100
miles an hour, but says that on tho occurrence of an
accident Iry which it sliouhi be stopped, every person
in it must be dashed to pieces. lie says that. 66 i
miles an hour is at the highest rale- of heavy bodi,-s, |
failing 100 feet—that 44 miles an hour is af the rate I
of such bodies falling 6 1 feet. And asks_‘-Header.'
how would you like to bo put into a box, like a coach :
hr andan chair, and dropped from a window in the !
fifth or sixth flat of a house? We admit tint some- I
thing might bo (lone to lessen the danger at.’endin'*!
atiuh Accidents, and that in point of fact so heavy a
body Would seldom he entirely stopped at oner by .
obstacle likely to occur; but even supposing' th.it
roeasi were found to abate ono-lm'f rf the vTulencn ;
of the shock, enough remains to terrify consideraie j
f/icTi lrom risking their persons in such a species of i
conveyance. A speed of 22 miles an hour is equal to j
•32 feet per second, or tho velocity acquired bv n de- j
Bcent of sixteen feet. With propur caution this or |
somethin* a little greater may he attempted, hut li’l :
we have b >ncs of brass or iron, or better methods of
protecting them than wc have now, it is preposterous J
to talk of .->0 or 60 mib*s nil hour ns u practicable I
thin*. The danger, it is to be observed, rises in n
nmcb higher ratio th.m the velocity; for in rapid I
movements, besides the increas'd violence of the con
cession, iherc is less time for adopting precautions to j
guard against i»s eff •cts.”
T!ie same writer laughs at «lie* id ■■•a of savin* 100 i
millions a year, by the use of locomotive engines
a->d the disuse ot horses. Upon s me da’a obtained. 1
he computes tint liio icholc r >*( of transportations in j
England, does not exceed 16 or 10 millions a year, a
well on canals as roads. He supposes that 'th.. j
grcgMe annual transportations are equal to dm car
riage of 400 millions of tons, one mile; and estimates
toai ah the pos'Uiu.e savings that c.m b" made on the
crjsf ot present transportations, cannot cxecd I z mil
lions a year- This may ho “under the mark. * but
the idea of saving 100 millions must be d-cme 1 ex- •
travagant, indeed.
lluxTisonos. I’a Jan 5 j
Supposed Moil R.Mcry— At Water-street, in *hi»
county, on Sunday last, aorno p-Mone. stranger- m
this port of the country, slonl at tbe tavern of Mr :
Gove; from thr-ir conduct, and some w »rds that f ft1
from them relat.n* fftlire mail roblmry. three of th m
Were apprehended nrr-1 taken bnfo:e a ma-Mj.tr. ie. j
One of tho men was identified by Mr. Stuwart, a gen-'
t of this county. who Was passenger in the stage
uln>n ii was robbed, who wc ate informed states,
liint from similarity of voice, size and other particu
lars. he believes him to be the in-in who took him out
of the stage and tied him. The man identified was!
lodged in the jail of this county yesterday—lie is a!
man with red whiskers, upwards of six feet high and !
made in proportion; when taken first, he gave him
self the name of Thompson, but afterwards gave him’- j
self that of Blood; two other persons w6 aro inform-!
ed, were arrested at tlbensburgh by three or four !
enterprising individuals of this county, on suspicion
of being concerned in the sanio offence, and were!
brought to the Yellow Springs, (within fifteen aides 1
of this place.) last night. The same two persons we
are informed cominirup in the stage from Lewistown
on Wednesday last happened in company with «. gen
tleman from this town, the conversation turned upon
the robbing of the mail, when the men evinced a
cbmplete knowledgeot every circumstance attending
it, they were informed that two of the men who had
been robbed lived in (his county and one of them
immediately on the turnpike: at the first place the
stage stopt in this county, those two men took out
their trunks and quit it. The next day they for
warded their trunks in the stage, and took private
roads thomselvcs, until they reached the upper end
oi the county, where they wore seen and some suspi
cion cxciod against them, which induced the follow
ing and apprehension of them.
From the Political Jircna.
| ^ ASiuvfl roN CoitHKsi*oM)BM'K —Tlturc is in eve
ry metropolis, nml especially at every seat of Legis
lation, a vast tunoiiuL-of news, which from iry ccmili
ar character does nut come within the legitimate
sphere ol tin: Political Jounrilsnt thoplacr*, but which
nevertheless i* highly interesting to tho public, and
with which it is important the public should he ac
quainted. It may lie stigmatized, by the fastidious,
os gossip, scandal, hoarding house chit chat, &*.<:. ;—
hut. it is certainly true that no description of intelli
gence is received more graciously by the majority of
newspaper readers—nor Whilst making tliis declara
tion, can we join in the piteous whine which ln>s beer,
raised by some, over the depravity of taste in the pub
lic, evinced by ‘his marked partiality. \Yc conceive
that the people have a deep concern in the tnoru/t,
nay, in the manners and amusements of those, to
whom they have delegated the task of iinkm-* and
executing their Laws. They have a right to^e in
h'rtui-d how far the conduct of thr-ir high functionaries
ol (orernment square with those principles of virtue
& morality, up ut \vb cltoiir republican institutions are
based, and without which they oarniot fora day exist.
