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iState. .Exciting, as it lias done, the shape of a bounty to the do-a very general and just indigna- mestic manufacturer! And whence is derived the power, of the gene ral government to levy a tax upon one portion of the community for the exclusive benefit of another! Devoutly as the Union was desi red, where is the State that would have surrendered any part of its sovereignty, if it had believed that tion in the minds of our citizens, I have thought it my duty to submit if any constitutional means pre sented themselves, interpose them between your constituents and the threatened mischief. 1 will can- restriction will not long exist. The class of consumers, consist ing of nine-tenths of the popula tion, will not long submit to so An un it to jou, as the representatives of grievous an oppression. An un tl,P nnnnln. ns the "sentinels on fortunate delusion, created partly the watch tower," that you plight, by local causes and partly by the arts of designing politicians, has the regulation of its industry, ofjdidlv confess that no plan of ef- the chosen pursuits of its citizens, the most valuable portion of its internal economy, was to be in cluded in the session! North Carolina, I am sure, would never have listened for a moment to such a concession of her rights. Op posed as is this system, misnamed the "American System," to all the most approved maxims of political science, it is no less opposed to the spirit of our Constitution and to some of the fundamental prin ciples on which free governments are based. One principal object of our union was to cherish and extend our foreign commerce. This Tariff system is to destroy it. Our union was to protect one State from the unjust and illiberal commercial regulations of ano ther. Thig "American System" gives to the majority in Congress, without regard to the rights or in terests of particular States, the power to bestow bounties on one section of our country, and to im pose corresponding burthens up on another. Equality of rights; an equal participation of benefits and burthens; exemption from taxation, except when the general good is to be promoted; the lib erty of adopting, unmolested, any pursuit or profession not forbidden for reasons of public policy these, we have been taught to be lieve, are among the great bless ings secured by a republican gov ernment. Are not all these set at nought by the Tariff system! The benefits which it confers are con fined to a few; the burthens it im poses are borne by the manv. The wealthy manufacturer will reap his profit, because by the ex clusion'of foreign competition he will obtain a higher price for his manufacture. The agriculturist, whether rich or poor, the owner of large plantations, equally with the hardy yeoman who contributes most to the solid wealth of the country, and upon whose arm that country relies for its defence, is compelled at the same moment to pay more for what he consumes, and to receive less for the pro duct of his labor. What, if nos- the injustice of the measure, its influence is sectional. The States in which, from well known cau ses, manufactories can be most advantageously prosecuted, will be compensated, in some degree, for the loss which one portion of its citizens sustains by the wealth which another acquires. But in the Southern States, whose inte rests are essentially agricultural, the injury inflicted has no lenitive balsam the oppression is wholly unmitigated. The limits prescri bed to this address will not per mit me to dwell more in detail up on the odious character of this law, and the oppressive effects which its operation must produce upon the various interests of this fectual resistance on the part of the State Legislature, which I have yet heard suggested, appears to me free from insurmountable objections. A dissolution of the Union is not to be thought of. If you believe, however, as I do on the present occasion, that the spi rit of the Federal Compact 'has been violated, and great injustice done to your citizens, I recom mend to you to protest solemnly against the principle thus adopt ed by those who administer the general government; to represent your sentiments to them and to your sister States, in the language of mild and friendly remonstrance, but with the energy which the outrage of conscious right in spires, with the feeling of deep our country. A little time, a lit tle reflection, on the part of the great body of the people, will pro bably dissipate this delusion, and restore the .period when each one, unaided by government bounties, and nnoppressed by government taxation, may pursue the avoca tion to which he is directed by his talents, his interest, or his in clination. The subject of opening and im proving our outlets to the ocean, of removing obstructions in our rivers, and of providing, by canals or roads, for the more convenient transmission of our produce to market, has so often engaged the attention of the Legislature, that I feel, when I touch upon these topics, all the awkwardness of ad dressing you upon trite matters. Yet when I look at the situation the Albemarle must sail more thau one hundred and fifty miles to reach a point on the coast, not five miles distant from that, at which it was compelled to pass into Pamptico Sound. The im portance of opening a direct com munication from the Albemarle to been spread over a great part of the ocean, cannot be urged in a 1 i. i . I c :ui i subsisting upon her own resour ces, independent of foreign com merce, or of commerce with her sister States. With a soil hanni- sible, aggravates the injustice ofily diversified, with a climate cor- more forcible manner than by sta ting the extent of territory which would "find a market for its pro ductions, and a diminished price of transportation through that channel. The Roanoke river is now rendered navigable for bat teaux from its mouth to the Blue Ridge, in Virginia, and to Lcaks- ville, in this fetate. In both States its branches are suscepti ble of improvement to much high er points. There is, perhaps, no river east of the Mississippi, which, in