RESOLUTIONS, &c.

AT a meeting of the citizens of Newberry District, in the village of Newberry, on the sixth day of November, 1820, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proposed increase of the Tariff, and of expressing their opinion on the same, captain John McMorris was called to the chair, and Y. J. Harrington appointed secretary; and, after some prefatory remarks by colonel O'Neall, the memorial of the citizens of Charleston was read by that gentleman: whereupon the following resolutions were unanimously adopted, viz.

Resolved, That the citizens of Newberry District do concur with the citizens of Charleston in the sentiments and views expressed in their memorial against the proposed increase of the Tariff.

Resolved, That the Representative in Congress from this congressional district be instructed to lay the previous resolution before Congress at their next session, and that he be further instructed to use his best endeavours to prevent any increase of the Tariff.

Resolved, That the senator and member of the house of representatives from this district be instructed to bring the subject of the proposed increase of the Tariff before the legislature, at their next session, and endeavour to procure an expression of the opinion of the legislature of this state against the proposed increase of the Tariff.

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be published in the different papers of this state, and that the chairman and secretary be requested to furnish copies thereof, and the memorial of the citizens of Charleston, to the Representative in Congress from this congressional district, and copies of the third resolution to the senator and representatives of this district in the state legislature.

A true copy of the original resolutions.

JOHN MCMORRIS, Chairman.

Y. J. HARRINGTON, Secretary.

MEMORIAL:

TO THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THE citizens of Charleston have seen, with deep regret, the efforts which were made, at the last session of Congress, to, impose a high rate of duties on all manufactured articles imported into the United States; efforts made for the express and avowed purpose of creating, encouraging, and supporting, in this country, great manufacturing establishments; of modifying and curtailing extensively our mercantile intercourse with foreign nations; and of forcing from their present employments much of the labor and capital of our fellow-citi-. As there is much cause to apprehend that this measure will again be presented to the consideration of Congress, your memorialists beg leave to state the reasons which have led them to view this system as one unfavorable to the general interests of the United States; as one likely to prove partial in its operations, injurious in its effects, uncertain in its results; as one which departs equally from the spirit of our constitution and the best established principles of national economy.

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It is a position, almost too self-evident for controversy, that, in every free or well regulated government, labor and capital should be permitted to seek and to find their own employment. To the sagacity of individuals, this trust may be safely committed. A government can never regulate to advantage the employment of capital, because success in the pursuit of wealth, in every department of life, depends on local circumstances, on minute details, on personal exertions, which cannot be regulated; on causes that escape those general views which alone a government can take of the transactions of its citizens. It is sufficient that a government takes care that the employment of each individual shall inflict on others, or on the community at large, no injury; and that each shall receive equal and uniform protection: all interference beyond this is useless or pernicious. It is equally obvious, that those employments of capital which are most profitable to the individual, must, on a general scale, prove the most advantageous to the state. National is but the aggregate of individual wealth; whenever, therefore, capital is diverted from one employment, in which it makes a certain profit, to another, in which a smaller profit only can be obtained, the difference between these employments of capital is, exactly to the extent of that difference, an actual loss to the community. Now, whenever individuals