Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-06-17

correspondence, public and private, with: the collector
aud sppraiEt re- OF Nav lo k, the, w n be better aha
TO Judge Of lis ms assures in that respect. Ia i.a sais
rule, especially for those who uuder AXE the task of
puoic censorship, 10 ascertain the material facts of a
sao 'eio'e "ey make statements, or TO draw conclu-
s0os' nv Y Il. Post.
We have been expecting to see some apology for tbo
caiuinny uttered against he Score airy Of the Treasury
and the merchants OF this port, in the report of a com
miuee OF which Peter H.. Scbenck was chairman, APP
pointed by the late Manufacturers Convention. In
una, report the Secretary of the Treasury is charged
WIN offering a premium ON attempts TO defraud the
revenue, by yielding TO the clamorous opportunities
OF me merchants whose goods have been seized for
being underYalued in the invoices, aad by ..eeneraYy
ordering them TO be given up to the importer on his nav,
lhs a guy OF a higher value" TIL. assertion has been
shown to be untrue in an article in the Washington
telegraph, published some time last week, and furnish-
eu, IT'S presumed, from the Treasury Department. On
y a single case has occurred where the goods have been
gwen up, and that was a strong one in Iavor of the i'm.
porter The article in the Telegraph calls for the name
oil the person who fabricated the calumny and imposed
~ on 'he committee. To this call no answer is made
. chairman oil the committee, whose moral COURAGE
is publicly lauied in a resolution adopted at the conyen.
t'on, and who has exhibited that quality in a remarka.
BILE degree in publishing this alsehcoa about the Sccrc-
tary OF the treasury. has now nothing to saw. MIR.
inghain, certainly, is the last man TO be blamed for anv
excessive indulgence to the importers. So far from II,
ms error, II any there be, lies in constituting the revenue
laws with too much strictness and Sc verity.
BONE scribbler, who writes very much like tie chair
man o. 'e committee who framed the report in ques-
ton. has been writing away in three or four journals en-
deaYoring TO make the public believe that we had stvl.
ed smuggling an honorable calling, and the smuegler a
pracucai reformer. This is as false as the story about
the Secretary OF the Treasury. 1t is a wicked and
contemplate perversion of our language. W. only said
mat smuggling was more honorable than cheating the
revenue by false invoices, but we did not call either of
mem honorable. In is most persons agree with us;
out' III uhe Chairman OF he Manufacturers COMMITTEES
thinks that false invoices are the more honorable of the
two' he Is welcome to his opinion. We said, also, that
me Mesminster Review had called the sinuggler a
practical %reformer," and those who read the Westmin-
ser Review will doubtless remember the passage. We
never called him so.
The manufacturers, we fear, will never better their
PRO pects by any appraised eat laws hey can get adopt.
u oy C'ns'ss'' or by any 2 ric,ures 10 executing them.
we expect soon TO see them mskiDg an efr,rt TO obtain
a redus'ion o. the duties on wool, which many of Tho
shre" der ones among them ate convinced il the ooIv
thing likely to give a new impulse TO their business.
which they ae In the habi, OF r. quiring once in two
o. TIRE. years. But wha, vii The farmers say 10 ,bis.
The lear 1t Resistance on the r part. is the only thing
ward.
Tae i.lloWi & communication has been sent II /, On
the subjec OF the manula .,vrers' rem, RI. and ,ba con-
duet o; those persons who have kindly engaged 10 ,aks
he standardization OF the Custom. II ,use into their own
hands, a proceeding which will greatly relieve the COL
iector, tue Appraisers, aud he GovsrumeD:
For the Evening Post.
Ihe'e are two admissions in lLs article ON frauds n N
me revenue, IN The Copmercisl O. last night, which II
s no probable tue heads OF The Cus'om House Depar.
ment VIII thank the writer or thu maui ,ctursr.' Con.
v:nt0n Tor the ons is, that ne manuf.cturer,' Com.
mi',ee and a m'rshan', had access TO an importation Of
cioths % me public stor. and were p Knitted 10 an.
praise them The otter lie, that one ioreis n concern
has entered At The Gus ON Hue, within ELK or seven
months previous to APP NJ Last, mare thar four thou sand
pieces OF broad club, he whole OF which, exceut abon,
three hundred pieces, were tn'ered at, moi exsoeding
stx or nine pence stetliag. IL their sta mep,s be ,rue
mere Ia but one way by which they could arrive a,
'ha' khSwiedRe, by having access 10 the invoices.
wien, by the prefeni appraised eDt law. are deposited
a the Custom FfOuse. What. right lad the msnufac-
'u!ers' Committee to know the contents of an imp,rt.
his goods. ~