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June 29, 1820
The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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The National Gazette quotes the Illinois Gazette's criticism of the Tariff rejection as Eastern jealousy against Western interests, but counters that Southern opposition was the main cause and such views threaten national unity.
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STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Shawnee Town in the State of Illinois has already a Newspaper conducted with some ability. It is called the Illinois Gazette. It takes an earnest part with the manufacturing interest in Congress: and in deploring the rejection of the Tariff, has made the following remarks:
"Our golden hopes have suddenly been swept away; and to the chagrin of disappointment, is added the mortifying conviction that our interests have been sacrificed to the cold blooded policy of those who view the rising greatness of the western country with jealous apprehension, and who force us to struggle against every difficulty and disadvantage rather than yield up a petty trade which has become, even to themselves, useless and unprofitable. Because the hand of adversity has smitten them, they will not allow us to avert the same evil. Indeed the conduct of our 'sister states' in the East, resemble too much the ill matured absurdity of withered spinsters, for they are not satisfied with concealing their own wrinkles, and patching up their fading charms, but are so jealous of the blooming freshness of their younger sisters in the West, and so fearful of a competition with them, that they cannot hide their envy or set bounds to their dislike."
We have quoted this paragraph to illustrate the injustice practised in the West. Certainly the rejection of the Tariff was not owing to the policy of the Eastern States. The unanimous adverse policy of the Southern was the main cause, and the Eastern displayed more liberality on the occasion, and lent more support to the Tariff than could have been expected, any allowance being made for their commercial habits and the actual prosperity of their manufactures. The imputation to them of a jealousy of the West, especially as regards the non-slave holding part of it, is as mischievous as it is groundless. We observed throughout the last summer, that great pains were taken in one of the Lexington, Kentucky, papers, to propagate the notion that the Federal Government, or at least the present executive part of it, was hostile to the prosperity, and disposed to stifle the talents, of the West. As nothing can be more remote from the truth, nothing can have a worse tendency in reference to the perpetuity of the Union.
National Gazette.
Shawnee Town in the State of Illinois has already a Newspaper conducted with some ability. It is called the Illinois Gazette. It takes an earnest part with the manufacturing interest in Congress: and in deploring the rejection of the Tariff, has made the following remarks:
"Our golden hopes have suddenly been swept away; and to the chagrin of disappointment, is added the mortifying conviction that our interests have been sacrificed to the cold blooded policy of those who view the rising greatness of the western country with jealous apprehension, and who force us to struggle against every difficulty and disadvantage rather than yield up a petty trade which has become, even to themselves, useless and unprofitable. Because the hand of adversity has smitten them, they will not allow us to avert the same evil. Indeed the conduct of our 'sister states' in the East, resemble too much the ill matured absurdity of withered spinsters, for they are not satisfied with concealing their own wrinkles, and patching up their fading charms, but are so jealous of the blooming freshness of their younger sisters in the West, and so fearful of a competition with them, that they cannot hide their envy or set bounds to their dislike."
We have quoted this paragraph to illustrate the injustice practised in the West. Certainly the rejection of the Tariff was not owing to the policy of the Eastern States. The unanimous adverse policy of the Southern was the main cause, and the Eastern displayed more liberality on the occasion, and lent more support to the Tariff than could have been expected, any allowance being made for their commercial habits and the actual prosperity of their manufactures. The imputation to them of a jealousy of the West, especially as regards the non-slave holding part of it, is as mischievous as it is groundless. We observed throughout the last summer, that great pains were taken in one of the Lexington, Kentucky, papers, to propagate the notion that the Federal Government, or at least the present executive part of it, was hostile to the prosperity, and disposed to stifle the talents, of the West. As nothing can be more remote from the truth, nothing can have a worse tendency in reference to the perpetuity of the Union.
National Gazette.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Tariff Rejection
Illinois Gazette
Western Interests
Eastern States
Southern Opposition
National Union
Where did it happen?
State Of Illinois
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State Of Illinois
Event Details
The Illinois Gazette in Shawnee Town criticizes the rejection of the Tariff as Eastern states' jealousy of Western growth; the National Gazette rebuts this, attributing rejection to Southern opposition and warning against divisive views on federal hostility to the West.