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By D. W. SIMS, state printer. COLUMBIA, S. C. JUNES, 182?. Vol. XV.?Mo. 23.
PUBUBIiEUKVKRY I^IPAYMMTwO*;
TERMS? Tint MUrtptr <m?m, ympihlt n?
e<fr?Mt?, tr f?r ?>?//???? pigablt ml Ikt i*i *J
ihtytnr.
JtDVERTlSKMEKTSivttritd mi Iht ?w?(rmlu.
, ???'???' ' i m ?
[From th? JlfeWe (Jtmmtteinl RnMir.1
TO MY OLD BOOTS.' '
. Adieutold MandiliOi hard to pan,
; 1 bold VOMr worth ab moeb at heart)
' 1*1 iftfl bad WMthcr
, Jlatre to deranged your belle.'d cam,
Ttmt too cm aeaneely krepvwith grace,
Body and tola together.
? i
Your gaping mouth* too clearly thetr,
?? llew foil aro all thing* liaro below,"
In aplle ol human lubor?{
For a rail week or mora, i re foiin<1,
My lower member* and the giound,
Uncomfortable neighboi*.
* Two monlh*" ia rather thort for boot*,
I4hlak?btllalop?portiapa it ?uil*
Tha coon try, io to tlmo lit
You tympa'hlxe, I ?????, with man,
Kor ho aiilaya bat half hit apau,
. In thU dete*ted cltmalo.'
Meantime 'til true, yon ppi-ded well
My tender feel from eytlcr slu-ll,
Sharp atone, and wiring |.u(?dle;
With your defence, I (rand no thorn t,
Von'va dona your best to save my conn,
In many a jam and huddle.
*
Hhopa, banks and belli have known your trejd.
To beauty'* thrift? you ve *ometlrac< led,
liut oftcner.at even, .
You've borne iny at?p* to yonder plain,
To cool the fever of my hraln,
And breathe the air of Heaven.
Your la?k? are done?and what it won*,
Your early fate will try mf purie,
Or rather try my credit;
And I would tiny at toon at home,
A barefoot friar, a* hecomo
Another it lilt indebted.
lfowtho world wng?! to d;>y iliey flock
Smiling to view my lift** uockj
Home buy, *omo )>niin its merit:
To morrow tins# another tnng?
?? .1 imill LtII, lir!* ? the long-faced throng
Now ilu.t with equal iplrit.
Jlere, fetor, take tliii pair aw?y,
Amldo thi lrot?rquk?~k>ut tUy,
Don't tlirow litem out th? window?
I ilo nnt like In lee'tliflr n:cho
Of honor, liumMcd In ? ?'i?rh?
Co t>urn tlicm In n cinder
[From the Ger.rjriit Journal?Kstra.]
Mir.Mtnur.vit.i.r., May 20.
The Indian*.? Since the publication ol
rur pwvr of the SJtli, the following docu
inert* nnve been rtceived by the Governor.
They nrc believed to furnish intelligence
?uflRciontly important am! gratifying to the
public, to wart ant Ihc insue ot an.cxtra sheet,
l.? DUN TAI.K.
Krcm ths President of lh? United 9t*tee to the
Creek ludistu, through Colonel Crowall.
Friend* and brother?; By permUsion ol
the Oreat Spirit above, and the voice of tli'c
people, T hive been made president of the
United Stntes, nnd now speak to yon n? your
father nnd friend, nnd request you to linten.
Your warrior* have known me'Ion');. Vou
know I love my white nnd red children,
nnd always speak with n straight and hot n
forked tongue ; that I have always told vou
the truth. I now speak to you ns to my chit
drcu, in the language of tnith?Listen.
Your had men have made my heart sick
en and bleed, by the murder of one of my
white children in Qt-orgis. Our peaceful
mother earth has been stained by tne blood
of the white man, arid calls for tne-pnnlsli
ment <Sf his murderers, whose surrender is
now demanded under the solemn obligation
of the treaty which your chlets nnd warri
ors In council have agreed to. To ptevent
the spilling of more blood, you must surren
der the murderers, and restore tho property
they have t.dcin. To preserve peace you
must comply with vour own trentv.
