Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-02-09

to be their purpose produce this very state Of things
express alarm at the prospect they seek to amuse US witt
euoges the blessings Of the Federal Unon and ask
be still for time They do WELL for is true that
mites have usually been destroyed by which,
the beginning, inflicted immediate injury and which
therefore acquiesced in till they had progressed too far to be
resisted They have too, constant examples in the conduct
of brute animals that do not struggle against evils until they
begin to feel pain They doubtless too encouraged
hope for submission our under
their former wrongs They know that the evils already
ficted on US to which have REFERRED greatly exceeded in
amount any injury that Great Britain attempted when che
drove the colonies into resistance Besides sir their ag
gessons have infinitely less show Of constitutional right
color Of natural justice But what they now propose too
paPable even for our Southern generosity IT. after having
been free for seventy years. the Southern States
sent to be thus degraded and ensaved instead of the pity
they would the and contempt of the universe
The Of this generation who would be responsible ought
to be whipped through their fields by their negroes
thank God that there Is no one IN my district that think
meany Of believe that he would not readily come into
whatever movement might be necessary for the protection
rights and liberty tell Northern gentlemen who are
hopes that the South will be divided that shall
half many traitors to hang did Tories the Revo-
luton. f5f
gentlemen mean that the Union, upon the principles Of
the constitution, is desirable, will controve that opn-
on Bot the Union never could have been formed with
out the written constitution So, you now, by your
action, practically destroy the constitution those injured
able resist will submit That instrument was ordained
in its language, to establish JUSTICE domestic
dressings
namey, the freemen Of the Unon IT. therefore, under
its FORM gross injustice is done instructions excited and
the citizens of part of the States politically enslaved then the
Union ought not to stand, instrument Of wrong and
oppression.
There is throughout the South strong attachment to the
Union Of the States This sentiment much upon
calculations of interest historic associations and the
recocctions of common ancestral struggles and uiumphs
Our people take pride the Of the United States and
being members off great republic that furnishes cheering
example to the friends of liberty throughout the world But
the events Of the last few years rapidly weakening this
feeling Seeing that there appeared to be settled purpose in
the North to put them 70 the wall many Of our people, re-
garding dissolution of the Union the inevitable result Of
this aggression have looked forward to the consequences Of
such state of things.
will tell Northern gentlemen, in the hope that many Of
them not yet past the point Of what is the view
presented prospect many of the highest intellecs in the
South. It is we'll known that the existing system
operates hardly the South and the West The Govern
ment raises upwards Of thirty millions annually by duty
tax upon Imports But this system acts very unequaly on
the different sections of the country For illustration Of the
mode Of operaon will take single article Railroad iron
produced in England at cheap rate that it be
brought to this country and Sold may say for forty dol
lars per ton This much cheaper than oar people can a
ford to make at They therefore esk the Government to
require the payment of twenty dollars per ton by way Of
duty The importer, therefore, instead Of selling for forty
dollars per ton, must ask sixty dollars to reimburse himself
for what he has paid out abroad, and to the Government
Every person. therefore, in the United States who purchases
railroad on has to pay twenty dollars for each ton
There are however, advantages counterbaance this
loss In the first place, of people, finding that
they make profit by selling railroad iron sixty dollars
per ton, engage in tho manufacture and thus find employ
ment. While engaged these persons consume the pro-
duce of the farmers and Others and thus make home
ket for agricultural productions We see however, that the
loss Of twenty dollars ton falls all those in part Of
the United States who the iron but the benz
eft confined to those persons who engaged n making
iron, and those who live them that they
neny get their produce to the factories In fact this sort
Of manufacturing confined TO the Stale of Pennsylvania
and perhaps few other localities But my constituents
pay the manufacturers Of Pennsylvania for iron in
the production Of their farms than they could the British
iron masters therefore TO advantage, must
pay for it in cash, to get the iron the lowest rate This
true Of the Southern and Western people generally This
illustrates the effect Of and protective system
The burden dsed the whole country but the bene
fit limited to the manufacturers and those persons who
reside to have thereby better markets very
little than one-thd Of the Union gets the benefit Of
the system, in exclusion manly of the South and West
is not to the precise extent Of this burden
Il has been estimated that Of all the articles which
would imported, be subject TO pay duty are produced in
the United States To return for ready illustrations to the
of railroad IRON If two Of every three of iron
sumed in the United States made in this country it
would follow that the person who consumed those three
Of on while he paid twenty dollars to the Government
the ton imported would pay forty dollars the home
acturer and he lived far from the manufacturer that he
could not pay him in produce It would follow that, in fact
while he paid the Government but twenty dollars, he would
lose sixty himself of the duty When, therefore,
the Government gets, it is doing, thirty millions Of
dollars revenue the whole burden the Of this
country would be hundred millions of dollars of this
amount the South pays, according its population and
sumption, forty millions Of dollars. This think too low
fact In the Patent Office report made to the last session
of Congress- he last pubshed it is stated by the Com
missioner Mr. Burke, Northern man. hatth annual value
of articles manufactured in the United States is five hundred
and fifty millions Of dollars. This statement does not include
ron salt coal sugar. WOOL the products Of the fisheries and
other articles which duty is colleced adding these
swels the amount to nearly hundred millions Our
imports for that year unusually large account of the
famine abroad Nevertheless, all the articles imported
which duty collected including the above omitted in the
statement Of manufactures value only hundred and
eleven millions hundred and fty-four thousand three
hundred and fifteen dollars II thus appears that the
manufactured in the country than Elk times that inn
ported II is not pretended however, that this comparison
affords proper of the of the burden which
the country may sustain and that while it pays to the Gov
thirty ythree millions, pays two hundred to the
consumers in the first instance hundred and thirty
millions Some few articles manufactured here cheap
ly they be elsewhere and very large number at
the places where they made cheaper to the
than would be the foreign article when transported there II
also ue however that great many the
loses than the whole duty, because he only
obliged pay the manufacturer refund to the mpor
ter but also aprot per cent this duty to each trader
through whose hands the article passes before reaches him.
In other instances the price intermediate between what
would be without any duty and thathch would
by the addition of the duty Want of knowledge
OF all the facts renders impossible TO determine precisely the
effect which system poduces but that Is most
powerful and controlling cannot be denied. The Govern
actually than thirty millions per year by
these duties The manufacturers who certainly
in selling their productions high rather than low rate
and who understand their interests attach the greatest
importance the tariff system, and attribute to its operation
effects greater than stated them to be- There has
been less complaint among consumers because the OF
most manufactured articles has been diminishing from time