Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1861-03-29

When to this we add that gunp6wder and
the materials of which it is composed: lead,
In pigs or bars shot or balls, for muskcts.
rifles and pistols: arms and ammunition of
every kind, rags ships and steamers. are admit
ted to. the Southern ports free of duty; and
when we fother state that the Southern tariff
is simple and Ineligible, while the Northern
is complicated, self contradictory, 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 tosall that the great bulk Of the i'm
ports from Europe i'll be entered in the South
ern ports. and that there will be hardly any
duties to be collected at the North to sastain
the government. though its expenses will be
greatly increased. The greed which sugces-
ted tue Morrill, tariff will defeat its own pur-
pose, and it will be- necessary to infict 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 Eng
land, and cay with exultation, "Look upon this
picture and on this" The Southern tariff an.
peals with force that is perfectly irresistible
to the commercial interests of the two grent
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. see which set of diplomats-lhe
Northern or tie Southern-is the more l;kclv
to succeed. even if We did not take into ac-
count the argument of the supply of cotton bs-
| Ing dependent on the prevention of civil war,
and the recognition of the independence of the
Confederate States by the two great Powers of
Western Europe.
tits true the soutl,sin tariff is not yet pass
ed; but there. is no donbt that i, will be when
| the Congress reassembIes in May. if even q
lover scale of duties should not be. adopted
t'teree trade is the basis on which Southern COM
merce is placed in the new constitution. In
ths 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
difference cbetveenthe tariff. Of 1857 and the
Morrill, tariff, that under the latter scarcely
can any merchandise be imported, while the
treasury. 'ofstbes Confederate States will over
flow with gold. The expenses Of the Southern
isonfederaey,te on the other hand, will be small,
while those Of the United States will,be enor-
NOUS sKso1omyis ,he order Of. tho day at the
south--proaigats expenditure at tie North.
The duties which will be hereafter collected BY
the NortberncoIf deraoy win not amount to
one.foprth the cost Of keeping up lines Of re-
yenus I Posta on thess: ea1adian frontier the
southern frontier, and coast guard from the
Chesapeake to Tho SRio Grande, Then the
West will find its commercial ilterests so com
plstely identified With the confsaerats States
,thatit will 'beooms their most zeslols frierd
and ally, Instead Of Joining in the mad schemes
Of coetcion which are now being eoneocted at
Washington. The Southern confedercy has
mighty .destiny before II aud the eoniy way in.
which The Nor ttisrn States San share II and be
ssysd from ruin is BY adopting The 5ney. eopsti,
Esptiony Herald s. ~ ~: !.