The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1847-01-13

Three other companies have given nouce tnat
they have the requisite number, and request to
be organized.
When these companies shall be organized and
mustered, and shall have chosen their regimental
officers, the Regiment will be complete.
The measures of the General Government du-
ring the last two years, and the present posture
of our national affairs, are looked upon by the
people of the country with great interest When
the tariff act of 1912 was passed, the rates OF i'm
port duties under the operation OF the comprom-
Use act of 1888, had fallen to 20 per cent. With
the duties, the revenue of the Government had
declined, and the business of the country fallen
off, until the Government was embarrassed for
the want of means to meet its ordinary demands,
labor lost It's accustomed employment, and gener-
al arrangement and depression pervaded the
whole business community. Under this gloomy
state of things, both houses of Congress went TO
work in earnest to provide remedy Probably
no tariff, or revenue bill, since the origin of our
government, ever was prepared with so much
care and labor was the bill of 1912. Its au-
thors took for their guide the principles of the
first tariff bill passed under the constitution of
the United States, which was framed by the pa
triot statesmen who made the constitution ITSELF
Their object was to raise revenue to replenish
the exhausted treasury and to encourage the
manufactures give employment TO the labor, and
revive the dropping business of the country
They wished to repair the injury which the oper-
alton of a practical free trade revenue bill had
done. The bill of 1912 became the law of the
land Did it accomplish the objects contemplate
ed by its framers'
Its operation is matter of history. Public con-
fdence was soon restored, capital began to be put
in requiston, business revived in all its branch
es, labor was employed and paid, and prosperi-
ty as general and encouraging, as the depression
had been extensive and disastrous, spread over
the land
The condition of the country, under the word
ing of that law was forciby and truly presented
by the President in the commencement of his
last annual message. He says, sit is subject of
congratulation, that there has been no period in
our past history, when all the elements of ma
tional prosperity have been so fully developed -
that abundance has crowned the Toll of the
husbandman and labor in all its branches is re-
ceicing an ample retCdrd."
In l643 the revenue which occurred from i'm
ports was only about $4,000, 900. In 1874,
which was the first entire fiscal year under the
tariff of 1912, the revenue was, i'll round num-
bers, twenty-five and three quarter millions; in
1915, twentv-six and three quarter millions and
in 1876, $26, TIP, 667 showing a uniformity OF
receipts under that new law, for three successive
years, without parallel in the financial history
OF our Government
n law mus carefully anu WISELY HdIneQ,s ana
which, by its operation upon the public revenue
and upon the business Of the community, proved
its adaptation to the exigences of the country,
was, at the last session of Congress, upon the
ommendation of the United States, repealed. An
other law was passed, which went into operation
on the first day of December last. In his recent
annual message to Congress, the President says,
g the leading principles established by this law
are, to levy taxes With view to raise revenue,
and to impose them upon the articles imported
according to their actual value" 1t will be
seen that two important principles, which have
entered into all former revenue bills, are ex-
plunged from this,-namey, the encouragement
of the country, and specific duties upon such ar
ticles as the nature of the case requires
This bold innovation upon the policy sanction
ed by every President and Congress OF the Unit.
ed States, from the time of Washington down to
the present incumbent Of that high office, struck
the laboring and business men of the country
with surprise and alarm, and gave the greatest
satisfaction to the capitalists and manufacturers of
England. The recent demonstrations of public
opinion, in many of the States of this Union, are,
it cannot be denied, some evidence going to show
how this hazardous experiment is regarded by
the people of the country.
Twelve months ago we were at peace with the
world. More than generation had passed away
since we had been involved in hostilities with
foreign country. The people of this republic
cherished the hope, that the day was far distant
when the calamities of war would come upon
them. In this they have been disappointed
At this time the soldiers of the North Amer
lean Republic are in the heart of neighboring
and sister Republic, doing the deeds OF war.
Their march has been triumphant; and in their
conflict in arms with their adversaries, they have
exhibited firmness and heroic valor that would
have done honor to the troops of any nation, in
any age Of the world. Yet their victories have
been costly ones. They have dearly purchased
their garlands. Into them the cypress is deeply
woven. To say nothing of the desolation and
misery which they, as an invading army, have
carried among the distracted, misgoyerned, and
Inflated people OF Mexico, over whose country
they have marched with hostile feet, millions of
the public treasure have been diverted from the
OBJECTS OF peace to support them in their progress
ana muittudes OF their brave companions in arms
o1cers and soldiers, have been brought to their
graves by disease, or fallen in battle.
The voice Of widows and orphans, OF parents,
sisters and friends, has been heard in waiIing
through this peace-lovng land To whom be.
longs the guilt of this unfortunate war Could
1t have been prevented with Justice and honor TO
the two republics?
Are the ephemeral rulers Of Mexico. who
manifest neither patriotism TO their own neonle
nor disposition to observe the treaty stipulatons
Of their government with their neigbbors and
who appear and disappear, like the characters In
drama, responsible for its commencement o.
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