Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1842-12-23
Letter from Hon. III. Everett.
WINDSOR, Nov. lS42.
To the Editors of the W. Mercury:


GENTLEMEN,--There appears to be yet
some misunderstanding as to the amount OF
protection afforded by the Tariff of the last
session to the wool-growers, which desire
to correct, through the columns OF your pa
per. 1t is subject in which the farmers OF
this state are deeply interested, and as the
repeal of the Tariff is to be the leading
object of one of the great parties, it is desi-
rable they should know the value Of the sub
iect in contest Having had some agency
in relation to the protection ofthe wool-grow-
er, cannot feel Indifferent TO the danger of
the threatened repeal. The Tariff Bill, as
reported by the Committee of Ways and
Means, laid duty of 5 per cent on all wool
costing 8 cents and under, per pound, and
80 per cent on all other wool on the foreign
value and charges Of Importation, including
commissions Excepting insurances).
The effect of the last provision is to raise
the duty on wool costing
3 cents, from 5 to Ga per cent.
8 " Otto 81 10
10" d" 80 to 81 Sc
By an amendment, none but coarse wool
is admitted under the 5 per cent. duty, and
by another amendment the cost is limited to
cents. So that now none but coarse wool,
costing Z cents and under, is admitted under
the 5 per cent. duty. The term coarse will
exclude Merno Wool Of all grades, and the
best of the staples of native WOOL it was in
tended, particularly, to meet the mixed
grades imported from Buenos Ayres.-
Another amendment had the same object
1t provided that if wool of different kinds
was imported in different bales, but in tho
same invorce and at the same price, the ad
yalorem duty should be levied on the whole
according to the value of the hest bale. i
had been practiced to import five kinds o
wool in separate bales, but at the same price
viz the average price Of the whole. Thl
enabled the importer to enter the whole at
price under 8 cents. But under these TIVE
amendments, all telling wool will be exclud
ed from admission under the per cent. duty
The coarse long wool used principally TO
blankets and carpets, does not very meterial
" compete with any portion of our WOOL
The short telling woods, though coarse, d.
in some degree compete with portion Q
ours. They are used in the manufacture Q
satinets and negro cloths. There are, how
ever, two considerations to oppose to thi
competition. The first is, that if coarse Ion
wool was excluded, the manufacturers art
ces would come in, in their place and tn
second is, that it is necessary to yield some
thing to other interests to strengthen our OWL
We we're alarmed at the great importatio
of telling wool in lS41, from Buenos Ayre
under 8 cents, and free of duty. The ave
age prices before referred to, and the 10
prices there, occasioned by long bloc kad
alone enabled the importers thus to impo
it, and assert my belief that, hereafter, n
wool that our manufacturers will use II
making felted cloths, can be imported fro
that place as low as cents nor even III
der 10 cents.
The effect of all these amendments will
to raise the duties on the low priced hr
woods, and including most if not all the fel
ing woods from Buenos Ayres, as follows
By another amendment a specific duty OF
cts per Id. was added to the advalorem duty
81 mr. ~ mills ri m