The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-21

away with all stability raise the panic, raise the cry
Of ruin and assail the Senate chamber on the yery
first day Of its next session for another repeal!
Meanwhile, in spite Of the discomfort and denun-
citation Of the wing press, We happy to see the
kind spirit with which our new law is hailed by our
greatest customer, England. They hail il as the
progress of free trade" "Response from the United
States!" "The monopolsts aooredp Lasting
friendship between England and the United States
seeure!p
Let the New York Express murmur at these
manifestations of sentiment in England. We have no
objection at seeing even these compliments paid
to ''the model republic" To the same paper We
owe the following quotations from the British
gress:
"The Independence packetship, Captain Allen,
which has often brought important intelligence
from the United States, arrived in this port, from
New York, on Sunday last, bringing the best piece
of news which she has ever conveyed TO this eOun-
uy-namey, that Of the passing OF the new and lib
eral tariff Of duties on imports, founded on Mr.
Walkers report, through the American House
Of Representatives, by majority Of ia TO 95
votes"
And the same editor goes on to say:
"Such measures as these will be more eficacious
for the preservation Of peace and good understand
ing between the two countries than all the fleets and
armies which were ever raised or equipped. They
will, we confidently trust, in few years, make the
friendship Of the two countries so essential 10 each
other to render il difficult TO get up quarrel
between them as it now would be to get up quarrel
between those ancient rivals, England and Scot
land"
This is the spirit Of Mr.. Charming Of Boston him
self, when he said, in one Of his last works:
''Allow me to say word to the merchants Of our
country on another subject. The time is come when
they particularly called TO take yet more gener-
GUS views Of their vocation, and to give commerce
universally as yet unknown refer 10 the juster
principles which are gaining ground the subject
Of free Aads, and to the growing disposition Of ma
tons 10 promote IL. Free trade this 10 the plain
duty and plain interest of the human race. To level
all barriers TO free exchange to cut up the system Of
restriction, root and branch to open every port on
earth TO every product this is the Office OF enlight
ened humanity. To this free nation should es-
pecially pledge ITSELF Freedom of the seas; freedom
Of harbors intercourse Of nations free as the
winds; this Ia not dream Of philanthropists. We
are tending towards il, and LEI US hasten H. Under
wiser and more Christian civilization, we shall
look back on our present restrictions as We do on
the swadding- by which, in darker times, the
human body was compressed"
WIN one more quotauon from the BRUSH papers
by the Caledonia, and we have done for to-day. II
is quotation from "The Manchester Guardian :"
"Shoud this important measure become law, as
we have now every reason 10 believe, It will e1er-
else most important influence upon the commerce
between the United States and this country, the
duction Of duties upon most Of our staple produO-
tons being very considerable, and upon none, per-
haps, more so than upon the manufactures of cot
ton. Under the existing law, the duty on these
manufactures (nomnally IS per cent is levied not
upon the real value but upon certain fictitious vau-
atons which serve to raise the actual duty in many
cases to so, &c. or 100 per cent. Under the provs-
ions Of the bill now before the Senate, the duty on
embroidered and tambored cottons will be 80 per
cent? on cotton velyes 20 per cent and all other
manufactures Of cotton 25 per cent ad vaorem. IN
der duty of this amount, the import of the finer
qualities Of English cotton manufactures, and espe
cially Of good prints, musns, and probably fine
shirtings, will be arge and may expect the trade
in those articles to be restored something like the
amount at which it stood some years ago. The re-
ductions in the duty on iron, and on woolen and
worsted manufactures, are also important but, as
we shall probably have decisive intelligence as to the
fate of the bill at an early period shall for the
present. abstain from any further remarks upon it,"