Friends *i)d broth cm, listen i Where you
now arc, yon nnd my white?hildren art too
near to each other to live In harmony and
pence. Your game in destroyed, not) many
of your people will not work nnd tttl the!
earth. Beyond the great river Mississippi,
where n part of your nation has gone, your
father has provided it country larjje enough
r'?r all of you, and he advise* you to remove
to it. There your white brothers will not
trouble yon j tney will have no elnini to the
land, nnd you riui live upon it, you and ail
ycur childrcu, ns lung as the graft grows or
the water run*, in peace and plenty. It will
be ycurs forever. For the improvements in
the country where you now live, nnd far all
?lie stock which you enow* take with you,
your father will pay you a fair prices
In my talk to you In the crock nation, ma
ny year* ago, I told you o| this new country.
Where you might be preserved* as n great
nation,and where your white brothers w?uid
not disturb you. In that < ountry you father
the President, now promise* to nrotcct \ ou,
to feed you, and to ahiejd you from all en*
rroachment. . Where you now Ijve your
white brother* have idway* claimed the
land. The Innd.beyottd the Mississippi be
longs to the President and to none else ; and
he will give it to you forever.
My children, listen. The late murder of
one of my white children in Georgia, shew
you that vou nnd they are too near to each
other. These bad men must now bo deliv
ered up, nnd softer the pentritiet of the law
for the blood they have shed.
I have sent my agent ?? -, and your
friend Cel. Cmwell, to demand the surren
der of the murderer*, and to tomult with
you upon the subject of you removing to the
.and t have provided for you west of the
Mississippi, In order that my white and *eU
children may live in peace, and thai the
land may not be stained with the Mowl of
my children again. 1 have instructed Col.
Crpwell to speak the truth to you, nod to
*?M>re you that your father the president,
will deal fairly and, Justly with you { and
Whilst he fecla a father's }ovo for vpu.thathe
?dvim your whole nation to go to the til ace
where he can protect and foster you. Slio'd
any incline remain and come nhder the
laws of A1r.bama, land will be laid off; fur
them and their families in fee.
My children, listen My white children
in Alabama, have extended their law over
Sour country. If you remain in it you must
e subject to that law. If you remove a
cross the Mississippi, you will be subject to
your own laws, and the care of your father
the president. You will be treated with
kindness, and the lands will be youraforev
er.
Friends nnd brother*, listen. This is a
straight nnd gwd tnlk. It is for yr.ur na
tion's good, t?n?l vour father request* you to
hear 111* counsel. ANDREW JACKSON.
March Ifl'.'O.
'17te Secretary of War to the Cherokee Dele
(ration.
(COPY.)
Dkpabtmkkt or \Vab, ">
April 18, 1829. 5
To Messrs. John Rom, Kichard Taylor,
Edward Gunter nod William 8. Coody,
Cherokee Delegation.
Frtentt? and nrathm?.Your letter of the
17th of February, addressed to the lute Sec*
retary of War, has Been brought to the no
tice (if this department, sincc the communi
cation mmlc to you on the 11th hist, nnd
hnving conversed frcclv nnd fully with the
President of the United States, 1 tun directed
by him to submit the following a* l^c v'cwa
which are entertnined, in reference to the
subjects which yon liavc submitted tor con
sideration. -~
Yon state that "the Legislature of Geor
gia, in dcfiunce of the laws of the United
Stati-h, nnd the most solemn treaties exit
ing," have extended a jurisdiction over voui
nation to tuke effect in June 1' .">0. That
" your nAtion hud no voice in the formation
of the confederacy of the union, and has ever
been unshackled with (he lawn of individual
Mates, because independant <?f them;" and
that consequently this act of Georgia is to
lie viewed, " in no other light, than a wan
ton usurpation of power, guaranteed to no
Stutc, neither by the common law bf the
the land, nor by the laws of nature."
To nil this, there is a plain and obvious
nnswer, deduciahle from the known history
ol the country. During the war of the re
volution, vour nation was the friend und ally
of Great Britain; a power which then claim
ed entire sovereignty, within the limits of
what constituted the thirteen United States.
