American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper., 1846-07-17

OPERATIVES IN MOTION. Memorials from
various directions are being poured into the
Senate chamber, in opposition to the tariff bill
which is now under consideration in that body.
The operatives of the country are in motion to
arrest measure which they loresee will sacri-
fee their interests, if it do not turn them PEN
nless upon the world. On Wednesday, Mr.
Cameron presented 4 number OF memorials from
colliers and laborers employed in the Goa mines
in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, against the
passage ofthe bill to reduce the tariff, and OBJ
served, that che had passed through the region
from which this petition emauated, and it was
then vast wilderness. Itnow has 4O, 900 peo-
pie, S30,0OO,oo0 capital, so miles of railroad
under ground, and gave employment to vast
number of vessels. Ii this bill should become
law all these people would be thrown out of
employment and ruined"
The ruin of these people, and of tens of fthou-
sands of others, appears to be matter Of tri-
fling consideration with many Senators and
Representatives, who are resolved that the ex-
pertinent of a revenue tariff as it is now called,
shall be tried, even if it bankrupt the public
treasury and destroy the prosperity of the coun-
try. They appear to have an inveterate hostil-
ity to American interests, and an ardent attach
ment to those of foreign countries. They wish
to reduce the wages of labor in this country tG
the European standard, so that the working.
man shall be able to earn barely enough to keep
himself and family from starVaton-and this
object it is likely will be accomplished by the
passage of the bill under consideration.
On the same day that the above mentioned
memorials were presented by Mr.. Cameron, Mr..
Webster also handed in memorial from the
manufacturers of copper in Boston and New
York-in which the memorialists complain OF
the contemplated change in the present law,
ard say-''that the effect will be to place the
trade in sheathipg copper entirely in the hands
of the English and Welsh manufacturers. 1t
is further stated, that England now supplies us
with one half of the sheathing copper which we
use, and that she will have the whole supply
under the enactment of the bill before the SEN
ate. The bill may be emphatically called a
British bill, for it is calculated, if not designed,
to advance English interests OF the sacrifice of
those of The United States. We have no doubt
that the British government will be willing TO
wink at our seizure of California, or the whole
Mexican empire, if she can be assured that the
bill now before the Senate will become the per-
manent policy of the United States. 1t would
open TO her wido field for commercial opera
tions, and her manufactures would flourish
without the fear of successful competition
Give her the exclusive supply of this county
and of Mexico, and we mag proceed with an
nexation as soon as we please. But we consid-
er it out of the question that this British tariff,
ifPassed into law, will be permitted to remain
long unrepealed. Those who feel will speak
and vote; and having this privilege, they will
not fail to place those in power who will prefer
the welfare of thez own country to that of for
eign nations.