The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-25
COLUMBIA.
Wednesday Morning, April %, 1855,
Projections.

sented in Congress, the power of New
England and Pennsylvania to force
high tariffs upon the country will he
gone"
There. is no. question whatever but
that this Unsuitable thirst for sneney-
sSsnaking has as great IN influence
upon the action of the radicals i'll
Congress as any other professed mo-
!. tive. Indeed, we do not doubt but
that it is at the bottom of the whole
destructive measures they propose to
gallop through both houses of Con-
gress, but more particularly the col-
tinued exclusion Of the Southern Sc
majors and Representatives. The
iron interest of Thad. Stevens in
Pennsylvania, and tho heavy bribcs
of the New England manufacturers to
Sumner, viii easily account for the
prominence these radical leaders ex-
hibit in their persistent efforts to
keep up their rump Organization
the ''so-called" Congress, until they
eau pass their favorite schemes Of
plundering every other section of the
Union.
But there is storm brewing which
will overwhelm the professed ne
grophilists. The great West is al
ready muttering its thunders in their
local elections, and already we see
the signs Of alarm in the radical
organs Of high protective tariff.
They are busy in running from their
presses an immense amount of So
phistry, every day, to prove that
high protective tariff is beneficial to
the country; but'with all their sham
logic, they will not be able to con-
vince the sturdy farmers of the North
west thatthe other States of the Union
revolve around the New England hub.
Were the Southern members and
Senators to be admitted to Congress,
and thus be enabled to make union
with the members of the West and
Northwest, the days of high tariffs
would be numbered.
Thad. Stevens interest THAT of
iron and iron manufactured seems to
be the best protected interest of the
country, as will be seen from the
exposition of facts which we con-
dense from the New York Ereninq
Post Three casks Of wood screws
purchased in England, weighing
4,434 pounds, cost on board ship, in
Liverpool, $454 IT, The duty on
wood screwsis is eleven cents per pound,
which, on the above invoice, amounts
to $47S. .74-above 112 per cent. on
the original price of the goods. OF
course, it will be understood that the
profits Of the importer, wholesale
merchant and retailer are to be added
to the above figures before the screws
reach the builder or contractor.
Again, on other articles of hard
ware, on an invoice OF siedge and
hand hammers, the advance upon the
original price was only So per cent,
the duties being equal to 56la per
cent. On pad-locks the advance was
SO per cent, and on vises 100 per
cent. On wrought steel-faced anvils
the duty of 2le cents per pound was
80 per cent, and the whole advance
70 per cent. On OK and log chains
the duty of pa cents per pound is
from 100 to LOG per cent, and the
entire advance 1877 per cent. That is,
what cost 500 to buy in England,
cost SS267 when landed in store in New
York. On hooks and hinges the duty
OF 2}a cents per pound is equal to
l4O per cent, and the cost advance is
26O per cent. On hoes the duty is
10 per cent, and the cost advance 90
to 100 per cent.
And SO 1t goes on; the great pro-
ducers of the staff of life in the West
and Northwest, and of the staples in
the South, are thus compelled to con-
tribute to the overgrown and ILL
gotten gains of these puritan blood
suckers. The admission of the Sontb-