Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-04-10
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMlNcToN. n. C.. FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 1877

no. We do not now mean to enter into any con-
troversy with The Herald in regard to the distribution
and deposit questions For that there will be album
dant time, and our course has shown Willingness al
all proper times to 60 into fair discussion OF sucn
matters, or any others involving principles wnIcn aP
pear to US Democratic and essentially Democratic
We will neither evade sur them over ana as n
evidence of this we can point to our article OF Mon
dav 10 which the Herald of yesterday refers. Our
Dos;ton at least is placed beyond doubt 80 far as 1t
Il in our mower to do it. and it cannot be- placed In
doubt bv anv construction of or inference 10 be
drawn from the isolated act acts of Others how
ger we nav agree with those others upon general
issues. IN Y
We mean now incidentally to noGeeja few remarks
in the Heralds article. In the first instance we do not
agree with the Herald that Cass, Douglas Co.. are
disributoniss still. less that Reid, Biggs Co. are
The Democratic Senate did not pass Campbells bill.
Secondly, we insist that every cent collected
by the General Government for any other purposes
than those connected with the necessary and legii
mate obi ects for which that government was nstitut
ed is improperly collected, and that neither disrbu
ton nor deposit is an object for which the General
Government was instituted. Itwas not intended thai
it should become the collector or almoner OF the
States.
Thirdly the Tariff of 1916 was. intended to col
lecl just so much revenue as would be necessary toI
the purposes of the government, and no more ano
the opponents of the democratic party loudly pro
claimed that it would not collect enough. Ever
since Mr. Fillmore went out and Mr.. Pierce came in
democratic President and Secretary have urged the
reduction of the revenue 10 point at which the accu
mutation of surplus would cease so that they were
not responsible for the continued accumulation OIL
such surpus-the greater portion OF which has been
applied to the legitimate purpose OF dlscharglng the
public burders, and paying off the public debt More
of ought have been applied to the increase OF the
Navy, and to afording an adequate compensation &c
the officers We want mere light-draught steamers
as the position of things in the Chinese seas shows
Fourthly, by the proper course of ceaslng to COL
Ieot too much, the people will be relieved OF oppres
sive burdens upon what goods they use' not simply
in the way of money paid to the revenue, but also o.
five times as much paid to Northern manufacturers
un1er the operation of that delightfully."- partial hum
bug known as protection. If the lately adopted tar
if does not effect that another should be passed thai
would and that will. This revenue protection IL il
that builds up and has built up the North at the ex
pense Of, the South and any system of distribution
deposit that, by paiating, tends to proong or per
petuate this undue protection is taking five dollars
out of the Southern peoples pockets where it pro
fesses 10 donate to them one dollar OF their our
money.
Fifthly-We don't think Messrs. Wnslow, Craige
Rufin, or Branch, are distributionsts. We say 81
because we believe they mean what they say, ant
they say they are not. If they were, it would no
make us so. We adhere to the principles of thu
Democratic party
Sixthly-it would be demagogueism for the oppo
sion introduce this deposit question into the mex
canvass, because the question of a surplus has al
ready been disposed of by the tariff reduction of tn
last Congress. 1t no longer rests plausible ba
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