proportion to its extent, washes a more fertile soil. The rich productions of its adjacent territory have become, both in this State and in Virginia, almost pro verbial. In this State, alone, at least eleven counties would find it the most natural and the most convenient highway to market. Add to these eight counties, thro which flow the Chowan, the Ca shie, the Perquimans, the Pasquo tank, the North, the Scuppernong and the Alligator rivers, each of a depth not less than twelve or fif teen feet, which convey the pro duce of a highly fertile country, and which contribute to form or to swell the current of the Albe- the one fathers; discard foreign luxuries: condition. Shall we alone, who :third of the State is deeply con- be not dependent on other States lave such resources, and whojeerned in the accomplishment of for what you can grow or fabricate eould bring them into action by so ! this work. When 1 mention, what would undoubtedly be the fact, that the freight from the head of the Albemarle to any part of the world would be as low as it is from Norfolk, it will at once Ix perceived what immense sums would be saved in the transporta tion of the merchantable article from that section, and of cours how much would be added to uV profitable industry of the farmer The practicability of forming thi. outlet, has had as strong evidence in its favor, as any enterprize h which you can engage. Beside the universal voice of those wh' live in the vicinity, you have hat the reports of Major Clark, of the able Mr. Fulton and of the Uni ted States' Engineers, with Gen. Bernard at their head, all attest ing both its practicability and its usefulness. (concluded in our next.) of our State, I cannot forbear ur- attachmentto the Union, and aw-lghig upon you what has so often ful foreboding as to any departure litcd the earnest recommenda from its legitimate and well un-:10" of my predecessors. We derstood purposes. I would ap- now occupy, from our population peal, too, to the patriotism and , an(l territory, an elevated position state pride of our fellow-citizens, among the States of the Union, to lend their aid, individually, in 9ur relatvc ran cannot be sta averting the immediate evil" ef- tionary, nor can it be maintained fects of this system. I would sav without exertions on our part. to them return to the prudent Almost every State is calling forth Imarle; and you will sec that and economical habits of your ts powers to improve its internal : agricultural interest of nearly f ,i t i J- i i : . : i..n i .!..! r i. c?. a !.. yourselves; manufacture your own -small a comparative expenditure, clothes by your household indus- shrink from the adoption of the try; make your own provisions? means which arc promoting the You will suffer many inconveni- prosperity of 'Others and leading encee, and your profits will not be l their superiority ! Let us, too, as great as if you had a free trade; press forward in the career of in but you will, at least, not feel the ternal improvement. Let us, too, humiliation of paying a tax impo-;leave lr the benefit and gratitude sed on you for the benefit of the:0 posterity, memorials of that greedy capitalist or the specula- jvvise policy which consists not in tive politician. The wealthy ma- hoarding our money, but in ap- nufacturer will not have you for;PlpnS it to useful and profitable his tributaries; and the very ava-l objects. There are three great rice wnicn urgeu mm to the en- uuuuis io me ocean, wincli nature actment of this law, will drive 'seems to have indicated for this him to seek for its repeal. If the restrictive system is to be fasten ed on us, we have this consola tion, that North-Carolina is as ca- State: one for the waters of the Albemarle, another for the waters of the Pamptico, and the third for the Cape-lear. The Albemarle pable as any State in the Union of; Sound, in length about seventv ' ... - i . 'I. i . J. mues, wnn an umtorm depth of not less than twenty feet, receiv ing into its bosom, besides other rivers of no inconsiderable impor tance, uie Uoanoke, the noblest river that traverses our State, finds its communication with the ocean impeded by a sand bar not eight hundred yards in width. All the produce which floats on its waters, after coming within sight of the Atlantic, must seek that ocean by a narrow straight into the Pamptico Sound, through that Sound a distance of eighty or nine ty miles, over dangerous shoals, and through the Occacock Inlet. Nine-tenths of the navigation of that part ot the State (as indeed of every other part) are directed to New-York as the best market; and, by inspection of the map, it will be seen that, in passing thro' Occacock Inlet and proceeding to responding with the richness and variety of her soil, with nearly all the useful minerals embedded in her mountains, with inexhaustible pastures, with a hardy and indus trious population; there is not an article that necessity demands, scarcely one that comfort re quires, and few that minister to luxury, which her fields, her for ests, her rivers, or her mountains cannot produce, or her industry fabricate within her own limits. But I cannot yet abandon my re liance upon the good sense and justice of our fellow-citizens thro'- out the United States. 1 feel a confidence, arising from my be lief in the intelligence and patriot ism of the people, that this system ! New-York, a vessel descending Cotton Crop. In a statement published in the New-York Ship ping List, the Cotton crop of the j United States, for the year ending . September 30th, 1823, is cstiraa- ; ted as amounting to 720,593 bales, f In the year ending with the 30th of September previous, it amount- ! ed to 957,281 bales. According to this statement, the crop ot 1828 falls short of the previous year by 23G,G82 bales. Scarcity Serf. Stephen Patch Esq. of Lincoln, Mass. raised tins year a "scarcity beet, vu1L" weighed 15 pounds, was 24 men es in circumference and 19 inch?8 lonir. FAn excellent pafcA,and no much "scarcity" in this beet. - i' t . t r O 1 tl 3( P Ji th of ex di! qu I CIS I thi 1 tlia i
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