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with The most uamalgx xtsd esnse4pi The wide spread
blessings Of comnerce sse~sd have chArms oI hs
soul His ear was deaf 10 the glorious story Of what
The knowledge Of institutions had done TO lberslsze
mankind in those lands whose si dawn Of free civil
ixAtion CLEAN from the white sails Of oar ships.
and word irom our Amsrican ssaaen.
The one psrysdiug ides home market. and the
most healed OF keeping it inflated and glutied
The iact that nney-seyen per cent OF our corn, and
ninety per cent of our wheat oonsased al home
even during the famine Europe while oaly three per
cent OF the former and ten per cent OF the latter.
exported furnished him with clinching argument
ains foreign trade and in favor Of the highest grades
Of pToiecion-and this 100, from western statesman
hose sympahies should be broad the praes. and
whose opinions ought never 10 be twisted and woven
distorted fabrics by the power OF machinery he
had just enough of the buzz Of spinning jenny in his
bead 10 make him useless hnsncier.
We have no opinion Of the iempoIznE policy Of tariffs.
They have simply served as OF mischief from the
wing all Earope nearly successive periods from
the time when the iree-rsde principles OF the Romans
were abandoned and protection adopted down 10
the last pinching famine in ireland They born
OF selshners The weavers in the days Of the Edwards
drove OF healthy competition by them. and the linen
manufacturers of Londonderry in our easy settlement
employed them TO create monopoly of trade for their
own benehi-exampies which, unfortunately, have no,
been forgotten in our own day.
The shorts edness OF this policy is fast becoming
recognised and can last congratulate the country
.hs, democratic administration following the exam
pie Of almost all the civilized world, and has determined
to reduce tariff strictly OF revenue. Mr. Guth
rie proposes add largely the Tree LIST articles which
are not produced in this country and which into
manufactures. So lar, good And il is unfortu
that these manufacturers themselves have increased
M -a,scl,aa sss.ss lhs the pecu
mary interests OF the country cannot endure that reduction
Of duties manufactured articles which equity, the
laws Of Tree trade and the solid interests OF lhe country
require.
With regard TO our manufactures have always felt
that the markets of the world open TO and we
have ingenuity and skill enough 10 produce chespy
as those countries which have advantage in
the chespness Of labor Prior to ls42, out OF forty mil
lions of exports from this country less than ten millions
manufactured goods Of every description and it is
that date that the two great interests commerce and
manufactures have joined hands to f foreign markets
with fabrics more economically Il an any other pro-
ducing country Al thai time, iess than twelve years
ago, The infancy OF manufactures was the great arsa-
ment favor Of their claims upon government Tor pro-
lection They seemed 10 be too feeble 10 20 abroad;
and had not been or lbe determination and the unan
sweIabs arg umeD.s of Mr. Calhoun, they might possi
bly, have remained at home sill, begging ever, for pro-
ss ever, the home markets, An in
crezsins Iberaiiy in the iariH sent them abroad 10 Try
their orunef and have ye 10 learn the injury which
has befaeH any from this extension OF business
The first ACT OF real justice in tariff justice all
classes OF consumers rich well The poor,
the establishment OF oG rGIorsn duties, dsmocr
measure by which The broadoloh OF the millionaire
was taxed in proportion with the kesey OF Inc abofer
The nexi step will be that by which industry, through
ou The world. will be put upon equal footing, and
fair competition established between industry enter
pri.e here and elsewhere. We know OF nothing which
will tend 80 much to elevate the manufacturing classes
into educated community united by similarity Of
interest and acting upon each other BY peaceful STRIFE
ior excellence To THE point government mus, and
uiil come and Mr.. Guthrie has taken step in that
direction.
The fault OF the present iarf is, thai in in
declared aga,na home manufactures by laying
heavy duties the material used IN those manufsc
tares For instance, now have aduty OF fifteen per
cent on raw silk. with from fifteen to twenty five per
cent on the manufactured articles. Admit silk free
and our manufactures OF silk put upon an equal
footing, say the least, with those abroad SO of hemp
and cordage hemp paying thirty per cent while cord
age pays twenty-five. Make hemp free and rope
walks with those Of any quarter OF the world
Now, although this present tariff may be 10 accordance
with tariff OF repenus inssmuch encourages
the importation Of such goods must from
sbroad and swells the receipts OF dues while If dis
eliminates favor Of manufactures 1T compels us TO
rely on home mark el and of poriaon and con-
sequent STILL have vel to learn the Justice
and equality Of which calls upon the foreign
msuufscimer avail himself OF advantages our own
We sustain competition but tribue foreigners
Now, glad 10 a remedy for ihs in Mr., Guth-
res free list; and do object 10 a policy which
s palpsble stroke towards fres trade however much II
may be distorted By wing sophisies into policy of pro-
lection Give wool, dyswoods, hemp. gums,
&C. Tree and the reduction duties arcos into whose
manu- iScture they enler viii do mnch towards in
creasns The value of every sboers wages by reducing
prce Of those things which have become The neoer
of life free and enlightened community This
may be proscIcn or not. Just suits the interests of
politicians; but il is projection Of the right sort, and
leads the emancipation Of business from the damnins
influence Of shifting tariff into the equal reiiabie and
just channels Of fres trade al the time that dis
eri inmates II does all in favor Of TIE lsborer and