By the declaration of independence and sub
sequently the treaty of 1783, all the rights
of sovereignty pertaining to Great Britain,
became vested respectively in the original
states of this union, including North Caioli
na and Georgia, within whose territorial
limits, as dedncd nnd known, your na
tion was then situated. If, as is the case,
j on have been permitted to abide on your
lands from thut period to the present, enjoy
ing the right of soil and privilege to hunt,'it
is not thence to be interred, that this wu?
any thing more than n permission growing
out of compacts with your nation; nor is it'ii
circumstance whence, now to deny to those
state*, the exercise of their original sove
reignty.
..In the year 1785, three year* sifter,the In
dependence of lite states, which compose I
this union, had been Acknowledged by Great j
llritaln, a treaty, at Hopewell, wax conclud
ed with your nation by ilic United States.
The c mphattc language it contain* .cannot be
mistaken, commencing an follows?41 The
commissioners plenipotentiaries of the Unit
ed State* in Congress assembled, give peace
to hII the Cherokee*, a'id receive them into
favor nnd protection of the United States or
America." It proceeds then to allot and to
(Itfine your limit* and your hunting grounds.
Ymi were securrcd, in the privilege of pur
suing the game; and fr?nn encroachments by
the white*. No riRht however aavea mere
possessory one, is v. ,ne provisions of the
treaty of Hope well, conceded to your nati. n.
The soil, and the use of it, were mi Acted to
remain with you, while the sovereignty
abided, precisely where it did before, in
thoHC states, within whose limits you were
situated^
' Kuhsnjwcyl to thb, your peojile were at
enmity with tins United States, and waged a
war upon our frontier settlements; a durable
peace was not entered into with yon, until
I7tfl. At that uerind a good understanding
obtained, hostilities tensed, and by the trea
ty made and concluded, your nation was
plared under the protection of our govern
ment, and n guarantee given, favorable to
the occupancy ami possesion of your coun
try. Hut the United States, a! #ays mindful
ofthe authority of the Mate*, even when trea
ting.for what was so much desired, peace
witll their red brotherx, ffirborc to otter a
guarantee adverse to the hovcrelgnty of Genr
gia.They could not.do so; they bad not the
power.
At a more recent period, to wit: In JS02,
the State of Georgia, defining her proper
limits, ceded to the United State.*, all Iut
western territory upo.i a condition which
wis accepted, "that the United States shall,
at their o?n expense, extinguish for the
useof (leorgia as eaily as the name eau lie
peaceably obtained on reasonable terms, the
Indian title, to all the land* within the State
of Georgia." She did not ask the milit.il-)
arm of the government to be employed, but
in her mihlnes* and forbearance, only, that
the soil might lie yielded to her, so toon as
it could peaceably be obtained, and on rea
sonable term*. In relation to tovrelgnty
nothfngje ?nUl; or hinted At in *** oompnctj
nor ?ii it neceaeaiy or even proper, ix both
pnrtiea to the ngreement well knaw.that i|
wm a right which already cxUud In the
state in virtue of the declaration of our imlc-1
pendence, and of the treaty of 1783 after
wards concluded.
YI'm thing* have liern mad* known to you
frankly. and after lha most frit ndly manner; mid
particularly it lhi> making of the treaty with your
naibm in 1817, when a portion ?f yoar people
stipulated to rrmfire to the wast of lha MUledp
pi* and yet It li ilMntl in yqpraommunlcatlnn
to l)?U Department, that yoa Iwre M been un
shacfclnd with th? f^Hi m iwiiflduHl Statin lie*
c* ntf independent ot them."
The MHtn? you have ounurd of ?*t*bllihln*
i independent. substantive fcvernmant, nitldn
the territorial limit* of the State of Ottmulfl, ad
ver*.' to liar yjll,and contrary to liar foment. has
been the Immediate can**, which lie* Induced her
to daiinrt from the forbenraur**, alia Lai an Ion*
practiced; and in virtue of her authority, as n aov
erclgo, Independent State, to etlend over your
country, l.rr I.egblatlve enactment*, which she,
and every Plain embraced in lb* confederacy,
from 1783 to tli6"pr*?eanim?, when thalr inde
pendencc hm acknowledged end admitted, po?
scsed th >iw<>r to do, a|iait from any author!
ty, or opposing interfi rencc by the Ooncrnl Gov*
emment.
lint >u|i|Ki??, and it I* oipcestad, merely for the
purpotr nf awakening your halter judgment that
Genreia rannot, and ought nol, to claim the r*?r
j rl?a of micIi power. What alternative I* tlien pre.
