Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-08-26
From the Nashville Union.
Great and Joyous News from Washington CITY

Odious, because it was passed directly in
the teeth of the solemn promise of the
great leaders of the wing party before the
election that it should not pass. Odious,
because it was enormous in amount and
unjust IN its determinations. Odious, be-
cause, by IFS minimums it gave a govern
ment sanction to falsehood and imposed
fraud upon a noble and con6ding people.
But this last link in the chain of wing
measures of 1912 is now broken. The
Bank had been killed-the Distribution
had been killed--the Bankrupt law had
been killed-but the Tariff of 1912 sur
vived longer and struggled harder. When
it was passed the democratic party vowed
its repeal at the earliest possible moment.
They repeated that VOW at the Baltimore
conventien--they repeated it through the
Presidential contest of l844-they repea-"
ted it in their powerful but unsucce ss ful
efforts in the last Congress. The present
one has, however, nobly redeemed the
vows of all preceding years--graEitude
and honor to them forever for having done
so. Let every democrat throughout this
broad land give them gratitude and honor
for it-let all rejoice that this last mea-
sure of unjust monopoly and outrageous
exaction now lies PROSTATE and dead at
the feet of democratic Congress. In the
House it was repealed by majo:ity of Is
votes--in the Senate only by maj ority
of one. Well, it passed only by h ma
jori,y of one, and SO let it be repealed.
Why was not that majority greater in
the Senate when it was so much greater
in the House? Let the shameful desertion
of Niles and the no less shameful resigna-
ton of Haywood answer the humiiating
question. But it is past, and the great
fact will carry gladness to the heart of the
great masses OF The American population.
1t will open all the great avenues of CON-
merce, and give to the industrial pursuits
of the people a heelthful action which no
restrictions and monopolies could ever do.
But we offer 10 our countrymen double
gratulations on this great occasion. AT
nearly the same moment England has re-
pealed her high protective tariff, and re-
duced her duties on nearly all the impor-
tant articles in which the American farm
er are interested. The doors Of commerce
and trade between the two countries fly
open at nearly the same moment, and their
citizens are invited to go forth from one
realm 10 the other, selling wherever they
Gao sell highest, and buying wherever
they can buy cheapest. How fortunate,
not to say wonderful is this coincidence of
action! England and America simulta-
neously acting in their exertions to rid
themselves of the old long persisted sys-
tenn of protective monopoly! Both have
been brought to it by actual experience
and observation. England has seen for
years that such policy might build mag
nifcent palaces for her favored classes,
whilst the great body of her industrious
and hardy yeomanry were sunk to poverty
and want. And what is England, with her
Queen seated on throne of gold--what
her nobility inhabiting her palaces, with
out her yeomanry? The protective policy
has carried poverty TO every howell IN her
kingdom, and left her people literally star
wing paupers. England saw their extreme
suffering. She heard the ominous cry
which was perpetually coming up from her
people, 'Bread or blood:" A cry we'll CAL
culated 10 startle all her privileged orders
from their luxurious abodes-a cry which
pierced the marble palaces of her hobIes
"a cry which made even the House of
Lords of England, with all their ancient
and hereditary estates, to trembe and give
way to the onward Justice and equality of
the age. The United States with shor-
ter experience, but with an equally strong
conviction of the fatal tendency Of this
system, have joined with Great Britain in
its complete reputation. Other powerful
nations will follow the great example and
we predict that in few years nearly the
whole civilized world, will exhibit in their
commercial and financial policy, a new era
far more favorable to the peace, safety and
happiness of the human family. To the
democratic party belongs the credit of this
great reform IN the United States Not
shat the aDhole party united in its support;
many of them, especially in New York and
Pennsylvania, differed from their brethren
on this question, but the whole whig party,
with but one exception in the House, and
one in the Senate, voted against it. The
one in the Senate Mr.. Jarnagin) express
ly declared his opposition to the bill--to
its principles and provisions and that he
voted for it only in obedience TO the doc.
trine of instruction. SO much cherished bv
the democratic party. On this very doc
trlne let the democratic party take Just
measure of pride and exutation since it
secured the vote of a Senator on which
the fate of The bill was supposed TO de.
pend. Let the people award to the last Lee
gislature, the welmerited need of praise
for their vigilance in bringing that doc
trine to bear on the Senator'S in Congress.
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