The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-07-03

fures he regards d5 d t"A " PN,' -
nation for the benefit of the manufacturer.
He INDUCES in a long lament over the fall
mo off of our foreign commerce, occasioned
&C we are glad to discover BY the diminutlon
orimportations and a balance Of trade in our
favor of at least 20 millions, which we are
obliged, says Mr.. Wright TO receive insPecie.
Sir Robert Peel himself could not have shed
more tears over loss of trade to EEsiahu
Than does this American Statesman overa loss
of importations one of those sanitary eHecS
which il is the object of the tariff TO accom-
uJisb. and without which it would be utterly
futile. He clearly proves that the importa-
,;o,s which in Is41 we're 27,946,O00 fell
down in 1912 to 500, l62, 900. 1mportations
of wool in the mean time were reduced Al
per cent, of wooden goods IS per cent. Cot
ton goods 60 per cent. Silk goods 76 per
cent. THANK you Jew for teaching me
that word" No man could have paid bet
ter, and yet an involuntary compliment 10 the
tariff than has SiIas Wright in this arithmetic
about importations. 1t has been this excess
which for years past has carried poverty and
bankruptcy through the land, destroyed our
currency, and if continued would have reduc
ed US TO mere province, upon which English
avarice and rapacitv might raven, until moth
ing was left of us but shriyelled and empty
carcase.
To place a duty upon an article which
would prove somewhat prohibitory, SO that
the greatest amount of revenue possible could
not be derived from it, and thus diminish rev.
enue for the sake of protection, would seem
TO be frightful 10 Mr.. Wright. As he says
himself, "Re ,caS compelled TO consider IL a
r;ry questionable exercise both in principle and
etpedieacy Of these tariag porers." ale did
not admit the rightful exercise of the power
beyond the revenue limit for any object. THAT
the prohibition should be perfect and there
should be no revenue, Mr.. Wright would by
no means admit, and yet his followers in this
region shout loudly for prohibition upon for
eign coarse wool which every whig in Yer
mont would gladly see accomplished, and
which has been partially effected, by the
CuSChS duu UlStiuCllOUS Vi lil6 l0Sl tdIl1 GS ldT
as Iocofoco opposition to it would allow.
But TO Prove that the general assertions we
have made in relation to Mr.. Wrighl's opin-
ions of a tariff are true, we proceed to give a
few extracts from the 10 column speech in
the Senate to which we have alluded. The
limited space of cur columns would not admit
of more. But We hope every reader will pro-
cure a copy of it. And first in relation to the
present Tariff.
It cannot be charged against Senator
Wright that he has perpetrated any incon-
sistcncy in his course in relation 10 the pres
ent tariff, to which he has been uniformly op-
posed like Mr.. Van Buren,, ain principle and
GetGil.'' 1t is true he voted for it; but it was
undsr strong protest at the time Of its pas
sage, evincing a hostility which be has never
since RENTED, and which has again broke
out in very labored speech recently deliver
ed on the floor of the Senate upon which we
are commenting.
"Ihe manner cfthe passage of Tie present tariff
law, and the circumstances which attended its
passage through both Houses of Congress- and eS-
Iccially through the Senate, gave the fullest as
surance 10 the country that some, at least, who
voted for it, did not expect il would produce cen
tent ard quiet in the public mind or that il could
be permanent. He was one Of those who enter
tanned these anticipdtionS in regard TO that law,
at the time OF lis passage, aud he gave expression
10 them upon that occasion After he found his
efforts, and those CT all Others, 10 remedy its man.
fest defects must be Intellectual, and that the law
must pass as ii was OF not at all, his conclusion
TO vote for il was of the most reluctant he had
ever formed as TO the discharge of public duty;
and he could not consent to give that vote, with
out placing upon record the reasons for ii, and an
assurance of his future readiness, whenever the
opportunity should present, TO correct the errors
which he felt convinced were prevalent in the
provisions OF the act That assurance was dis
ti1ctly given in the remarks to which he referred.
II had Fever been forgotten by him, nor had he
been permitted to forget it; for his friends and
peciailv the honorable senator from New Hamp-
shire, Mr.. WOODBURY., had been careful 10 le-
mind him of it in the course Of his debate, foI
which he thanked them.
Among the reasons then given for his vote he
begged to bring the recollection of the Senate ia
that Of a suspension Of the distribution of the pro-
ceeds of the public lands. That reason alone
was most powerful with him, and most especially
so as connected with the legislation OF Congress
of this character. He considered that measure
directly calculated, if not intended, 10 produce the
necessity for high duties; and its continuance
wen ASA q 1Sti4H ~ AA SiiOilelf ~
threaten to make that necessity perpetual, by ma
king the repeal or suspension of that law impos
sihle. He should therefore, have voted for and
Otherwise very bad law, 10 accomplish that great
good. His other reasons were connected with
the then state OF the treasury the condition of the
public credit, and our rapidly accommodating na-
iional debt; and no would content himself with
simple reference TO them, as then given"
REVENUE TARFF.-It would seem by the
following extract that Mr.. Wright plants
himself in the very footsteps OfMr. Van Blu
rem in his Indiana letter. "a Discriminating
Tariff for rerenue purposes Only'' as says Mr.
Van Buren,, and so says Mr.. Wright.
Every duty is a protective, as
conirad;stinguished from a revenue duty
when Its prohibitory become paramount to
Its revenue powers. Raise the duty upor
the given article above the HIGHEST revenue