?anted.' In rrplv allow in* to call vour attention
I tor a moment to the grave character pf the coursu
which under a mWtaken tiew of you own right*,
you detlrc this Government to adopt. It Is no
le??, thnn an invitation, thai >iie shall ?tep forw apt
to arrest the cott'lilullonal actvnl an independent
Stale, cer.rt.Ued within her own limits. Should
this lie done, and Georgia prnitt in the main
tenance of In i rights, andhVr authority, the con
?eijnenres might lie. that the act would provn
Injurious to us, and in nil prohaMtily ruinous to
you. The swofd might in- looked to m lliu arbi
ter in such au Interference?Bui Ihi* i nn never
lm done. The President cannot, and will nd,
becnlle you with such an espui-tation. The arms
of this country can never lie cmoloyed, to al.ty
any Stale of this Union, from lliu e?i true of
iSiisa legitimate poweis which attach, ami belong
to their sovereign uhnrarlcr. Au interferi ncn to
the ciie.nl of affording you protection, and the
oi:cu|Mincy of your mil is what !? drmaudi-d of
thu justicn ol this rountiy and wilt not lie with
held; yet in doing litis, the fifth! of peimitling to
you thr enjoyment of n v*parale government,
within tho limits of n Stale; and of denifrig the
nverciso "f sovereignly t|? iha| State within her
own limits, cnnniit lie admiitrd; it it not within
the ranee f f power* grunted by the Sinter lo the
General Government, and iheri.iorr uol within its
competency lo t)c rterclwd.
In litis view of lliu circumstances connected
with your application, il become* proi?r to remark
that no remedy can l? iierceived, ?-??.?-pt that
whlcii frequently*, heretofore has la en lubaiiltrd
for your consideration, .* removal Intend the
Mi?ii*?<ti|ii, where, alone, can Ih? e**ored i<? you
protection and't^enee. |t must lie obvious to you,
and die. President has Instructed me |o bring il
to your candid and serious consideration, lhai to
co.iiinue where you :ir?, within lbs teriiiori.il lim
it* ol an Independent Stale can pr ?rol*e you notli*
iuc lint interruption and disijufciudo. Heyund
tho Mi*l<ilppi vo'ir prospoet* will hr. different
There you will find no ronflicting interests. The
United Stales power, and sovereignly, uncontrol
led by tbe high aalliority of Stale jurisdiction, ami
resting on it* own ?iterate*, will be able to say lo
you. iu the laugnage of your own nation, the toil
shall be yours while the trees grow, or the streams
run. Ilut situated where you now are, lie can*
not bold tp you such language, or consent to
Iwguile you, by inspiring in your Ima ims hopes
and expectation*, whit It tannul be realized?
Justice nnd friendly fe?|iug? cherished towards
our red l?rnthor* ol He forest, demanded thai in
all our infcrcourie, frankness should lie main
tained.
The President desires mc to say thnt the
feelings cntcitainvd by him towards ymir
people, arc of the mr>?t friendly kind; ami
that in the intercourse heretofore, in past
time*, ao frequently had with the Chirli of
)rnor-nAtioi?|-M4?M not to warn them
the consequences, which would tcnilt to
thein from residing within the limits of sov.
ereigti States. .He holds to them, now, no
other language, th<in that which he h:?n
heretofore employed; and in doinj? ??? ft els
convinced that lie' I* pointing out that course
which humanity nnduiust regard for the
interest of the Indian will lie found to sanc
tiou. In the view entertained liy him of thin
important matter there is hut a single al
ternative, to vicld to the operation of those
laws, which (ieorgia claims, and has a right
toextend throughout her own limit*, or to
remove and by associating with your hi oth
ers beyond the Mississippi, to become again
united at out nation, cai ryiny, rdom; with you
thai protection, which, lhere situated, it
will be in the power of the government t?tv
tend.?-The Indians being thus brought to
geter nt a distance from their white brothers,
will bje telieved from very many of those
interruptions width, situated as they are
at prevent are without remedy The gov*
eminent of the United States will then he
aide to oxerc'sc over them h paternal, and
superintending care to happier advantage,
to stay encroachment!*, and preserve them
in pence and amity *ith each other * while
with the aid of school* a hope may he indul
ged, that ere long industry and refinement
will take the place of those wandering ha
bit* now no peculiar to the l'nliancl?a?niJt?:?-,
the tendency of wliieh is to impede them in
their .march to civilisation.
