Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-10-06
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
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The Tariff.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT

we can hardly open newspaper from any part
of the country, without meeting with the most
cheering evidences of the good the "Whig" Ia
riff is doing. In spite of the evil augures of Lo-
cotocoism, in spite of their hopes that this mea-
might fail of the intended effect is rapidly
producing change, and highly beneficial one
in the country. The abused and vifed Wing
Congress, the only one we have vet had, has pro-
duced this state ofthings. The Locos know that,
and hence their unwillingnesS TO acknowledge the
fact. These gentlemen, the leaders we mean.
would prefer, greatly, seeing the Ship of State
stranded, TO seeing it safely navigated by Wing
pilots.
In order to obviate the effect that the improved
condition of the country must inevitably work upon
the public mind, it is gravcly stated that the pre-.
sent influx of prosperity has taken place in spite OF
the tariff: that the country has fiourished in spite
of the asringent qualities of the restrictive sys.
tenn; (that, we believe, is the phrase.) Ii has
fiourished, thcn-that is admitted. If a PATIENTS
languishing unto DEATH under the treatment of one
set of physicians, and, in fit of desperation, he
dismisses Them and calls in another. under whose
treatment he rapidly RECEIVERS: shall the first squad
of practitioners he allowed to say, that his revival
is taking place IN spite of the remedies of their
Successors! We are disposed to think that the pa.
tent himself, at any rate, in case of a relapse.
would be apt 10 call in those whose physic had
done him no harm; had not prevented his recove-
~, If it has had no active effect in producing it.
A plain statement of facts, is worth all the the
ories of all the sky-scrapng abSracioniSts in the
universe. The tariff. by the compromise bill. TO
insure the peace of the country, was subjected to
a gradual reduction. The prosperity of the coun-
try declined pdri paSSu, with the decline of duties
until the body polite seemed beyond the reach of
medicine. Wing Congress came in, the tariff
bill rs II now stands, was passed and the prosper-
~ of the country began TO revive! In other
WORDS when we have had no tariff, or scarcely
any, we have always been in decline; when we
have had one, have invariably been in a flour
ishing condition. We appeal to the history of the
country for the truth of this statement; and we
venture, drawing moral from experience, to pre-
dict, that such will always be the case, whenever
our National Legislature shall have the folly to
make other experiments of this nature upon the
country. The experience of this country has been
found TO correspond with that of others. When
the tariff of Russia, was reduced to the free trade
standard, in 1916, ruin and bankruptcy deluged
the country from one end TO the other. 1t was not
until the system was altered-until the tariff of
duties restored, that the nation began TO reco
yer from the fearful effects of this experiment.
In Holland, the effect was the same, under SINH
lar circumstances. In both these countries, as
soon as n new tariff was laid, trade began to re-
vive, in spite of its ''astringen qualities" There
is some propricty in the use of this term All to-
MICS, believe, are asringens, and the tariff of
last session, it must be owned, has acted Us a most
powerful tonic upon this country.
We would again remind our friends, that we are
not in favor, nor we believe is any reasonable
Wing, of a high Protective Tariff! We wish
only to let the present rate of duties stand as they
are, confident that they are amply sufficient for
all the purposes OF revenue and protection. So
confident are we of the necessity of a tariff that
were it not from motives of patriotism, we would
wish the DcNructireS to have their way in the
next Congress. We would wish to see the tariff
abolished, that the nation might find, bv expert
ence, how soon its affairs would relapse into the
same state Of confusion, from which they are Just
emerging This, we are convinced, would have
the effect Of convincing all minds, and of eradca.
ting forever, the preJudices which have been care
fully instilled into the public mind, by Demago.
CUES, for their own selfish and wicked PURPOSES
The country would soon rise up en- Hlassc, and de-
mand a tariff; it would be laid, by reclamation I:
and for the future, it would be beyond the reach Of
DemagoglIes. But, i'm the meantime such indyi.
dual misery must occur, as humanity shudders TO
contemplate. For this reason, and this alone, we
hope the next Congress will not NEEDLE with the
Tariff. Fit should do so, we have no doubt that
would be the first step towards settling it finally