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given to limited interests, 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 means. She has at least, strong encouragement to engage in a friendly rivalship, and has only to appeal to her resources, her enterprize, 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 to regard its action, than the motives to which it owes its parentage. That a congressional measure being adopted under the combined constitutional authorities, should be submitted to, is believed to be the only safe doctrine; yet in a case of mere Presidential and Senatorial action, there might be objections to a decision as there are in the case of the exposure of our North Eastern Boundary. It seems at last to be the correct idea, that a Tariff, although constitutional, yet being for partial if not for national revenue, as if for iron in one place & hemp in another, upon an interested compromise between those who can turn the scale of party power, is not suitable to the original intent or present object of government. As to our manufactures in single families, there can be no doubt of their superlative utility, and of the propriety of every practical inducement to their encouragement in every family of the Country, according to its taste for the useful or the ornamental. Among the political provisions for preserving the health of our community, is that of Senatorial representation. By Senators in Congress, we represent our