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 we there beholdG Fields abandoned !; the hospitable mansions of our fathers de- serted; agriculture dropping; our slaves, like thir masters, working harder and far- ing worse; the planter striving, with nna- vailing efforts, to avert the ruiE which is before him. 1t has often beeRmy lot, Sir, to see the once thriving planter reduced to despair; cursing his hard fate, gathering up the small remnants of his broken for lune-and with his wife and his little ones, tearing himself from. the scenes of his childhood, and the bones of his ancestors. to seek, in the wilderness, that reward for his industry, ofwhicl your fatal policy has deprived him.

 Sir, when we look at our fertile fields, aud consider the genial. climate with which God has blessed the South-when we con- template the rare felicity of our position, as the producers of an article, which, nn- der system of free trade, would command the markets of the world-is it not enough. to fill our hearts almost to bursting to find the richest blessings that an indllgent Providence ever showercd down upon the heads of any people, torn from us by the cruel policy of our own government-to find the bounties of Heaven thus blasted by the hand of man Sir, will not .de- ny that there are other causes besides the tariff, which have contributed to produce the evils which I have depicted. Trade can, to some extent, be carried on with greater facility at New York, and cotton may be raised more proGtably in Alabama but these advantages would not have brok- en up the commerce or depressed the agri- culture of South Carolina, while an unre- stricted intercourse with foreign nations, enabled us to realize the most moderate profits. Mendo not quit their accustomed employments, or the homes of their fatt- CTS, for any small addition to thei: profits. It is only when restriction has reached q point which leaves the door still open to one, while it closes it against the other, that this result is>produced; and therefore it is, that a rapid transfer of capital and population is now added to the other evils with which the old States are afflicted.

 In this condition of tine country, where is there to be found ful6lment of the promises held out to the South in 2824 ? We were then told that we had mistaken the true character of this system. We

 %e Mere oaFd .dd fiat ff ko taass as s9 ed on foreign articles would be but tempo rary; that the manufactures would want protection but for short time-onIy to give them n start-and that they would soon be able to stand alone. We were to have had double market for our cotton high prices, reviving commerce, and re- newed prosperity. Sir, after the experi- ence of four years, the tariff of '2S came up for consideration, by which theprotect- ing system was to be further extended and enlarged. Ard wha; was found to have been the result of four years experience at the South7 Not hope fulfilled, not one promise perlormed-and our condition in- finitely worse than it had been four years before. Sir, the whole South rose up as one man, and protested against any tur- ther experiment with this fatal system The whole of tue Representatives of sew en States, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, (with, believe, but three dissenting voices,) recorded their votes a. gainst that bill. Sir, do not gentlemen find iO this fact, some evidence of the dan gcrous character of that legislation on which this system is based Can it be wiss-can it be just---can it be prudent to adopt and enforce policy so essentially sectional in it's character2 Can we hope for harmony, peace, and concord, while enforcing system against which an entire section of your country so strongly revolts It is the essential principle of the represcn. talive system, that mutual sympathy of feeling and Of interest should bind togeth- CT the people and their rulers and it may be worthy of profound reflection, how far that principle is essentially preserved by a scheme oflegislation, under which the feel ings and interests of SO large portion of the country arc outraged and trampled on, when taxes are imposed, not by the repre- sentatives of those who are to bear the bur- thens, but of those who are to receive the bounty.

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