Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-23

,,ticIps which had borne xceeuih9iy my" uut'.' -
on falling off in the trade in proportion 10 Inc
= 49, ,s,e,ua SMEAR was perhaps, the most pfosh'-
sn, o,nonu these articles Yet thai duty was 10" "1
n;f.s,lv too high for the safety OF The revenue i'o
wos another article which had sustained hgh ide -
duiy; bat the comparisons showed 'hal NE raes
the present law were beyond the revenue point
articles might require, and might pea'' uu''eS "'E
than 80 or even 33 per cent
Mr. Wright then briefly examined the influences o.
these prohbitory duties upon commerce, anu sno"eu
ina, they must be deeply injurious 10 H. tie sa'a .s
interest of all others requires stability; that 'he i'u
ence OF any system OF duties upo' '"'pos W." "a al
direct upon il than upon any other interest, ana n'i
dut;es were tax upon IT Yet he did not THINK taat
well.arranged system OF revenue dues ihauS s'ao'e
and permanent would be particularly ouroensome OF
,n;ur,ous to the commerce Of this country out these
rob;tory duties and great fluctuations, break mp ana
DESTROY commerce. increase lis HAZARDS and discourage
,hoss in it, This interest was bound, at least
equally with Others to bear It's share oil the expenses
If the Government, for required ITS peculiar Pfotec
finn but It could not be destroyed without deep and
iucurable injury 10 all other interests ana 'ese great
and sudden changes from prohbory duties OH the one
aide TO duties below the Of the treasury Tor re-
venue on the other almost bad, perhaps even
worse TO the commerce Of the country than the excess
siye taxation.
He then considered the practical effect OF The present
prohbitory duties upon the agricultural interest
This he treated the great iuterest-the basis OF all
Others and paramount 10 oil others-as the interest IN
and from which the great mass OF the citizens oil tie
county derived their subsistence, their Comforts aha
their nde pendence; the interest 10 which the STU
alton of our country most strongly invited extension,
the interest IN the custody oil which our insutu-
tions were most safe
He then spoke in detail of wool, flour, beef pork,
cheese hemp cotton rice, tobacco sugars, as among
the prominent agricultural productions; inquired which
among these great products within the reach oil
the protection of Congress, the way Of imposing d.
md como luded that guo he and
sugar were the only three the list Of ten that as to
all the other articles, our country exported, and dld
not import and that, for The seven-four beef, pork,
cheese cotton rice and tobacco-our country was an
exporting and not importing country and that our
market was the market OF the world not of any one
country and much less the sing lie market of own
country.
lie freely admitted, that the other three great ar
cles-woo, hemp, aud sugar-in The present condI
ton Of the commercial nations, must depend exclu-
svely upon the markets of the United Sintes, and
that they deserved all the protection which
nue. system Of duties would afford. They were great
and worthy interests, and, as such, had right TO
claim their proper weight i'll this legislation but ey
were exclusive interests and not one, and not all
of them, had right 10 demand would demand, ex-
elusive care.
Neither our time nor space will allow us TO follow
The speaker in his detaied examination of each oil
these commanding articles Of agricultural production,
and must therefore say in gross, that the conclu
to all the others that the present duty upon wool
Of the finer qualities, although little exceeding forty
per cenun, showed itself in strongly prohbltory
FORM having diminished the trade ninety per cent,
as compared with the six preceding years. and more
than twenty three per centum compared with the
ngle year before the operation of the law, and when
many Of the factories closed that $50 in
the 500 strong protection 10 this interest,
when il considered that The lax must fall upon
the producers of the nine articles before named which
could not be protected; and that the oogrowers,
Outstanding this relation 10 their agricultural brethren
that the price of wool in this country is much
higher than in any other wool-g growing country and
that the production is OF mos! easy extension over
the whole Unlon in case it shall be forced to unna
tural prof-will be content with protection of $50
in the 500, in that have the promise Of per
manency; that the present protection upon hemp, Sc
paate from its manufactures, is shown TO be less than
80 per from the mportations made under the pre-
sent law, and that nosmuch the difficulties as TO
that article not it's growth, but lis manufactures
in its preparation for use in the process Of roting Ell
Their by dew by water; and there is hope that
we can force our dew -rolted hemp into the to
which the foreign water-rotted article is applied, he
could not for moment, doubt that duty Of 30 per
cent would be satisfactory TO the hempgrower that he
had already considered the article OF sugar, and he
could only add that the duty of those Interested
in IT TO make careful examination, and see whether
even that agricultural interest conld not bring itself
broadly and satisfactorily within the revenue principle
Of arranging tariff OF duties.
Mr. Wright passed from this 10 comparative view
of the profits OF capital in the three great branches of
domestic industry manufactures, commerce. aud agri-
culture-and while he upon this point the Senate
adjourned at about o'clock We have only room 10
say that protesting little personal acquaintance, and
claiming little information, upon which 10 form an OPT
Mon, he seemed inclined 10 think, that the capital
ployed in agriculture gave the least return of profits,
although he held 10 be much the most invest
menl.
We suppose Mr.. Wright's speech will be concluded
Monday, and shnll take the earliest occasion to
give it, as reported by himself
Trick Of the Lao and Order Party'-Hs Detection
and Exposure.
very curious and interesting scene occurred in
the House Of Representatives today, illustrating very
strkingly the nice Of honor which governs the
Wing party of that body in general, as well as ndiyl
dually.
As soon as The Clerk had finished reading the journal
OF Yesterday, Mr. Cranson, Of Rhode Island, his
place and offered to the House a paper, which he de-
scrbed the declaration and protest of the Legisa
of that St,te against the investigation going
on by order oil the House, into the action Of the Exc.
cu,ive in relation 10 the recent difficulties in that State.
The House confidng in the statement of The honora-
BILE gentleman TO the character OF the paper offered
by HIM. received it, and ordered it to be printed On
examination, however, it turned out TINT the gentle
man who presented the paper had attached, with wa
iers, two slips cut from newspaper, purportng to be
the Message Of The Governor Of Rhode Island address
ed to the Legislature of that State at its late Session
and series of resolutions censurng the conduct Of the
minority of The members of the same Legislature who
signed tie memorial presented to the House, on which
the investigation founded, and presented The same
without explanation, part OF the proceedings OF
The Legislature, which we're duly certified by The Sc
creiary Of the State, under lis broad seal.
Mr. Burke, Of New Hampshire called the attention
of the House 10 this attempt smugge spurious papers
into the printed records of the House. and called upon
the honorable Mr. Cranslon TO sny whether ne had al
,ached those spurious papers TO the true document and
whether he had done SO by the authority Of the legs
a,ure Mr.. Cranslon refused TO answer the Interro9a-
tories of Mr. Burke. The latter then denounced the
act as a contemplate fraud upon The House. Mr..
White, of Kentucky, who Judging from his invariable
custom OF volunteering his aid in every matter which
comes up) has the affairs of the whole Wing party
his shoulders rushed Immediately to the rescue of his
Rhode Island friends lie put the business upon the
ground that the members from that State did not intend