Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-06-07
Correspondence of the Ernross.


In seventeen days. Congress will adjourn and the in
temediae time will be the busiest days of the session.
More business will be done than during all the days of
the session past
The Senate have disposed of the Tariff bill of Mr.
McDuihe, under peculiar circumstances. They have
decided N the first place, upon an amendment moved
by Mr.. Allen, of Ohio, that the Tariff of 1912 is NoT
unjust, and ought NOT to be reduced" The vote upon
this amendment you will see, by the report of proceed
ings was l8 for the amendment, and 81 against it.
Mr.. Wright, of New York after voting and saving.
some OF his friends in New York. have argued, votes
that this act is unjust and ought to be reduced"
Mr. Wright will not find it an easv matter TO escape
from this dlemma. Messrs. Buchanan and Sturgeon,
of Pennsylvania, who voted also for the Tariff of 1872
more consistently than the Senator from New York
vote now that the Tariff of 1921 not unjust and not
to be reduced'
Mr. Niles, Of Connecticut veutured to vote with the
ultra free trade members and to put his vote upon the
record against the Tariff of 1872 II is to be hoped
that his friends in Connecticut. who have humbu1ged
the People much in regard to the Tariff, will not put
this Vute down TO ineanity.
The Senate then voted, 80 to L. that Mr. McDurie's
bill, being measure. could not originate in
the Senate, and without division, it indefinitely
postponed.
The bill of the Senator from South Carolina which
has been four months under consideration in the Sem
Otc Is thus dead and buried. Free Trade has received
another blow, and severe one from the Senate of
the United States it received from the Representa-
tiyes of the People at the other wing the Capitol
The discussion in the Senate upon this bill has been
very able one, and in respects, peculiar. Ii has
proved the progress of opinion southwark for the pro-
tective policy. Mr.. Berrien of Georgia, and Messrs.
Riyes and Archer, of Virginia, have boldly indicated
this policy. Delaware MARYLAND, Virginia, North Ca
rona, Louisiana, Kentucky Tennessee more than one
half of the slave States tariff States This is tri-
umph of opinion that does honor to the intelligence of
the States who have thus embraced the truth and for
s1ken error and that gives abundant promise that the
protective policy has become permanent principle OF
the country and that, too, better than ALL without any
sectional division of opinion in regard to the
itself Truth has thus conquered preudices and scat
tered ignorance.
During the discussion, the policy of Protection has
hoan all a1 nnu Tho nm 10 nv
Choate, Bates, Simmons Phelps, Huntington, Dayton
Miller, Rives Archer, Berren, and opposed in greater
or less degree by Messrs. Woodbury. Atherton Wright
McDuife, Colqutt, Bagby, and Benton.
The principles of free trade and direct taxation have
been defended by of the distinguished Loco
foco Senators in the body and that too since the nom
nation of James X Polk, free trade man for the Pres
idency by the Baltimore Convention Mr.. McDufie
representing State most charmed with these free prin
ciples and most gratified with the nomination of Mr.
Polk at Baltimore. has publicly advocated direct taxa
ton as the only principle that can save the Govern
ment from protection and corruption, which lie is pleas
ed to use synonymous terms.
Tho closing discussion the exciting of the
debate in consequence of threat Of NULLIFIC ATIoN
in new form from Mr.. McDuhe, and a most violent
abusive and vulgar attack upon Massachusetts and Mr.
Choatc
Nh McDuf6e threatens Nuliifcation, by resignn,
bis scat in the L. s. Senate, obtaining election t.
the Legislature of South Carolina and there ntroduc
ing bill imposing duty Of 10 per cent upon articles
imported free from duty. The Mr. McDuffe wh'
proposes to do this is the same Mr. McDuiie who las
week introduced Joint resolution annex Texas an,
part of Mexico to the United States, and the NJ
McDuhe also, who, as Governor of South Carolina n
realously opposed the measure he earnestly adj
yocates-
The attack of Mr.. McDufie upon Mr.. Choate was :,
much beneath the dignity of Senator and the Senate
chamber that it would have done no credit a pot
house politician at the polls 1t lastly character
lied BY Mr.. Choate in reply far it personal
as undgnifed, unbecoming, rude, and extraordinary,
speech, the Jokes of which had been drawn from 10,
Miller the racecoursc, the barroom the cock pit
the barn-yard. Mr.. Choate then provoked 10 an
swer Mr.. McDufie's misrepresentation of his argu
ment and he did so in a gentlemany and pointed man
ner and with abundant evidence of his positions.
Mr. McDufie then excused his first assaults upon tn
ground that Massachusetts men had always been " over
bearing arrogant insoent, self-conceited" &c. Mas
sachusetts will be surprised to hear this, and mos
surprised that South Carolina should have been tn
complainant,-South Carolina, whose public men hay
ever been of the ura-Sta,e right stamp and the mos
naughty and revengetnl in the Union. Mr. McDufiie
too and only in qualified sense told Mr. Choaie that h
had studiousy withheld the truth, and that he had nj
brains TO make argument. What he had said wa
weak absurd, flimsy ridiculous, and so on.
Mr. Choate said he would not continue the discus
sion longer. 1t had degenerated into mere abuse, an
he had too much respect for the GENTIEMEN OF tn
BODY and too much PROSPECT to hold further par
ley upon the subject.
Mr. McDufie in a tempest Of passion, and great in
science of manner, sand in his seat that he could eS
press his opinions somewhere else, if he desired.
The Chair called to order, and Mr.. Choate SAID u
grated that he had at least made the Senator an
swer him with seriousness if not with any coui
tesv.
Mr. Bates who had come in for a share of Mr.. Nc
DUTIES attention. replied in few words and Mr. E'
ans closed the debate in few words, emitting the re
plies he had right to make by calling for the question
Then the result you have above and double re
lection of this attempt to destroy the Tariff, and estal
lish free trade.