Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-03-05
TwENrY-EIGHTH coNGREss--First Session.
REMARKS OF Mr.. WOODBURY.

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In Senate, Feb 7M and aM-O the resolution 10 post
| pone indefinitely Ma. McDurrirs bill 10 reduce
the present Tariff Continued
| lMr. WOODBURY. CONNIE need his remarks as &c
us eneet on our markets, but gave way the request
Oh MS TRENDS 10 an adjournment The next day, az
Ter some explanations, which are inserted in their ap.
Proprlate places, he proceeded
in pursuing thus discussion further, Mr.. President
IN Inc manner have proposed would he trespnssine
use'essy on the patience of the Senate if my best en-
oeaVors were not exerted to elicit truth would Try
10 settle contradictory opinions some facts by
iuer and more dispassionate consideration Of them
aho u possible, reconcile ma lorty 10 such change:
III Tue exislng Tariff as are, in painful sincerity, be
eVed oy me TO be necessary for the preservation o
sound principles in taxation equal Justice to ALL and the
prosperity and peace Of the country.
The idea, that our foreign markets had not improved
under the lowering duties from 1859 to 1872 compared
win what they were the ten years Previous under
higner rates, was very erroneous.
Inc value OF domestic produce exported in 1872
was 1851, o!9 dollars, and in 1899, but Co. 37,47
dollars, or an increase of only about twenty-five per
cent, while, in 1912. the value % 800 o96 dollars
or an increase of near fifty per cent Ii the aggre
gate o! these exports in all The first ten years, was com
pared with that of the last the increase in the last over
the first would be near 100 per cent. Some had sup
posed that this increase had been confined to Southern
staples alone; but, while cotton bad augmented nee
and tobacco had been nearly stationary and the grea
staples of the West and Middle States, and North, no
thus obtaining larger and better market through The
cotton raised and abroad, such the exports OF
hreadstufs, pork erd, beef butter and cheese lumber
lead, and even manufactures, have augmented.
Indeed almost the whole of The fourteen and hall
millions Of pounds oil lead we now send 10 foreign
markets have sprung up within the last years; and
as shown in the table before me, within the last
three our exports Of beef have trebled So of pork
and lard, and also of butter and cheese. Crable No
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A., b,e baa, ALL In
nculcated that England took little nothing Of our
domestic products for herself her dependencies and
therefore, oughtin retaliation to tax high her manu-
features I'm not the apoogIst Of either England OF
France, in their ancient commercial policy in some re-
specs, towards this country. But II is due 10 hisorl
cal truth and justice admit that of late years, they
take large portions OF surplus produce, being our
two greatest markets in the world
In respect TO England, when buying our produc-
tons, which not uxuries-like tobacco, standing
on peculiar and different basis she takes them on
duties, not usually high own, and recently un
der several reductions, which had very lily recpro
Gated by the present higher Tariff. lie, Us test this by
evidence, for ask nothing on naked assertion hold
in my hand statements of our exports of domestic pre-
duce England, and her dependencies in 1922, 1882
and lS42.-(Tabe 49,
They increased about "a per cent in the first pc
Rod. but 40 per cent. in the las, one and they
considerably exceed half OF all exports Of that
kind to oil quarters Of the globe Is this nothing, as
| growing advantage, Oy way OIL iHarEet, 10 all our
producers, md 10 be encouraged by reciprocal beaiy;
especially when we recall 10 mind the further fact,
that she takes more OF yeaty, than we do OF
her, to the extent Of four five millions of dollars Is
this such favorable balance of trade 10 US, and
such large market-more than all the rest OF the
word-as TO deserve some little regard and conciliaory
spirit? Yet the policy Of much OF The existing Tariff
is the contrary, almost vindc,ve towards her CHIEF
prnduc lions Again shown by my friend before me,
Mr. McDule,) she lakes of cotton $50 GOT,
mimi h,rJe nG fb, ,boi,
pored-our greatest article sent abroad-and IN which
not South Carolina alone is Interested, las many affect
to suppose,) but still more, Georga, Alabama, and
Mississippi with pats Of North Carolina Louisiana,
Tennessee and Arkansas, well rs indirectly, every
ohe' Stale which furnishes - them SUPPLIES agrcu!
tuTa or manufactured.
