Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-10-29


ably supported through q Ions series ofl
public service, will now, when elected 10
the highest station TO which ambition or
patriotism can aspire, beiray his political
principles and sacrifice those popular mass
es, by whose voluntary ard unsolicited
sufFrages he was raised to power. : trust
not the tale" In his inaugural Address
he very distinctly lays down the doctrine
that revenue is the object of all duties up
ON imports, and protection the incident.
Nothing can be more plain. lfProtec-
Yion To particular classes at the expense "
aHothers. results from revenue duiy-as
it does from all revenue dulles--h y an
unavoidable incident not TO be desired but
regretted. Iii impossible to separate the
protection given to the sugar-planter, for
example. by even revenue duty of 20
ner cent, from the twofold burden impos-
ed upon everybody else, not only by rails
ing to the consumer the price of imported
sugar which yields revenue equal to the
burden, but the price of domestic sugar,
which imposes an equal burthen, and yields
no revenue. Ii is this last result which
uniusily transfers the money Of the many
TO the pockets of the few, which constitutes
the incidental protection OF revenue du-
ty-a result which so far from being desi-
rable to the people at large, can only be
regarded as public evil, unavoldably re-
sulting from system of taxation.
Now LET us suppose the duties upon all
foreign imports, including sugar and iron,
reduced to a revenue standard of 20 per
cent. and take up the case of the sugar
planters and iron masters at this point
What ground would they have to COM
plain of such an adjustment of !hesduties
upon imports? Could they pretend that
any one of these duties imposed burthen
upon them not equally imposed upon the
body of the people? The whole Of these
duties would operate precisely upon them
as upon others, with the exception of the
duties upon sugar and iron, and these while
they would operate as bounties to them,
equal TO 20 per cent upon the whole
amount of sugar and iron they produced
for sale. Suppose, for example, sugar
planter of Louisiana produces sugar annu-
ally to the amount of fifty thousand dollars
probably a fair average; and an iron
master of Pennsylvania, iron to the same
amount; the amount of other imported and
protected articles consumed by each, GER
tainly would not exceed Ten thousand dol
lars. Thus under a revenue tariff these
injured citizens would have to pay 30 per
cent. on $4,000, equal to $4,000 TO the
government and to their confederate mo-
nopolists, and would only receive 20 per
cent. on $4,000, equal TO $4,000, from
the great body Of the peoplel Their ground
of complaint, then, against the dwelling
equality of revenue tariff, would be that
they received under it only five times as
much in bountics as they paid in taxes and
bounties united! And what under these
circumstances, do they modestly demand
of the federal government and Of free.
trade democrats administration Simply
that the bounty of 20 per cent. resulting
from revenue duty, be raised TO fifty by
protecting duty, swelling their clear and
real income, derived from the system of
federal taxation from eight to :wenty.three
thousand dolIars This plain statement
literally exhibits the character, not only
of the protective duties upon sugar and
iron, but Of the whole system of protective
monopoly, and am sure no honest patriot
can think of the unjust, iniquitous and au-
dacious demand made by those bloated and
heartless plunderers, that the adminisfra-
lion should sacrifice their principles and
the vital interests of the people, to secure
their allegiance, for tho support of the
followers and victims, whom they at The
same time deceive and plumber, without
feeling his blood boil in his veins with the
warmest Indignation.
= Taking q more comprehensive view of
the subject, it may be stated as fact, that
the greater part of the revenue from i'm
ports is derived from duties on the class oil
protected articles, principally sugar, iron
and iron manufactures, cotton manufac.
lures and woollen manufactures. Now all
these interests are united together in a
plundering confederacy, upon the principle
that each may rob the other, that all may
rob the community allarge. AS have be-
fore stated, each of them would receive al
least FIVE times, some of them twenty
times as much as they pay, even under a
strict revenue system Is it not apparent
therefore, that TO permit those interests 10
control Congress, in the matter of taxa.
ton, would be to put the power of taxa.
ton, the most important of all political
power, in the hands Of those who have a
deep pecuniary interest in increasing the
taxes? If the manufacturing nations Of
Europe would agree 10 supply the fed
eral revenue by perpetual tribute, would
these monopolisis consent TO total re-
peal of the duties on imports and free the
country from taxotions They certainly