Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-10-31

w hlte cotton GOODS, 90 lncHeS WlQe, COST
| ing 10 lid sterling, or 81 cents per square
( yard, would pay l-2 cents duty, or 80 4-3
per cent on cost.
''Whte cotton goods, Sc inches wide, cost
ing Ii I'D sterling, or % cents per square
yard, would pay Z -2 cents duty, or 81 l-2
| per cent on cost.
':White cotton goods, SO inches wide, cost
! ing 1919 sterling, or IS cents per square
yard, would pay l-2 cents duty, or 80 per
cent on cost.
''The first article enumerated above, al
though only costing Sd. sterling, Or cents, is,
under this new bill, s'teke!a aed deemed to
have cost 20 eatits," and pays 80 per cent, du-
ty on that assumed value: thus, before the
per centage named in the bill go per cent?
is applied, there is no less than 233 Is per
cent added on to the actual cost, to prepare 1t
for the application of the moderate duty of 80
per cent, as named in the billi This is the
operation of the specific or minimum duties,
and while they act as prohibition on all the
! lower qualities of the above articles, they APP
pear to the world as merely 8 revenue duty,
under moderate rate of something about 80
per cent. The above article costing 10 I'D
sterling, or 81 cents, is 'taken and deemed to
have cost Is cents" and pays 30 per cent. on
that assumed value, being So 3-4 per cent on
its actual cost. On printed cottons the mini
mum value is so cents per square yard, and on
prints Gan article Of more general consumption
than any thing else) it is as follows:
s'A print, "a inches wide, costing Sd. ster
ling or cents per square yard, would pay 9
cents duty, or 100 per cent on cost.
ga print, "a inches wide, costing 4d ster-
ling, or IL cents per square yard, would pay 9
cents duty, or rs per cent on cost
ga print, "a inches wide, costing I'd. ster-
ling, or Is cents per square yard, would pay 9
cents duty, or 80 per cent on cost.
ga print, "a inches wide, costing Sd. ster-
ling, OF "a cents per square yard, would pay 9
cents duty, Or 81 1-2 per cent. on cost.
s'Ihe average of prints now imported cost a
bout Cd sterling, or Is cents per square yard,
duty as above so per cent; while under the
present Tariff of 3 43-l00 per running yard,
Cor % 1-2 per cent on the cost, they can sell
dom be sold at any profit the lower qualities
are almost entirely excluded under cur present
rate Of duty; and it will be perceived that to
prepare the above article, costing Sd. sterling,
for the application Of the 30 per cent duty, it
must be frst raised to the 80 cent minimum,
which is done by adding 233 1-3 per cent on
the actual cost, then so per cent on that gives
100 per cent dutyl! Sc. sc.
sAgain, on the following Ga specific duty
,oithoM q ,niniaonn.) the duty proposed would
be prohibition of all low qualities, for in
stance:
ga flannel, % inches wide, costing 3D. ster-
ing or 10 TJoI square yurt, -ses.lapu ia
cents duty or 81 1-2 per cent on cost.
ga flannel, q inches wide, costing 3D. ster-
ling or "a cents per square yard, would pay
Ia cents duty or So 1-2 per cent on cost.
ga flannel, n inches wide, costing I'D
sterling or 80 cents per square yard, would
pay Ia cents duty or A per cent on cost.
ga flannel, 81 inches wide, costing I'D.
sterling or 40 cents per square yard, would
pay IA cents duty or IS per cent on cost.
/ s'Ingrain carpets, Sc inches wide, costing
I'D. sterling or 80 cents per square yard,
would pay 80 cents duty or 50 IA per cent on
cost.
.sIngrain carpets, So inches wide, costing
( gid. sterling OF AZ cents per square yard,
would pay 30 cents duty or 62 l-2 per cent on
cost.
"Treble carpets, Sc inches wide, costing
56d sterling or II cents per square yard, would
pay 65 cents duty or 90 ia per cent on cost
brussels carpets, II inches wide, costing
Sod. sterling or sc cents per square yard would
paw 50 cents duty OF 81 Id per cent on cost.
brussels carpets, 81 inches wide, costing
AID. sterling or 1l2 cents per square yard,
would pay IS cents duty or 40 l-2 per cent
on cost.
esBy the Secretary of the Treasury's bill.
hemp carpeting FUSED extensively by the poor
er classes SO inches wide, costing cd. ster-
ling. or II cents, would pay 80 cents, or 250
per cent on cost; now it pays 20 per cent! a
gain, costing Sd. sterling, or 10 cents, would
paw so cents, or lSo per cent on cost. Under
the same bill, goods made from spun silk
(there being no provision to distinguish that
from organize silk which is an article Of con
siderable import, and now pays 20 per cent.
would then pay a specific duty of 81 81 pei
| b., which on piece of handkerchief costing
5s Cd. sterling, and weighing OF. would be
taxed no less than 80 IL per cent on the cost,
Sc. SIC.
But enough And now we return to the
question: Does it not look like hooking the
calamities of the planters to offer them three
cents protection upon their rato cotton, when
they have to ship to foreign countries five
sixths of the entire crop Of cotton-and when
they are then forced to pay under the prohibit
tory ninimums such exorbitantly high prices
for the clothing they are compelled to purchase
And denied too the privilege of buying
where they send their cotton, they have t.
submit to their dstressingly low prices for theil
cotton? We do not wish to put down the
manufacturers Far from it. Weare not hos
tile to their Introduction, if the country be ripe
for it-And ripe we are for great variety o
manufactures because, with our industry, e
conomy, and sagacious ingenuity for inventine
labor-saviug machines, and with the expenses
Of Transporting the foreign fabric, and with tbs
incidentally protecting duties Of the, Compro
mise Act to assist them, many branches wpalt
arise and flourish in our extended country =
But we do protest against the violation OF the
Compromise Act-and against the extravagan'
and prohibitory minimum and specific duties
of the present Tariff What we ask i
soEae reciprocity -sorae iustice--some parficl