Besides tins and more than one-filh OF rice
ported, she takes oueihird Of the tobacco; and
has always been Of largest customers Tor both;
thus presenting, in spite of her large duties the last
luxury, of the best markets for the great pro-
duction OF still other States, including Mlryano Viz
GINA, Ohio, and Missouri But i, is often alleged, that
she takes little that il the produce OF the free States
and particularly of bread stuifs pork beef, ne
directly interesting the central States those beyond
the Aeehanies, and the agriculture, fisheries, and
manufactures of The East Fortunately, sir, when we
take the trouble scrutinze the official documents
this delusion becomes entirely d,sreilsd.
In lS22 when we sent to Eng land and her dependen
ces not one-,hird of all exports of -four wheat
corn and other breatsiufs, her harsh system of
laws had recenty been adopted the same high pro
tcctive system in favor Of her agriculture, which we
ourselves have indscreey introduced in the presen
Tariff to aid manufactures. But notwitis anding
the us complaints against that system, intercourse
through her neighborng colonies, from which The duty
is 10 err and orr proximity to her West India Islands
gradually enabled TO send to her and her dependen
ces profit, onehalf OF all those EXPORTS ono
by lEil two-hirds Of the whole; and equalling III
value fifty per cent than all the tobacco and rice
sent 10 them.
In fine, she takes largely of beef, pork, and da
ry also of the products OF our forest and the ocean, anG
Of the factory, well rs OF raw coion anu gram
And her increased and increasing demands for most o.
these II not repplsed and ,hwured by high Tariffs rem
dered this consideration momenous one not only to
the South, but 10 ali The gram growing States weihe
the Atlantic, the rivers and lakes OF the mighty
West, and gave it interest 10 every farmer and fish
erman, and many mechanic, in the valleys and on TIN
hil,ops on the sea-shores and in the villages Of tbs
busy North. Without dwelling too long details, the
value of beef now taken by her is double what 1t in
1922 the pork and lard 200 per cent. more; ant
the butter and cheese six times as much While
from our forests, she purchases near one-iourth oil
what we export in lumber, and si%-seyenils Of all on
tar and other naval stores
| 1Mr BENToy. Please 10 repeat that.
Yes Sir She takes quite six-seventas OF ali our
val stores exported nnd though That is important tt
your native State North Carona,) another fact IL be
coming slll more important 10 the State ct your adop
iion-to Missouri-and also 10 Illinois, that instead oil
nov importing most of our lead from England, sup
| ply from own mines, account c their natural
fertility, and not by ho-bed protection, firstly our owr
great wants, and next send it across the equatortlou
bic with it, both the Cape Of Good Hope and Cape
Horn, and supply China, as we'll The Sandwich
Islands of the Pacific; and last, but not least send l.
| England herself near one-sixth of the whole now
export, while in lo22 she took not pound, and il
1892 bu, S22 worth
From our fisheries she lakes also half The sperm OF
ne export, instead Of nothing in 1899, and bu, phi,
lance IN 1882. But let ask the gentleman on the
other side, it even the manufacturers would be quite
as we'll situated as TO market for their eight nine
millions of exports, if England and her dependencies
were not open to many of them: She has admitted
even our cotton manufactures into India and some o.
them were used to help to cothe The very troops tina
marched 10 Afghanisan. She takes increasing guam
THY Of our domestic salt in Canada; from one 10 two
hundred thousand dollars worth of our nails in he
West Indies; and more of cur sperm aud ta!los
candles; third of million Of our manufactures from
tobacco and very derabe proportions of the soap
leather, shoes, boots, &c, &c, which help 10 swell
! the exporls OF domestic manufactures.
But, not to be tedious this point, mark the con
trait also in the present rate of her duties many
these articles. On The creates, (coilon) only :! pc
cent on lard, only per cent; whea, into Cana
da, only cents per busiel on beef and pork bu
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