Luropeau mnnurehs nave their accredited reprosentn
tiyes near (as the phrase goes) our government; and
who will say that those representatives confine them
seLvos to tho guardianship of the political and com
mercial interests of their re.-pectivv count rife.? Is it
not in arc than probable, that they exercise an espio
nage upon the society of our metropolis; and that ov
ery flagrant instanceof immorality in conduct, or de
parture in manners from the siinp’icity becoiniunr rc
piiblica.is,is carefully not r'd, and made tin? basis of an
official report to gladden Legitimacy, by the accumu
lated proofs of the tendency of liberty to licentious
ness, ana of man s incapacity to govern himself?
In the desire ot the people to know every thin"
relating to the state of morals and mantlets at VVa^l?
ingtou—the parties in embryo—the intrigi-os of ns
piring politicians—and the dust-licking, dismistinir,
cringing sycophancy of office-hunters, we repeat, we
cannot discover that depravity of taste, with which
they stand charged. Many Editors, viewing this taste
m a similar point of vimv, have regular correspondents
at Washington, who, from time to time, furnish the
floating rumors of the day. We will not pretend to
- ay that mistakes do no* occur, nor that the correepon
di-ni is uiiiiornd) prophetic YVe believe however that
w!i-ther veracity or penetration i3 taken into the ac
count, these letters will bear a favorable comparison
with the Editorial matter of most prims ta the cotin
«ry<and put to the blush that of the particular prints
-—ilium, u/vir wrrers.ana iiiose lo
whom they ure addressed, as deserving the most
abundant contempt or condemnation. These remarks
are elicited by a long tirade in the Enquirer if Tues
day, concerning “Letters from Washington, Sot up
by miserable editors and mercenary correspondents ”
Now when the reader is told, lhat'tho U. S Gazette
at Philadelphia, the Commercial Advertiser of New
York, and the Charleston Courier, decidedly in the
first class of American Journals, are subsequently
singled out for reprobation, he may form his own
opinion as to the applicability of the' term Miserable,
applied to their editors. But the correspondents are
mercenary.' ’ Flow far receiving coinpens.italion for
t.ieir labors is calculated to render them iinwortLy of
respect or belief, is a question upon which we would
no* lightly pass an opinion. In England, the genius
of Scott, Moore, and Campbell, spurns not the price
which its productions command. But be this as it
may. Sir. Ritchie should reflect that every '■'•misera
ble" editor cann >t, like him, command the gratuitous
epistolary favors of Honorable Senators and others
entitled to the franking privilege. Were it not that
h« himself tells us, in the same article, that, there are
those whom “no experience can enlighten,” we should
be lost m udin ration at the femur ty of the editor oftbc
Enquire! in alluding, however remotely, to the subject
ol ietters from \i nski.ngto r. Can lie suppose that his fa
mous Ea V Room Later wdlno: be thrown in his teeth*
Can he imagine that the public hive forgotten the
circumstance of that mendacious—and yet strange to
‘•ay, prophetic epistle. In the multitude of “letters
from Washington,*' with which, according to the En
quirer, “(ho country is literally overrun,” can one ^in
gle instance be adduced of such a downright, un*o
phiSticatcd falsehood—a falsehood br’’,rravntvd by the
subsequent miserable effort of thc^uhor to palliate I
its enormity? T:s true, no blame attaches to .he
editor of the Inquirer for giving the letter a place in
ha columns— in; respectability of the writer, and his
official s ation, ought to have b on mnple guaranties
lor Ins veracity. . But we do censure the Enquirer, I
lor withholding, for week*, any correction .if the or-1
ror. a.tliougfi lie was promptly assured that hiscorre*.!
pondent “was indebted to imagination lor his facts.” !
hive iiiindred prea.-c0 copied and commented on the
niei icmis letter; thousands of '‘old-fudiinned re.pub- |
it ran-*, like the writer, indignanijy mourned over
t!i>-. .1 ice ions of itm tunes,and the pomp and'cirrnm-•
s‘no. PS of royal y which obtained nt Washington
l he desired .political cflVt was j-rodu-v. 1. ond then
and not til! then, did the Enquirer come out with the
humiliating eoid'espiori, I lint the whole letter was a!
