New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-19
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MONDAY MORNING. MARCH q Isso.
A TARIFE MOVE,


MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1860.
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A TARIFF MOVE.
We clip the following from the New York Tri-
bune q the 18th inst. The Tribune, it is well nigh
needless to add, is almost as strong in favor OF a
Protective Tariff as 1t is in favor Of Abolition:
Yesterday, in the House of Representatives, Mr.
enable him to introduce Tariff BIN substantially
Ike that presented by him at the last session. The
motion faiied-yeas l02 nays 60 (not two thirds)
me yeas contain Buchanan Democrats, 5 Anti
Lecolnpton democrats, North American Briggs
u Sonth Americans, and 50 Republicans. The nays
with two Or three exceptions are Northern and
Southern Democrats. The only Republican who
voted against 1 suspension, was Mr.. Spinner. Mr..
mofIhi pii aims TO afford incidental protection to
our langnisning manufacturing and mechanical in
dustry, while repienishing the Federal Treasury.
VIII not this significant vote open the eyes of the
friends OF domestic manufactures and mechanic
arts Iarougaoa1 the country and especially in Con-
necueut ana khode Island, whose electors are soon
to meet at the polls, to express their opinions upon
State and National questions?
We are gratified that the rules were not sus-
pended and rejoice in the conviction that no tariff
bill, having in view the plunder of the masses in
all sections of the country for the aggrandze ment
of few favored classes of over-grown monopolists
who are now grinding to the point of starvation
thousands Of poor white operatives id the Eastern
States, can pass at this session Of Congress-
The Southern people want no protection. The
Western people ask for no protection. All they
seek at the hands of the General Government is to
be let alone. They are willing to put the products
Of their skill and industry in the fair field Of com
petition, and let them abide the lot which their
merits, and the laws Of supply and demand may
award to them. But they should protest, and do
most earnestly protest, against having their labor
clogged with burdens which enure exclusively to
the advantage Of others engaged in different
branches of enterprise
It is high time, in our opinion that the prairies
of the West and the plains Of the South ceased
paying immense annual tribute to Yankeedom. If
the labor Of Yankeedom cannot stand ON its own
merits If it must be everlastingly bostered up by
largesses wrnng from the pockets of others-why,
let the labor Of Yankeedom 80 to the wall. And
so with the labor of all other sections of the Con-
federacy. ANY system that cannot exist by itself
and within ITSELF is not legitimate SYSTEMS not
founded upon honest principles of trade, and is not
entitled to encouragement, much less govern
mental protection. II the "languishing manufac-
turing and mechanical industry of New England
is unable to get along without the support Of
taxes levied upon and paid by others, why let IT
languish into bankruptcy, be sold out by commits
sioners of insolvency. and wound up as bankrupts
generally are or should Be. That il all. If Gov
ernment is bound to sustain bankrupt manufac-
turers and mechanics in one mart of the country It
il bound to do Tie same thing II all sections Of the
country. And to run the paralel still further, on
the assumption for the sake of arrument that the
rue il 4 good one. and should be enforced, Gov
ernment ought to come to the relief of every Ian
guishing'' bank, railroad canal farmer, planter,
merchant artisan. printer and producer in the ma
tiou. This simple illustration demonstrates the
utter fimsiness Of the pleas and arguments of the
protectionists.
The protectionists war upon the principles of
the age and the lights of the times. They would
not only put stop to the car Of progress, but
| would run it backwards. While two of the great
est and most enlightened nations of Europe =
France and England dare preparing to modify
| their revenue systems, and are making great
strides in the right direction, which will inevi-
| tably result in something akin to free trade in
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