The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1843-03-31

"Anived, Gark Trinidad, Ducll. Trinidad, bal
last, brig d. l. swan, Benjamin, 81. Thomas,
BALLAST"
Extract from .'tw Haren Marine List.
The above tells the story Of our foreign trade,
under the new tariff of The wings, so plnn that he
who runs may read. Return cuIgoes Of baliastl!
instead Of salt, sugar, and other West India pro.
duets, that used TO be imported hele-heiore the
pruhibilory duties were put upon them. But say
the wings, we mus, exclude the produce of foreign
countries because they exclude ours And what
has that to do with our trade 10 tho West Indies.
where the ports are open 10 receive from US almost
every thing that we produce' lf some countries
will not lake our exports, it would certainly be
enough TO satisfy the srcnecs, tariff man one
would think, to shut our do0r only on those who
shut theirs on us, the tariff aguncn, goes no far
lher than that. But no, satisfied with this, the
late Congress have put some Of the highest Of their
prohibilory duties, on The products Of countries
Ina, are, and have been willing TO exchange freely
with US. II il 10 the West Indies that the farmers
Of New England have ever looked as their best for
eisn market. Those islands take our Connecticut
corn, live stock, potatoes, beans, peas, onions,
sailed provisions, and smoked meaty, md they
wish to give US hack for them, as they have done
hitherto, sugar, salt, molasses. tropical fui's aud
whatever else they have to spare. Do the shin
lors' clothing, and the honest tara who man our
vessels the shoe. makers, hatcrs ,la'low chanders
and other mechanics. who often find n convenirn,
outlet for their surplus wares in the West Indies
approve of closing that market to their gochs'
| fui there is no truer axiom in trade than this "if
We cannot import, we cannot export"
| The Herald denies that tho wings arc any wa,
responsible for tuning the West India trade INFO
ballast for the return cargos, instead Of the old
returns, sugar, salt, and other tropical products
lie says, "ncw il there are any prohlhnng duties
on these articles we should Ike 10 know who pul
them on Not the wings surely, for the state Of
trade remains tho same "a it was when they came
into power, the sane as thny received j, finm the
hands of Democracy" We answer tho enquiry.
by informing that the wings did put on The prohibit
tory duties, in their late tariff act Before tina, act
tho duties so 81 md HbSsHGg md p4 pr wsf %
compromise ralcs,-and it was ut those duties that
The trade passed "from the hands Of democracy"
| Now whai have the wings donc' They have pu,
the duties on sugar ut 9 i-2 cents u pounL-and
Oh salt eight cents bushel. The same Herald
tells US that the price Of sugar in Ma,anzls and
Havana. il 10 cents pound. The new duties
therefore, on that sugar. would be at the ratio Of
about 100 per cent. instead of twenty. VIVA. the
prize Of salt, in the West Indies the Terra ID docs mol
inform us,-but we believe the duties n, present,
would he GO or so per cent on The foreign cost in
stead OF the old rates of tho compromise, twenty
per cent. The price of sugar is higher in the
British Colonies, owing 10 their not working by
slave labor our merchants. therefore do no, have
their purchases made there, bu, they go TO Porto
Rico or Cuba, for sugar and molasscs, and 10
Turks Island and Bonnie for salt This tho Tier.
aid admits Now does any one believe, If The,
could bring Porto Rico and Havana sugars home,
at 2 II cent n pound duty, as they could before
the new tariff, instead Of paying . LIZ cents n
pound duty. as they now must, that they would
como home with ballast stones! If tho writer Of
the Herald believes this he is tho only man that
can believe ii. Rui he may believe it, for when
any one ia so ignorant Of The Late tariff and the
West India t,ade, ~ to say that $50 Car from its
having been inchcrcd with By the late mriF, or
any act OF the government since tho election of
Gen, Harrison, and the retirement Of Mr Van
BuIen. every thing remains upon the same basi,
that il had thcn"-he NAV believe ANYTHING. No,
m,erfared with by the late tariff when the duties
have been raised by ii, from 20 10 nearly 100 pcr
cent. Think again, reghbor.
The Herald own 62Grcs show ,ha, the present
duty il prohhiory The fnreign sugar costing
from 10 3 cents only in The S,,ansh islands whiIe
the Louisiana costs 8 TO 5 cents. If the former
could now be imported al IL cent duty mound
as under the compromise act, il would be cleaner
than the Louisiana here. and our vessels would
bring it, But the high new duties Of ale cents
on the pound, make the cos, here when imported
higher Than the LOUISIANA, and therefore the vessels
bring ballast. This ea'ra Q l-2 cents tho pound.
the consumers pay to benefit n few planters in
Louisiana, and onr vessels lose their return fIeiphts
Tor the same purpose.-.NeU Harea Register.