The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-03-19
Fro" ?zc 'h"r''M Mol1 Nrc"-y
THE TARIFF SEsTEM, NORTH AND scttTrf,


MESsHs. FDIr"rs: recently expressed
th" opinion. in c"nv"rs,tic-, With Won: TINT
the r"li,i"al disadvantages nu,ier which the
S"u'h Ia."i>, a,c ~ ,nuch 10 be attributed
l" "u, ,>ri.r,, a> ~ ,,%sv &mu plot against
Us.
l,'v" II" .lnu',t the hesitation Of s ,ul
Cnr"'in'. "n tn" "xrchien"v Of joining the
Frd',al compact, arose from n clear cuncep-
ton at what would necessarily become the
policy oi Li.c Government, in view vi tile
natural divisions of Territory over Which il
w"uH rl''nisi"r Il" Ncr,h, poor in soil,
hut favorable IL manufactures, and hy eli
mat" i"vi';"" aud forming population
white I"'In"I;,nm from which political cap
ital could i-e m;.lv the South, adverse 10
u" i''''.",~.' in ln"l. tti,,n 1T stic! Il pnpnl,.
ton, a"l mlaptr.l pre-eniuen,ly to agricul-
ture.
ii tl"'~,' j" power l.e,~. before the adop
w" vi III" fc'i,,ai Constitution, iorrsaw
Mia, has since leen fully realized, It was
b'"'a,>r they lc,"ine'l that clear habit of
Thought which hal h"on taught them in the
Revolmi"n. Facts aml figures, no doubt,
assisted their conclusions, and not theories
and T. .Ic.. i"S,n:,lisln.
Eat we have arrived long since to point
in our his: r., whence lie lanGmrri:s ! y
which we were once guided are no longer
discernanle. ln,ee,I, names and things
have run into strange confusion, and we
have lost til. faculty, in solne measure, TO
'lcci:!: CIR our Interests. So, the Cnitcl
Stat"s H"nk slc~i"rnd tn foster Tie industry
"f III" North. found advocates and support
ers IN the S',u,h. Then there were, aud are
no" Among u>, L.,ose " iiu advocate Liic pro-
tec;.oh I'll American industry, i. Z, that Which
operates Nn:l Of Mason an | p.xcn's line.
AMI there aro manv at this .lav " l,n insist,
with much gravity and arparant sincerity.
that II ia'Iit "n foreign imports fails alike
OH the NJitil .,lI South, al.u .n;.l, therefore,
an hhl">iti"n Vi duties Oh tutc;Su n.pv,t Is is
no ground "c complaint t" the South.
lust at this i''n"tnro. whom there is now
Tariff rom" int" operation, cannot the whole
subject "I duties on imports be again f;,iiy
sci boo'c :,ou.n! 1t does not seem To
bc mml,.r<, "! hv very great m;,nv, that
81 duty "f 25 per cent. on tho products Of
foreign lnl"r brought into the North. is, in
fact, a,, addition u Tie value at tabor there
tu that cXivmt and tlIIt, admitting the |
N"th consumed herself s15,OOO0OO Of /
&l5O,n00.O00 If imports, and should pay !
thereon t" til" Government sIS.75O.O00 il.
duties, her lal"'rI having been previously adj
vanccd III value 10y this very Tariff law to
tic rNirnt vi Tic an.ui Vi duties paid, that
the North would, IN fact, pay no duties at
all +: while, ut the sam' time, if the South
consumed the other $4,000, 600 that
amount having com. back lv her for a like
Value ot lie, products svid in reiyn Mar
krts, w"u''l necessarily bc diminished S1S,-
100000 i'll vn!:,e l'v the payment Of duties
to the General Government.
In this 'ollnrriiun, to show distinctly
What is likely 10 Inc The contribution of tic
S,u.h to t!c golfers Of he Government u,,-
der the new r,ritt. md 'lmrino Mr.. tuclan
ans administration. would place ns in q now
light 10 some "f our Northern friends and
Southern rlir,ni.s.
The lir.,. however tlla. the North COLI
suincs ui:. III Sr'a measure, the imports
in r":urn for : ie:n "xI,"r,-, is, in.ln,l,
on" that nlac", tie South in position
which Adam Smi,l, would have been much
surprised al. VIZ: that vi ii country being
large Iihi.",t"', getting lclu,ns tor only Il
half tl'iri"fi:r. mi'ol!s. But to " HON
arc the $50 .ooh. 900 "f ~o"ls sold in Charles
ton per nn'''n: aud rr"hahIv $4,000. 600
I" S5n.nnn 600 in New Orleans. and S25.-
UUU,UUU To S.;U,UUu,UUU in Savannah and Au.
gu>l;', l." say nothing of Mobile and other
ports OH tIr. Gulf? have little doubt, if
arcnrat" returns .null he had Of annual sales
"f goods in the Southern scaports, the
amount " uId come near to balance the ex-
porls; and III ll'e prices OF llIuse goods are ;
involved n,t unl, The duties on the foreign
portion, and ilc protection on the domestic,
Int th" fr"i@his I" those Of whom they were
"l,tainel secondhand.
What sad comparison all this makes
between Sl5U.UUU,UUU vi Nurli.vrn labor
and like amount ri Southern labor. The ;
List is clipped nf fifty millions Of dollars at
least, whicl, the South parts with yearly.
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