Mississippi Democrat., 1846-07-29
From the Mississippian.
THE TARIFF.
Look TO the Senate.

/. last weeks paper, for The success of n
!. Revenue Tariff Bill at the present sessio
/. of Congress, had scarcely gone forth befor
!, we were called upon to change our note
J, and again iterate fears that the popula
j. Will is doomed to receive temporary defea
The SENATE-the whole body of the de
$ mocratic professional democrats) party i
That body are not TO be counted UPON
. STURGEON and CAMERON, of Pennsylvania
It was known would act with the Wings
10 these we have too much reason to fear
is to be added the name Of NILES, of Con
necilcut. The indications now are, iha
The vote in full Senate rcil be tie-2S fol
and % against the House bill. Should
this be the case, the high responsibility o
giving the casting vote will devoIve upon
Vice President DALLAS. As representa-.
tive Of the State of Pennsylvania, he might
POSSIBLY, with safety,) be counted among
The advocates Of the tariff of l642. But
he holds much higher position; he has
been placed in the office of President of
the Senate by the people of whole Union,
and that constituency call upon him TO re-
spect their wishes--to carry out their prin-
ciples.
The following are the remarks of Sena-
tor Niles on the proposition 10 take up the
Tariff Bill. We find them reported in the
National lnteligencer of the 7th inst and
1t he has not been misrepresented by the
reporter, we may say of him that "another
patriot is gone"
Mr.. Niles was in favor of the reference,
first, because it was the usual course in that
body; and, secondly. because, as had been
statedsby several Senators, this was bill
whlch'required the examination Of com.
mlttee. 1t was almost wholly matter OF
detail, and he wished the subject present.
ed in such light, il possible, that he
might vote for it. As it at present stood, |
he was not in favor Of the bill, nor would
1t be approved by the people of lhls coun.
Try. 1t would come upon them by surprise.
They expected no such measure as this.
He had felt that it would be the part of
wisdom 10 let this matter be passed by for
another year, until the consequences of the
war in which we are now involved might
be clearly known and the condition of their
finances be ascertained. He had hoped,
ondly hoped, that the good sense and the
PRACTICAL interests of the country would
rave had some effect upon public opinion,
ind that the time would come when this
subject of the tariff which had hitherto
'een agitated between the two extremes
II parties, would cease TO be football of
,arty contest.
1t was easy to foresee the fate Of this
MEASURE. There would probably be no
mendments tolerated; reference, there
ore, would be of little importance. He
would have desired TO see it amended so
hat it would guard the ordinary interests
i the country. Such were his hopes, but
hey we're destroyed. He saw il was de.
ermined that the bill should be forced
trough without examination, and they
'oult be driven to the disagreeable neces
lly of voting upon it as it stood. In such
ase he should not hesitate. He had no |
gency in making the law of 1912; he !
ad no agency in this; indeed he might \
lmost say Congress had no agency in it; !
was an Executive measure, and Congress .
'as merely called on to register it by their a
otes. But he would say to his friends thai
erhaps they we're not aware of the re- 0
possibility of passing an act of this kind. !,
was not light subject. II that bill a
ere passed it would be found not to be II
ght subject, when they came back here a
ne or two years hence and found an ex.
iusted Treasury, dscrediled Govern. r'
ent with the necessity Of making a loan N
twenty millions Of dollars Gentlemen Sc
ould then begin to perceive ts effects; N
ey would then begin TO discover how de- al
ructve it was TO the best interests OF the .
untry. Those interests were not 10 be pl
filed with; they we're not TO be made the 10
ort OF party influences or party caprice; ~
ID they should not be made so by his vote. DC
hat vote should be given with proper Tie
gard TO the interests of his own consti- IN
ents and Of the country at large. The he
ne would come when the present law ed
'uld be repealed, but the repeating law ry
ist be based upon no new experimental ar
nciple. The bill he supposed would Ii
ie its course; he should take his. He na
uld stand where he had ever stood, on vi
ifF ground which belonged 10 the De- Nj
cracy of the North. The people of the re'
rth know their rights, and they would -
be betrayed. He would endavor al. "a
US, so far as he was able, to carry out on
principles of the Northern Democra. ce'
Those principles were a tariff for we
enue with discrimination for protection. me
IS this bill based upon those prlnciples9 on
was inclined to think not. He was in bat
led to think that, in many instances, re
lscrminates against protection. 1t had IRE
uniform principles except one, and
was the ad valoren principle. He
Id not sanction it; still it was due to the ,