Mississippi Democrat., 1845-09-10
THE TARIFF AND PRICES.

inr on IN INeW f0fk, DetWiNt tEe MUfnin
News and the Tribune, as 10 the opera
ton Of the tariff on the prices Of manu-
faciared goods. The former paper main
tanned that prices were enhanced BY III,
= Tariff, whilst The latter took the common
whig view, that prices are lower now THAI
under the revenue tariff. They have ad
duced statistical facts and made compari
sons until the Tribune has been forced !,
admit the truth Of the position advocated
by the News. The News thus speaks o
the controyersy.--- s.
The TRIBUNE AND PRICES. - Now
that our contemporary has, with the best
egrace it could display, admitted that the
"iarfl has raised the prices Of all the inn
"ported articles subject 10 duly under de-
abale, we will recall lis attention to wool.
"That article has fallen 25 per cent. dur
"ing the year, involving the loss Of $2,-
100000 to New York farmers aone.---
"We would have il show the farmers how
'ihey have been smuggling foreign fine
"wools at the duty Of the coarser ariic O.
switch the Tribune last year alleged did
"not come in competition with the United
Estates wool. We shall proceed to com.
spare the assertions of tho Tribune last
"year with facts that have since iranspir-
@ed, and the most surprising results will
"become manifest. We may then call its
" "atiention 10 -four, So 81 per barrel in
Cincinnati, and other great benefits the
farmers have derived from this tariff,
"which advances that which they buy and
diminishes in price that which they sell.
" We were a good deal amused with the
" "Iri6ane's valorous denial of excess in
"thc price of cotton goods here over that
!" oil the same description in Manchester
"Has he forgotten how completely the
Journal Of Commerce destroyed him on
"ihis question in September last, showing
that the same article which sold in Man
"chester at VI cents, sold at the same
time in this city at Ia cenis"
The reader will discover in the forego-
ing article most interesting facls--ihe
great principle which we have labored to
establish, is here distinctly established by
stubborn facts. Even at the North the
prices of agricultural product have gone
down, whilst the prices of manufactured |
goods have gone up. We have shown the
same state Of things at the South and
West by reference to the prices Of all the
leading products of our farmers. But the
most surprising fact, is, that the same de-
scrlption of cotton goods which sell in
Manchester, in England, at n cents per
yard, at the same time is selling in Bos-
ton at l4t centsl A system cannot be
permitted to stand which inflicis such in.
justice on the consumers of cotton goods
for The benefit of the manufacturers. -
This fact explains the secret Of the heavy
profits made by the manufacturing capit-
alisIs--it also explains the low profits Of
the consumers. Nashrilic Union.
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES. people
the only source ol legitimate power; the
representatives to obey the instructions of
his constituents; The union, conlederacy,
II must be preserved; the freedom, sove-
relgnty, and independence of the respec-
tive States; the constitution a special grant
Of powers limited and definite; election
and suffrage universal; no taxation be.
yond the public wants; taxes levied in that
mode which will best admit Of public scru-
hny; no national debt; no national or
State banks, or monopoles of any kind;
no distribution Of the public lands among
The states, but low prices, permanent pro.
sPectiye liberal pre-empiion laws; freedom
Of trade and commerce; equal laws and
equal rights; progress and improvement.
These are few Of the leading principles c
which democracy aims 10 make the rules I
ol government, I
Did our peculiar American natiyists {
ever notice that the following is in tho
Declaration Of Independence2
" He Qhe King) has endeayored to pre-
vent the population Of these States; for y
that purpose obstructing the laws Of ma Y
'uralizalion Of foreigners and refusing to :,
pass others TO encourage lhier migration
hther.r NNe Z a
10 this compare the following from the !
speech Of General Dearborn; at the ma =
'ivist convention: Y
Unless we stop immigration, We can't y
preserve the liberty of our country. Ifit :,
continues, the time will come when we :
VIII have to rise in arms and massacre The ?
J,oreigner, or make them our slares, in or u
aer tospreserye The free institutions Of our a
country, and transmit them unimpai red to !
our children" IN
We like this. Il refreshingly reminds g
US o. the Three Days, and plainly init a
'ua'es 'cho were the church-burners. y
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ven you are married man, Samivel, th
yOull understand good many things as
,Ou uon 2 understand now; but vother its 4,