Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-08-28

essentially free trade in Its whole scope than
the present, which he opposes, on the ground that
it affords too little protection We are at loss
ingenuousness discovered by this simple exposi-
ton.
Again, Mr. Haywood opposes the new tariff on
the ground that, as a measure of revenue, it will
prosecute the war with Mexico. Why, if it be a
fact that low duties will decrease revenue, as Mr.,
Haywood seems to contend, the same objection
would apply to the tariff bill of 1874, and as we
have seen with even stronger force. The only
way, then, in which this objection could be reno
we'd, would be by the re-enactment of such a
tariff as that of 1912. But Mr.. Haywood was
pledged against that and SO this must also fall
when objected to the new bill. 1t is apart from
our present purpose, and would cover too much
ground TO shew how baseess is the doctrine for
which Mr.. H. here implicitly contends. His opin-
ion in this matter is in direct opposition to that OF
Mr.. Calhoun, the Secretary of the Treasury,
and in fact the whole of the Democratic party in
the Senate, and out of it, who have all along been
trying TO persuade us that low tariff must ulti-
mately increase rerenue, by encouraging larger
importation, and Mr.. H being (heaven save the
mark y ga true democrat" cannot surely question
one of the leading and long recognized principles
of his party, and one which he has himself more
than once eloquently and zealously supported.
One remaining ground of objection to the new
Bill, and we have DONE 1t is stated that in
adopting the nd ralorem principle it departs from
the usual practice of the government, and introdu-
ces ne,U principle in taxation principle which
Mr.. H. az gentleman, Senator, and christian
never could sustain. Mr.. Haywood will have to
blot from the memory of the Democracy of North
Carolina the names & the public services, with the
earnest recommendations of Calhoun, and McDuf-
fie, Woodbury., Benton and Wright, before again
he ventures to ask what distinguished name ever
sanctioned it, save that of Henry Clay. He will
have to from the records of the Republic the
history of tho Compromise, the composition of ev-
ny Tariff act, since the organization of the govern
EVERY ARTICE UNDER WHICH WAS
TAXED AID VALOREM, WITH THE EX-
CEPTION OF FIVE. viz: SILK, Iron, Sugar,
Molasscs, and Spirits--Mr. H. must deny the con-
slant practice under cach before he has the brazen
ehrontery to inform the people of the Union that
the intelligent citizens of n. Carolina " thousands
and tens ofthousands of good North Carolina DEM
ocras, far from having adopted it in their poll
teal creed, did not much as hear of it until long
since my election TO the Senate "!!! Was ever
anything equal to this ;! We stated we had read
this long and labored defence with forlearance
and in reviewing it too we mean to exercise the
same manly virtue
But we hasten to close this examination. Before
we do so, we cannot help being struck with Won
fruitlsss efforts at amendment notwithstanding all
the repeated calls upon his patriotism, his integri
ty, and his sense of duty, all Of which this Bill
violated. Mr.. Haywood would still have voted in
its favor, had it only been postponed in operation
a few months! "Will it be believed" says the Ed
itor of The Charleston Mercury, g that this trans
cendcntal patriot, in spite Of all these weighty OBJ
ections, actually agreed to vote for the new tariff
provided its operation could be postponed from
the Is: of December to the LIST of March! Ye
he so assures us in his Address. From the begin
ming to the end Of his long vindication, we fine
his conscience and his sense Of dnty hanging like
nightmare him. and dsordering his mind 81
far as to blind him to the fact that the bill under
consideration almost identicalky the same a
the one he had approved and cherished as a mo
del Of tariff and yet conscience and all that, die
at last dwind!e down into petty objection to the
day for the new tariff to go into operation Con
Silence cried out for March and the bill said De
cember! Conscience had conceded much--th,
rate of taxation the principle of taxation--hu
when it came to the day of the month, CONSCIENCE
took the Muds and would not bulge an inch fur
Their"
| We have now done with Mr.. Haywood. W.
leave him where he admits he has been brough
with reluctance, at the bar of his country. We ar
convinced that while he could have for his judge
no more impartial or we'll disposed a body thar
the Democracy Of N Carolina they will not be sat
isfied with sophistry for argument, and the kee1
ingenuity of the advocate for the honest rectitud
of the Representative. Nor let Mr.. Haywood
think to save himself from punishment by boastinI
an undeserved intimacy with the councils of tn
President. Even the ample folds of that Execu
tive mantle with which Jas. K. Polk has bee
clothed by confiding people, cannot disguise tn
enormity Of his offence, or screen him from tn
pain of its legitimate consequences. "
NEwsPArEn READIse.-We like occasionall
to touch upon subjects which are calculated to re