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penses of the government, after the payment of the national debt. If this proposition had been one of the most offensive character, a. mounting even to contempt upon the digni- tv of the house, it could not have received a more signal rebuke-Itw was met in the thres- hold with the question of considerations question which produces debate, and one which was freely used during the session, as a gag to stfe the voice. of complaint against the expressions of the ajority. Perhaps, fellow citizens, no circumstance could better illustrate the palpabe expressions of the sys- tem or the objects of the advocates, than the impatient rejection of so reasonable proposi- tion. Hitherto the several laws enacted for the protection of domestic manufactures have professed by their titles to be acts for the le- gtimatc purpose of raising revenue

 Their advocates have contended that while they would afford protection to the manufac- turer they would increase the means of dis charging the public debt, and thus have found not only an argument but a pretext for con tinuing the tariff. We have the assurances of the President of the United States that the receipts of the treasury shall be faithfully ap- piled to the discharge of the just obligations of the government, and at the end of four years we may expect to witness all entire extinction of that debt. In anticipation of this desirable result, the naked question presents itself, whether the oppressed portions of the country are to submit to an annual tax of twenty three or four millions of dollars, when less than ten millions will be required to defray the expen- scs of the government? Whether the South crn people shall pay an avera ge tax of forty five per cent on the necessaries of life, not for the support of government which they love, and for which they would shed their dearest blood, but for the benefit of a manufacturing aristocracy, who claim these eXactions with the same insolencc with which naughty lord would demand his contributions of the most servile vassds?

 These are questions, fellow citizens, which cannot be avoided They are such as must necessarily force themselves upon the next Congress The South will then demand to be informed how long they are to be made tri- butary to manufacturing cupdity; to what extent their foreign commerce IS to be crip- pied, and the markets for their valuable sta pies destroyed Such questions involve not only pecuniary interests but our liberties, and upon their issue depends all that is valuable to the Southern people. willyet indulge the nope tha. a returning sense of justice, on the part of the next Congress, will not drive to the last extremity of injury and oppression a gallant people, whose patriotic veneration for the Union has caused to submit to expressions which if inflicted by foreign nation on any part of their common country, they would have been the first to have avenged.