The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-20

When to this we add that gunpOwder and
the materials of which it is composed; lead, in
pigs or bars; shot or balls, for muskets, rifles
and pistols; arms and ammunition of every
kind, rags. ships and steamers, are admitted to
the Southern ports free of duty; and when we
further state that the Southern tariff is simple
and Ineligible, while the Northern is compli-
Gated, selfcontradictory, and, in many points,
unintelligible, having been drawn up by an
incompetent, ignorant man, who knows no.
thing Of trade and commerce, it will appear
evident to all that the great bulk of the inn
ports from Europe will be entered in the
Southern ports, and that there will be hardly
any duties to be collected at the North to sustain
the government, though its expenses will be
greatly increased. The greed which suggested
the Morrill, tariff will defeat its own purpose,
and it will be necessary to iniict upon the
Northern people direct taxation to keep the
machinery of government in motion.
Well may the Commissioners from the South
ern Congress, taking the two tariffs, present
them to the governments of France and Fog.
land, and say with exultation .Look upon this
picture and on this" The Southern tariff
appeals with force that is perfectly irresistible
to the commercial interests of the two great
Powers, while the Northern tariff is calculated
to repel them, as it is to provoke the hostility
of the enlightened spirit Of the age. 1t is easy.
therefore, to zee which set of diplomats-the
Northern or the Southern-is the more likely
to succeed, even if we did not take into ac-
count the argument of the supply of cotton be-
ing d,pendcnt on the prevention of civil war,
and tho recognition of the indeps-dence Of the
Confederate States by the two great Powers Of
Western Europe.
II ia true the Southern tariff is not yet
passed.; but there is no doubt that it win be
when the Congress reassembles in May, il even
a lower scale of duties should not be adopted.
Free trade Is the basis on which Southern COM
MERGE is placed in the new constitution. In
the meantime the low tariff Of 1857 is in opera
ton at the South, and will continue to be till
the new tariff becomes law. So great is the diff
ference between the tariff of 1857 and the Nor
rill tariff, that under the latter scarcely can any
merchandise be imported, while the treasury
of the Confederate States will overflow with
gold. The expenses of the Southern con-
federacy, on the other hand, will be small,
while those of the United States will be cnor
nous. Economy is the order Of the day at
the South-pronigate expenditure a. the North.
The duties which will be hereafter collected by
the Northern confederacy will not amount to
one.fourth the cost of keeping up lines of re-
venue posts on the Canadian frontier, the
Southern frontier, and q coast guard from the
Chesapeake to the Rio Grande. Then the West
will find its commercial interests so completely
identified with the Confederate States that it
will become their most jealous friend and
ally, instead Of joining in the mad schemes Of
coercion which are now being concocted at
Washington. The Southern confedcracy has
mighty destiny before it, and the only way in
which the Northern States can share IL and be
saved from ruin is by adopting the new consti-
tutiOu.