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dustry Of country, is always onerous and
more or less oppressive, and always impoliiA
Export duties are expressly forbidden 81 III
Constitution Of the United States, except te
the States, by consent Of Congress; and thu
the power is limited to what may be neces
sary for executing their inspection laws
Congress itself is absolutely prohibitet
from laying export duties. ThsC Constitution
of the Confsde racy gives to the Congress 0
Confederacy, tn rights Of laying expor
duties /; and that Congress has exercised tn
right air eady, BY laying an export duty o
tax upon cotton, which amounts to iifty
cents per bale on each bale Of four hundred
pounds. That this duty is paid BY the for
eign purchaser. the advocates Of export dutie:
would feign have the people to believe bu'
40 absurd proposition can never V enter
tanned by an intel!ige Mt community. If au
import duty upon an imported artich, raises
the price Of that article 70 the cons@er, BY
the amount Of the duty. surely Il export
duty upon an exported article. reduces the
price Of the exported article BY the amount
Of the export duty. In other woods, the
import duty is paid by the buyer nd the
export duty by the seller. The seller in the
one case raises the price Of tho ar,icb upon
which the import duty is placed. asd the
buyerin The other case gives Ie.s Ivy the
amount Of the export duty) for the article on
which the export duty is lsid. Tho sller in
one case, makes the import duty hehas 10
pay, come oat Of the buyer by raihg the
price Of what he sells. The Suyerin the
other case makes the export duty he has to
pay. come out Of the seller by giving ess for
what be buys.
Export duties are nearly allied to- Excise
duties the most odious form of taxatios ever
resorted to. The Vice President Of ths Con-
federate States in his Savannah speech, does
not mention this matter Of export dutis and
we infer that it is one Of the things wfeh he
{" would rather" have. had omitted. The
power to levy export duties, ,give b the
Congress Of the Coofederacy, might be
welded with tremendous effect upoa this
State. Suppose the Congress should levy
an export duty upon sugar. That duty would
fall almost exclusively upon Louisiana; fo'
very little sugar is raised in any other State.
II levied upon rice, it would. in like mamie,
fall chiefly upon South Carolina; for nc
other State of the Confederacy produces q
large amount Of rice. It is more equal on
noatnn.s fas. alk shse IksAaa raiassl Hff =
large extent, in proportion to the cap ~
labor employed in its cultivation. An ye:
even ON cotton, it is unequal to SOME extent
Mississippi and Alabama are exclusively
cotton growing States. Louisiana and
South Carolina are not. In the cSe o.
Louisiana sugar, and in that Of South caro-.
lima, rice forms a large portion of theit sta.
pie products. The impossibility almot, o.
levying an export duty that will operate
equally dpon all sections ofthe countrj, VA
doubtless one Of the reasons for the positive
prohibition to Congress against it, p the
Constitution Of the United States. We are
strongly inclined to think that the glntiug
Of such power to the Confederate Colgress,
was matter Of positive necessity andnot Of
choice. All the debates Of the Mont mery
Convention were conducted 10 secret, ind We
are left 10 conjecture tho reasons u their
gsast q this power; but We can slarcely
missake them, who's " suppose that 4is i'm.
nsnss tax upon the great staple Of th Con-
federated States, was the dsraier rport 70
raies money to sustain the new COVE ment
Il i but one Of the bittst fruits Of = sssiou,
and ID doe time, It will display it's y palata'
b. qualities.
Itis fxsd By the new Constitute, that
thai. lie Post Office Department Of 4e Con
|fedesacy j. to be self suataining. Tat THU
% practicable without greatly reauqpg mai
facilities and raising the p'ice, Of pdIage, ne
one viii contend. Here i . deviatbn from
thu usaOa of the United States ro1rnmeut