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O'Clock to resist this measure from the House
of Represen ! believe the iron inter-
est is paramount to any other rs regards pro.
lection, und this interest is injured more than
any other by this modification Of the tariff
The gentlemen from Virginia aud Vermont
will also see that some OF these alterations
Of the tariff will sweep their sheep from the
dcclilitics Of their mountains.
Another objection to the bill was that it
was sprung upon the House within five or six
days Of the end Of the session. and the man
uiacturcrs have no time to demonstrate.
have u letter from Il manufacturer Of hchro-
mate Of potash, stating that this change will
niure him.
Mr.. Badgcr-What's hichromate Of POTASH
MIR. Seward don't know. The presump-
ton, therefore, Is, that Senators are ignorant,
and it lllustrates my argument, that in this
hasty legislation Senators don't know what
they are doing. One thing do know, the
bill will crush the iron interest of the coun-
try. Railroad enterprise has diverted too
much labor to that interest, and too little is
left in agriculture. Prices are too high. We
are tapping the treasury at both ends !
don't object to the profuscness of expenditure
when proper, but the treasury must be kept
full. This bill, lcssenlng the duties, will de-
pletc the treasury.
protection. We nave had Buncombo speech
rs enough tonight about the labor Of the
country. Eycrythng that has been said on
the subject for twenty years past has been re-
peatcd. All the predictions about danger
from the want OF protection have been lalsi-
fed. shall support this bill, because be-
licvc it will subscrve the interests Of my own
State, as well as those Of the country.
/ Mr.. Brodhead-Ilcre was a combination Of
pro-savcry and abolitionism-pros slavery and
! know Nothingism. lie congratulated his
! Southern friends upon their new ally in be-
/ half of free trade. His friend from Massa-
I chusctts intimatcd that the idea Of protection
was to be abandoned. 1t was long time
since such an idea had come from that quar-
ter. lie would remind the Senator that the
slave trade originated in Massachusetts, as
well a. free trade notions. lie could under
stand why the Senator from Massachusetts
was in favor of free trade. The slave proper
ty Of the South is worth about fourteen hun
dred millions Of dollars. If a direct taxa
ton be rcsortcd to, a great part OF that bur
then will fall on the slave States. MasSachu
sctts corporations have got rich by protection
Now She wants dycstutis and wool free, ant
to get this she is willing to give Southern
Railroads their ron free. won't say any
thing about bargains, but these things lool
and Diplomatic ill is in bad taste and at I
bad time.
Mr.. Brown am glad to find that Mas
sachusetts has taken the right ground upor
the subject of free trade. hope by-and-by'
she will be right ON slavery also.
Mr. Clayton-thc proposition is a blow a
the great agricultural and manufacturing
interests of the country. Under the recipro
city treaty oflast year YOU have injured tn
agricultural interest so that to-day grea
agricultural assemblagc here tell us that
they can have 10 protection, there shall b
no protccton There are 300 900 farmers
enough of them to put down all your mel
chants and manufactures. have only
say. beware of the day when you meet the'
men in battle array.
, Mr.. ButIor- When gentleman talk {
agricultural interests, want to know who
agricultural interest they mean. | have
constituency of rice and cotton growers "
don ask anything from government, III
} doctrine Of protection will, within ten years
be perfectly loathsomc. Just after the wa
protection may have been needed but gu
manufactures once established, the necessit
therefor ceased. Now protection is but tN'
ing one interest for the support ofanother
&, There is some agricultural interest in tn
4 country besides that Of Delaware.
r Mr. Clayton-Therc is also some agricu
tural interest in the country besides Sout
e Carolina.
l., Mr.. Douglas (icm.) of I'LL am for
= reduction of the tariff to a simple revenr
standard. | ain a free trade men, but
cannot vote for such measure as this.
n lllino, is one of the largest wool GROWN
= States in the Union. 80 of the Wcster
States. You ask me to go, under these eli
cumstanccs, for Il reduction of the wool dut
B, from so to 5 per cent. If this bill! was rigl
II in itself, would MT vote for it, because it
;, revolutionary in its character If you, ca
u get this into an appropriation bill, win
o can't yon get there Begin to break throue
; these safeguards, and appropriation bills wi
s be overwhelmed.
Mr.. Seward resumed-I have never roso
u ted to any tactious contrivdnce to carry an
u measures, however important they may be
humanity. The Senator from South Carolir
asks me what | should say if the next Ilou
g of Representatives should send in bill f
!, , the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law hoI
II they will and believe they will also requi
the restoration of the Missouri line, and pr
T hibtion Of slavery in the Territories. Ev
( since have been in Congress, have resist'
& the lacking of measures together, and Sen
tors will bear me out in the statement tn
II when have been asked to concur with pro
: ositions tic introduce bill to repeal the Fug
tive Slave act under another bill, have un
iormly refused e. Yes, yes from sever
II Senators.) | now tell these gentlemen TIL
if they over throw the rules which are ma
II for the preservation of the rights Of the IN
noritcs, by modifying the tariff under Il
IS cover of a general appropriation bill-if Il
Is Senate shall in this manner endorse the IRE
: ular action OF the House, and if the Preside
e shall athx his signature to a measure tn,
d carried, all can say is, that | shall questi,
o all my former conclusions. do not say no
J. | shall act. shall consider when the tin
c comes and those who establish this preceder
must take the consequences which will nat
d rally flow thereirom.
r The question was then taken on Mr.. Cha
;; tons amendment, proposing to strike out a
u relating to the tariff in the bill. Yeas 2
: nays q.