Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-05-07

tIOH duu CA'Oh', Out I'D COtItCl on lHe >po lHo
false representations made by these Manchc>-
ter men and their agents in regard To the chmac-
ter and prices Of BRUSH and American goui>
Speaking of The Presidents me- ge. this Man
chester letter writer exclaims "a second d ,n..l
come TO judgement, second Richard Cobden;'
and so delighted were they IN England win
Mr. Walkers celebrated free trade Iepor, h,t
n was ordered tv he printed by the House of
Lords. After all this, having our President AMI
Secretary on their side, they ought To have
been content, without sending their letters Of
instructions here TO direct Us hat kind Of
riff they wish us TO pass. But II their chanceI-
lor had sent Us revenue bhl he could not
have furnished one 10 suit Great Britain bet
ter than the one furnished by the Secretary oi
the Treasury Parliament would pass it by
acclamalion. Sir Rober, Peel unders ands h,,
business he proposes to take The duties off
breadstufis and raw materials of all kinds used
by their manufacturers, and remove every bar
den so as 10 enable them to meet US and beat
us in our own markets and In the markets of
The world, where Yankee competition Is begin
ming 10 give them great uneaslness. Last year.
we exported hundreds of thousands of dollar,
worth Of cotton goods INFO the Brush East ln-
dies, and beat the Brush in their own markets
after paying discriminating duties imposed I"
keep US out, first s, then 20, finally Is per
cent. In this great struggle, Sir Ropen Peel
comes 10 the rescue; he repeals The duty
cotton and wool and bread aud meal and every
thing used by British manufacturers to enabIe
them 10 go ahead In this struggle with the
Americans; and what does Mr. Walker dol
Just the reverse. He proposes to take off all
protective duties, and imposes heavy burdens
on the raw materials, dye suffs, &C., used by
our manufacturers, SO efectually TO prostrale
and break them down. Sir Robert Peel
takes burdens off his sreed, while Sir Robert
Walker piles bags of sand on hs-then crack
their whips-clear the road-a fair race "A
Iaugh) Such is the difference between Brit
ish and American policy Sir Robert Peers
present system furnishes powerful Arguments
for adhering to our protective system-hls
object is not 10 favour, but 10 beat US; and our
course is not 10 defeat, but TO favour his pur
pose This will no, only be the effect Of the
tariff proposed by Secretary, but it is its
open and avowed purpose and design. Is it
not the proclaimed purpose of the message and
report 10 increase the importation Of British
goods, and of course, TO that extent, destroy
American supply! Does not The Secretary
propose 10 reduce The protective duties more
than one half for The purpose of increasing rev.
enue; and if the revenue is increased by redu-
cling duties ne-half, must not the imports be-
more than doubled? This is self-eyldenr, and
/ il you double your imports of foreign goods,
must you not destroy TO that extent American
supplyl Most certainly, unless the Secretary
can in his wisdom, devise plan 10 make peo-
ple eat, drink, wear double as much they
! now do. But where will we fnd money Io
pay for them! There's The rub. But START
! ling and extraordinary as 1t may appear, our
Secretary, for the first time IN the history OF he
| world has boldly and openly avowed II as The
object of Government 10 break down and de-
s,roy its own manufacturers for the purpose of
making way for those Of foreigners. In the
yery first paragraph of his areumentaIive re-
! port he sets out with stating that the revenue
! of The Isl quarter Of this year is two millions
less than the lst quarter of the last and that this
has been occasoned by the substitution Of highly
protected American manufactures for foreign TN
ports: and this evil, this terrible evil, this Anerl
can Secretary proposes to remedy by reducing
the protective duties, and thus breaking up this
abomnable business of "substitutiEg domestic
products" made by American labour out of ADleri-
can produce, for British goods, made by British
| labor out of British produce Oh. but he hates
the British. Now, SIR this is not only the doc
trine of his tert, but it runs through his whole
sermon of 957 pages. No wonder il was printed
by the House of Lords: and let our Secretary car
nv through his bill, and Queen Victoria would
gladly transfer the seals from Sir Robert Peel To
Sir Robert Walker, for he will have rendered her
greater service than any other man, dead or liv-
ing
But thisis not only the doctrine of the Treasury
report, but of the message itself. The revenue
standard laid down in the message aims death
blow al all American industry. |, suggests Il
kind of sliding scale," SO that whenever any
branch of American industry begins to beat the
foreigner, and supply the market, and thereby di-
minish imports and revenue, this is evidence that
the duty is too high and ought to be reduced, so
as to let in the foreign rival productions; but lei
the President speak for hmself-here is his reye-
nue. standard in his own words:
"The precise point in the ascending scale oil
duties at which il is ascertained from experience
that the revenue is greatest, Is the maximum rate
of duty which can be laid for the bona tide pur-
pose of collecting money for the support OF Gov
ernment. To raise the duties higher Than that
point, and thereby diminish the amount collected
is to levy them for protection merely, aid not for
revenue AS long, then, as Congress may gradu-