New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-30
Passage Of .he Tariff Bill.


xenpcr the following letter from the Capitol
WASHINGTON Saturday Evening, August 9Th, ls42
My dear sir:-Rejoice rejoice the day dawns !!
The Tariff bill has passed the Senate, with amend
,nents By a vote of "a TO %. This will gladden.
the hearts Of ,housands-the whole country VIII
rejoice. Let our country cheer up Business VIII
revive, and thousands will be saved from lrretrieV
able ruin Prosperity will be restored-every
thing will go ahead. To some it was great sacr'-
fee TO rclinquish Distribution, even Temporarily.
but the necessities of the Country made the sacrl
fce necessary. II the Wings are sustained this
great measure will be restored.
The amendments will no doubt, be concurred
in BY the House, and the bill be sent to the Pres-
dent on Monday Congress will, probably ad-
iourn on Wednesday, having accomplished the
great measure of the session John iyler VIII
not, dare not veto the bill. iours tfuiy'
So the Tariff has passed the Senate, and we do
not doubt that the amendments of that body were
Yesterday concurred in by the House or surrender
ed. and that the bin at once went to the Presi-
dent whose signature was not considered doubt
full. We may confidently anticipate that before to-
morrow merning it will have become the law OF
the land.
Under other circumstances we should heartily
congratulate the country on the passage OF TINS
bill, imperfect as it is. But the abandonment OF
the duty on tea and Coffee and the reductions made
in the Senate of the duties Iron, Watches, Sill
YER Ware. &C., have rendered the bill less valuable
to tho country than it might have been, while the
surrender of the Land Distribution is heavy
weight in the balance against the good which re-
mains in it. And yet the bill will do something
nav, it will do much, to relieve the people from
their endorsements, restore employment 30 Ia
dustry, activity to business, and prosperity to the
country. Thanks, then, thousand feryent thanks
TO the gallant Wings in Congress who have tram
pled in the dust their own honest pride, who have
sacrificed their own outraged feelings, and not
been repealed, even by the appearance OF bending
abiectly 20 such thing as John Tyler. from doing
whatever was in their power for the relief OF the
Country
The bill passed by majority Of one, DC we ex-
pected-Messrs. Archer, Clayton Henderson, and
Mangum not caring to PROSTATE themselves need
lessly beneath the wheels of the Veto car, though
either would probably and two of them certainly
have voted for the bill if it had been necessary.
With the Land Distribution preserved all these
would have voted for the bill. Messrs. Crittenden
surrender of tho Distribution. Messrs. Berrisn,
Preston and Rives are Free Trade Wings, so far
as they are Wings at ALL and 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 this night only,
by particular desire. as the playbills have it, the
votes of Messrs. Buchanas and Sturgeon of Pa.
uilz;ams of Maine, and Wright of New-York.
These men, having before pretended that adherence
to the Land Distribution was the only obstacle to
the passage of a Tariff, were virtually bound to
see the bill through now that the Lands had been
given up The way they did it was characteristic
of the school of politics 10 which they belong.
After voting for almost every proposition offered
by their Looo-Foco colleagues to kill the bill in
detail by cutting down nearly every Protective
duty. including Mr. WRIaHr's own motions to
change the duty on Silk Goods from $21 per pound
to 80 per cent.-in effect to legaze the frauds in
the Importation of Silks which are new so gene
ral-to strike out the specific duties by weight or
cut or pressed glass, and insert 80 per cent. &C
{ valoren--with Mr.. Woodhury's to reduce all du
ties to 25 per cent. in l845, and Messrs. Benton
and Kings to destroy the minimums on Woolen'
and let them in at swearing rates, Sc. &c-thess
gentlemen, having thus shown their good will K
their Free Trade colleagues, denoancing and re
sisting Protection in detail to the utmost, tur,
square round and vote for the bill which they hat
been unable to destroy! On what grounds LIE
us hear them set forth by Mr.. WRIaAr, as re
ported in TIE Globe:
"Mr WRIGHT placed his vote for, bill upon the groxn
that bill necessaryto the Disorders
condition oil The finances dependent now solely col
lecons under law against which protest was enere
germ oi bsaaoa, which he ieoIed upon a. counter
balancing the justes su in its Protective features
:Aca he frsnosaed spurious TO the agricultural aud Con,
,nsrciai STATE snly partially
20 The Manu- featuring classes"
Such is the language held by Sila. Virgil TO
the ear of the South, though he does not back i
by his vote, lest he should excite the indigna,o,
of as constituents and ALLEVIATE the North from tn,
support of Van Buren,. Hi. reasons, as herr
given, are grossly contradictory and selfdestroy
ing fla Protective Tariff is indeed injurious Il
the Agricultural and Commercial interests, it vii
not cure the disordered condition ofhe Finances
but make il worse. What he anticipated and votet
for will come to pass precisely because what h
pronounced is false and absurd. But do no
forget, Farmers aud Laborers of Newly ork tina
sSilas Uright pronounces Protection injurious tt
the Public Interests, and did his utmost TO ex
plunge i, from the bill. Do no. forget that thi
same Silas Wright intends to be reelected to The
Senate this winter by Loco-Foco Legislature
and that the success Of his party viii be the down
fall OF Protection, Wheat. growers. Wool. grow
ers Salt manufacturers remember it.
aAssAcHUsErrs.-The Legislature of Massa