The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-09-09
POL 1T ICAL
From the Charleston Evening News.
The keIsIcIEG Pamphlet.

In this writer's calculations there
is such great want Of precision, that
it's difficult to make out his meaning
with any dtstinctucss ; and nothing
but the currency which his produc.
tions has obtained, where the means
arc not at hand for conlutation,
would have induced the attempt to
discntanglc his conceptions. The
followlnsis is found in his pamphlet,
page l:
$ Under the 80 per cent tariff: now
N operation, our imports, or which
is the lamc thing, our exports, add
to the G,Hei Al Government an annu-
al revenue j bout 81 l,OO0,0OO."
And in the same page little lower
down, the following occurs
e. Our S12,0O0,O00 Of exports
wou!d as surely bring Is $l2, 2,j0o,-
-D0g,tof Imp res.s, laAd i .2ur trade
be profitable 30 larger amount as
the bales q cotton sent to market by
the planter returns to him their equiv.
alcnt in merchandise, &c. Under
the present tariff, :hcn, we should
have revenue Of aboutS 81 900, 900"
Now, as We have seen, he has cs-
timated the Northern gain. from The
tariff, with freight, commissions, cx.
change, NC, OH Southern exports
and imports, at ;;5,O00,OU annual
ly. But in the above paragraph he
computes the annual tax PAID in
South Carolina, on account Of the
tariff, at $4,000, 900. Would he
then reduce the Northern profit on
our exports and imports, including
frciyhts, &C., to only 81, 900, 900?
when We have shown that the lrci yAts
alone cannot amount to less than
$2,5O0,O0O per annun. lie has
here SO blended all the sources OF
Northern profit, real and imaginary,
rs to present no distinct ideas on the
subject. We have already separated
what ho has exhibited in combination,
and treated each branch, freight,
exchange, mercantile profit, in a dis.
tinct form, with the exception Of the
tariff. Since, however, Rutlcdgc
dwclls much on the tariff, we wi
say few words Oh this subject.
1t is one Of the most difficult Of
calculations, in the whole range Of
this complicated investigation, to ar
rive at the amount Of foreign goods
consumed in South Carolina, as the
basis Of an estimate Of the annual
sum in duty she pays under the pres
cnt tariff. We have supposed that
81 per head round, as the multiple
of her population, would furnish the
nearest approXimativc result. We
find that the last annual Treasury
Report gives an average for several
years down to 1850 Of about $50
per capita, for the consumption Of
foreign goods, by tho people Of the
United States. The average would
be less in South Carolina. !. From
the amount, nearly one half, Of our
slave population. 2. From the well
known frugal habits Of our people,
consuming much less Of foreign goods
than the people of Georgia or Ala.
bama. If the consumption Of South
Carolina is estimated at 81 per head,
for man, woman, and child, it would
give an aggregate annual consump.
ton Of little beyond $2,000,0O0.
This is thought by practical men to
be an over. estimatc. But VIC have
taken as high an average for con.
sumption, per capita, as will give a
large latitude to the side of the qucs.
tion which Rutledgc has cspouscd,
The result, dcductins the free goods
consumed, between onc-third and one
halt Of tAa whole amount, won!l