Mobile register and journal., 1845-07-12

It is very difficult to follow our contemporary in 1 h;s ,alnh!ins e,si-- ~,"o,osersy. Whenever he
 touches tie tariff, however sing le the po,rt which re
 umns of disconnected matter, full of all sor,s
 oi irrelevant and dspulabe questions. which whole
 pages would be necessary separate and debate and
 then there would be only repetition oi proofs efi.
 tations, and denials, which are familiar to every
 body who knows any thing of this bong agilated question and the position often taken by the friends of
 free trade against restriction and taxation. We
 were considering the extent and meaning of Col.
 DuNs's pledge in Conecuh county, to vote for re- ducton of the tariff of lS42 to the revenue standard
 In reply we have had flood poured out upon US of all the old lallaces of the proiectionists clam;po the support of distinguished public men of former
 times to the iar'f polcy-tacity assuming that all expressions m favor oi the growth of featuring
 industry or oi the duty to give voluntary preference
 to home over foreign productions or of willingness l to make personal sacrifices for lhe improvement of American arts and tine enlargement of American em
 pioymenls,-sentiments which every antI-tarif man insists that he feels as warmly as the most stubborn monopolIst, contain within them an approval of tbe policy oi legal restraints upon commerce. and of hsh taxation by government, for the purpose of eiy
 ing compulsory preference to a favored branch of industry over all others. These might be answered
 in detail, they have been answered satisfactorily so often before; bu, independent of the edium of the recap Itulaion of of told tale. there would he no use Tn the present case, as antagonist loses the whole by conessing that protection for the sake of pro- lection without regard revenue was or g finally the creed of the party of protectirn and attempting an ex pianation of the motves whi,h have led the whies. who are the party of rrotecton to modify that posi- tion He made sad couluso ion in the chasing of names and persons but that IS imnlaterial and was put in probably, to divert attention. His aluson to history and individuals, winds up with the con siou that the doctrine of protection is what il was but that
 its original principle, that prohibition should be made sufficient without regard revenue, has been yielded by its friends. In this follows Mir CIay who stated
 Tn h's speech in the Senate in 1883, that ii was ''se. ueu m iel6, ls24 and 1928, "tha protection should be afforded by hIgh duties, without regard 10 the a. mount of the revenue winch they might yield" In 1924, Mr. Clay had recommended thai exeises and in tsnal taxes should rather be preferred as means for supplying deficient revenue than 10 lessen protec- Son by lessenng duties 10 admit of mporta- tion' lie IS good authority for ihe assertion that these were the protection doctrines up to lS2S They were formally but only in form, abandoned in lS42, | oy MT. Clay and portion of his party. Many of them have not abandoned Il even in terms up 10 this day. All adhere to il in substance, juggling with lhe sense oi the public, by the hunbusgery o worlds when 'hey nsist that Ihe revenue principle tariff b,I n"s reference mere ly 10 the raised in the as- s'eg"'e' and not to the principles and motives with | ""'c" hs details are arranged. This professed -""''e"ce 10 the "revenue principle" was made by
 "'.A'e' aS a concession to the advance of popu- "' 'ee''ns aga'nst their system. It was wrerted rom them by the growth of the antiarif sentiment m the democratic party and il was yielded with all those various excuses and siosses which ,bs Ad..,; ser quoes' and which are always ready when men find It indispensable to change iron, and seeL r., ,;. tam character for sagaci,y grace in conc.d;,. what they cannot help The debates in Co,o.. 1892 and 1883, sufficiently show that it wa, ,hs ,a
 oi the growing popular sentiment agains, ,he nr,,,
 ''e system, as previously established winch c,,n. pe'ed the leaders of ilie tariff party assume ,be a''''"ue oeiore iiie people of acquieseence m the
 revenue principle; with the reservation, as event, nave since shown, that the revenue principle should ""Y appy to the amount to be raised bv taxation. ny "'3'e"oe tarh they mean a tariff which shall
 surplus" of money, although every e"'''e 7" " n'sh' be arranged for pro,sciion. And