sheer fabrication, utterly devoid of truth. Whr* -lie
prophetic mure of the Honorable Senator sung, has,
h iwevcr, been realized; nnJ the East Room. instead
<d naked walls and broken chairs, presents now a
truly regal appearance. The prime letter, indited
from Washington in 1830, would he rrm^lnc an l i^r
rec*. ° 1
J\-om the Philadelphia Pert Potto, Jan. H. [
The recent intelliginee from Colombia cannot fail
to excite a painful interest in relation to the proceed
ings of J5 dtvor, and iyc regret—deeply r-y ret. to find
in it so much to confirm the worst apprehensions of
iho-r who have hitherto continued mmdub.ns of his
reiterated orolbssiunp of patrirni-m and disintcT-sfed
n.-s—-prr.f.psiuns which have ever been at variance
with nstionp. However Ihfc contradictory .state
ments, Which from ume to time have appeared in oiir
papers r.*Iativ«* to this extraordinary individual may
hav contributed to keep up an uncertainty as to Ins
ronl character n the rrunds of many of our coontry
tiicn, those who have tv-cn lead to make a closer S'-ru
iiuy into bis conduct, have long since satisfied 'hem
s jives tin* :ie is fir from possessing the exalted qua).
I’tP.s which have boon so 1 ivhd.ly ascribed to him by
his admirers, and that he was only waltin-r a fav0ur
n de oppor:unity to act ovc- . uyon rim pe’ y Iheatreof
Colombia, the part which Ins gr. nt ..fchefvpe had bo
auci^sf.illy peif-rmcd on a grander »tngc. Bit
Mtmigh t!m could read.ly detect hi s.nbtion- designs
"n !er the fliinsv disguise with which be thought fo
conceal them, th-w probab'y consult, d ihelnsclvut hv
the reilcetitm that hut unquestionable abilities and l
»tern inflexibility of purpose, rendered him better. .*
qualified than miy oilier, for *he irduous tusk of i
governing a hall' civilized and disorganized people, u
and entertained too high an opinion of his prudence ;
to suppose that ho could be deluded by the “ungic of 1
a name," and a hen so fully possessed -if tho substance, t
to haaard all by grasping at the shadow of roy- I
*U&, . 1
The monarchical bias of his disposition, though it
had shown ilsoli iu his addresses, his dislike of our i
Countrymun and institutions, and on various other ji
occasions previously lo the promulgation of t he cele
brated constitution of Bolivia. has never l>4,en so open
ly avowed as in that curious document.. The writer
of these remarks was in Lima abunl the period of its
publication, when, of course, it was the subject of
general discussion; and has repeatedly heard ns au
thor charged by those df the constitutional party with
the daring design of consolidating Peru and Colom
bia—perhaps all Spanish South America, into one
grand government, tfie direction of which he was to
assume as perpetual President. That such was his
intention, the whole tenor of his conduct at that tfc ce
and since has fully tended t<> prov<-. Under the new
constitution,. Sucre, one of his most dewed adhe onts,
had been elected president for life of Bolivia: by in
trigues with tlie deputies of lower Peru. a>senihl»d
at Lima, intimidating some, and persuading others,
he procured the c.v'eiis:ou of hie uwn authority hr
1 ictator, for another year, and ultimately the adop
tion of the Bolivian code, and his 9 yen appointment
as porpeiuaj president. These, however were bui
I secondary objects—Colombia* where hi* popularity
I y*8 tmbouoded, was to be mode the • foundation ol
Ibis power, and in urder to offcct his. purpose there,
I it was nec<%sary to thiow into confusion u country,
j wliic'i, under tho aliiw administration of SanUude'r,
■ wa.- lust recovering from the disorganizing eft'oots
<>l the revolution—the Liberator wou'd then inter
! pose and Fettle affairs after his own liking
I .. v/uusiuu.i»uaiists openly charged him wiMi
instigating the insurrections, which about thi* 'ime
broke out in various parts of Cn'ombitt, and from'
s.>me personal knowledge of t ho manner in which
that of Guayaquil was efTcled, wo have no doubt
°* trutl1 of’ the accusal ion. Admiral Illingrnt
or r.ilinsvyo th, (formerly ilic captain of Lord Coch
rano’s brig the Rose.) a gciul.Mnaa high in ihe con
fidence of Bolivar, had been despatched by him from
Lima to Guayaquil, some time before the news of
;tii“ rebellion of Pace in Ven. /.Uel.i h;.d reachoj that
place, tu order, doubt less, to take qdvautuee oftbo
exctruient which that event would naturally occa
|s‘0,,t through his management, a aiectinc of iome
;.f the principal persons, chiefly creatures of Bolivar,!
