The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-06
From the Journal Of Commerce
THE PRESENT POSTURE OF AFFAIRS

1t is one which, like the figure in X kaleidoscope,
could never be anticipated but up from the last
shake of political parties ehave told the manufac-
urers a thousand times that the politicians would de-
sert them with the most entire indifference when he
game of party ascendancy might tempt them 10 dosoi
vet il was quite impossible beforehand to see how that
Jesertion would come about, or when Look at II.
The hiph tanf politicians IN Congress declare that
there il now no law Tor The collection Of any duty at
all ON mporiaons and they also declare that unless
their party arrangements can be carried out they VIII
make none For three years. they say they will leave
the manufacturers entirely exposed to the petngs OF
foreign comp, titiOn. They will not even pass the ne
ces-ery regulations for the enforcement Of the Com
promise acl. This ruin which IL has been SO loudly
proclaimed would ovefwhem the country under a la
riff of revenue merely, Is to be poured upon us with
out even that bindrance. To the manufacturers this
treatment is cruel barbarous. What is to become of
the millions millions OF dollars SO often stated as
inv, stcd in manufactures and the thousands OF per-
sons empoyedl If this immense amount OF property
is to be suddenly thus exposed what will be worthl
Blu, the political friends OF The manufacturers say 1t Is
TO be thus exposed. This Is IL thousand times more
cruel than &c trade for that never recommended less
protection than would he afforded by judIcous tariff
ofrevenue Free Trae will join the manufacturers
against their ungenerous friends Ii the declarations
pleading pol cians true, then In addition TO this
total prosraton OF the manufacturing interests of the
country there be total want OF supplies for the
Government The Army and Navy, aud even The
civil officers of the Government, are to 20 unpaid
Disgrace and shame are TO cover Us on every side
All this goes in one scale, and-what in he other
Why the maintenance ola Wing majority in Congress.
It is for this poor triumph Of party that all these
evils are to be visited upon the country 1t is an
swer to all this to call the President traitor or
fool Suppose he were both are both houses of Con-
gress to commit suicide upon the country for that
The President for some cause has vetoed the little
BILL and he will veto any bill which places the Dis
II. nfh or ttuHA hon Of
which it holds in the Distribution bill Of the extra
session. Is the President weak, and yet strong,
SO contemplate and yet respectable that to break
down his obstnacy or himself, the manufacturers
and the country TO be sacrificed? 1t seems to
II, that the reason, set iorth has nothing to do
with the measures But the truth is, that it requires
these two things together, Distribution and High
Tariff, to sustain Wing supremacy. II both
were given up, the great measures Of great party
would have been abandoned. If the two things are
separated the Wing party Is separated and defeated.
we do not believe the country will consider the game
worth the cost. We think the people will, as they
have already done, require OF any party which has
the power to at least carry on the Government hon
orably and fairly If you cannot get both Tariff and
Distribution take the which you can get; and II
YOU cannot carry high Tariff, carry such one as
YOU are able to carry. Then the country will say
YOU cid what you could But if you refuse to ar
range the revenues of the country, for the sake OF
carrying on boys war with Capt Tyler, our opin
ion is that the people will send other men to Con-
gress the moment they can get at the balotbox
But there is another and brighter view Of The sub
iect The President insists that the present laws enact
tariff Of twenty per cent. on tie home value, To be
paid in cash and he will try at least, to collect it,
This state of the has set great many men tc
figuring out the result of such plan and those who
before have denounced the Compromise act as death
to the manufacturers, have changed their countenan
ces at the result of their figures and declares that th'
said act gives all the protection WIN is desired We
hope certainly if Congress dares To hold out in the
stand which It has TAKEN that this somewhat doubtful
position of the President will be sustained by the Su
preme Court. Certainly the idea of having no tariff
is horrible.