Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-03-22
Correspondence Of the NetO York Express.
DISTRIBUTION HE TARIFF
TEXAS, &c.
WASHINGTON, March Is.

The bill TO repeal the Distribution Act,
which was so summarily hurried through
the House of Representatives, has been
promptly laid upon the table in the Senate,
by vote Of % to 10. Had the Senate
been full, the affirmative vote would have
been larger. Ten Senators were ABSENT
l am not one among those who believe
that the Senate will pass the new Tariff
Bill reported to the House of Representa-
tives, by the Committee of Ways and
Means. The present Tariff is gaining
friends every day, as its practical operation
upon the business, revenue, resources, and
industry of the country, are more and more
developed. | do not believe the Tariff
could be repealed by the present Congress,
even if Mr.. Wright and Mr.. Buchanan were
TO place themselves in the awkward, and,
TO their constituents, ruinous position, of
changing fronts. Nevertheless, it becomes
every man at this juncture, who is friendly
10 the Tariff, to be heard. Legislators, are
to some extent, influenced by public opin-
ion. The majority of voters in the coun-
try, beyond all doubt, would vote against
the Repeal of the present Tariff, if the
question were presented to them. But il
the friends of the Tariff remain silent, a
different state Of public opinion may be in
ferred here, and especially by those who
are not overscrupulous as to their political
opinions or their political action.
Some of the Northern men are falling
again under the influence of the Southern
principle. The Southern Loco Focos think
they will compromise more than one half of.
the principles of Free Trade, by consent
ing to such a Revenue system as the Ways
and Means Committee have reported. The
Western members Of the Loco Foco party
who are blinded as to the true interest of
their constituents, and welded more to the
South than TO the North, are willing to adj
nit this, and the effort now is to bring in
the Loco Foco members Of the Middle and
New England States. In the House the eff
fort may succeed to an extent sufficient to
pass the bill, but repeat not in the Senate,
and ten times NOT, if the friends Of the Tar
if will make themselves heard.
The recent course of conduct of a good
many of the friends Of Protection, and es-
peciaHg of those uhO haze yeceiyed most ben
eft from the Tariff lap, has not been either
lust or judicious since the passage Of the
law of 1912, and if the principles Of Pro-
lection were not truly of a national charac-
I Ter. congress WOuiu UC IuStlilCu u WIZ
holding its benefits from those who have re-
ceiyed them more in a spirit of selhshness,
than with a feeling of patriotic liberality of
sentiment or of action. Secure in the
blessings which the Government has be-
slowed, they have ceased to be interested in
any other object than their own personal
welfare. While the friends Of free trade
have been vigilant TO break dow the pres
ent Tariff, they have been supine and slug
gish. While free trade petitions have been
pouring into Congress, and all sorts Of free
trade opinions put in circulation, the friends
of Protection, in the enjoyment of its great
est rewards, have been, if not Indifferent.
neglectful to counteract these eXertions.-
Members of Congress have sometimes even
found their letters nswered gradgingly by
manufacturers, even when seeking informa-
ton designed partly to benefit manufacture
ers themselves. The best security Of the
Tariff, indeed, is the fact that it is, in all
respects, a matter of national policy, bene-
fitting the mechanic as well as the proprie-
tor, and the farmer, as well as the multitudes
of both sexes who keep in motion the mil
lions of spindles of a thousand manufacto-
ries. | speak, as unto wise men. If the
Tariff should be repealed, the sole cause
will be the shameful conduct Of those most
interested in the industry of the county,
Forewarned, forearmed. The Tariff men
know their interests, and when it is said the
Tariff will not be destroyed by the present
Congress, it is presumed that the friends of
the Tariff will exert themselves as much to
. save it, as the friends Of Free Trade have
done to destroy.
TNhara is M doubt of the truth thai Mr.
TYLER has invited a negotiation from Texas
to com into the Union, and that a treaty is
all but formed. Fortunately for the coun-
try, the Senate is a part of the treaty-ma'
king power, and more fortunately, the Sen
ate will not ratify the treaty.
The conduct of Mr. Tyler, however, in
this whole matter, has been most audacious
and infamous. BY secret and stealthy
means, he has sought to annex Texas to the
Union. His movements have been as con
cealed as those Of a conspirator or highway
man, combining with a gang Of desperadoe'
to plumber the traveller of his effects. HI
has worn a friendly face to Mexico, ant
been an enemy behind her back. While
Mexico has been acting in good faith will
our Government, fulfilling to the letter he
treaty stipuIations with us, even at grea
personal sacrifices, the Executive of tn
United States has acted covertly and regard
les Of consequences, against a country upoI
which the Government was upon terms o
friendship. We doubt if, in the history o
civilized nations, there can be found actor
more treacherously conceived, and so far
more basely executed.
The annexation of Texas, under sucl
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