was cal.ed. mid the proceedings in Venezuela were
made a pretext for inviting him torwsum* tlie dic
arorshtp, and overthrow the constitution which lie
had solemn,y sworn to preservo inviolate for the
prescribed term of ten years. What followed is
yet fresh in the memory of most of our readers—the
counter.revnbiiion in Peru, and the appointment of
the excellent La Mar as president ofthat republic, ef
tectually checked Ids views in that quarter; and in
t Colombia, some individuals of the conslituiional par
i onable, °P0,,lyto make head against his superior
i power and address, engaged in a desperate atteinnr
|upon Jus life, from which he very narrowly icaS
, i be patriotic haatand. r was accused of bcine con
cerned m the conspiracy—with what justice we are
unable to determine—and by coimuvning the sen
tence of death passed upon him, into Umshment for
life, the Liberator managed to make a show of matr
nan.mny. while at tho same lime he rid himself of
, most formidable antagonist. Since that event
he has been enabled to ndvunee more nnifortnlv to
wards hw object, & if our recent intelligence be'true
it wouhl seem that he had at length resolved tJ
throw ofT the mask altogether.
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Frnm the jYalionul Littilli-'cnrcr
AFFAIRS OF COLOMBIA i
H r.,arD ,,,debted to a fireman m this Gitv for
h * friind’•"*} ir,tertf8lhl«' extracts of a letter'from
O tnond in Laguna, an American oi'Iiioh rcsp-cta
bdity, dated as fate as the tilth of December P
w , m? ,ast I grave you suspicions of a disposition
here to change tlio authority and Government of Gen
Hr-rfion ynez"ela; smcG which lime an open dec
laration of the ctizens ot this city, of Victoria, Vu
lencia and Porto Cubcllo too, has been made, declar
ing a separation ofuncieiit Venezuela Irom the a0v
Boferf°Ia' ?nd tIie P‘»wer and authority of
Cren Bolivar. I understand, this morning, » decla
ration foin Cumanah is likewise a. r,veil, more strong
n seiniinents of hostility to Bolivar than even here,
to wjt: 1 hat General Bolivar should not be i«rmit'
,,nl t0 ,’"t hlS fo°l n?Hin in a,,ci‘‘ni Venezuela,
unless by permission of the Congress of Venzue
a *11 these declarations have been elT ct>-d
peaceably and quietly, and entirely by the civil part
of the community. The Military (however much
they may have acted secretly) have no share in the
public act.
“Gen. Paez will be here to uigbt or to morrow, and I have
no doubt, as C.v.l and Military Chief, will immediately *ke
anfIlV?rrSanr!ZeKth0 <;overn,,,ent and give pnbliciiy to the arls j
Venezuela* ° Im’Sd "l^Paf '°, be,,be «*n«»™o«i«rtnti,nentt'of!
■Venezuela Indeed i doubt whether anv one in Puebla will1
declare any other Muniments. As I conceive Bolivar equally I
as unpopular in iSew Granada as here, I consider his fortunes
ended,,, Colombia, wiihmit be Iras a more numerous army 1
under Ins command; than 1 believe he lias to tbe South—for n 1
|C cvirtr,,i, now, It is only by such power he can sustain him- !
si If 1 do not think we shall have a Civil war, believing that
the other Jstaies of GaJooil.ia are mucirdisposed io take the!
same course as Venezuela has done; and hereafter, if they
Hunk proper, unite themselves under a confederacy of Statc.f ;
with similar provisions and Government os the United States' •
Wr’ C co"se9"c"ce of 'bis movement here, herome no’ !
"7,®? for be government rtf the U States to take Immediate I
steps to sustain her interests hr this ouuntry, believing that
soon as a pu-ilio declaration shall he made by Gun. Him/ -,!l
connection whatever of a political nature vs. ,11 cease with’ i!,e
Government of Colombia, and as I conceive Venezuela of
more importance commercially and political!* to ih* l “. i
State, than all ,|,c rest of Colombia^ 7 tinted
* - uWifeL ATU RE.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Debate of Saturday—Costjm/ed.
.tlr. TZices of Prineo George, explained. If Vir-■
gi:na manufactured for herself, the sums now paid bv
imr to the north, would remain in the pockets of her
people. 1 lie portmu of capital drawn from u"rical- i
lure to engage m manufactures, would not leave the
former to languish and perish, but w.»„ld reli-ve it
rovn the excess of production under which it now la
hors. If Virginia and the Southern Stwt.es would,
manufacture tor themselves, llie North would be w il
ling to return to the former policy of free lrnd<*_
Ho had no belief that the existence of the Committee
exercised any influence on the public mind, in regard
to the "arifF. If that Committee had not existed
applications would have been made for charters and'
the only difference would have been, to refer them
to some other Committee. He object'd to Toint
block Companies, but he preferred them to Jhmks.
