The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-25
From the Richmond Enquirer
THE URSA MAJOR

THE URSA MAJOR
The National Inelligencer says, that 'some
important amendments TO the geeat Tariff Bill,
though agreed TO in committee of the whole,
were rejected by the House; among them, that
embracing the warehousing system, and that
which exempted the articles of tea and coffee
fromduty, which articles, among the unenume-
rated articles in the bill as it passed, are sub
Jected to an dd 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"
ana that the bill has passed the House, which
virtually repeas the provso in the Distribution
act, by which 1t was made a 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 pighted
faith which obtained the passage Of the Distn-
button law, only by inserting that condition, is
now violated; the duties are raised above 20
per cent, and the conditional clause Of the Dis
tribution act repealed So much for the plight
ed faith of the Wings, that the Compromise act
should not be disturbed"
But the Wings have been warned in vain.
They have been sufficiently apprsed that
Mr.. Tyler will not sign the bill, with the Distri-
button clause IN 1t. Ii is in vain for the Wash
ington Correspondent of the New York Ex-
press, under date of the 18th, to say that
''many who have thought that he would give
| the measure his much 100 ready VETO, are now
of the opinion that he will give ii his reluctant
approval" He will Veto it as certainly as it
| goes to him. Ii Is in vain that the same Cor
respondent calls upon him to sign it and consult
the behests of Congressional he tells hun ''to
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'
litica effect will be suicide to himself, injury to
his friends, and last, little short of ruin TO his
Administration y 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 evil" 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 lS4O No
apprehension of the denuncal ions Of the Wings
no srust Of the People will induce him to
veer from The position he has taken
But ,Ohat ne.rt2 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 of forthwith.
But what next2 Or, as is now suspected by
some, if the Tariff bill should fail between the
two Houses, without gong up to the President
the Senate striking out the Distribution clause
and the Wings in the House then laying the
bill on the table! What next? 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? lis impossible
that their folly Infatuated as they already are)
can 20 thus far They would be Immediately
recalled by a Presidential Proclamation-an
| they scarcely dare refuse 10 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 thel 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 IMMUNITY. The People
will hold them TO fearful responsibility for their
mlsdeeds. They dare not indulge their affected
| contempt for Mr. 4 yler, at sucn hazard-especl-
| ally, as he may In few days be surrounded by
| a sense of public service, which events now on
| the wing may bring with theu-and by con-
sequenl al force with the People, which no
nluriated party will be at liberty to despise.
But if the Clay, Distribution Wings choose to
incur the penalty, why the rum be on their own
heads
|
| Wings should become too ultra for any fair
comuromise or "just Tariff" bill. From the
| Distribution Wings we expect nothing but mis-
| chief-and the Thrift members have as lille 10
expect. They cannot pass Revenue bill with
| Distribution in it, The Senate may prevent 1t
or, if they do not, the Executive will. But
an enormous Tariff bill, like the one which has
| Just passed the House of Representatives, the
Democratic members can not support (and II Is
said that every Democrat oted against 1t, except
Mr. Parmenttr, of Massachusetts, The De
mocrats cannot vote for such bill. For 1t Is
too oppressive in It's exactions-and restriction
is written In every line Oft. The over-estimat-
ed value of the coarse cotton alone amounts to
a prohibition OF their lmportation--to an embaf-
go-lo a partial non-intercourse. We address
ourselves therefore, 10 the good sense OF those
members who represent in part manufacturing
| interest but who will not be mad enough, like
the Clay iactionl,ts to sickle out for the Distri-
button We ask those cool and calculating
members what can they expect from so ultra
| bl2 The Democratic members cannot vote
for it, In all PROBABILITY, 1t will iaI because the
Dlstributionlsts are not likely to vote Tor IT. and
| the Democrats cdnnot from the enormity ol It's
eyactIons But If the Wing DlslrIbuuouists
| should even vote for il, what thenl The very
character of the act will abrIdge It's existence
lst 1t reduces the revenue 2ndly. IL will urge
every friend OF the revenue, as well as OF free
trade, TO press It's Immediate repeal. There Is
20 mlst,ke about This. 3dy. The manuiactu-
rers will be blind TO their own interests to carry
SO oppressive a Tariff The effect would be- to
| raise up more manufactures, which would come
INTO competition, and BRING ruin on each other.
They would then press higher and prohibitory
duties and the consumers everywhere would