Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-09-09

TIE last number Of the Creole ap.o,.
what the editor calls en- answer and e,ot.
nation of some questions which we oL.
the liberty of asking. But il realv =,
swers but one question and that one, .,
tirely unimpor.ani; we knew there wsr.
too many reasons why the editor did No,
publish the present British tariff, to Cars
much which one prevented it. What v.
principally wished 10 know was, whatbs
meant by saying his tariff table would b.
useful in enabling his wing friends "tO lie.
iutc the representations Of the free trade
loco focos." He certainly must have
meant that some false representations had
been made, else why attempt to reluie
them? We wished to know what misrep
reservations had been made. We know Of
none, of which The free trade men have
been guilty, nor 90 We believe the edilu,
of the Creole does. THIS is the answer 10
our request for information:
"But the meaning of our remarks &C.
companying the table of tariffs, will b
easily understood by any wing, il there are
any who did not originally, who may hear
loco tocos eXpatiate from the stump or in
the street. On the bject Of the tariff, and
a reference to the table will then establish
its value"
II will be seen that this is no answer 4,
all. The explanation is more uninteligi.
Bile than the remark-at least to US; that
perhaps though may be applicable in th.
way: the Creole says it "wil be readily
understood by any whig." Well, if it sa
family secret we wish not 10 pry into il,
but we must lie allowed to say that there
was little magnanimity and less prudence
in making charges ofialse representations
against political opponent, which the ed.
iior would not or could not point out. He
says there are "numbers who pretend 10
know all about the tariff, who are ignOr.
ant that tariff acts existed from 1916 10
lS42.' Though slightly exaggerated
there is some degree of truth in the re.
mark, and it is one of the very things Of
which we SO much complain. The per.
sons of whom he speaks are his political
friends, and if they would only examine
the subject little, they would abandon The
senseless and exploded theory, which. un.
der the dclusive name Of protection to
home industry" has long enabled cIsss
Of cunning md powerful monopollsts to
trample on the rights of the community
But we viii not g. into an argument on
this point now. SO far from "having eS
planned and answered satisfactorily" the
editor Of the Creole having not answered
Al al, we might we'll decline replying to
his interrogotorics untl he hid answ rcd
ours; and We might decline on another
ground still stronger, that our op'ni MS ale
not of sufficient Importance to the commu'
nifty, that they sh ,uld lie made knownn
obedience 10 especial solicitation. On
this ground We sought no opinions from
the editor, we only asked an explanation
Of charges which he made against polit.
cal association to which. VIC Belonged
We might decline on the further ground
that the editor of the Creole never reads
our paper, or he would have deemed his
questions unnecessary, as in lis columns
they-cspeciolly the first the secondb by
inference-have been answered fully and
repeatedly. But as we have a just con-
tempt for every thing that looks like eva
sion or cquivoca,ion, the qnes ions shall be
answered. The Creole inquiries if we arc
Sin favor of tariff sufficient TO pay the
expense of the general government, after
deducting the land fund-or in favor OF
Free Trade, actually, and the necessary
consequence of raising revenue by d.
rect taxation?" We are in favor of Ia
riff for revenue, without deducling the land
fund, and by consequence we arc not IN
favor of direct taxation. The land lund
is one of the sources from which the treas
ury should be enabled to meet tho debts
Of the government, and its diversion to
any other object is but another of those
frauds by which the restrictlonlsts have
souobt TO raise the tariff, and rob the mass
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