"*r* :*{ycc •'l-Jfd if such a Committee was nec s
sur)? \V;is •!)•■ business of t lie House such as to re
quire n. V> hen the Committee was first raised bo
con.d not, ami ca'otwl now see. its ftcoxiry. Wa«
tho question wi.othiw thdre slintih; be such a Corn
UtiUee to involve politics? Un should like to vote!
without any eomprotnjWi.m of hi ms. -If on political
questions. IP; should vote'for the resolution, mid -
simply because be saw r,o occasion for the Commit- '
lee. As to the policy of the Tariff, he did n-.t like to
decide up t. it in the absr ct lie whs prepared tode
k •, when th>- necessity arrived. It did no. follow t! at
voting for the committee was an approbation of the
4 fib; hut h? he -.jw no good of Which'Uc ennirnit
tcc was productive, and a- it unde on some, the iin
preswio", :hut i- implied »n approbation eft ho Tatjff,
he s iottid vote (» ab dish it. He km opp -s.-d to the j
, bul hi favor of V-.rg n as manuliieturtnrr for
Mr. A.idtr ton said that it was rot his inte ition in
o.n igniu. to d* r,iin the lfou<e with a long speech.
. * ,• * c feolings of the Ilonee aid the I* oness of
iiie hour forbade; hut he hoped he would bo indulged 1
lor a fov. moflienta whilst ho eX; laineJ' cm.sc of
'«* opposition to the abolition of tUe lomwitlec on
gricuitnre and manufacture*, and noticed an argu
lent ot the gentleman from Mecklenburg (Kir. 0 ,)
nd some remark* which had just fkiku from the
;eutlcinan from Goochland (Mr. 11.) He could not
>ut express hie aatohishment ut tl.o-latdud.nou* range
ho debate had takeu. In what way the question
joiorc the House wa* connected with Tariff iaw*
ic wu unable to divine, or that the constitutional
>owor of the Federal Government to lay a Tariff of
lutire for tho protection of manufactories, was in
my way connected with the right or policy of litis
House to retain u standing committee on ag’ricullme
md manufactures, or of this Stale to encourage her
jwn manufactories, he muBt acknowledge had not
0 veurred to him. Some doubted the const it uiional
power of tho Federal Government to lay a Tariff for
W*“ proiection of manufactures, whilst none he
presumed would doubt the conatitutioiml power of
line government lo encourage her ownroitmifaetmcf;
t^nce it was a question of policy alone. He consi
dered the proposition to abolish the committee
involving only principles of expediency, nutwiih
standing the opinion of gentlemen to the contrary;
hut before he would undertake to prove it, he would
notice an argument of the gentleman from Meckh-n
b irg. Ho understood that g.-n; Leman to declare
tiiiu.-cll a ‘fiend to manufactories when sustutmd
alone by individual enterprise; and in one part of his
ope cli he undertook to Prbve that the capital and
enterprise of individuals could be brought to compete
succi ssodly against joint stock companies, con.-c
quentiy the putrnim^ <;f the govermupnt <*xt?n<l*'d
to manufactures by tho incorporation of joint stock
companies operated prejudicial to tiie manufacturing
interest*^/Hut In another part of that gentleman*
speech He had completely answered and refuted his
own argument: and Mr. A font in util his principal
object in rising was to cnll the attention of that «»en
tlcinfin and the House to it. The gentlemen trom
Mecklenburg continuing his argument, /although a
friend to manufactories Bupportcd bv individual
moa 8 and enterprise, and satisfied that, they can
compete successfully with incorporate companies)
ohjec s to joint, stock companies, on account of ihoir
exclusive privileges^ Mr. A. ushed what were
those privileges, snf obnoxious to gentlemen’ Tin*
gentleman from Mecklenburg, bad anticipated the
answer, and if he hid given an impartial description
, ,iK;,n’ the,nmtI ot every candid hearer must be
brought to a conclusion, opposite to that of the rron-!
Leman b. The very feature in these corporations,
against the tendency of which the gentle,nnu has s.»
much complained, was the principal argument with
, ° government m granting them; and the concent ra
ion ot capital anil enterprise, with the exclusive pri
leges 5.0 lucidly described by the gentleman, had as
designed, enabled tho manufacturer lo sell tho fabric
at a lower price to the consumer, limn the gentle
man s favnri'Tl manufacturers could do. Tins is n
complete refutation of the gentleman’* first nrm,. !
mam. And .Mr. A continued, if incorporate com
panies. possessing all the advantage* iff a combum
.u of funds and enterprise, with all the exclusive
privileges which have called forth the e-.'vere aniim.r.
verMons ol the gentleman from Mecklenburg, will
overpower and prostrate monuftet. n.-s, sustain, d bv
individual means and enterprise, it then became
a question of expediency wiih Virginia, wlie
lu-r she will continue dependent on and tributary
toother States, or exicml such pat.un;ig3 to her cit
"S* Cm?WV-t,,*,ln ,0 M,Pf>,-v h,‘r own demand.