Inspecting the Intrusions on your land*,
submitted also lor consideration, it is suffi
cient to ictnark, that of these the Depart
ment had Hlrcady been advised, nnd instruc
tions have been forwarded to the Agent ol
Cherokees, directing him to cause their re
m>vt?l, and it is earnestly Imped, thnt on thii
matter, all cause for fuinic complaint will
tease, and the order prove effectual.
With great rcapict, your friend,
Signed, JOHN H. RATOM.
UNRKSTRICTKI) TRAl)K
IIostok, Mav 14.?The debate* on th<
'silk trade In the Uritlth house of cpmmon1
will elicit fact* and confirm principle* which
arc of great Importance to tho*e IntcrcV.cd
In the strong op{Mkltinn nnw existing in this
country, to the prohibition* of the ?? Atneri
cnn systr m,"asit hasbeen nick-naroed. The
experience of other nations should not be
disregarded, nnd the fact* and argument*
brought out in the British parliament in the
heatof dtbate on the subject oftheduties on
silks, will have the more imiuence with us,
where they have any application to our own
afTuir?, bccnusc they cannot be supposed to
have been brought forward for the purpoac
of influencing public opinion In this country.
When it ia supposed that an fcnglisbmnii
writes or speaks wtyh a view to convince u*
of the impolicy of cxhorbitant duties or pro
hibitions, hi* birth and country nrc a sufll
cient rcfutntion to hi* argument*, nsuflulent
answer'to hi* fact*, with all true and fiutrl
otk **friends of American Indu*tiy." In
the debate on the silk trade we may learn
something which though not intetided spe
cially for otir hearing, will vet be found ap
plicable to our condition. We shall, nt nil
event*, be pleated by the good atyle of Mr.
Huskisvm, who I* n* far inferior to the
champion* of the tariff in grandiloquence a*
he I* superior to them in the faculty of rea
soning.-? IJotton (iaz.
[From th? Liverpool Paper ]
11 nine of Cuaitnom, M<>nJ*y, April 1:).
Mr, Fylcr brought forward hi* motion for
the appointment cf n committee to Inquire
into the state of the si'.k trade. The lionora
ble gentleman avowed, that the objefct of hi*
motion wm to revive the prohibition of for
eign silks. Hi* argument wa* comprised
In two nsscrtions, i?t. that there I* extreme
distress among the ailk weaver* ; 2d. that
the opening of,the tnule has been the cause
of it, nnd his inference, though kept rather
out of sight, wo* meant to be, that a return
to prohibition would he a cure for the dis
tress. Mr. Kohtnsnn seconded the metion.
Mr. Ve*y Fitzgerald (President of the
Board of Trade,) made a powerful and con
vincing speech against the motion. He nd
uiittcd the existence of the distress in the
silk trade, hut denied both the cause and
the remedy. He dearly proved, that the
distress wasnttributahle to other causes than
the substituting of pro'ectinn for prohibitim;
that the grant ot' n committee would first
|disturb, then suspend the manufacturer, nnd
finally nnd infallibly, disappoint him : that
prohibition must extend and perpetuate the
contraband trade r.that, five year* before,
the change of the law ftavc an import of the
raw material to the extent of tell millions ,
nod,th<* five ? uhsequcut years, gave eighteen
millions ; and that, if the present consump
tion can be maintained no otherwise than by
low prices, a rise of price, produced by mo
nopoly,mint of course diminish the consump
tion. The right honorable gentleman as
cribed the principal portion of the existing
distress to the cagernc * nnd confidence of
j immense capital, launching into inordinnte
I speculation, forcing over production, nnd
lending to a paralysis 'of the market. He
| stated at the same time, the intentions of
govemment, which were to reduce the du
| ties on liuronean imported manufactured
silk from thirty per cent, ndvalorem to
twenty five per cent. ; nnd on linst Indian
from thirty per cent to twenty per cent. He
stated also, that the duty on orgunzine would
I be rcduccd to 3*. fid. ; that on tram 2s.*and
on singles to J*. Gil. The right honorable
tpntlcman concluded a most elaborate speech
ii the following tcfrms: 11 For myself, and
for my view* of this question, I should not
object to Investigation, convinced as I am
ilint cvidcucc would establish the state
ments 1 have made .to the house. Hut 1
object to It as a desperate attempt to return
to n ruinous prohibition."
