Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-16
"oUR PATIENCE is EXHAUSTED"

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s.rbe Administration are pledged TO carry out the primer
oIes of revenue tariff And we will say oe'oasns -
il the opposition they may meet IN Cons -. !, ~ ~
their pans or reiard the settlement Of 'ns a aa
;ng session we will take issue upon before ne PoP0
.s The revenue tariff shall be established WIN uc eo.
a. tant with no half measures" we WI,
..hmit % il no longer. Our patience Is exhausted And
il endurance is preached TO US ~ INC h'A' es'' 20
.. shaH begin 10 talk Of resistance.
Sncb are the declarations Of leading Democratic
journal in the State Of Mississippi. "We will SUBJ
NIT 10 il (the Tariff no longer and if endurance
is preached al the next Congress, we shall begin 10
talk Of resistance" This is no more than the legit
mate extension Of the official dicfann announced
here, that the tariff must becut down to the revenue
standard. The organ of the Administration has
proclaimed il even the head Of the Treasury De-
partment has declared it. " The Tariff must be
reduced to the revenue standard" say they " II
shall be-" say the Mississippi Reformers " II II is
not, we shall begin TO talk resistance" One party
promises, the other threatens.
But it appears that this hostility 10 the Tariff
whether in Mississippi in the Cabinet IS altogei-
eruntenable even on the grounds assumed by the ex
ponent of official opinions the metropolitan organ
Of the Government Submit the question to the test
of experience. We had what these gentlemen are
pleased to regard as repenue tariff full operation
in the yeays ls40-'4l, and part of AZ. Have they
already forgotten the consequences! The Irea-
sury became bankrupt the credit of the Govern.
ment sunk so low that capitalists were afraid to
trust il with loans on ordinary terms the business
and labor of the country were suspended; misery
stalked through the land in all its horrible forms
and degrees. The Tariff of 1912 devised
coming as near as human calculation and foresight
could make il to the anticipated wants OF the Go
vernment; aud scarcely had it begun to operate
before its benign influences were feltm every portion
Of the country, in every branch OF industry. Dn-
ties upon foreign mportations, whether high or low
must, in the very nature of things, operate with
some degree of inequality in country of such
ours. Nothing short Of omniscence could SO ar
range mposts to give satisfaction to all. Oul
manufacturers no longer ask for the imposition Of
duties for the purpose Of protection. All they
require is, that, in the arrangement Of q revenue
tariff, whatever may be its standard, such discrm-
nations may be made, in the distribution Of the
duties upon the various articles, as may allow them
fair opportunity Of competing with their cores
pondent classes in other countries. II this be pro-
lection, it is the protection which every Govern
ment owes to every individual under. its control
and no more.
We hope, therefore, we shall hear no more
threats and no more talk Of resistance. II is both
idle and in bad taste even for a powerful Common.
wealth TO use menaces against an act of Congress
especially which is shedding daily blessings on
the country, and which nine-tenths of the people
view as the sheet-anchor Of the national prosperity
Besides, it is not pleasant to imagine the possibility
Of the Secretary of the Treasury having execute
the revenue laws in Mississippi by force. We
sincerely hope that he will be spared the painful
necessity of doing so.