Washington telegraph., 1844-10-30

II is difficult to convince those persons who
take heated and short sighted views ofibings
that a duty of 4 cents per yard on lagsu,g
and still heavier duty on cotton fabrics
does moi cause the consumer to pay as much
in addition as the duty amounts to. IL tlis
position were correct, still, rs have shown,
itwo1lld not account for the impaverishneat
of the south. A few cents more or less for
bagging and cotton goods cannot inpoverish
the south which makes about "a millions pl
bales of cotton, besides rice, sugar and to-
bacco in abundance. Ifthc tarif'were leo
per cent. on cottoa goods, Planter maxim
309 bales of cotton would only have = pa
about $40 per annun more under q sF,y.sri-'
than he would have 70 pas- without Der.
cause St50 VIII purchase more than enough
of cotton goods to supply the persons en-
gagged in making 300 bales. The present
duty on bagging and rope, If added to the
price, would not amountio more than STA
which added to the S75 would make SlS9.
That is too small sum TO impoyerish a
planter making 800 bales. In other re-
spects, the planter would not feel the tariff
ON other articles more than any other citizen
of the United States. This additional
amount of $50 imposed upon n 800 bale
planter, under the supPosit;on that the duty
is added 10 the price, cannot inpoyeFish him.
What does impoveTislr himl Let him ship
his 800 bales TO Europe direct and lac viii.
soon see the true cause. Between third
and fourth Of the whole sum. which his
cotton sells for, is taken away from him in
the English market aad much more in the
French. The cotton comes to the English
manufacturer clogged with heavy freight,
besides duty of S,3 per bale, stamps, dock,
town and trade daiies, &c. The man,i-
iacturer, not able 10 give the true value
for the raw material, takes the additional
charges, about sig, out Of the price Of the
article and gives the planter that much less
than he coHld afford TO give without them.
The planter, therefore, loOses about 500 on
every bale he makes for not having a market
al home-i5r not having done IS Jefferson
told them to DO, viz: ''to place he raa-
fGctlfrer By he side Of The agricf'faraliss. =
II is the enormous trihGie OF - millions OF
dollars, annually paid by the planters Of the
south to the single government; Of Great
Britain on the articles of cotton, rec and
tobacco and the disregard of the south to
the advice OF Thomas jefferson. whichhaVo
impoverished the planting States and not
The tariff on cotton goods and cotton begging
as Mr. McDuffie and the South Carolina
politicians contend.
The northern States have iollowcd JEFF
icrson's advice. They have placed the
manufacturer By the side OF the farmer.
Like man and wife, one helps the cher.
The farmers consume aPoE;ioa of theg0ods
aud wares Of the manufacturers and me
chanics, and the manufacturers and,me-
chaaics afford our northern agric,ilhTsis
market for the greTter part OF their provisions.
The south, old blcheio5-likc, having never
welded the arts, IS obliged 10 look ahroad
for a mah1c;, while the north, having long
since done so, hnds a market at hsale.
Thus, while England is feccing theneh
Old bachelor 10 the tune Of - millions Per
aiinum by way of duties on cotton, rice aud
tobacco, she can only extoFt about D millions
on. OF the whole OF the n6Fihern, middle and
western States. These States are pro-
tected against British rapacity by the nc
chanic's hammer and the wcavcr's beam.
The artizans Of Massachusetts alone con-
sumo 40 millions of agricultural prodscts,
which but for them woui have songht a
market abroad, and there paid duties 10
Great Britain, or some other country. The
South Carolina politicians, in obicctaig 70
the tariff On the ground that it dimin she's
exports, should add to the exports, the az
ricultural products, which the artizanScon-
sumo, not only in Massachusetts but in all
America. This is an old Federal objection,
and has been again and again answered by
n .o,t,.,I, 100 ~ r,,f t..-~,,a,- fs.s,a-
But is il true that the planter pays more
for his cotton goods and bagging vita tariff
than without orel In some instances, and
for a short period, ii may be so. That a
judicious discriminating tariff, viz: a conf
petition tariff, in IFS general tendency,
chcapens goods is political paradox very
easily expIaine The importers and spec
ulators charged 4 larger sum OF the goods
imported from abroad Than the Democratic
tariff amounts TO. Thus Stephen Gerard,
and other importing merchants, bringing
goods-cotton bagging for ins;ance-ifom
Europe and the East Indrcs, were not con-
tent with a profit offour cents per yard, when
they could extort ten. 10 break the hold
which such monopoiists had on the laboFing
classes of the country, was ono of the prin-
cipal reasons which induced the old repub-
lican Congress, acting under the advice of
Jefferson and Madison, to adopt the dis
eliminating or protective policy. That
policy, by. encouraging manufactures and
the various products of American industry,
TO spring up near every poor mans door,
released the poor every where from the
cxactions and cxtoriions Of monupolists and
SPECTATORS. Have we all forgot how VAL