The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-09-06
From tho N. Y. Tribune.
Passage GG the Tariff" EsiHl.

AZ - CLOCK yesterday we received by mesSen l
ger the following letter from the Capitol:
WAsHINeToN, Saturday Evening, Aug. 81. 1912.
My tear Sir: Rejoice rninice the day dawns
Tho Tariff Bill has passed tho Senate with amend
monts, by vote of "a TO 23. THIS will gladden.
tho hearts of thousands-the whole country will
rejoice Let our country cheer up: business will
revive, and thousands will be saved from irreriev>
able ruin, Prosperity will be restored-every
thing will 60 ahead TO some it was a great sacri
hce to renquish Distribution, even temporarily,
but The necessities Of the County mnde The
fee necessary. If the Wings sustained, this
great measure will be restored
The amendments will, no doubt be concnrred in
by the House and the bill 10 sent to the President
on Monday. Congress will, probably, adjourn
Wednesday, having accomplished the greH. meas
Of the session. John Tyler will not, dare not
veto the bill Yours truly
Thanks, then thousand fervent thanks to the
gallant Wings in Congress who bayo lramped in
the dust their own honest pride, who have sacri
feed their own outraged feelings, and not been
repealed, even by tho appearance Of beuding abs
joctly to such thing as John Tyler, from dong
whatever was in their power for the relief Of the
Counirv
The bill passed by majority of one, as
pcced- MGssrs. Archer, Clayton, Henderson, and
Mangum not caring to PROSTATE themselves need
lrssly beneath the wheels of the Veto car, though
either would propabiy and two of them certainly
have voted FOR the bill iii had hecn necessary
would have voted for the bill MessIs. Crit,enden
and Morehead of Ky. did so, bitter as was Tho
render Of the Distribution Mcssrs. Berren, Pres
ton and Rlves are Free Trade Wings, far as
they wings ut Land would have voted against
any Protective Tariff. But these we could have
spared In the face Of our four staunch and true
men, we have obtained 'for tins night only, by par
ticuar desire, as the playhis have it, the votes of
Nlessrs Buchanan and Sturgeon of Pa. Williams OF
Maine, and Wright Of New York. These men
having before pretended that adherence to the
Land Distribution was the only obstacle to the pos
sage OF a Tariff, were virtual bound to tho
bill through, now that tho Lands bad been given
up The way they did ii was characteristic Of the
school Of politics To which they belong. After vo
ting for almost every proposition offered by their
Locooco colleagues to kill the bill in the detail hy
cutting down nearly every Protective duty, nclu-
ding Mr. virgins own motions to change tho duty
on Silk Goods from 81 50 per pound to 30per cent
in effect. to leGallze the frauds in the Imports
lion OF Silks which are now so generai-to strike
the specific duties by weight cut pressed
glass, and insert 30 per cent ad va'orem--w'lh
Mr.. Woodhurv's reduce all duties 10 20per cent
in lS45, and Mess's Bcntons and Kings to de .
stroy the mnimuins on Wooiens and let them IN
AT swearing rates, &c. &c.--these gentlemen, hav
ing thus shown their goodwill with their Free
Trade colleagues, denouucing and resisting Protec
ton IN deiaii to the utmost, square round and
vote for tho bill which they had boon unable to de
sroy! On what grounds9 Let us hear them sci
forth by MIR WRIGHT as reported in The Globe;
| "Mr. Wright placed his vote for The bill upor
the ground that some revenue bill necessary t
cure the dsordernd condition of the finances, de
pendent now solely upon collections under n law
| against which protest was entered on every pay
mcni; and means of roofing out the germ o
Distribution, W hich he looked upon as counterbal
ancng The injustice Of The biH in ats Pr0CciDe fe0t
ures achich he pronounced injnrio"s to tie .4grica
turai and Commercial classes IF has State, md oml!
partially advantageous to The .Nanufactri ing class
| eS."
Such is tho language held by Sitas Wright for tn
ear of the South, though he does not back it b.
his vote, lest he should excite the indignation o
his constituents and alternate the North from III
support OF Van Burcn. His reasons, here given
are grossly contradictory and sclf-desiroying. If
Protective Tariff is indeed injurious 10 tho Agricu
tural and Commercial interests, it will not ''cnr
the dsordereJ condition Of the Finances, 'bnt max
If