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WWR PRB SIS
MR.. CLAY'S OPINIONS ON TIE
SUBJECT OF THE TARIFF.

We find in tibet Georgia Journal, which We
received yesterday. the following highly in
teresting documents, on the subject of Mr..
Ciay's course and opinions upon the Tariff.
We regard the opinions which Mr.. Clay cx-
presses, in this correspondence, in relation to
Revenue and Protection, as the opinions
that arc entertained by the great body of tho
Wings of these United States. Tic prin-
e'plo is that tho proceeds Of the Public
Lands. belonging rs that fund does TO tho
People Of the States, shall DC distributed to
the S'ates-'ha. all the expenses Of the gov
eminent, adjusted upon a scale Of strict econ.
omy, shall be betrayed from the revenue do.
rived from duties imposed upon foreign inn
Portland that those duties shall be 50 mr..
ranged as to give protection to our domestic
products and industry, against the restrictive
policy, and raupcr labor, of foreign coun.
tries. This is our doctrinc-and it is wL,,
We understand to be the true Wing doc.
'rine. THIS is tho policy that we have been
striving to establish in the country-and il !.
the policy for the permanency of which we
mean assiduously to contend. The pres son,
Tariff is essentially based upon the pr;nc;.
pie which we have here advnrced. Fx,c.
rienee OF its operation may have suggested
amendments in some of its details. Tbc
foundation, however, is sound. Tn il, oper.
alton, tho existing Tariff has performed
wonders tor the country. 1t has far exceed.
co. III rs benefits, the most exalted expccta.
tons OF the most sanguine of its supporters.
'!has won' for the Protective System gener.
ally, the favor Of a great number of South.
ern and Western Wings, who came reluc-
family to the support of a system which has
heretofore been considered adverse to the
leading interests of their section of the coun.
try. This Tariff will have done, Jus, what
&c understand Mr.. Clay 10 think a Tariff
ought to do. 1t will have produced rev..
nue sufficient 10 defray the expenses, of car
rying on the government, on a system of III.
d'c'ous economy, not inconsistent with an
adequate support of IFS various departments.
i'w'l' have excluded from our country a vas,
amount OF surplus foreign manufactured
eooos' winch were not necessary for con.
sumption, and the payment for which would
have tended to impoverish tho country. II
will have corrected the defects. without de.
s'roy'ng the basis Of our foreign trade, II
has furnished protection to most If tho
branches of our domestic products, and our
nome industry. 1t has infused new life into
our business, and caused the hear, of III.
'aborer to leap for joy. Thi. Tariff, with
OIL It's benign influences, was a Wing meas.
ure' 1t was s'rcnuousIy opposed, in Con.
eres', ny the leading men of the Loco Fo-I
co party. While the cry Of Repeal is heard
from the ranks of The other party, the Wings
stu abide by the Tarif-and they intend.
II any effort Of theirs will do it, to save this
great Conservative measure from the merci-
less attacks Of its opponents, the Loco Fo.
co Des'ructives. Among the States which
have heretofore been considered rs enter.
tanning a settled hostility to the system of a
Protective Tariff, and which have since OK.
h'o'ted strong symptoms of a change ofopin.
ion on that subject, none stands more promi.
"cnt than the State Of Georgia. The Wings
OF Georgia have done themselves high hon.
or. A great revolution of opinion has taken
place in that State. Georgia is now a good
Wing State. Georgia is now a Tariff State
in favor of protecting the products and
tho labor Of our country. Georgia is for
HENRY CLAY. Her vote will assurcdly be
given for him, in 1874, as Prcsiden. of the
United States. We find the following doc.
uments in the Georgia Journal, and we
transfer them 10 our columns, for the infor.
nation Of our readers.
For the Georgia Journal.
To the EDiroRs:-It will be recollec,ed tina, a
very few days before the last general election in this
State, an extract of a letter from The Hon. II. Ci,v,
TO MessIs Joel Branham and Robert Bledsoe. WIS
ny them, presenting his views on the sub.
leet oil n Tariff in n very odious light. The choIe
iel'eI was witnheid from the public, because, as al
|sged,, that ne had requested no part of il should be
published; Immediately applied to MIR. CLAY for a
copy OF the correspondence; he inclosed me a letter.
directed 10 those gentlemen, requiring Them to give
to me, or amy other friend a copy of his letter to
them. ! applied to the gentlemen ACCORDINGLY. and
met with every favorable disposition from Gen. Bled.
soc, to comply with the demand. DR.. Branhnm per
ilnaciously. persisted in his refusal to do Nj. CLAW the
justice he demnnded-and ii was alone by the perse-
verance OF Gen. Bledsoe, who permitted no honora.
bile exertlon TO pass wi,hou, making il, tina, he Oh.
tanned . copy Of the letter from DR.. Branham. in
whose possession the original was, and which he has
furnished to me. From him | have obtained a copy
both Of which ] send you for publication. / likewise
send you extracts from Mr.. Clay's letter to me, from
oil Of which his sentiments ana views on the Tariff |
question will be fully seen. No man who read the
garbled extracts which were published, would ever
have supposed that they came from The letter which