New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-04
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The proposal reduction OF IS per- cent ' tar nor
paul Yet The prOtecOnists have Inc Assurance 10
ca that the secretary proposes 10 isreose Tie taxes
Ia the sugar account have not alluded 10 the Quantities
v: mat and olass-s Consumed Tor all other purposes
cakes preserves &c. The sugar TAX .Cr the Union is
S7.oU0U00 per 4uEutn, VIZ 2. millions the sugar i'm
ported s. UU0 the LOUISIANA sugar for the ben
eft OF the Planters TN, latter Il" Ue reduced 49,
100000 by the proposition Of the SECRETARY.
Ef- We give place above 10 the entire leading
article Of yesterdays True Sun, as we wish the
Wigs Of our City to what sort OF neutrality ID
habi.ually afforded them by that paper. Without
room 10 day 10 refa,e it's cool assumption that The
price Of Sugar in this country s enhanced = cents
per pound by the present doiy, which Is surely no'
The case, we proceed 10 pat The matter OF Tea and
Coffee duties right before The public
On wha, evidence does The True Sun assert that
"tAe Protect,on,sts have The assurance TO exclaim
&c. AGAINST taxing Tea aud Coffee There Is 10
truth ia the assumption Our party is powerless in
the premises Loco Focoism has only 10 reconcile
its own ieuds and i. may remodel the Tariff as II
pleases. The hitch Tea and Coffee is an affair
OF its own altogether and where one Wing has
spoken gainst taxing these articles dozen Loco
Focos have been vocal on The subject. 1t is from
Brinkerhof, Ohio Mcdowell Hungerford and men
OF mat SCHOOL iudl uubJ VI iSa obN NS'iNS 'A'
received its death blow.
The pie truth s that on this subject Loco o.
coi-m is entangled 10 poisonous web OF It's own
weaving and that its humbugs of former years now
rise in Judgment against it. w hen the Wings came
into power in leil, they found the Government In
debt, and running in debt with an accrulng heve
nue. Of Fourteen or Fifteen Millions TO meet an III
evitabe expenditure many Milo ms higher. They
were obliged to augment the Revenue repudiate
for the Public Credit was so low that Loan could
not be Obtained In this dilemma, Mr.. Clay then
in the Senate said, Let US lay moderate duty
saw 90 per cent-on Tea and Coffee The Wings
were generally inclined 10 vote it, as necessary
Revenue measure. But Loco Focosm affected 10
land aghss, the thou eht Of Jog the poor man.
only iuxurics-the neutral press Suns, Ledgers.
&c. Of the great citiesJ was most excruciating in
! lie hostIy-and such a clamor raised that Gen.
! DAVIS n was defeated in the canvass for Governor
OF Georgia by the cry that he had voted TO tax Tea
and Coffee, though he never did it. Mr.. Clay stood
up 20 the last for The Tea and Coffee (the Re
venue being insufficient and the Government chin
ming to meet its daily wants. but The Wings gave
up the duty after Tyler had vetoed their first Tariff
bill and compelled the exclusion Of the Land Distr
button from the second. Tea and Coffee We since
come in Free and might long continue to do go if
Loco Focosm would not insist on plunging as into
War snd keeping rs there. and would lei alone the
Protective Policy. But the foray on Mexico and
the breaking down OF the Protective System compel
a resort 10 extraordinary means Of raising Revenue.
so We presume these articles mus, be taxed. But
The Wings have nothing to do with levying duty
them. they will vote against any bill subveriine
Protection that is likely TO be proposed from the 9th.
O. sid but they are not averse to evying Temporal
ry duties for the paymen, of our heavy War ex-
penses, The trouble is altogether among the Loco.
Focos themselves, and the True Sun grossly mis-
represents the whole matter hen it assais the Pro
,ec,ioaisis as clamorng against duties on Tea and
Coffee. This is very much like It's fashion Of de.
Tending Gen. Scott and wholly unjustifable.