Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-26

On THE WRONG KEY.-The NO Tropic.
ahigh tariff paper, being disposed to puff
z American Manufactures" seizes upon
an extract from the London Times, where
lin that paper in advocating repeal of the
Eduty on American raw cotton, states the
notorious fact that the American cotton
rnanufacturers--tle class who SO loudly
Ebeseech Congress for the passage Of laws
to enable them 10 plunder other classes OF
the community--can, and do, underseli
the British manufacturers in China, South
America, and all the neutral markets Of
the world. This is one Of the strongest
arguments againssthe Protective--or plum
der-system, and we are at loss which
most to admire, the ingenuity which tho
tariff editor displays in applying the ex-
tract to his purposes, or the low estimate
he seems to place upon the intelligence Of
his readers. The Times says
The American has, of course, great ad-
vantages-the cotton produced at his very
door, while we must defray the expense
of carriage across the Atlantic, and their
chargesssaid to be 7.16ths of penny in
the pound, before we can compete with
him in the neutral market. This unavoid-
able burden we almost double (by the duty.l
The result is that in South America and
other quarters, even in China--China which
our own arms have opened to the world
we are losing ground, which the Ameri-
cans are gaining from us"
And yet, the advocates of "protection"
tell US that our manufacturers must have
100 per cent. bounty to compete with the
British in the home market! The mono
polists who are striving to pauperize labor
on this side the water, are fruitful of spe-
cious and plausible arguments TO justify
their schemes; but we had expected they
would disguise facts so fatal to the very
foundation of their tariff systematic ne
cessity Of protection at all. The advanta-
ges enumerated in the extract, with the
per cent. agreed upon as the maximum of
revenue tariff, would surely afford sufi-
Gent protection against British pauper
labor" But moths is not the object
The aim of the monopolists is not to pro-
tect, but TO plumbers not to increase the
wages of labor, but ultimately to reduce it,
as such systems have in other countries, to
the lowest rate by which the sickly inmate
of factory may sustain miserable exist
ence. We hope the article in the Tropic
may be extensively Copied, that those who
pay tribute to the manufacturers may have
wing testimony to the fact that, while the
manufacturers demand 100 per cent. pro-
lection, or bounty, to sell atlheir own doors,
they can undersell the 6 mistress of the
seas" in all other quarters of the wcrld.--
1t may be said thatit is only under the ope-
rations of a high tariff that this can be done.
If this were true, as it's not, it is certainly
a strange perversion of terms to call that
an "American system" which robs the
American for the benefit of the Chinese
and it is certainly tenable position to as
sumo that our government should look ra-
tner TO the welfare OF the American peo-
pie than of the inhabitants of the Celestial
empire.
While on this subject, we call attention
TO the extracts in another part of this pa.
per, the one headed prospect of the Cot.
ton Planters," the other an abstract of Z
communication in the Charleston Mercury
We do not agree with Mercator" in his
recommendation of ''resistance as of yore'
(by nullifcatioE1 ;-believing as we do
that the mandate Of the people will ulti
lnately abrogate these statutes of plumber
We still hope and believe that the tariff
will be reduced to the standard of the com
promise act, before the close of Mr.. Folks
administration.
] THE CoNvENTIoN.-We conv a welltone