New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-28


Webster's Speech, sc.
We have sent reporters to Albany for the pur
pose of furnishing US full and complete accoun
of the great Mass Convention Of the River Coun
ties, which assembled yesterday. The Speo ch o
Mr.. WEBSTER will be reported entire. Weexpce'
to receive our copy By the boa; from Albany thi;
morning, together with full and graphic ac
count of the other Speeches and doings of tbs
great meeting and should we do 80 we shal
issue an EXTRA Immediately, which can be hac
of the Newso0ys.
The Tariff and the saN-NaIsers.
The Journal Of Commerce quotes part OF ou
recent article on the fraudulent Introduction
Foreign made Sails by some of our ship.owness
and thus comments:
Thus does the Tribune heap insult and foul caunny uno
cuss of injured the comp ANTS oi hntbe
class nike wIonged n teif lwiu tu.S.s ~ an "ppTe';'
let tbs Tribune blame itself aud ts conAu'ors WI
bavc by the same policy well nigh the Iat OF th
among classes excep: the favored few But the artc
msnI The other day we looked down from the top o: M
State House in Boston upon ,lut beautiful CITY, ma wa
mae be- hoSgnt mole foolish than he who should charge IL
SsnynS Of s@ The sOs'Sn @ M
sheet lead and who should upon such charge oqc he Gf
tonsiIed new interpretation that oppressed cns
OF citzeus bound only submit to the law as II IS u
eI,end ia ouentOn ha length OF ali further oppesNo
which By any possibility might have been intended to nfc
Free Trade will restore the Sumnkers their rights
We shall answer the above from stem Il
stern:
Ho,o have we "heaped insult and foul calum
ny" on the saip.owncrs2 correspondent In
forms us that our ship-owners arc III the habit o.
evading the duty imposed on Sail,Duck by the
present Tariff, by buying their Sails abroad, anc
often smuggling in new ones for vessels IN por
wrapped up in old ones. Now this is true, or it Is
not. Uit is not true, then the Sa,i.makors have
nothing to complain of; but if it is true, then tn
shpowncrs are guilty OF gross and iraudulen'
evasion of our Revenue Laws.-an evasion which
they should be the last to practice. since there Is
no interest in tho country so stringenily pro,cc'
ed-and protected, too, by laws which have n,
pretext of Revenue about theul-as that OF these
very shippers. The business OF every other maj
is exposed to Foreign Competition; that OF ship
owners, 60 far as our immense coasting trade IL
concerned, is the single exception Such being th'
fact, they should be the last men to cvadc the
Protection granted by law to others.
The Journal says, If Sail-mahers are depri'
we'd of their lawful industry" the Tariff is 10
blame. How7 For the protection of our Far
mers it imposes duty of $40 per ton on Hemp,
being less than twenty-five per cent on the Horne
Valuation. Is this too much The current cla
NOR nowadays is that the Farmers are not enoueA
protected We think they are none too much
This duty on Hemp is not important to the
Hemp grower merely, but TO the Corn-ggowcr,
and all who find fewer competitors and more Gus
toners because of the diversion of land and labor
from their own pursuits 10 Hemp, growing. The
duty on Hemp is impcratvely demanded by con.
sidera,ions of Revenue sound Policy, and Ma
tional Independence.
But duty on Hemp would be perfect null
lity without duties on SailDuck and Rope. /,
would not be worth straw. Foreign Rope ana
Duck would fl our ports, and the farmer 6pd
no market for his Hemp. So the Tariff imposes
a corresponding and very moderate duty OF seven
cents square yard en- Sall-Duck.
Now if a shipper, whose vessels are pruiac;cj
on the seas by our Navy and protected against
unequal competition by our laws, undertakes tc
evade both these duties by new-ngglng his ships
abroad, and even smuggling in extra sails 10!
vessels which have never been abroad, We say hc
is guilty of very mean and ungrsteiui evasion
Of law. We do not say that any hare done this,
for the fact is not within our own knowledge.
though A Saiimakeg' positively atf:ms 1t. II
the fact be so, we say the laws must be amended,
and that a vessel which thus smuggles IN her
sails must be denstionalizad. She has clearly no
RIGHT to Protection while her owner eva6cs the
Protection extended by our laws, to his fellow
citizens. The law should be so amended as to
tax made. up Sails at least ten cents yard and
provide that any vessel buying Sails abroad
should report the fact and pay The duty under
penalty OF forfeiture of National character.
AS to Tiles, they pay duty OF twenty-five
per cent. which is as much Us the duty on Sail
Duck. Where, then, is there ground Tor The
Journals cavil7 When we say that shippers
should be compelled to use Cotton Duck when
they need Hemp, there will be some sense N the
Jonrnal's talk about Tiles and Plumbers.
IT SuAs WsloHr addressed cold and CON.
fortress gathering OF Locos at Mexico, oswego
Co. on the 22nd. He avowed himself in favor
of iudicious Tariff for Protection, but con,ended
that the present Tariff required modification
and stated that these were the views OF MIR.
Polk-at the same time he was careful to tell
the people what truth-lovirg and consistent
politician ne was! He spoke much in favor OF
Oregon and more against Texas Annexation
yet warmly urged his hearers to support Polk,
the man nominated avowedly because he was IN
fapor Of Annexation. Consistency! He also de
nounced the Assumption Of State Debts, yet
vent in snong for Mr. Polk, who IS in favor Of
vuming the s2s,o0o,ooo debt of Texas d.
10 dash. Again We say, Consistency.