Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-29


and prescribe rules for the local appraisers nav
By their fat, tx such valuations to tbe artiales Of
ioreiga merehandise coming in competition With
nome manufactures IS Uiil give The protection de-
sired oy fae manufacturer, but denied by Congress
no me Country For instance. ayard Of cloth costs
I'VE 00iars ana IS charged With duty Of thirty per
cent; that IS net, in the estimation of The domestic
manufacturer, sufficient ro,eetou. these anprsissre
value IT at SIC; the duty would then be Sc instead
Of 5 0O, which would generally aulouat a, nrohi-
oltio, drive competition from the market and rive
the domestic masgfaeturers a monopoly In every
view IN Waich have been abls to look at this re-
commentator, the nju tics is palpsble and earing
and my greatest surprise is that ether he Presi
dent OF the Secretary should have permitted him
self to make it.
am equally opposed TO the third aud last recon-
mencaioa, which Is an Increase Of duties on great
sSHe OF sFuo.es' should nsifher Of the others be
soopteoi Ter the reason that do not wish 10 in
crease The revenue. slresdy too large. I do not
,nnS tnst trade requires any addito1sl stimulus or
egal ard az present; thss the Uaei States and har
people az thls time, in ell the great elements Of
human happiness, individual sad national proper
ny, y no. only uaequalied nov, but I think may
saieiy say, Is without PARALLEL in the annals Of
TINE an opposed to each and every one of the
proposed easnges in the tariff, because am salts
ned their tendency ant eject, if made. viii he 10
give protection for projections sake and NOT an i'm
provement Of the revenue
>,VN4Si~ts aiiSgeS mat frauds are DerDetrated
under the present ad vsl0rem system of duties and
these changes are desired 10 correct them. will
grant that frluds have been and will con.iuue m
Ger this sysem; ana think Il will be readilv eon
esded that frauds have and will be committed under
every system Of taxation which has ever vet been
Invented BY Government. Even under the system
OF direct taxes the simplest and ehsspest frauds are
sometimes discovered. If it was a valid objection
10 the present ysiOrem system Of duties II would
De equally SO against each sad every system aud all
modes Ct taxation think "a might be safely as
sumed there have been fewer frsuds under the pre-
sent than under aug former tariff ever enseted by
Congress 1t IS certainly the lowest, and yet it
produces nuch the largest revenue
lin and expe Ienee have demonstrated the fall
laey OF tae Whig declaration, thar "Eigi tari65
maze css1P goods' and the traih Of the Democrats
laeory that lew duties produce the largest revenue
Otthis, az! are now satisfied and willing to let well
CROUCH alone, except the WAig politicians and their
supporters, The interested protcstionisis.
with cur present revenues the Government shl nd
be successfully, even literally administered, and
every dollar Of the pubic deb paid eff ia less than
I Tea years But unless there is a change in public
men and aH4iIs, aad a re urn 10 something like
economy IN the expenditure Of public money WILL
ere long fGd ourselves Ike England, buriensd With
an irFedeemahls public deb', one Of the grestest
msfortuncs which possibly befall free people
I aud free Government.