The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-26
From the Richmond Enquire
THE URSA MAJOR!

| The National Intelgencer says, that "some
important amendments to the geeat Tariff BiU
| though agreed to in committee of the whole
were rejected by the House, among them, thai
embracing the warehousing system, and that
which exempted the articles of tea and coffee
from duty, which articles, among the u1aenun1e-
rated articles in the bill as it passed, are sub
jected TO an ad valorem duty of twenty per
cent" Coffee and tea are to be liable to the
duty-we have seen it stated for years.
The Washington Correspondent of the N. Y.
New Era states, that "the long agony is over,
and that the bill has passed the House, which
VIRTUALLY repeats the proviso in the Distribution
act, by which it was made condition that, In
case duties on any articles should at any time be
raised to exceed 20 per cent, the distribution
should cease and the land funds BE- restored to
the treasury of the Union. The duties under
the present bill more than double The 10 per
cent. of the Compromise act; and the plghted
faith which obtained the passage OF the Distr-
button law, only by inserting that condition, IS
| now violated; the duties are raised above 20
per cent, and the condi tional clause Of the Dis
trbution act repealed. So much for the plight
ed faith of the Wings, that thu Compromise act
should MOI be disturbed"
But the Wings have been warned IN vain.
They have been sufficiently appraised that
Mr.. Tyler will not sign the bill, with the Distr-
button clause in it. 1t is in vain for the Wash
ington Correspondent of the New York Elk
press, under date of the 18th, to say that
"nany who have thought that he would give
the mea sure his much too ready VETo, are now
of the opinion that he will give it his reluctant
approval" He will Veto it as certainly as 1t
goes to him. 1t is in vain that the same Cor
respondent calls upon him to sign it and consult
the behests Of Congressman he tells hun ITO
resist the will OF Congress upon the bill soon to
be presented for his signature, will be TO resist
the will of the People that the moral and po'
litical effect will be suicide to himself, injury TO
his friends, and last, little short of ruin to his
Administration )" that he affects to caution him
against ''those evil counseors that hover about
him in the guise of frenship, tempting him to
evil, for the love of eviIn The scribbler for
the New York Express threatens Mr. Tyler in
vain--for he is fixed as fate, and will do his du-
ty He will stand to the spirit and principles of
the Compromise act Of '33-and to the spirit
and letter of the Distribution act of 1910. No
apprehension of the denunciations of the Wings
no mstrust OF the People will induce him to
veer from the position he has taken.
But Dhat neat? The long agony is not over.
A fiery storm of Indignation would follow, of
course, the new Veto. The Wings would
"rave and madden round the land" A vast
quantity of steam would be let off forthwith
Dut Wndt HeAt VI, Us is NOW ousptCteu Wy
some, if the Tariff bill should fail between the
two Houses, without going up to the President
1.-The Senate striking out the Distribution clause,
and the Wings in the House then laying the
bill on the table What nextl Then, IN either
of these events would come on the tug OF war
Will the Wings dare to adjourn their Houses,
without raising further revenu, without pass
ing any revenue bill at all It's impossible
that their folly Infatuated as they already are)
can 60 thus far They would be immediately
recalled by Presidential Proclamation and
they scarcely dare refuse to come at the call oil
the Constitutional Chief Magistrate. They may
affect TO despise John Tyler as much as they
please. Heaven knows, that they have not been
very chary in their expressions towards the man
whom they dared to denounce as Traitor
but they could not thus yield to their angry pas
sions towards him, with impunty The People