Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-08-30
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
MoRNING.A AUGUST %. 1850.

The Republic and the Wing are making desperate efforts
to revive the exploded humbug Of protection" We con-
fess our surprise at these movements of Southern organs 10
strengthen the power Of the Northern majority, at the very
moment when it becomes us TO force them TO do US justice,
by reducing their plethora. While Southern Wing organs
are seeking 10 fill the pockets of the North, oou'hefh
Wings in Congress, it is confidently asserted are de'is'ns"
scheme to pass a bill reducing the tariff TO the mean ou'y u
twenty five per cent, including the free list OF articles Il
terirg into Northern manufactures, and proposing, lur'"'i'
a total abolition of the navigation laws, so as to open the
coasting trade TO ships of any nation that Will carry ifeieh's
the cheapest. Such a bill, il is calculated, would carry the
votes of the South and the great West, for (says a corfespoh-
dent OF the New York Herald:
mo man can doubt that both these sections would derive
great advantages from such y bill, both in the c~heapness VI
the articles of consumption and IN Inc c;hehphess VI
the transportation by sea OF .heI asincu ~, IL prov mid
secure any concessions on the tariff, they must concedc
something in return.
favorable ospects. Take ii for granted that all these slavery
bills will mass with no other resistance than that OF the par
liamentary law, we shall have the tariff agitation revived IN
a shape of most fearful import 10 the Northern states; anu
under n continuation Of the South and West, INCLUDING Can
formal a combination from identity OF interest, rainier udn-
gerous to encounter, in either House OF { Congress.
1.-THE South have made the discovery that, unoer me nav
igatiun laws. immense revenues are pocketed by the No'u-
en shipping interest, and that, under a repeal oi thosc Jaws
and will n perfcct freedom 10 ships Of every flag 10 engage
i'm the coastlna trade, an immense saving IN the expenses i
TRANSFORMATION would be secured to the South and to the bull
XIV agricultural products Of the Mississippi valley.
'"This is rather an important questions; but between a TWEEN
~. FIVE ner cent tariff, with u coasIing trade free to all nations,
and a Southern confcderacy, no Northern man, we presume,
will hesitate To choose. sucal Is the love"i me norm . .e
Union. that it is not likely they would regard II WIN less az
lection, if under IA law of Congress, lheii coas'ihs li"oe
should be turned over TO England and Holland, and ihcir
manufactures wholly superseded by those oil loreish hatons.
"The line of Sc 30 would concilate the South 10 some no
eraItv on the tariff questions; bu, short Of some concession
on the one side, we can expect nothing on te oue'.
There is much weight in these views, and it is madness
in Southern journals to advocate higher duties for the bene-
fit OF the North ut this time, when we can use the materials
to M, a hook in the nose of the manufacturing levialhan-and
bring him TO terms of justice. That higher duties at the pre-
sen, session are impracicabe, may well be inferred from the
rejection, on Saturday, of the motion Of MIR. Hampton OF
Pennsylvania, simply to levy the duties under the present
Tariff, ag.eeably TO the average value which siniiar af'e'es
bore in the principal markets of the United States, during
The year ending The Both June, l6i6.
But, the present pressing exigcncy of the South out o. the
question, the prosperity of the whole country should rebuke
every attempt 10 press ile scheme Of protection. The Wings
are prating that the home market is better for Us than a for
elm market-stil the London correspondence Of the Philadel-
phia North American Zone of the most noisy proiectionisi
organs) puts forth the following Gnanswerable facts. As
says the Pennsylvania which handsomely turns The tables
ON lis Tariff contemporary, a volume Of common would not
make these plain facts stronger:
The London Herald then brings forward and compares the
tariffs ii the two countries and the tables oi exports ana
inpprls. 1t shows that Great Isriiiin ana her dependencies
actually consume two thirds Of the whole exports oi The
United States, and no less than 81 per cent of our exports 0i
b-,,tstuiis. As 10 the Cotton trade. in the twelve years end
inr with rs. the value of the cotton imported into this cotin-
uy from America, amounted To tl50,S3i,2l2 giving an an
pnal average Of seven millions; during the same term the eX-
norts from this country 10 America scarcely exceeded the
annual average Of seven millions sterling. In The matter vi
shipping too, vi all our exports, 69 per cent. are shipped IN
American bottoms, and 81 per cent. by the vessels OF all
foreign countries: of our whole Imports, S. per cen, are re-
cciyod hy American ships. and Is per cent. toy the ships ni
all other nations. The Herald asks. therefore, which III the
Two countries, Great Britain and America, is HE more ncces-
sary 10 The other! and il answers, that the United States is
much more independent Of England than she Is OF them;
and the Herald declares that the policy oi the one country
and the policy of the other, have both contributed TO this
result; net he .tree trade poicyof Ene'ana has rai"sd Brf,
tiSh interests, mhhSt il has promoted Me weaht and porer II
Ae great american ReprNc. The Herald Of yesterday re-
turns l." the subject, and in ano'hcr long leading article,
shows the evil effects of free trade in Great B;itain, and the
sad condition Of her foreign trade.