Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-02-01
pernocracy-The Revenue-The Tariff

e Two dissenting voices IN the House OF
7 Representatives, have adopted resolutions
instructing their Senators in Congress- and
requesting their Representatives, to labor for
the passage (at the present SESSION. Of such
an act as will not only tend to increase the
q revenue by the imposition of duties, but
afford ample encouragement to all the
interests of the country injured by the pro-
auctions of the cheap labor of other nations
but more especially to urge an increase of
duties on coal and iron &c.
The unanimity with which these resolutions
were adopted shows that the Democracy of
4 Pennsylvania are as much in favor now Of
the principle of protection, as they were in
1874, when they raised the banner Of POLK.
Dallas and the Tariff of 1872" and. led on
by Mr.. Buchanan, supported Mr.. Polk as a
better tariff man than Mr.. Clay!
Notwithstanding, however, this and other
Indications of similar sentiment in other
quarters of the Union, and the explicit re-
concentrations of both the President and
Secretary of the Treasury of revision of
the tariff at the present session, it appears
from the telegraphic dispatches that at re-
cent caucus of the Democratic members of
Congress, resolution was adopted declaring
it inexpedient to make any change at all in
the tariff this session.
This course of policy was very warmly
urged upon the Democrats in Congress,
week before the caucus was held, by a Demo-
cratic writer in the Washington Suites, on the
ground that, should any revision of the tariff
be made now, and be followed by a revival
, of trade ane an increase in business during
the coming year, it would be attributed to the
new tariff, even though it should not have
been in operations; while the Opposition
would Of course get the credit for the relief
afforded to the depressed interests throughout
the country" Delay the revision, urges this
writer until next winter, and there will he no
need Of any as trade. in the mean time, will
be certain to revive. 1.-THE tariff men see
this" he adds, "and hence their anxiety; but
we cannot imagine a more fatal step for the
Democracy to take than to go into this snare
laid by the Opposition" A revision OF the
tariff to raise the revenue to an amount equal
to the expenditures, recommended by the
President and the Secretary Of the Treasury,
ga snare laid by the Opposi toni"
Is there any conceivable absurdity or in
consistency Of which Modern Democracy is
not capable? Mark, too, the INSCRIPTIONS
party grounds upon which the Democrats in
e. Congress are urged to disregard the recon-
mendations of the President and the Secretary
of the Treasury! We have an empty Treasury.
The receipts into it fall far short of the cur
rent expenditures The Government has
already borrowed $40, 900 0OO, without making
any provision whatever for its redemption.
And the policy now pressed upon the Dem
ocrats in Congress by this Democratic writer
through Democratic organ is, to do nothing
with the tariff, but to go on borrowing and
running the country in debt, twenty or thirty
millions more for the expenditures of the
current year. because, forsooth if the
tariff bc now revised. and the receipts into
the Treasury be brought up to the expendi-
lures, and the necessity of running the
country deeper into debt be obviated. the OPP
position will get the credit of it, and Modern
Democracy be damaged TO that extent. With
these precious patriots, the country is nothing,
and the party every thing.
1t is the Southern Democratic abstrac-
tionists, however. who will defeat Mr.. BUcH-
ANANs recommendations, if they are defeated
The Democracy of his own State, we have
.se9n, with the utmost unanimity concur in
opinion with him. SO do the Democracy
OF the Middle and Northern States generally,
and in fact, q all the States pretty much,
save the Southern States. But the Southern
Democratic leaders may, on this occasion, "a
they have done on others, exercise predom-
inaRt influence over the party in Congress,
and thus defeat the accommodations OF Mr.. |
BUCHANAN.
We conclude our remarks, for the present |
on this subject with few appropriate eN-
tracts from letter recently published in
the indianapolis Sentinel from Gov. WRIGHT, |
OF that State, now, and for several years back, |
the United States Minister at Prussia, and, of |
course, Democrat, whose standing with his !
party is uuexceptionahie:
at should be the policy Of our States to /
make more Mt home. and to buy less abroad. /
We should" he continues. diversity |
our pursuits and make il our aim
not only to raise cotton aud wool as
=
instead OF sending it abroad. to buy it back
agSin at a higher price than il would cost us
10 manufacture il ourselves. IL is obvious
that in Indiana, where coal Is plentiful |
where provisions are cheap, aud where rail-
roads afford rapid aud convenient means of
communication with other States. il would be
far more profitable 10 buy raise the raw Z
material. and convert il ourselves into man
ufactured goods than 20 send both material
and provisions to an English coalfeld The
same principle would apply TO every State in
the Union. In illustration of working OF ihe
opposite policy. take any six of our north
western States, which have expended nearly
as much capital in railroads within the last
fifteen wears as Great Britain has invested
in machinery for the manufacture of cotton
gi,ols, and compare the relative results. See
what her labor and her machinery have ena-
bled h. r To accomplish with the raw material
which we have supplied her looms with. Her
yast commercial revenues have enabled her Ia
carry on her eonquests. TO extend her empire
besides adding millions TO hr internat
wealth. Well may she exeialm, ''Cikfoa -
KHg"
Again he says: I'VE shonld discard the err
ronedls hut too prevalent opinion. that sell
ing the raw material abroad, IN any form, win
accrue 70 the substantial advancement Of one
section OF our country over another. Our
connloH interests eanssos Be divid@i The Garner.
sotose lands proiaee corn md rhea wlose Rseks
supply he iroOt naGrka. 1he planter, leh0 seisis
,elilea leiN he cotton harriet, he merchant and ne
saeeAaHe and The duly laborer. are all aiike utter
eaef in The home Manufacture Of eoftoH and lrook 10
10 say naking Of othe- branches Of iahisfy, From
mutual property Ds rep ,aata0i beHea. The
burden uf Insurance. storage, freigitage ga
grain. cotton and wool. on their way &, mar 7
kst, does not fall exclusively upon the sev.ir-
al 0luser, ~ each.
9Th: burd sns, e. well as the Iroals. are