Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-07-10
From The Odio state Journal.
Duty ON TEA AND COFFEE

The Tariff Question is undergoing at this time
an earnest discussion in one branch of Congress.
The House has resolved, by vote of lOl to 50,
to close the discussion ON Thursday next, the 2d
of July. This vote although u very thin one,
seems 10 render probable the passage Of Mr.. Me-
kayS bll---or some other nearly as obecIona.
bIe-through tho House. The movements of
the 81 10 men in favor of an adjournment du-
ring the present month, are prompted in all prob
ability by Discrimination to cooperate with the
President and his Secretary in their movements
against the Tariff Not that they are opposed to
It's repeal, but because they do not feel in an acco-
.lodalinu mood towards those who have deceived
and led them to make false issue on IN inpor-
tant question. If it comes to Il vote however,
they will be found with the South againstthe Ia
riff. Mr., Benton may give some trouble should
he oppose the House Bill; and il is among the
possibilities lhat he may be found in that position
We are, however, prepared for the worst. If the
country i3lo be annoyed constantly by war ON
the Tariff the sooner the Free TRADERS are al
lowed to try the experiment the better. We are
not certain that it would, in the end, be produce
tive of more evil than to have the question oga-
tod to an indiinite period. The storm would
t'lll' WIN Hl'N 9'N'll'Ns W. b Nlll1 bNl u IT,
action would the sooner restore permanently what
had been destroyed We feel, therefore, like
saying to the administration: 90 ON and try your
experiment. Dear itmay be to the country, but
doubly dear will it be- in the end to those who
have robbed that country of a system that has
thus far operated SO fairly and successful.
There is one fact to which the attention of tho
country should be directed by the whole Wing
press, in connection with this proposed move
mcnt in Congress against the Tariff. Mr.. Me-
Kay proposes duty of hecRtypcr cent. on TEA
and COFFEE, and expects to receive two mill
lions of dollars from this source. Now, while
woare prepared to admit that duty raised in this
way in order to swell the revenue and aid in de-
lraying the expenses of the Presidents War,
will fall as lightly on the country as Imposed
IN any other way, it is right that men should be
made sensible of the fact, that this is the first of Il
series olmovements growing out ola war brought
ON us unnecessarily by the ENecutiyo 1t right
that they should know that this is designed to
make up deficiencies caused by tho destruction
of tho Tariff Whatever may be the preences
sot up by Mr.. Polk and his Secretary of the
Treasury, there is no good reason for believing
that Mckay's bill will, if adopted, even with this
tax on Tea and Coffee, yield moro revenue than
the present Tariff tits nothing more, therefore,
than removal of the duties from articles not of
strict necessity to those that are-lrom articles of
iRrury to those used as much by the poor as by
the richl-irom articles that we can produce our
selves (adyanlageously to theinerests ofal class
es) TO those we cannot producel This fact the
country should and will understand.
The administration and its organs have con-
tended that duty for protection on an article pro-
ducod or manufactured in this country, is di-
rect tar none will attempt to deny. ltmay not
be a tax TO the full amount Of the duty imposed,