1 hat the Tariff policy has the effect to indues the
non-manufacturing States to obtain their aur,pl.es of
manufactured fabricka from the manufacturing
, "t.e6; un<* .t,int pecuniary advantage derived
by the manufacturing interest* from this policy, has
rivoled it upon us, no.one can doubt. Can this poll
ev be more readily defeated than by s.nkin-r a! its
roor and removing its ca mu’ T he cause once re
moved, tho efti-ct must cease ns a nectary conse
quence: and what sir is this cause? The gain, the
ft/cre, derived by the manjfactnring sections of the
Union in supplying tho non-manufacturing section*
with mamilactures. Supply yonr*. lvc». sir. wi«h I
manufactured articles—let the non ntanufaciuriu^
o..,,piy mcntseives, and Ujv lire for it. the
cape or policy of the Tariff being removed, its
ehects. (cither real or imaginary) will cense_
If this policy 13 lo continue, he wished Virginm to
participate in its good as well as rs evtf? For this
purpose he was deposed to encourage for domestic
raanufuctories; and satisfied that the manufacturer
sus allied ouly by ms individual means and enterprise
could not compete with the cuucar.Uuied capital and
enterprise of the Northern Jomtstock Companimi,
t lC^MUi,Jar Pr‘v'!eKes» obnoxious
L'J gentieinen, he felt disposed to meet Hie Nor
taem manufacturers on their 6wn ground, and for
shat purpree he was willing to incorporate Jomtstock
Coinpames, that they might be enablad to compute
ith the I^or.hcrn AluuulacHirers on fair and eruita
ble ground, & Sell as cheap to tlie Virginia consumer
as the northern manufacturer, and bv that nirtm
enabled to supply our home Consumption. That Virginia nos
sesseri the capacity and mean* to do this, he would houimv Ttni,
to inquire, alter Hie very lucid view taken hv hi* f, r* 1
Campbell, (Mr. Rives ) Hut this he would say, that lie perfectly
agreed with.thatgentle,uan. that her capacity and means were
not excel.ed, if equalled L»y any State m thr Union.
mr. A. tan) ihai it was not his intention to answer the nrmi
mem or the gentleman front ft] , against the policy of inco/L
q»ing jowl stock companies. If he felt a wilLn«nei3 to df,
me lateness of the hour, and a consciousness fhal ii Vin ,m
way involved in the question under discu-tion would forbid
^sss&rk 1
sr4&s»s ss&j^sstt'ass
man that Ins remark* were not applicable to hint—that In- wa*
willing to make the manufacturing interest the mm finest,m
ami that the committee should stand or fall by it. He wouM
then in Ins p'aoe declare, and it was with pleasure be made
the declaration, that the interest he felt in Hie retention of
uie committee, proceeded from the interest he. felt in the
prosperity of Virgmia manufactures, considering -then, as
he d«», hi a degree identified; not .hat he did not fool a
oeep merest the agricultural interest pf the Com
i.ionwealfh, but that. because he believed them to he ,w ’„
e7; ajtrl that the lilt.-rests ot the our, were so completely
' t ,C M’i,,rCV*0f ,heo‘*'«T, that the ptos.mntv of
interest, would also benefit the agricultural interest’' 'VlieVor
ZXXt'Kr*0! U" not *o , efe,u ,
Dirt leave it for a more fit occasion 1
. ^-A.said, ‘'l*1 1no‘ir'"g the arguments of gentlrme.. be
vsh- iCklrfn,Wn»[r0Irt the*lMe«»:o*»Imnt«fhtely before the Ho us*
length of the*«**ro„. He believed tt v.'n.Hd h, *" ,,r®,rac* ’.hc
* M S. and m an Irdprovcd nysteni of agriculture ti.» . C
lectness of this opinion, had been tested by the experience "of
a'1 (sovemments and Stare*, who had adopted E alley
iNnrcouhlhethmk w.ththat gentleman. .hafthe St.KTJ.
