The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-08-13

: fers are certainly very disinterested Patri
OTIS to petition, implore, beseech Congress
} from year to year to pass law which vii
force them to sell the goods they manuiac
ture cheapI This silly pretext carries with
it its refutation. But it can be proven thai
| under the tariff system, while planters, the
honest hard working tillers of the soil rea.
lie only from one to two, three or foul
per cent upon the amount of their capital,
the favored manufacturers realize from fif-
teen to twenty per cent. II is thus evident
that the assertion "high tariff makes
cheap prices" is grossly false, and is RI
diculous humbug. They declare also that
high tariff enriches the country, by keep
ing at home Our own produce. Here we
might refer to the opinions Of DR.. Frank
lin before quoted, in regard to the Spanish
edict; for by keeping at home their pre-
cious metals, they rendered them less valu-
able, and such would be the effect upon
American produce were the people to cease
exporting it, which to some extent as we
have before shown they have been
compelled by the high tariff to do. More
over, it enriches the manufacturers and i'm
poverishes the consumer to the same ex-
tent that it enriches them. The whole
community is therefore not enriched, but
only fractional part. Here, then the inius-
tice ofthe scheme is palpable to every one.
The cotton planter, the grain grower, and
the stock raisers are made poor-and the
northern manufacturers are made princely
nabobs, rioting and revealing in splendcr
and luxury upon their ill gotten gains
But the tarifites frequently urge that they
are in favor Of reciprocity in trade, and
wish to place restrictions upon importations
because other nations adopt that policy
without stopping to expose the fallacy of
this doctrine, we will prove their insincer-
ity by referring to their rejection of the late
Zoll Verien treaty, which would have open
ed market for the Gsale of an immense
quantity Of tobacco, provided they had re-
duced the tariff upon a few articles Of for
eign produce.
The injustice Of the protective system is
made more palpable when we recollect
that there are upwards of fifteen millions
of people in the United States, engaged in
the agricultural vocations, three millions
are engaged in various other pursuits,
and among the three millions, about one
half are engaged in manufacturing
How unjust then, how contrary to the
system of our governmental is for sixteen
and half millions Of people to be taxed
for the benefit of one and half millions.
Such a picture is truly frighdll to the
heart Of the patriot who seeks to promote 6
the cause of liberty and equality amongst '
men. ?
But if our government should over leap C
the limits of its authority, and bestow favor
upon one industrial pursuit at the expense
OF the others, manufacturing institutions
should not be the recipients of its favors. c
For of all others, large manufacturing es. 4
adjustments are more dangerous to the II
principles of freedom and equality-more o
to reduce freemen to the degra. II
Ing condition of foreign paupers and serfs. d
With knowledge Of this fact Mr.. JefFer-
on in his notes on Virginia declared-"t
best that our citizens should be employ te
in farming than in manufactures" for j.
e says that "such dependence as exist in is
manufactures beget subservience, and We A
atty, suffocates the germ of virtue and
repares fit tools for the designs Of ambi-
on. While we have land to till, let our te
itizens never be seen twirling the dlstaf. |"
MasOns and Smiths are need. IN
d in husbandry, but let our workshops (e. i. g,
manufacturing establishments remain in sa
Europe. IL is better to carry them provi. ly
ions than to haze them here" This then 81
7as the opinion Of the great apostle of e
liberty-nOt hastily drawn neither, for he y"
ad carefully studied the cause of the pros.
Gritty of nations, and the cause ofstheir !,
III. He had carefully examined the modes ~