The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1843-04-21
MIppLERuRY, April 18th ls4s.

NV DEAR EAsrMAN--You are terrible To-
iy-foky VERY terrible indeed Now amt you
ashamed of Yourself! | learn by The Watch"a"
ind Burlington Free Press and the M'dd'eou'y
Press, ct id genus ome, that you are OPP
posed 10 tarif-that you want 10 overthrow inc
rhat you are an agraran-a le'ehe''
in short that you are-an-(oh dearo hrr'-
Bile loky roky!!-That you have been telling the
people of Vermont that when they got 10 cents u
pound for their wool under Mr. Van Buren's nd
those were not the ,rorst times that
ever ,rns,--'rhat you have been limiting that the
price of cloths was not so much reduced as The
price of wool-That the Wing TarV secured
high price for cloth blu, does not IA ise the price oil
wool. In short tina, the whole money of the Wing
Tariff comes out of,he pockets oflhe Wool Gro'6-
err and the weaver Of clolh and goes into the PocH
cts Of the ,porthy manufacturer! Now amt 'hehY
very terrible lies,-Do you pretend to say that IT
cents pound for wool in mbig lines, IL not bell
ter than Is cents pound in loku foxy hmH!-
Ask any wing farmer in Vermont
And have heard also, that in your treasoha-
Bile opposition Of tariff, you have run on advance
inc such sentiments as these: '''Ihe customs, then
we see, are tax Immediately paid by the mer-'
chant though ultimately by the consumer, and yet
these are the duties felt least by the people; and,
if pruden,ly managed the people hardly consider
that they pay them at all, for the merchant is easy
ling sensible. tina, he does not puy them for him
self, and the consumer, uho really pays them,
coniounds them with the price Of the commodity.
- But this Inconvenience attends it, on
the other hand, that these uIposls, if too heavy.
are check and cramp upon trade, and esPc-
cially when the value Of the commodity bears lit
tie or no proportion TO The quality Of the duty I'M
posed. There is also another
iH-conssqucnce attending high imposts on mcr-
ch,ndse no! frequently considered, but indispu,a-
bly, certain; that the earlier any tax is laid on a
commodity, The HEAVIER il fulis upon the
COWS U.MER in The end! (what horrible loky
fokyism,) for every TRADER through whose
h,nds it passes. musi hare profit not only upon
the raw material, and his own labor and time in
preparing it, bu, aso upon The rery tar 'istr!
which he adrances 10 the Government otherwise
he loses the interest of the money which he so ad-
vances. To instance, IN The article Of foreign'pa-
per. Tor wool.) The merchan, puys duty on i'm
portation which he does not receive again until he
sells the commodity. perhaps at The end of three
months. lie is therefore equally entitled to
profit upon THAT which he pays at the CUSTOM
house, as TO profit upon the original price which
he pays to the manufacturer, and considers it ac-
cordinsy in The price he demands Of the 'lalioner.
when the saloner sells it again he requires q
prof, Of the printer or book seller upon the whole
sum advanced by him 10 the merchant; and the
bookseller does not forget TO charge the full pro-
portion to the student or ultimate consumer, who,
therefore, dues not only pay the original duty.
but The profit Of these three intermediate traders
who have successfully advanced i, for him. This
might be carried much further in any mechonicul
or more complicated brunch Of t'ade!" What sen.
tiinenis! Crom~ ell! RobesPieue! King Asrppa!
Now don't pretend have quoted yonr own
Mnguage-lhough they nrc the sentiments. as |
understand by the aforesaid wing papcrs,'hat Your
organ Of desiruciireness prompts you 10 pu,
forth from week to week. through The "Sphit Of
the Age" Oh leupora! oh mores Sir, these
are the destructive sentiments, aud the rUy lam
guage ioo,of an old "loky foxy" who wrote in Tho
last ccnlury-one WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
who had the folly to publish his dognms to the
world, under the title Of Commentaries on the
laws Of England. r.. may here be added. MS an
obituary notice, thu, the writer evaporaled in fit
Of horror; for tho have not yet, expec, shall
wi,hou, Doubt LAZARUS.
'sec Blackstone, chap. s, Kings Revenue page ol7 or