Mr. Il?i?kii*(>n ami the lrc? lrml? tjr-tcm.
On Moiufay night, during the debate on
the state of the silk trade, Mr. Htukisson
addressed the house ol commons in defence
of the principlcsof commercial policy which
he lind luid the honor of bringing before flic
housfc and the country. We cannot in Jus
tice to our right honorable representative,
withhold from our reader# the following
triumphant dcfcucc of his character and
his ptinciplts :
??One word," said the right honorable
gentleman, ?? in relation to the position in
which I stand individually towards the
clutr.gcs that have been mi>de within the
last few years in our commercial policy.?
My honorable ftiend, (Mr. Baring,) the
member for Callington, has Alluded to the
vituperation, to the endless obloquy, to the
calumny that has been heaped upon me, as
the or .gun of the'government by which these
change* were effected. I assure my hono
rable friend, t1?.?t when I felt it to he my I
duty to recommend the alterations that have
hem beneficially made in tin commercial
and navigation laws of the country, I clear
ly foresaw all the obloquy ami vituperation
that Ii.ivc been heaped on mc. I knew that
individuals and parties would visit on me
the sufferings brought about by their own
indiscretion, or by other cause* over which
I could have no control. Hut while I clear
ly foresaw all this, I did not the lesaclcorlv
see, nor the less forcibly feel, that I owed ft
to myself, as a member of this house, and
as a minister of the crown; to rccommcnd a
particular line of policy, however distasteful
that policy might be to interested individu
al*, and howavtr likely it might be to give
rise 'o misrepresentation of my motives nnd
objects, when my conscicncc told me that it
was most certain to promote the general
welfare of my country. (Hear ! hear I) I
felt that no man Was' fitted to preside over
the commercial interests of a great country,
who was not ready to sacrifice personal feci
logs to the public benefit, (hear I) that no
tns?n s't?uld be a British minister who was
not above nil such individual consideration.
(Hnar !) HavingfelttbU Icalmlyand rttnd
IJy persevered In what my cootclcncc told
me wm my nut v.
Nj" urn I without my reward; for when I
ft?n told ot the disadvantage* which Individ
unU have experienced ftnm the change*
which I wnt rn instrument In Introducing
into our commercial system, I any in reply*
that those change* have tended, more than
oil other events or measures, to imprest the
country and toreinn state* with ju?t notiot.*
nf thc'vnlue of :ut unrealritted commercial
intercourse, nnd with n conviction of the
mischievous nbsurdity of commercial jcalcu
aie? and attempts nt commercial monopoly.
The present wine system of commercial pol
icy has inculcated an Important doctrine lit
the pacific relations of one country to Kn
ottier?fn showing that one state ia not en
richcd l-y the impoverishment of another,
but that mutuid enterchamcc of their respec
tive produce is the only sure basis of-mutunl
prosperity, By this It has tended, nnd will
dully lend, more to prevent contests for ob
jects of commercial selfishness?to avoid a
rccurrenev of thoae naval wnrs which. In the
end, injure the m.snufactuting greatness of
all the parties in it. It has given rise to
just notions of commercial intercourse with
colonics, by putting an end to all thoae petty
rivalries in v.-liich colonies hitherto had h?
vol\fd the mother countries. Was this
mere assertion ? Let the extraordinary fnct
in the history of the country, that for fifteen
years we have enjoyyd a commercial pearu
with the world ; that for the first time du
ring so many years, parliament has not been
called upon bv the crown to protect with u
naval nnd military force some colonial cortl
mcrcial right, or to resist some commit ciul
outrage; answer the question. (Hear, hear.)
