The Arkansas banner., 1844-01-09

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 When Congress assembled, in December, 1891, the President Gen. Jackson) stated, in his Message, that there would be consider able surplus of revenue, arising from the ex- isting Tariff, passed in 1928, over and above the expenses of the Government; and advised a reduction of duties, to the amount of at least S10,000,000 On the 10th of January, 1882, Mr. Clay offered the following resolution
 {" Resolred, That the existing duties upon articles imported from foreign countries, and mol coming into competition with similar ar ticles made or produced within the United States, ought to be forthwith abolished, ex- cept the duties on wines and silks, and that they ought to be reduced"
 In this, it will be perceived, at a glance, that although Mir. Clay proposed reduction of duties, it was altogether upon one class of oltiClCo lCufIiiS tliC OhtCI Slaoo tO pSoi oii the burden of taxation, and alone to support the Government. ii will also be perceived, and let it be borne in mind, that the class of articles, upon portion of which he proposed to abolish the duties intirely, and upon ano- ther portion to reduce them, were those which entered into the general consumption of the country, and were used, in about equal pro- portion, by the manufacturing, the trading, and the agricultural population. Whereas the articles upon which he proposed to re- tain the duties undiminished, and, thereby, impose the double burden of supporting the Government, and paying enormous tribute to the eastern manufacturer, were those chiefly needed and consumed by the agricultural po- pulation-particularl of the Southern and South Western States. Thus showing his determination to maintain the partial, offen- sive, and, therefore, unconstitutional, unjust, and odious principle of protecting one DOT ton of our countrymen, at the expense of an other portion.
 This, of course, was opposed by the anti- protectiee party. And, in pursuance of that opposition, on the 17th of January, 1892, Mir. Hayne, of South Carolina, proposed, as an amendment, the following: After the word .countries,o he moved to strike out all of Mr. Clay's resolution, and insert, C be so reduced that the amount of the public reve- nue shall be sufficient to defray the expenses of Government according to the present scale, after the payment of the public debt; and that allowing reasonable time for the GRA- DUAL REDUCTION of the present high duties on the articles coming into competition with similar articles made or produced within the United States, the duties be ultimately equal- ized, so that the duty on no article shall, as compared with the value of that article, vary materially from the general average.'
 Thus was the issue directly and fairly made, between the friends of equal tares, on the one hand, and the high proteetiue Iarif party, led on by MT. Clay, on the other hand. This amendment of Mir. Haynes, let it be borne in mind, contains the very sum and substance of the famous :" Compromise Act" itself It was rejected, and by the vote and influence of Mir. Clay. This the records of the Senate shew. The debates of that period, shew also, that, in his opposition to MT. Hayne's amendment, Mir. Clay, in his most emphatic and arrogant manner, spoke, in sub- stance, as follows: The Senator from South Carolina offers us sudden death, or death by slow poison. We will have neither. And now bid the Senator to be satisfied, and to go home and tell his people to be satisfied, that the protectire policy is the settled policy of this Government, and shall be maintained"
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