Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-21
NATIONAL lNTELLIGENCER.

NATIONAL lNTELLIGENCER.
ConRECTIoN.-Ou readers viii perceive, by last
Saturdays proceedings Of the House Of Represen-
tatiyes that the summary Of those proceedings, as
given in our Daily paper, was incorrect Mr.. VN-
TONS motion was simply to adoptthis provision, viz.
Be enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives.
The United States Aeica in Congress assembled, That
the povso Of the second section Of the Of Congress- emit
tied An act making appropriations for the civil and dpo-
matte expenses of Government for the year ending the 3Oh
June S47 and for other purposes approved the 10th
day Of August ls46, shall be construed to require the APP
prasers in spprasng all goods and merchandise I'M
ported after thirty days from the passage of this act into any
port Of the United States adopt the market value
of similar articles in the principal ports OF the United States
during the year ending the 3Oh day Of june ls46, under
such general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary OF
the Treasury shall prevent frauds and under
and secure uniform valuation throughout the United States
Provided hoscerr, That in shall du be assessed
on valuation less than the market value Of the article in the
principal ports Of the United States at the time Of entry
Having occasion to put our paper right by the
above correction, we take the opportunity to add
word or two on the general merits Of any legisla-
ton touching the Tariff.
Upon the mulifarious details Of general system
Of imposts, adopted with view to home protection
solely, or to the mixed objects Of protection and
revenue; or upon the extent of duty on various
products, sufficient for reasonable protection, yet
not excessive, we should be too little skilled to
venture an opinion; nor could we undertake to
pronounce to what extent, whether reasonable or
excessive, Mr.. VINToN's proposition would afford
relief to the present depressed condition Of some
of the great branches Of home industry. But,
while we are, and have ever been, opposed to an
exravagant rate Of duties, solely for protection we
must say, that from our own observation in going
through portions Of the middle States, and from
what we daily read and believe, there is a great
crying, and immediate necessity for some relief to
certain manufacturing interests. We will not
particularize; the Representatives of the People
know what those interests are. We say this, we
presume, as disinterestedly as any individuals in
the whole country could say it-not having
penny's worth Of interest in any business beyond
our own proper calling. But it is impossible to
60 through the country and see iron furnaces and
FORCES extnguished, and shut up, the laborers dis
persed and without employment, and the worthy
and enterprising owners of those establishments
perhaps bankrupt, and other manufacturing es-
adjustments in the same deathlike stiffness,
without feeling our sympathies enlisted for the
suferers-to say nothing of the national ques-
tons involved in the matter. And, if we are
one people, and feel towards each other as we
ought, surely reasonable measure of relief
should, by general consent, be accorded to them.
It it impossible for one part Of the Union, or one
branch Of industry, whether il be agriculture, com
merce, or manufactures, to suffer great depression,
without affecting the other sections and interests.
We should be glad, therefore, short as the remnant
of the session is, should there be yet found time
enough to enact some general provision to raise
the suffering classes from their present runous and
distressing condition.