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without ever giving themselves the trouble to ex.
anime whether the conduct Of their party has any
correspondence with that name. From all tina,
we have seen, we have right to suppose that
they would still adhere to The party, even ,houoh
II were to overturn the government and establish
monarchy on Its ruins, provided always il
should continue to style itself The democ rattle
party. The hrst class of this party mus, know
that the prices OF manufactured articles have been
greatly reduced under a protective polcy--some
ny one-naif' some by two-thirds, and some even
below the amount of the duties by which they
are protec'ed-that manufactures to the amount
oil .t3,uuu,uOo are annually exported and brought
mo successful competition with British manu-.
lectures OF the same classes, and if il were not
for the 'sHed idea must perceive that so far nj
least as sNffects these articles, thus below the
duties Tor their protection, and thus exported
cannot be at all enhanced in price to the home
consumer by the protective duties; but then this
does not correspond with the theory, a general
principle of which is that duties increase prices
and they honestly believe that they are gricvously
our!hened even with respect 10 these articles, and
so they teach their followers. If nails are sold NJ
Is cents per pound and the protective duty 3
cents per pound, they will say to them-Here
you see what most grievous burihen the wings
nave laid upon naIs--a poor man cannot buy
even pound of nails without being taxed I2J
per cent on them. 1t is true he only appears to
give Al cents for the nails but the duty is cents
ana according to the theory, enhance the price by
that amount, and SO the poor man is actually out
81 cents for nails, for which he only supposed he
was giving J cents. piece of cotton goods is
sold at 8 cents per yard, and that is as low as the
foreign manufactures can afford it at home and
therefore cannot bring it into our market, but the
duty by which this article is protected is
say, so per cent. The poor man is informed
that he cannot buy himself shirt without being
saddlod with tax of so per cent. by this horrible
tariff. II is true, he only seems to give cents
per yard, but the duty, which, according TO the
theory, must be added, makes it IL cents per
yard, and the poor man has surely paid that price
thou9h he had, before he was made wise, been
conscious only of having paid cents per yard.
But these theorists, and the political knaves too,
prove even worse things than this on the whips.
They shew that they have practsed abominablc
fraud in laying this tariff. And how Why,
when the tariff was passed, an article was selling
say at IL cents per yard, and the tariff protects il
by duty OF thirty per cent, that article has fallen
one-half in price and can now be had at 6
cents; and thirty per cent on IL cents is inst 60
per cent on cents. These theorists and poliii-
cal knaves say to their neophiies, here now is an
article which the wings pretend TO have protected
ny duty OF 30 per cent only, when in fact they
nave burihened il with duty of 60 per cent
Here is the tariff act, you can see for yourselves
GU see what the duty is, and we can assure you
the article only costs cents. Figure it out and
you will find tina, the duty is sixty per cent on the
price. Aye, If you let these fraudulent wings
come into power again, they will cheat you out of
your very eyes. And thus it is that men who
had before they were enlightened by these wise
an1 aonest patriots, been very com Portable in the
beiiei that they were procuring goods on very
low terms, much lower than they could have had
them previously TO the adoption of the protective
PoIicy, are made very miserable by being shewn
mat they have been all the time labourinp under
most grievous burthens, and go away grooming in
spirit and breathing curses against those who
brought their Affections upon them,-determined
10 90 all In their power 10 elect James Il. Polk of
whom, though he was the jealous supporter of
those measures which had so nearly brought the
country to rum II cannot be said that he ever had
any hand in passing tariff that had caused ma
nuiactures TO fall one-half in price, nor like the
higs, cheated the people by making them pay
90 per cent. while they pretended it was only
thirty nay, more, had even the impudence TO
say that, in such case, it was impossible that
me people could be paying any duty at ALL
ruiy, ii may be said of these afflicted beings
:" 1t ignorance be bliss, It's folly to be wise -
Experience had in this county (Aupusta) won
over so large majority 10 the side of the Anne
rlcan system, that an argument in favor of free
trade has become novelty, when recently some
gentlemen 1.-TWO of them indoctrinatcd by the
great nulifer himself,) were induced to come
here from the late Charlottesville Democratic
convention, 10 enlighten our community on this
subject. They reiterated the same doctrines and
same arguments which twenty odd wears since
were almost universally held here. The protec-
i've tarI would destroy commerce, njure auri-
culture, all other classes for the benefit Of the
manufactures, &c. They derded the idea of
home market, and one Of them went into calcu-
iatIcn to shew that the dray-men of New York
city, and their horses, were greater consumers of
agricultural products than the eight hundred thou
saEd manufacturers in the Union. He said that
fIp tnrt loot Al
oil employment the draymen and horses. and so
agriculture would lose more than it would gain
by the protective tariff. This miserable purliiy,
this fllmsy sophisry. seemed TO delight the de-
mocracy. They extolled the speaker. He was a
very great man, and how very plain he made
every thing. Let see what this much admired
logic is worth. Does a protective tariff necessa-
My destroy commerce! Look at England. She
has had far more than a century one of the most
restrictive tariffs IN the world, and according to
the theory, should now be reduced to subsist on
pig nuts and acorns, and vet she is by far the
most commercial nation in the world, and in the
most iuli enjoyment Of its Injuries. There was
steady advance in the prosperity of our country;
agriculture, commerce, all 1ourshed for the first
eight or nine years after the passage Of the tariff
OF 1924, and until Gen'I Jackson began his cxpe-
rImen's upon our institutions. Oar commerce is
now IN FAR better condition than it was previous
iy TO the passage of the tariff of 1912. Tho
Sl3,OOO,OOO OF our manufactures exported with
the products of foreign countries for which they
are exchanged one would suppose very hand.
some addition to our commerce. SO far from
drdymen having been thrown ont of employment
by the late tariff it has doubtless brought more Of
them into requisiiion; and certainly the subsist-
ence OF eight hundred thousand manufactures
would 'orm very pretty item in the commerce
OF any country; if that were all--but it is very
far from being all. These manufacturers, viii
theIr families dependent upon them for support
are supposed to number about 1000 900; and
not only That, but much land that would other
wise be used 10 GROW nlain. is Diverted ln tha