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Deference To The Great

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Day
13
Month
November
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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1 o beheve any thing merely because some one else believes it, is not the part of a philosopher or statesman. He who would lead others, must think for himself. There is too much of a manworship in our country - too much disposition to exalt the individual and depress the mass - too much proneness to receive without exnmination, as truth, all that great men may say. Every one should investígate for hiroself, and then judge. We have read lately of a Democratie member of Congress who sat immediately behind J. Q. Adams, and when he didnot understand the question, he made it a rule always to vote in opposition to the aged veteran, on the principie that Mr. Adams was an oíd blue light federalist, and of course to go in opposition to him, could not be going lar astray.Political partizans are apt to believe every thing their leaders teil them; and thousands believe without auy examination at all. Henee every sensible man will carefully guard hiroself against this foolish practise of crediting all that may be said by the great ones in church or State. Besides, these demigods often flatly contradict, each other. The following instance of a remarkable disagreement of Webster and Clay, on a fundamental point, is worthy of attention by all It is from the N. Y. Evening Post: "Wno shall decide? - Mr. Webster, in the speech which he made before the Agriculturalists of Rochester, waspleasto remark:"I do say, gentleman, that the AGRL CULTURE of this country is the great matter wkich (Iemands protection. It is a misnomer to talk about the protecticn of manufactures; that is not the thing we want or need: It is the protection of the agriculture of the country!" [Repeated cheers. ] Not a few weeks before this was stated, Mr. Clay, writing to the editor of the Tennessee Agricultural Journal, was also pleasedto remark: "Owing to the peculiar position of the United States, AGRICULTURE requires hit titile prolcction, and that confined to a few branches of it. It is otherwise with the othcr twointerests. They require some protection ngainst the selfish legislatioñ and the rivalry of foreign powers," &c. Either one orthe other of these learned Doctors must be in the wrong, and we should like to be informed, by some of their admirers, which one ofthetwo is to believed." It is certainly important to the farmers as well as to the manufacturera to know which of these gentlemen is right. One or the other is egregiously mistaken on a most importnat matter.

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Signal of Liberty
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