th.s Committee, would have the effect to protract the Icmih „»
.be .cssmn He behoved the converse ofTa, ?”£?£
he true, and that the retention'’of the Committee *o for fo. n
nmtractmg the sessfon, w„n1d fet.d to facilitate W 1
im.uies* ity distributing the business of the Hrw« nmWa
nttmher of furroriltees, and furnishing Ibe.m all with hu.revn,
at tlte same time, von Rrea.lv increase .He d .^ ch rf h^f
-ss; as for example, if tint. ' nmtn.Hce should nm he retard
fo b..ones* wirst be referred to some other, wh ch most |,Tvn
ini. additional labour to perform. a« wella« ifo ordinarv fo ;
nrfo He wnnld conch,<£ by saving, that lXv,£ ii H e fo,Ve
policy of this -jnvern.nent, to patronize and to-rer^i spirit for
n M -gains/ being thoairht * a
rr.er,< of the Tar ff, ber.aM hn v„fr?o rr
,°m fh-! wnm.ttec ffcbeiiz-voTth.mni Vo ,,/p.
lo c-msnqwpppo, bul. W.1M rather in-lm. /lt, t-.j, k j,
!ia rbrTn v nif ,,!° 'T for.rni"'S com nitf p
•a l »e?o to rnhejvp qn,i tnnrnlnr thf} „ ^. f
oe .rn rating- .Tom? Stork Companir* fo mr.V f r. vr.
■s'f p«rpo?r/ Had any »p>Jionti»n grown 0-r ofif.p
/,,^,C, n>fr,it'^> T> **• »'G f<nrw if nor
3 * *f(>ndmg comir-r !-'*? eomon^ ,.fnT m>, ,r<?
ftoin ttU pur If of the «tai*, calculated to >
ude wwely on such matters s» wer* intend,-,, to In ,!•
Icrred to tins corwnitt I etbouhl vote to continue it.
for that reason &. for that re .- ou alone he bcliev. d ‘
hsd.and would huvo, no mfiuenee upon tboTn.iff
^{,c-v* ®f. *Pw®.P,,,bhc °P,uSt n ^ conn« ctcd with it '
tiMn‘i ,f,y*°n ot Cumberland,believed the true qut»
f>omth,b£ °“* °f ,“ere despatch of hurine**, apart
Tar*^ policy. Believing that the cemmit
t*e otpropositmis an<f grievances, wouhl answer all
the pitfpnses expected from this, be would vote t"
abolish n—though it was not thence to he inferred
he was hostile to manufactures, for the fact wasoth-*
erwiee.
m£l*‘ pp°ke at larce in opposition to the com
m»t ee. He agreed with Mr. Goode, that if yiIl,
uwh manufactures promoted, you ought mot to en
conrage it in this way. You only invite capitalfe**
oy the aid of chartered privileges and Joint Sto^
Compaiuos, to engage in schemes f.nr which ihow
o the fame ruinous measures. He reft rrod m tl.o
history of the manufacturing compUie/'h oor M
tei States, to show the danger of making ihe whe V
property of the partners liable for the debis of
the company—that when induced to engage in
the enterprise, they find themselves exposed to dobts
of which they had uo kuowledgo. If. on tbeothrr
!tehf* nf?j[ »’“rvole property wss exempt from the
dch.s of the company, the nnrebievros conrequen
«n»TOU d- ?rise» whirji had been depicted by the
gentloutan tromMecktenburg. And such be ccml«!
nirs if bV^n °,f *uch *“><* eompn
mrs. Uesaid, that it it be true that w0 Were
v'm,6o
fluid,,or-wl,c«hrf il vrns Old or New EogUod or
the i (Tik« ns of Virginia: and when he t aim> m ri .
ri.lur,"*nor?l H° \rd v °bj‘‘C,K,n r° ihe pl.in.h-r ff„ir£
“b*rly’ «
ishuigilie Committee on manufactures and agric^l
lure, rejected by the f.Mowing vo ®: ff C U
._‘/'r»KS* ,M:.esr9 Soolcer of Amelia, Jeter, Tro»
tc. Bocoek. Y ancey, Christian of Cbarl-s city P i. h
ardfortot Charlotte, Alexander of do Bor foot Rnf
Boa?kerr°'Xi- FrrtaUl' Rois-^rWrav’
floiw! d0pLliZif’0ob C,'y- UP'hnu - Barnes of Kit-ex*
Holland. !»■ Well, SWrtb of Gleucos.er. B>IW of Z’
Gucrrant. Hail, Cook of Gravson TilTk d
JM-Olt Ol Halifax, Winston, Gravely'^Martin AM?P#
sfv°c?ie r w,pht^i{,“- kkSssuss
nenburg. Finks. Hudgins. Alexander r Awn nK^'
Goo. c, Booth of Middlesex, WYbb Chri.ii.n fir^'
Kco., IWIia-d, Du,.tun, F, her 11,™ ?,I?"1'
do/Kilgo^G^^Vsco", Now,““; 'oi ^P"'T' f
Goodwill G-iPtn „c o .1 min Ol I^heuandoab,
U touttiii v„iKin of Southampton, PoweM of Snot,
sylvan,a Crump, Ruffin, Dillard, Gppes, Curtis &ai’
brown oi Bath, Campbell of Bedford, Cobbs, Faulk
liar vie, Washington of J,ff«,,o! £ f W™™"'
Smith of Kanawha, Bland, Haves s.ffp[>’ **u$£ar*
M I hooey, irc.he’ KiS-broS N.w™o^;it,B,“5’
Thomas. Wat,., Billiogrly, C.^rlm, V... ?}T "’
C'oketlot Moutocmery, Crow,O'fcrrsl)
Ncvil. Garlar.d ol Nelson M’l nnmi t Cohorn,
Parriott, Woo'.folk. Hiner, ArChy^&.t?
