Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-04-27

them by suicide But the freeman who labours
industfioasy and attends to bushes faithfully,
has a right to be enabled to use sugar, wear
shirts, have decent clothing and enjoy life, the
gift Of the common Creator Of us all ave. and
such will defend that right: and, what is worth
a whole volume of specu!atiOns, they have the
means Of doing it, The time being fitted for
it, we viii confidently make it known to the
sugar planters and ship owners, that il the tai
riff hill Of 1924 had not passed, the tax upon
imported sugar would have been reduced to two
cents per H., and that amy deficiency in the re-
venue which might have arisen from that def
cheney. Though we believe that it might have
increased the revenue By Increasing the consunlp-
lion Of sa;gar.o would have been more than
compensated for by withdrawing the fleets Of
men of war that are kept abroad for the pro-
lection of property in ships and their cargoes.
These things would not have taken place Who'll
ly on the retaliatory principle, though the very
worm that is trodden upon is allowed to turn,
but because of the special rightfulness of them,
crcumstanced as the grain growing and ma
nufacturng interests were. If refused the
means of paying taxes.+ it was their bounden
duty to reduce the amount Of taxes demanded.
There is qnd prot quo which operates in every
condition OF life; and, as the saying is, every
prudent man will ''cut his coat according to
his CLOTH" Look at it here was Louisiana
receiving a (" hot-bed protection" of 81 500, 900
a year. in bounty paid by the people on her
sugar, and there were the ship owners defend
ed at the lannon's mouth, at the cost to the
people of much larger sum-the phole trade
to the Mediterranean. for example, not taking
off so much of gross value in our products as
the cost of the fleet amounts to !; and yet both
these were against the tariff bill Of 1874, in
tended for the encouragement of our farmers
and manufacturers. and supported by their re-
representatives. in Congress, as the votes will
yet shew! We would not either $ razee'' the
duty on sugar, or g tomahawll' the navy
but those who g live should let i've. No state
IN the Union profits like Louisiana by the ta-
rn--the price of her cotton is assisted by it,
as we shall show when VIC speak about that
article. though she is supplied with cotton
goods at from 40 to SO per cent. cheaper than
f before the act of 1924 was passed but the di-
rect and actual protection or bounty which
she receives, is equal to sixteen dollars per
head for every one of her peopie--and were all
the people OF the United States so protected,
the amount OF protection would be in the sum
4 OF one hundred and sixty millions of dollars
year! as before stated, and repeated that it man
not be forgotten. No one can dispute this. And
further, is monopoly because of climate
in the south. less odous than s. monopoly''
because OF climate in the north, or the west, or
the east? What is the sugar planter better than
! the wool grower? Is it not quite as necessary
to have clothes to shield us from the cold of our
, winters, as sugar to sweeten our coffee? But
4 we desire both, and only ask, while the pro-
ducton OF the last is protected, that the growth
! and manufacture of wool for the other may be
encouraged; and Louisiana, who receives 50
4.
, representatives. to give little. 1t is by mutual
concessions and accommodations that the peace
OF families and societies is maintained; but
r there is disposition wisely implanted in the
: human mind. to require such concessions and
accommodations between persons possessing
i equal rights, and it operates in great things
as the writer of this really put it into practice
h about two years ago in small affair: in re-
e turning from my dinner, l was accustomed,
G almost every day, to meet dandy English
man just imported, Cor elopcd, as the case
might be,) who majestically struttcd along the
1 middle of the pavement. | gave way, and went
a unthinkingly to the right or left. for a cons-
derablc time but. at last, was satisfied that he
i. demanded this homage to his puppyism. The
, next time when we were about to pass, I kept
. the middle Of the pavement--he came on rapid
ly as usual. with his head up and eyes raised,
and wholly unprepared to receive my eIbozC.
which he run qfom of. (having turned myself
half-round to accommodate him with it, and he
nearly fell down in consequence light
or man than myself. He looked wildly for a
moment at me, looked calmly at him, but not
f a word was sad-we passed, and ever after
that, he conceded part of the pavement to me,
as had beea quite willing to yield part of it
4 to him, or any other person, though black and
a slave. This familiar case will serve &C wall
as the most elaborate one that could be stated.
II, ch,,ys the