Ily the rciicimI principles of our present lib
eral system ?f commercial policy, wc have
disarmed ot?,er countries of their former
usual re sou i ce of excluding our manufac
tures, by convincing them that they ntuM,
more than ourselves, suffer by a retaliation
| of their conduct. I will ro farther, an?l sny,
;that if we hud not alteretl our prohibitive
laws, we i>hr>u!d long since have been cnga
Red in a mischievous war with some state
ke ourselves, equally blind to our own inte
rests. The pre??yU repudiated free trade
system then, not only tends to allay irrita
tion, and preserve peace to the colonies,but
to nrevent war with other nations.
By acting on the principles free trade, I
I understand thut we ought to lessen or re
i more i very rctnicthn on our eotnmrrcr that
fentfa unnccmnarilu i? crarn/i the enrrffiea
jf individual enU r'/irhr, ioiihonl henrjitting
the revenue Those principles I have long
ndvocAtrd, and will continue to uphold; for.I
nm satisfied l>y experience, that gradual re
laxation ??f oor restrictive system lias been
invariably followed l>v gradual improvement,
in our manufactures, in our commerce, ni.d
in our rev euuCi?(Hear, hear!) In those
priciples I trust n?v fi^ht h morabln friend
(Mr. V. Fitsger.dd) w;ill persevere, despite
of clamour, mWreprejiciitatinn, and ublo
quy. He may count on.iny eordial assistance,
for I will never reuse to advocnte the prin
ciples of the change* in our commercial sys
tem, of w hich I have been the official in
strument, so long nt I continue to be suppor
ted as 1 have been, by the general sense of
Parliament and tlit- Country. 80 long as I
uphold those principles I nm satisfied, so
long shall) he ent iling the country to sup
port its burdens, and to advance In commer
cial and manufacturing prosperity 1 feel
proud in having had a shnrc in establishing
a system of commerciaidealing, which 1 nm
convinced is the most advantageous to the
general interest of the country that could
have bet n :>d?pttd. By it the energies of the
empire at large will be cultivated, its indus
try and capital most advuntngcntisly appli
ed, and its resources placed in the most fa
vourable condition for meeting the exigen
cies of those wars to'whiehall great com
mercial nations are exposed, andfor which
they shouldnever be unprepared."
In Mr. Charles Grant** speech on Tue?*
day evening, there werctwoorthrccparticu
lata i.dvcrtcd to, which are woithv of seririus
consideration.?The Right lion. Gentleman
ci.forced the argument of Mr. Vessey Fiu
gerald, by stating that so far from the mea
sures of j|823aud 1H24 having checked the
progress of tlte silk trade, the import of the
raw inlterial and of thrown silk together
had swelled in the very fir?t quarter of the
diminished duties, from 532,0091b to 1,0H5#
0001b; or had been rather more than dou
bled!
Mr. Grant asserted, that so far from the
arti\ ity of the trad?- having been discouraged
the ?nme d iss of men?vis. the silk dealer*
?who had been deafening the country with
their clamour against thu removal of the
prohibitory laws, hah plunged with such ea
gcrncH into speculations fur a more extend* d
manufacture in consequence of that remo
val, as to outstrain the demands however
large, of the increased consumption, and to
invite the industry of thousands of throw
sters and silk-weavers, whom they could
not continue to employ nt reasonable wages.
This, we ought torememler, is not tit*
first time that the weavers have brcn se
verely distressed.?During Ifclti and 181/
the prohibitory laws (ami, no tlMibt, the
smugglers) were in full vigour, and did they
preserve the weaver fiom suffering.' 80
Sir from it, that durisg thn?c years abo\c
40,0001 was subscribed to relieve the wen
vers of Snltnlficlds only. Ho far from pro
hibitory laws being a security to the weave. -?
there wa?, tvtry three yenra during their
cxistenee, a renewal of the weaver's misc
ry.
The oldlcx>fn.-~~\ federal coalitkn prpcr
in MamucIiiiwHi cmnt* rut, and iieivi?v???
separatim ?>t the tariff ?n<l anttlniifTMate*.
It \% too late in thr d*y. Uncle siimT
tii? wife have trotted luml ill hutxl together
*inc? *70. They will ntkk together the r?5*.
of the Journey.?tfitah