Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-14
NUMBER 78.
General Dun Green on the Tarifr.

Gus have resolved to modify the tariff, "preserv-
ing the principle of the tariff of l846.n The prn-
cipe which is thus approved presume TO be an
ad valerem duty. The constitution makes il the
duty Of Congress to regulate our commerce with
foreign nations;" and also +" to coin money and
regulate its value" To regulate is to impose rules
| and restrictions. The power thus given to "reg-
ulate commerce with foreign nations, as well as
the power to coin money and regulate its value" !"
created an obligation to protect the value OF mo-
| ney from the incidental arrangement of the cur
rcncy, which must be the inevitable consequence
Of an unregulated, that is, an unrestricted COM
merce with foreign nations and / am prepared to
demonstrate that the contractions and expansions
of our currency, which it is the duty of Congress,
as lar as possible, to prevent, must be an inevta
BILE consequence Of low rate of ad valorem duties
II is also said that many prominent southern
Democrats desire to get Democratic Congress
sional caucus to denounce the American party.
Believing that the new party organization will do
much to allay the sectional jealousy and party
feeling which arrays the North against the South,
and that its tendencies will be to unite the North
with the South, | venture to address you, and
through you, the Staterights party of the South.
address you as an intelligent southern states
man, the friend and compatriot of Calhoun, possess
ing as much, or more, of the confidence of that
great man than any other member of Congress
knowing that it was the purpose of his public life
TO unite, first the South, and then the South and
| the North, that the North and the South, united
might act together in the maintenance of their
common interests, in the great conflict for com
mercial and financial supremacy, the coming of
which he foresaw and foretold. In proof that he
well understood the motives and policy which con-
troll the government of England, refer you to his
letter to Mr.. King, then our Minister to France,
and to an extract from late number of the Lon
don Times, the organ Of those who control the mo-
marlat 0f TOndan Snankiuu nf tho xyar with
Russia, the Times says:
"We can foresee no prospect Of peace until the
fortunes of war shall have declared whether the
influence OF Russia or that Of England and France
is hereafter to preponderate in the affairs Of the
East and Of Europe"
This admits that the war in which England is
now engaged is to determine whether England is to
retain her control ove the trade and resources Of
India. That you may know the estimate placed on
this trade by British statesmen, quote from the
remarks of the Duke of Wellington, who, upon
the proposition to repeal the corn laws, said:
II am sure that no man laments more than do
that commerce and manufactures should be at all
depressed, but believe If the corn laws were re-
pealed tomorrow, not yard of cloth or pound
OF iron more could be sold in any part of Europe
or of the world over which this country England)
does not exercise a control The greater number
of European nations, and of the nations of the
globe, have adopted measures for the encourage
ment of home manufactures. These measures were
not as stated by some, taken in consequence the
example Of this country. They had their rise in
the spectacle which this country exhibited during
the late war, and in the great and noble exertions
by which her power and strength were displayed
on every occasion. Those who contemplated those
exertions, as well as those who were relievedsend
assisted by them, thought they might as well follS
the example Of our power, of our industry and opF
nf, Thav ba f,llc oil ~
ample, and have established among themselyes
manufactures, and given stimulus to their com
merce."
These were the words of one of the most saga
cious British statesmen. He knew that IL was the
power Of British gold, rather than the valor of
British arms, that enabled England to subdue Ma
poleon. He knew that her home manufactures
were the source of her credit and her commerce,
and enabled her 70 subsidize her allies, and there
by to conquer her epemies. He saw that most Of
the European nations had created home manufac-
lures for themselves and that, therefore, England
could not, by the repeal of her corn laws, sell her
iron her cloth to those who had become her COM
petitors In the markets of the world and that she
was compelled to look for market TO those coun-
tries over which she exercised Legislative " con-
troll In other words, he knew that, being no
longer able 10 cell iron or cloth the other Euro
pean nations who made iron and cloth for them
selves, England must look to India, whose com
merce she could regulate by act of Parliament
England, therefore, sends her manufactures TO
India, and there exchanges them for the tropical
products of India which she brings back in her
ships and sells TO other European nations, who, al
though they manufacture for themselves, and viii
not purchase British goods, have no tropical colo
nies, and are therefore compelled 10 purchase and
consume the East India produce which has been
purchased by British merchants, BY an exchange
Of British manufactures, and carried In British
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not sell her manufactures TO other European
tons, England compels them 70 pay her tribute in
the shape Of profit on her East India produce,
which she receives in exchange for her manufac-
lures. Ths, you may form an estimate OF the valuo
of the East Indis trade, / refer you 10 the Edin-
burgh Review, which says;
"The relation Of India 10 England is very diff
f,rent from that In which we stand 10 any other
Of our transmarine possessions. Our colonies take
our manufactures and pay us for them, and our
manufacturers and sbip-owners make their respect
i've profits by these transactions. India also buys
our manufactures 10 large and increasing extent,
and if we govern her well and treat her fairly, her
value as a customer win increase very quickly and
greatly. Every facility given to the sale OF her
productions here must add TO the fund from which
she paws for British manufactures. But India Is
more than customer. The peculiar circumstances
in which she Is placed render her tributary to US to
a very large amount On the whole, we are per-
suaded that the amount Of the public and private
remittances from India, for which this country
(England) makes return, Is very little, II at all
over estimated at f4,000000 per annum (s2O,-
000,000.n)
The reviewer then tells that such Is the great
extent Of the British possessions in India and that
the infinite notifications Of soil and climate TO be
found in them are such, that almost every produc-
ton of every climate except the Arctic may be
brought 10 ali the perfection TO which they are ca
pable in other countries and breaks FORTH saying
"How grievousy this noble field has been neg
Iected or mismanaged, the great inferority of the
cotton of India to that Of America, and Of its silk
TO that of Italy or even Of China; the compare
lively petty quantity of sugar which IL is able to
export and the high cost of production, and the
wretched quality Of its tobacco will sufficiently de-
monstrate. The proximate cause is palpabe to
the superficial observer. India Is miseraby poor.
There Is
not sufficient private capital nor private credit in
India 10 produce one-twenteth part of the great