Shaw, Allen, Ward, Riv4s of Prim e G,'m^
of Randolph, Moore, White ofRockhridge if-Maf0' “
Wel’Ucrt,Minr>0r’ Co°k,: of StatrortirDeL^m;;'
therfoori Moody-ol’ ^ Y°rk> ^
,. ‘1 T-‘VlUon of Cumberland, now moved to restrict
the Committee lo manofactures—agriculture l?n
said, having nothing to m-k but fbrbSranre The
^ •*«*-«•» of Botetonn
«»
SS^JSSr’ Sm,,b “• -<*
Mr. Sy/w'<A of Kenawba, moved a resolution in
s ructtng the Clerk to contract with the Printri to
the Convention for 26,000 Copies oftli,. VBV V
*utulj„n, f.,r ,!.c OSB of.be O^eml As«„,^ aT
ter some conversation between Messrs. Sp,it/. Car
I nker, J oms. Minor, McCabe, Huber Uot?,n J>7
horg, and Hires of Prince GeirgV-lW es .hwf
motion of Mr. Tiroxcn of Harrison w-.s / 7* * °U
Z^nrl“c "“*• "Dd^"'i«er.K .
tio/iji of Harrison, the House adjourned.
r Jf“]EHDA,r’ on, mctiuA „f Mr. Mann „f Frrjc.
n<k tojo.nt order of the day for the election , f
Councillors, was postponed unit] tbig day nir v
tum,> f..r too lutroi!potion ,,fa resolutiraTo do honor
to the remain* of tho late John Mncrao. JfeW
ibcpoits were made from the Committee of Rr-e
ij! "s;"v^r,bi ur-, c"‘m^r"”- Sw rfSS
tiui L P vt ^Wfbr,‘iCe’ f*°,n f‘jat of PropoL,
tiui.» and Crnevauccs b> Mr. lull, *„,! f(..tn 4,/al cf
Lour « oi Ju.'tico hy Mr. Mason of FredcricJ;. *
iVtiriun* wire present, tl, by Mr. It.,.,,, r>.
!&&£****• Wr- 'v*:d ”r
tme a certified copy of the Coiisiiiotiun. r.od a ! « *
lution touching the same, adopt.,! by tJ.c Cnnv.n
tion-—which, o» motion of Mr 6Wc, Jj
to the ComnuttrO of Courts of Jortico. ‘ ftJ
On mo*tun of Mr tfay/y, 2r,0 conies of ‘ho r«.
at.ttiin.i, were ordered tribe print, d! C°“*
1^ Wr.^r^n„f U.m,„D,"a.reJ ,U following
; " lu reas, the Co ivcGoii asseintled m u,- . , •
c y of «*!»’>”»'’. in P-r.-aec.. :r, an art Jmtled 1P«»n
ognara.(onva,u„,"|.awT hf(, ,0„,' Bn B<f t-»
ajron an amended fomtitin rm. i,’, .„‘V h T* l
art aforesaid, i„ to !,e united to the itermp. of tin* r* <0 '^C
ue.,IU, e.t their ra..firm a,,, or ,cj..ci.„»• I.J.iar,’ *
PHCeerlmgr nrc found lo i** . ’• ’ IrRubltna
and iwnnei of making t|ic ,n '*’* ,m 0
it is dSsrrabV to fod*?,, and I Z 2L’C |eo't; *'d
that *11 V.rh ,,rr Wr to rmr on . ;
« or ri,e wonfi. m arr at.iWbed^? «
III ,«rh« f tho f-tgi.bitiuf . iwo.cm.h.
Thai, i hr Hovrioor aridfowuril In addition *n
ihr prow .a ma ■•on and fhrtdicaiem •*,„r<*,j, ,,T #f ,,
«ll eowsiSMlf,-ard rnp,r of f|,e raU.-n-W!'
•monrrf thl-r.orno c».« rnt«h. ate’M like w Vf
cfnisr.iiMin,,.r,u,re rU sawr c ;j
of ff