The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1861-02-20

WHAT A FORTUNATE EsoArE,-Just read
the following brief dissection of the new
tariff by the New York journal of Com
merce, and realize what a fortunate escape
the South has made in getting beyond the
sphere Of Northern governmental regime.
The North is obliged. indeed, to put on
tremendous duties, to raise a revenue for
its immensely expensive government, now
/ that the seeded South has ceased to pay
its vastly unequal proportion Of revenue
into the general treasury for disburse-
ment in the North and Northwest:
/ HEAVY TAxATIoN.-Verye xfravagant es-
! Inmates have been made, in some quarters,
4 of the cost Of the Secession movement at
/ the South, and it has been repeatedly pre-
/ dicted that the people will soon revolt
I when they are once compelled to bear the
/ burdens thus imposed. And yet, at this
moment. the dominant party are about
/ LAYING upon the shoulders of their fellow
/ citizens heavier weight of taxation than
was ever before levie4 in the history OF
+ the country. The new tariff bill which
I has passed the House, and in a slightly
modified form Is soon to pass the Senate.
+ unless the country is reused from its
L aNNIAArt Is something more IMAM q mass
of crude nonsense. Inconsistent. obscure.
/ complicated and absurd as its MAIN pro-
7 visions undoubtedly are. it Is not simply
/ and unmeaninely ridiculous it Is a meas
uIe designed to impose an enormous tax
/ upon the people who shall remain under
/ the control Of the General Government.
/ The true extent of the increase Is hidden
+ under a variety Of complicated forms:
but the substance remains, as the people
/ Of the Northern and Western States viii
[ learn 10 their sorrow, when Il shall once
! be hung upon their necks. The present
rates of duty range from 4 to 80 per cent:
j the new rates. including the specific char
{ ges, viii range from > to $50 per cent,
I large number of articles, if imported at
I all, being included in schedules that viii
/ be charged from 30 to % per cent. Thus,
a piece Of printed calico ~ inches wide
costing abroad - Cd sterling per piece Of
I = Yards. would paY under the present
tariff. - per cent; under the proposed
tariff # per cent; thus nearly doubling
Z the tax. A cheap printed lawn, such as
T Is now worn BY poor girls. for summer
I dresses. costing 81 sterling per yard. at
present pays p per cent; under the pro-
( posed tariff it would pay s. per cent. or
nearly three times the present rate
Linen goods are 10 be raised from Il per
| cent. 10 25(a 50. thus nearly OF quite doub-
/ ling the tax. Blankets, the poor mans
comfort. now pay Is per cent. only on the
value; under. the new tariff. unless II Is
greatly altered, they viii pay in some ca
ses as high as g per cent or over SIX
I times the present rate. AL wooden car
{ pets. now taxed "A per cent, are 10 paw
I in the new bill > TO SO cents per square
/ yard silks now pay 70 Per cent; the
I proposed tariff raises them 70 200 25(gSo
I per cent. Iron and ali the products Of
/ iron are changed to such rates IS VIII i'm
{ pose an enormous additional tax upon
I every mechanic or farmer who drives a
nail or buys a horse shoe. The minutest
articles Of this description are sought out
and levied upon with special or separate
duty. All hooks printed N the English
+ language unless more than 50 years old,
+ are 70 De assed : cents per rasssd. thus tax
ing literature BY treighL This. however.
might not he very uneruus. as any people
+ wno would submit TO such q burden as
tins could have but little taste for intel
liss1oe, no matter how much they might
neea II Buttons. gloves. stockings. caps,
/ clothing, &c. are all advanced 20 80 per
cent. unless provided for az a still higher
rata ~ some special malice. The free
llst Is greatly reduced. aud Al the sebed-
Z ules OF articles imported, are BY some de-
vice or other, made 10 suffer a large in
crease Of taxation.