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220. States the acknowledgement of its cherishing influence.

Some of the measures, however of the Congress formerly assembled, have been thought to be not simply prejudicial in a national view, but exceedingly unequal in their hard pressure on this part of our Union Without presuming to question and not doubting the high integrity and ability of the assembly which made the Tariff, and being disposed to yield a venerating submission to its eventual decision, it is hoped you will seriously inquire whether or not there has been a sacrifice made to the cupidity of manufacturers and the ambition of politicians; and if you shall discover there has been, that you will declare accordingly the belief that you may entertain. yet with evry advantage given to limited interest, first claimed and then allowed by those if such there are who act on rules opposed to patriotic sentiment, Maine may defy competition, because she has superior meanes. She has at least, strong encouragement to engage in a friendly rivalship, and has only to appeal to her resources, her enterprise her economy and her industry, whenever she will rest on those supports. It has been stated in several public and some official communications that the Tariff ought to be resisted as unconstitutional. With great respect it is suggested that the argument pressed as it has been to dangerous consequences ought to be more carefully used. When disunion is threatened on this account, it seems requisite to declare the conviction that the Tariff is a discretionary measure to be corrected on policy, and not on constitutionality. The Southern disunionists rely on the motive of a vote in their constitutional argument, and talk of resisting the Tariff for what was designed by it. It would be more nearly rational for the violent men who thus oppose it