Lynchburg Virginian

The Tariff.—We take the liberty of calling the particular attention of our readers to the following

Extract of a Speech of Mr. Clay on the Tariff.

"All society is an affair of mutual concession. If we expect to derive the benefits that are incident to it, we must sustain our reasonable share of its burdens—The great interests which it is intended to guard and cherish, must be supported by their reciprocal action and re-action. The harmony of its parts is disturbed the discipline which is necessary to its order is incomplete, when one of the three great and essential branches of its industry is abandoned and unprotected.

"If you want to find an example of order, of freedom from debt, of economy, of expenditure falling short of, rather than exceeding income, you will go to the well regulated family of a FARMER. You will go to the house of such a man as Isaac Shelby. You will not find him resorting to taverns, engaged in broils, prosecuting angry law suits." You will behold every member of his family clad with the produce of their own hands, and usefully employed; the spinning wheel and the loom in motion by day break. With what pleasure will his wife carry you to her neat dairy, lead you into the store house and point to the table cloths, the sheets, the counterpanes, which lie on this shelf for her daughter Sally, or that for Nancy, all prepared in advance, by her provident care, for the day of their respective marriages. If you want to see an opposite example go to the house of a man, who makes nothing at home, whose family resorts to the store for every thing. You will find him perhaps in the tavern or the store at the cross roads. He is engaged with the rum grog on the table, taking depositions to make out some case of usury or fraud. Or perhaps he is furnishing to the lawyer the materials to prepare a long bill of injunction in some intricate case. The sheriff is hovering about his farm to serve some new writ. On court days, which he never misses attending, you will find him eagerly collecting his witnesses, to defend himself against the merchants' and doctors' bills. Go to his house—and after the short and giddy period that his wife and daughters have flirted about the country in their calico and muslin gowns, what a scene of discomfort and distress is presented to you here? What the individual family of Isaac Shelby is, I wish to see the nation in the aggregate—But I fear we shall shortly have to contemplate its resemblance in the opposite picture. if Statesmen would carefully observe the conduct of private individuals in the management of their own affairs, they would have much surer guides in promoting the interest of the state, than the visionary speculations of theoretical writers."

"New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio have transmitted to us their earnest and humble petitions to encourage the home industry. Let us not disappoint their just expectations.—Let us manifest by the passage of this bill, that Congress does not deserve the reproaches which have been cast upon it, of insensibility to the wants and sufferings of the people."