Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-10-14

venture stimulates him TO circumvent the feeble police
of an exposed frontier Under Tariff, which aeems
IN some OF It's strange determinations TO have had
especial eye 10 smuggling Inducements We may well
/ look for "reviva III business" What effect it will
have upon the regular dealer, who sells goods uion
hch duties have been paid, upon the revenues, let
time determine
But what prophecy only tie other day, now be
coming fact Witness the following paragraph in the
New York Herald OF the 1ih
"SMUGGIISG FRoNTiER.-We understand
that under the present high Tariff, great apprehen
SONS are entertained, that smuggling will grow up on
the Canadian frontier, TO great extent. To watch and
prevent this deplorable result, the Treasury Depart
ment has appointed Mr. Il. n Parmler, agent Sc
cre mission TO the lines TO watch, detect. and defeat
such nfraction of the laws. He has Just returned
from Canada here he has discovered Interpretations
making to smug.le all hndS Of yo0dS into the Unucd
States, at raroas points Tie lines. He has forwarded
to Washington HIS first report on smuggling and loH
set out tt,o dauS St1c smusgers and their raiu
aLies, in grea, quantities We have long and
rous account 10 give of his recent journey, and the
hair breadth escape Of the smuggers which will be
given in few days Mr.. Parmlee is IN active and
efficient man. when he chooses, and is allowed for his
services, tins important mission, at the rate OF 50
per day. and "roast beei'-being the exnct ulhlment
of the Wing prophecy Of lS4a, with 334 added for
home valuation, under the new Tariff law
| But with oil the alacrity of the officers OF Govern
immense line of frontier which stretches along the
lakes. They defy the armed force and all the
revenue cutters of England, on her own coasts And
yet told, tina, the Tariff policy IS Stuled that
the present law permanent as liked as the laws oil
| the Nedcs and Perssns-and there is not word III
MIR CLAY letter TO cansay the fatal assertion. Glad
are we 10 perceive, however, one ray OF light from
quarter, where least expected 1.-THE New YORK
Courier Eren he is assumed Of the atrocity OF the
bill and Joins in the cry for remission "Proection
4 uInn n Our
should 70 no further than produce active comPe
ttion the American and the Foreign manuiac-
turers and the moment you exceed this point, you dc
stroy the necessary stmuant on the part {" the Amer
can manufacturer, and at the time, PROSTATE the
Commerce ind con sequently the ofhe country
The existing Tariff passed with more than usual
haste: and tie consequence Is, that on very many de
scr;nous oc merchandise the duties Sohigh to be
,u,nous 10 Commerce and injurious to The cause 81
7merican manvtaeurers, because it will tend to render
The manufacturer careless nste ad Of compelling HIM TO
exercise proper economy in the conduc. =" his es.
n ,ablshmeu Thus, for instance, the duty ar0olenS
should under circumstances, exceed thirty per cent
which the manufacturers themselves, admn to DC quite
sufficient for the. protection. Iron may require du
y of forty per cent but not more and IN relation to
very many other articles Nothing be more certain,
than The Wing party in this city and throughput the
States are the friends of domestic industry and the nd
voca,es Of Tariff for protection But We hold 1t to be
equally certan that they will advocate Tariff
which shall amount to prohibition, and consequently,
destroy the commerce of the country aud al the
time encourage wastefuness and unnecessary expend-
lures in the manufacture of American fabrics
/ We are satisfied from all learn This sub
ec that the gradual reduction Of duties down to lsi2
was decidedly beneficial To tie country and is the true
cause of our manufacturing as cheap as we now DO
very extensive ,cooea manufacturer admits, that lie
can get along very we'll with duty OF twenty live per
cent but the time says that the manufacturers
generally should have protection of thirty per cent,
and that all who cannot survive with that DUTY, had
better close at Where this would not be suih
cie nj protection il is solely attributable TO the manuac
turer not having possessed himself of the latest i'm
proven,e nts in machinery aud surely it cannot be sup
posed that Congress will leg'sate for their projection
Under these circumstances, our advocacy Of pro.
tec,iye Tariff will ever be regulated by the simple en-
ouiry-what is the minimum duty which Will enable
our manufactures to flourish without amounting IN a
prohibition the foreign article: Such rates OF duty
we shall always advocate bot not fraction more and
as the present hastily adopted Tariff imposes prohbory
duties on many articles shall certainly call upon
the next Congress amend it, and at the same time
impose duty oil ten or twenty per cent on tea and COT
fec StaJility is every thing for the cause of domestic
manufactures and there be stability, where the
duty on any article is coniessedy prohititory
There is more Justice and common sense and re-
gard even 10 principle in all this, than we generally
see in that or the other Wing papers, and there
fore We hal it with some degree OF satisfaction.
But whatever the New York Courier may say OF
SIR. Clsy's concurrent views, there is not syila
Bile in his letter which counenances such hope
lie approves the law He soitens down lis provisions
He repohates Epeat He closes the door even TO hope
He cha,tc!s indeed, about anne ndueuts, II necessary,
Ac-but does not hmt once al any such ncctSSag-
nor does he 10 admit it--tor, he seems
10 dwell with compacency upon It's PROVISIONS, and TO
place it in the scale below the las OF 80 Indeed, the
whole spirit of his letter is unrlcndiy 10 iEnoyaon.-
But we WILL notwithstanding his omnous voice, dae
TO h0pc and dare TO act In few sor, weeks, Nlrgl
MIA viii speak trumpet ongued through ali her organs
through the meetings OF her People The halls Of
her Legisature-and IN the full chorus Oh her assem-
bed Democratic Convention.
Mr. CLAY affects to play off vet upon ihe Presidential
election It seems, that he has not la ads enough yet
raised in his benalf lie wishes the Wing voice In BE- de-
cared clearly as to put down all oppnstion-to super
sede Messrs. Scott and Webser-nnd In dispense with
all National Conventions. After he had haangued the
million at Dayton (he Wings might as well swell the
promiscuous assemblagc to that number at onceD Mr
r. {. Schenck of Dayton read resolutions nominal
inr HENRY CLAY Tor President, and JOHN DA-
VS. of Massachusetts, for Vice President OF these Z.
States Offering also guaranty that Ohio would vote
for them in A. the re election of THOMAS CoRwiS
Governor in October next. Mr. Clay responded ut
length, waiting his own time IF understood rightly,
says the Correspondent OF the IN. I. tribune, 10
commit himself as Notwithstanding eioqhehtiy
the principles Of the two parties which have divided,
and sti! divide the American people. But let no nan
believe that Caesar means TO put ASIDE the crown lie
is now on visit to lndlana-and on the 9th instant
was To reach indianapolis, where his Wings expected to
br together great number were "congrega'ed
at Dayton" (Well, say a, once two millions } But
Mr. Clay not only speaks, bat writes. Witness his ex-
traordinary reply tie subject Of the Tariff law, to
Messrs Granger, &c. In fact, Mr. Clay has put his
whole soul INTO the contest and TO ABIDE the
hazard of the die. 1t is the last cast, that he will
ever be uble TO make.
The 3 4" Republicans! The "Lynchburg Republl'
can" states from one who knows that MIR. Rives
will not support MIR. Clay for the Presidency The
i" Winchester Republican (Whg J con,rad'c's this
statement; and says "that Mr. Rves, not long since,
stated that he ,coud support Mr. Clay for the Pfesl
dency were he the candidate Of the Wing party. -
The Charo,tesvile Republican suspects that there
must be GONE mistake to the statement of the VIM
chester Republican" We (of the Enqurer) coincide
with our brethren Of Lynchburg and charlottesville
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