Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-05-28

suppose the uuty on molaSSeS mas Deen reduced
from ten to five cents on the gallon, without the
intention of further reduction,--s there n free
trade in. the article The Patriot must recollect
that the wings had a majority in, and of course
controlled the action ofthe United States Senate,
from the time Jackson first came into power to
the year 1885. We should like to know if it was
the 'efforts of the illustrous Jackson that in
duced Wing Senate to go for a reduction of
duties
An exploring voyage is next commenced in
pursuit of the ''free-trade measures of the little
footsteps follower but the voyager soon found
himself wandering on unknown seas, in pursuit
of shadows; and after beating about while, midst
clouds and mists, he returns to port without hav-
ing entered solitary discovery upon his log
book. Nothing but a few mock suns were seen
in all the wide waste that surrounded him. But
was gained by the excursion, for We
no longer left in doubt about what constitutes
these famous ssmeasures that produced such I'M
paralleled activity in the cotton trade the present
year. We are distinctly told that they are made
up of three treaties of commerce formed by Mr..
Van Buren,. One with Siam and Muscat, little,
half savage nation fin Arabia, with which we
have but pery lille direct trade-so little that the
Secretary of the Treasury takes no notice of it
in hs tables of imports and exports, laid before
Congress. An other of these Treaties was
formed with Sardinia. Our trade with Sardinia
in 1888 was as follows:-Value of imports the
sum of s51 dollars. Exports to-
nothing. The third and last of these ssfree trade
was treaty with the Peru Bolivian
Confederation In 1887 Peru, account of in
ternal dissentions, was placed under the protee.
ton of Bolivia. A revolution took place, as
there does almost every year in some part of
South America, and of course a new treaty had to
be formed Our neighbor must be sorely pressed,
when his much yaunted "free- trade measures
dwindle down to such miserable apologies for the
substance
These Treaties have not taken single ship out
of the cotton business. We should like, there
fore, to be informed, how they have operated, to
produce such great advance on freishts took
place last winter There is another treaty, in the
formation of which Mr. Van Buren, took a prom.
inant part, not set down ia the above list of his
great deeds, which if the Patriots new system of
Political Economy he correct, is sufficient, per-
haps, ofitselfto account for the whole matter We
mean his Hest India Treaty, which gave new
facilities to British ships to enter ports, and
compete with our own, in the freghting bust
ness.
But it is said Mr. Van Buren, has open ed new av-
enues for our Tobacco trade. which will be Of
"great advantage How stands this matter? In
1887 the Tobacco planters finding their trade re-
sricted and embarrassed in all directions ASS embed
m Convention TO consult measures for relief
They found the most enormous duties laid on To-
bacco by those countries with which we have the
greatest trade, while are admitting Injuries from
hose countries free Of duty. The revenue raised
by Great Britain alone, by duties on tobacco from
The United States, amounts to over sixteen millions
Of doltars-doube the home valuation of the whole
export. France receives but little Of our tobacco,
whilst we receive seventeen millions dollars
worth of her exports duty free, fourffths of which
are luxufies. The tobacco planters have been
pressing their cause year after year, with great in
dustry and perseverance, and all they have yet OBJ
tanned is the liberty of sending, favorable terms,
'''S" ''Af'o 'o 'ho uohHpohs VI IttI0, uespOtlc,
third or fouth rate power on the Medter anean.
Talk about free trade II sounds pretty, and NAV
have charm eor some ears, but how can a country
be built up, and made free from condition, worse
than colonial dependence, by opening its ports and
giving fee admit,ance to the productions of foreign
countries, while the ports of those countries are
closed against the productions Of our own country.
II is time enough to talk about free trade when
be made mutual. The actions Of Gen. Jackson and
Mr. Van Buren, afford better test to their principles,
than volume Of assertions from the Patriot. Gen.
jackson was in the Senate Of the United States in
1924 and voted for the high tariff law adopted in
that year.
The still higher tariff of 1928, was supported by
Mr.. VAN buren,, Vice President Johnson, Mr.
Benton, Mr. Wright, and Mr.. Buchanan. These
Names are all held in great reverence by every true
loco. Whose theory 10 to be adopted! The theory
of these leaders, the magi of the party. or the heo-
ry ofthe-Lincoln- Patriot. We have some letters
written by General Jackson in favor Of tariff,
which, with other matters, we must lay by for the
present. We will add, that every President from
Washington, down, has expressed an opinion in ia
vor Of a tariff of protecting duties.
GREAT UNNATURAL PHENOMENON.
The late Treaties with Sardinia, Muscat and
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