New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-25
The Tariff bill.


The Tariff Bill.
Il was the general impression in this city yes
,erday. MS in Washington on Tuesday, that the Ia
riff bill which has passed the House viii also pass
the Senate and be signed by John Tyler. Indeed,
a Loco.Feco U. S. Senator who arrived here yes
,erday expressed his conviction that the bill is by
this time law. We think not. 1t may have
been reported and taken up in the Senate yester-
day, but there is no Previous Question or other
time.saving machinery there, and Mr.. Benton will
not allow any Tariff bill to pass without favoring
the public with his Sal, Speech again, at the least,
which will stimulate MIR. Calhoun to reproduce his
string of metaphysical distractions then some o!
our sorey-tried Wings will feel constrained to de-
fine their positions. We do not share in the be-
lief that the bill will be materially amended, though
it may be; yet do not look for the final vote on
it before Friday. Meantime, every indication of
its probable fate viii be watched with intense
anxiety. We cannot yet see where the votes TO
pass it are to come from, though we shall not re-
gret 70 hear that it has passed.
We win not now discuss the propriety or i'm
policy of the course Of the Hsuse. A majority OF
the People probably approve it. since it will some
what alleviate the distresses of the Country; and,
in these days, to buy bread with principle is cs-
eeemed good bargain. And,-regarding the
PROSTATE condition of our great Industrial Inter
es,s, the hopele.sness of present relief except
through some such concession, the earnest aud
pressing demands of 80 many thousands for Pro
lection at any sacri6ce-we can appreciate and
honor the selfdevoting spirit which impelled the
large majority of the Wing Members to surrender
the Land Distribution, even while wo might not
have been able to initiate it. And yet, far as
the case was our OWE merely, we could have
drained the bitter cup Of humiliation; but we
could not after all that has passed, have held it
to the lips of such men ARCHER, and MANGUM,
and CRlrTKNSEN, and MoREHEAD But Neces-
si.y hath no law and if the bill shall pass by the
aid Of these high-hearted men. the ferven:
will be the Nations gratitude for their selfforget
ting Patriotism. The Congress which shrinks not
from any humiliation which the Public Good re-
quires will be cherished ard beloved, when the
traitor to the great principles of Representative
supremacy in legislation and Executive conformity
principles which made him what he is-will
have ceased to be remembered even in execration.
Whatever may be the fate Of the bill, great
poin, will have been gained for the Truth in I'M
masking the hypocrisy of those who pretended
that the Loco-Fosos were friendly to Protective
Tariff, but were repealed by the Land Distribu.
ton. why NOT said even Mr. CUSHING, give
up the Land Distribution, which is party mea-
sure, and let us pass good Tariff, which is mott
The answer is given in the tpenty Locs-F oco votes
Zoo r, ~
pretences their part absolutely compel most
of them to vote yea. Had not the Land Dstribu-
ton been first insisted on, they would not have
given dozen votes for the bill as it is.
There is one view of the subject which will
force itself upon US, and on which we must say
fewwords. The pretext for resisting SO stubbornly
the Land Distribution is the deficiency of Reve-
nue.; and yet, By The giving up Of the Dulles on
Ten and Cefee twice as much ariH for the pre-
ga. be sustracted from the Reoenue as rcould
haze been BIZ the Land Distribution In other
words, the Treasury viii gain One Million and
Quarter by despoiling the States of their rightfu
interest in the Public Domain, while it will lose
Three Millions by admitting Tea and Coffee free
Of duty! And all this is done to increase the
Revenue and pay of the Public Debt simple
Revenue Duty Of twenty per cent. on Tea and
Coffee, which would have produced Three Mil
lions the Treasury without cost of collection
danger of smuggling, and which would never have
been felt by the country, is made the pretext and
the price of depriving the States Of their just and
permanent reliance for cherishing Education and
Internal Improvement. That great National Do
main which ought TO be husbanded and used only
for objects of public and permanent usefulness is
to be drbblSd away from day to day till it is all
gone and nothing to show for it-drank up in our
Cofee-cups, and nobody one furthing the richer
And this is the great end for which Congress has
been humbled and the essential principles of Popu
lar Government outraged! And the men who are
most vociferous for Revenue Duties have been most
clamorous for this exemption, although their Finan
cial leader, Low Woodbury., himself recommended
Duty on Tea and Coffee when Secretary of the
Treasury! And they are to be exempted
that Benton and Calhoun may gamble away the
Public Lands, for Presidential votes with their
schemes of Graduation and Cession Such is the
second united triumph of Tylerism and Loco
Focoisn!
% Gov. SEWARD is stockholdsr in com
pany whioh owns wild lands mainly in the south
wesr part of Chautauque County, which the Erie
Railroad touches on its Northeast corner. The
completion Of the Erie Railroad viii benefit those
lands-,hough no. more we believe, than that OF
the Canal Enlargement AS Governor be be-
ieves that both these grea, works should be push
ed IN m r,plat;on on3 Sn sroaEs IN h;a Messo