Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1851-08-27
From the London Times, June 4.
Great Britain and America,

y interviewer with that of this country, that the ex
traorlnaay increase of their federal revenue will be
3 regarded as piece of domestic good fortune Their
/, revenue is increasing beyond all anticipation A.
+ we are reminded by our correspondent at New York
eighteen months ago the then Secretary of the Treas
1 ly estimated the Customs for the financial year end
ing the goth Of this month at $32,000000 The cal
cnntIon threatened deficit, and the Secretary warn
ed his fellowctzens that they must make tp their
minds either TO additional duties on imports or TO q
/ loan of Sl6000000. He eant to the former alter
native and there ensued no little cuckIng in this
country at the prospect of our own liberal measures
meeting with this scurvy though perhaps unnvoidn
bic, reqnal. Six months ago the present Secretary
found his predecessor so far out in his calculations
mat Tor the first quarter of the present financial year
} his receipts from the Customs had been SI4 764 O46
This compelled him, rather against the grain TO adj.
= vance the estimate for the year to S45000OOO In
tins country we can hardly understand the phenom-
enon of Chancellor of the Excheqner shutting his
eyes TO his increasing resources but by the Consti-
tuition OF the United States, it is possible, and is ac-
tIally the case at this moment that n government g.
leced by universal suffrage may he directly at yari-
ance with Legislature of the same origin and the
great officers of state may be compelled us they are
ut this moment to administer policy which they
have opposed up to the hour of their admission into
office Accordingly six months ago the American
Secretary, in presenting his report, still underesl-
mated the revenue, and overestimated the impending
dehcit IN order to urge, MS he did with some fnlla
cles long exploded on this side Of the Atlantic that
return TO the old protective tariff besides bringing
a good deal more to the Treasury, would save yar-
| Gus branches of manufacture from ruin Unless we
take into account the infuei,eo of prejudice il is diff
hcuit to suppose these secretaries honest in their of
fetal estimates. From the day the last was made il
has been continually faslfied. The first three quar-
4 tiers of the year ending the Both inst. have already
produced 1862 more than eighteen months a
go was expected for the whole year the produce of
the three quarters being respectively Si4764 043
$S,9l0,240, Sl4,44S,379-total S38 100 662 against
S4,645,3l5 the receipts for the three corresponding
quarters OF the year ending June, 1850. If the cur
rent quarter produces only as much as it did Inst
year the total for the year ending the 3O,h inst will
exceed by 100000 MIR. Corwlns estimate made on
ly last December In this case no loan will he re-
quired: As for the other alternative of additional
duties upon imports, it has been already disposed of
in Congress.
1t is no empty compliment, but n literal truth. thnt
this tiourshing condition of the United States reye-
nue. is great blessing to It's as an equal excess
in our own revenue For all practical purposes the
United States are far more closely united with this
Kingdom than any one of our colonies, and while
these communities are colonies in name but i'm real
ny, either prisons, garrlsons, or independent COM
munities, the United States keep up perpetual in
erchange OF the most important good offices taking
our manufactures and our surplus population, and
giving us in return the materials of industry of rev.
enue and OF life There are two countries in the
world, be they ever adjacent where frost in
spring, or blight in autumn; speculative mania or
commercial collapse, false Opinion or nm unyyise
enthusiasm, in either of the two SO Immediately and
certainly tells upon the other The relsiane
the parent and the child, separated as thew are in
politics, are unparalleled in their intimate nature as
they are IN their enormous extent. In the present
instance the state Of the American revenue renders
It unnecessary TO put any additional! mpediment on
the commerce of the two countries. The American
citizen is not to pay any higher penalty than he now
pays for the use OF British and other foreign nanll-
iactures, and the Englishman is not to suffer cor
responding check on his trade. If we 90 further
back in our inquiry, we find that this mutual advan-
iaSe arises IN great measure from the impulse Civ
en- TO British and American enterprise by tle reDeal
of our corn and navigation laws Looking forward
tile prospect is most cheering Before many years
the federal debt will most probably expire, and with
it the greatest part of the import duties That they
will wholly expire in the present generation is too
much to expect, for, economical the federal eX-
penditure is, it will hardly be by so scany and
precarlous fund as that from land sales.
The commercial philosophy which adorned Mr..
Secretary Corwins report last December, and which
was received with rounds of applause by certain
parties in this country, has been sngularly unfort-
nate. 1t has been rejected by the Legislature to whom
II was addressed, and it has been discredited by the
results of the next six months. So far MS the feder-
al revenue is concerned, there is now absolutely no
pretence for additional duties, for any more srin-
gent rule of assessment. As for protection, The i'm
provement of the revenue under the system which
MIR. Corwln denounced as injurious TO domestic en-
terprise is itself sufficient reply. The Customs of
the United States for the quarters ending March 81
d.
100000, S6,346 1928, 81, 800 IA Sl444S397 What
ever the condition OF one or two branches of trade
it is evident that, WHOLE the Union has flourish
ed under liberal tariff. The population of the I'm
ion has increased with rupidity which might excite
surprise, even 10 small and infant State and the
facility with which the Union has absorbed, employ
ed, located, fed, and housed million Immigrants
within the last five years is more remarkable
;; than the unhappy circumstances which have driven
them from these isles Not twenty years ago the
mr. anl i0b a1 man in ha
l template without serious misgiving, and some talk
OF actual resistance the annual arrival Of 90
600 British immigrants. The Union now halls with
welgrounded security and satisfaction the arrival OF
that number every month in the year. The most
magnificent schemes founded on the hope of a
combined emigration at equal rate. Emgrants
! 10 people the sides of the New York and Erie
! Railway just completed, and railway, dependent
on like support is now planned right across to Cal
forna. What has so great and so growing coun-
try 10 do with protection? What has giant 10 dc
; with swaddng clothes? If the strength and great
ness of the Union consists in its numbers, its terrific
ry its command of the necessares Of life, It's com
municaons, its cities, and its freedom how these
I've promoted by taxing the many for the sake of the
few, and by sacrificing the whole Of the Union to
the convenience of some manufacturers in New
York and some one or two other States !? The ques-
ton, however, we believe to be finally settled ID
. the United States as il is in this country.
A FATALIsT.-A Western newspaper publishes
the following: 81 knew an old man who believed
: that "what was to be would be-" He lived in Mis-
souri,, and day going several miles thro
region infested in early times by very savage lnd
e ans. He always took his gun with him, but this
time found that some of The family had taken it out
As he would not 60 without it, his friends tantalizec
him, by saying there danger Of the Indians
that he would not die till his time came anyhow
Il "Yes," said the old fellow "but suppose was tC
meet an Indian, and his time had come, it wouldn'
: do not TO have my gun. d o.. ,...-...
3 Two gentlemen, Howe and Pratt, are engaged il