American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-30

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: ARKS OF VICE PRESIDENT DALLAS ON
: Wing THE CASTING VOTE IN FAVOR OF
e NEW TARIFF BILL.
the U. S. Senate on Tuesday, when the
and nays were taken on ordering the new
Fl Bill to be engrossed for third reading,
vote stood 81 to 81. The Vice President,
had the casting vote, then rose and said
he Senate being equally divided on this inn
s ant question, | may be INDUCED in briefly
ng tho principal reasons for the vote am
bred by the constitution to give.
Excluded from any participation in forming
Modifying the bill, am bound to sanction
Condemn it exactly in the shape in which it
DIS. The responsibility is deeply felt. 1t
ngs, however, to the Office assigned to me
10y fellow-citizens, and will be assumed with
kness, and, hope, not unbecoming firm
y. The consequences of my decision, either
may seriously affect the country. No one
entertain, as to that, a profounder solicit
p. But, after summoning TO my aid the
= purposes and best lights that can COM
hd, the consequences, be they what they may
4 BIT be hazarded.
he system for obtaining the revenue neces-
to support their government is established,
#ctly or indirectly, by the people of the Uni
States, within the limits, and agreeably to
s prescribed forms of the constitution. What
I is ascertained to be their will on the sub
!, all should undoubtedly acquiesce in. That
1 Ire are known and approved modes by which
lir will is expressed, cannot be questioned;
i the public officer who reads that will with
bdor and integrity, may feel assured that he
hforms to the institutions of his country when
makes it the guide of his conduct. To my
Bnd ample proof has been furnished that a
Rjority of the people and of the States desire
change, TO great extent, in principle, if not
bdamentally, the system heretofore pursued
assessing the duties on foreign imports. That
tjoritY has manifested itself in various ways,
d is attested by its representatives in the 9TH
house of Congress, by whom this bill has
|en approved, and whose votes undeniably in
bate the popular sense in the large proportion
eighteen out of twenty-eight States. In this
|nate an analysis of the vote before me dsclo-
5 that while six States (Ohio, Virginia, New
bmpshire, Georgia, Michigan, and Malne) are
|ualiy divided, eleven (LouisIana, Pennsylva-
IA, Delaware, Kentucky, Massachusetts,, New
|rsey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland,
orth Carolina, and Vermont, are against, and
Even Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Illinois,
diana, South Carolina, Mississippi, N. York,
exas, Tennessee, and Florida) are for the
lange. Peculiarly situated as am in my re-
ton to the national legislature, these impress
We facts cannot be overo nked. In case free
ON constitutional objection, could not justi-
IDLY counteract, by sort of official veto, the
,neral will.
The struggle to exert without abatement the
power of taxation in such man
Or as to protect by high duties on imports
ANY of the productions of our own soil and
Dor from the competition of other countries,
as endured for more than thirty years. Dur
lg that period a system of high taxation has
re. 1t is as vigorously and as exactingly in
sted upon now as ever; and indeed it would
,em, in some instances, as if the longer the
dvantage of a particular tax was enjoyed, the
ronger became the desire for its continuance,
nd even its augmentation. And yet it ought
, be remembered that this exercise of the tax
g power by which tine great mass of consum-
rs are made to swell the profits of few
ranches of industry, was originally intended
, be temporary, to be continued only so long
8 its continuance was necessary to the indus
al independence and safety of the whole peo-
le. Such was the language, the incubation,
ne spirit, in which it was proposed and lusti-
ed by its earliest and wisest friends. The de-
gn was to foster feeble "infdnt" manufactures,
specially such as were essential to the defence
t the country in time Of war. In this design,
he people have persevered until, with some,
ut not weighty exceptions, these sapplings
ave taken deep root, have become vigorous,
expanded, and powerful, and are prepared TO
hare the common lot Of human pursuits, and
o enter with confidence the field of free, fair
nd universal competition.
The arrival of this period of time, long pro-
Missed, has been anxiously looked for by large
nu Justly IcPpeSteu Poitioi vi OuI lellOW-Cltl-
ems, who deemed themselves peculiar and al
most exclusive sufferers by the policy of pro-
ection. They have sometmes-perhaps i'm.
Observation-Disclosures to anticipate it. Their
numbers, at first entitled to influence only from
heir patriotism and intelligence, have gone on
increasing as the system ripened te
is fruit, and they now constitute what l ar
POUND by register ed facts to regard as decided
majority of the people and of the Union.
It is undoubtedly true that this charge of Fl
1ancial arrangement, brought about by public
opinion, "iohich everywhere ought TO guide andin
susnce statesmen, !" should, nevertheless, be char
,cterzed by moderation, nay, by scrupulou
tenderness for those interests of our fellow-citi
zens that are to be affected by it. The legisla
ion which encouraged their investments, thei
educational training, or their habits, shoule
cease, finally and firmly, if required, but still
,oothingly and gently; and hence may be par
ioned for expressing regret that certain pro