The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-14
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, Feb. IA, 1857.
The Taria-Mistnkc of the West.

The TariH;-Mistnkc OF the West.
The neople of the West made o
fatal axe when they coalesced
with the Republican party to keep
the Southern Senator's and members
of Congress excluded from that body.
The tariff bill before Congress will
bear as heavily on the West as it does
on the poor consumers of the South.
1t is measure expressly framed,
under the plea of protection to Ame-
rican manufactures, to enrich the
Eastern spinners and manufacturing
capitalists. IT the expense Of the ag-
ricultural producers, artizans, mocha
MICS, &c, who have to pay the ini-
quitous premium thus levied by
unprinciplcd partisans. This ''bill
of denominations, as it is aptly
styled by some of the Northern
papers, is now being loudly de-
nounced by the people of the North
and West, and its denouncers en-
brace men Of all parties.
We learn from the New York Times,
ofFriday, that the Chamber of Com
merce of that city, at its meeting on
the previous day, unanimously adopt
ed memorial TO Congress against
the bill The memorial sets forth
that while processing ''to provide for
increased revenue from imports y the
bill viii seriously injure the import
trade and lessen the gold revenue of
The Government at a time when its
need Of gold is greater than ever
The enactment of the new tariff, in
the opinion Of the merchants of New
York, will, therefore, be to weaken
the public credit. The injury to
commerce, the mercantile marine,
the farmers and mechanics, is also
adverted to. Special emphasis upon
the effect of exorbitant protection
upon the interests protected, and the
injustice of granting to manufac-
turers higher tariff rates simulta-
neously with the revision of the
internal taxation in their favor, is
also pointed out.
Such are the views of practical
business men in the leading CONNER
cial metropolis of the country; and
although the same body took the
back track in relation to memorial
lzing Congress against the tax on
cotton, yet, in this matter, we must
believe their vision is much clearer,
and that they discover the difference
of that legislation which compels the
planter to pay tribute out of his i'm
poverished fund, from that which
threatens bankruptcy in trade and
commerce, and general distress to al
most every class in the community.
'The cohesive power of public
plumber is admirably Illustrated in
all the legislation of the party which
now rules the country, and there is
no practical observer of its course
who must not come to the conclusion
that, while they proposed, all along,
to be only working to save the Union
and punish ''rebels," eXacting from
them pledges and guarantees for the
perpctuation of that Union, they
were only influenced by lust for
power, that they might the more
easily drain from the exhausted re-
sources of the country the greenbacks
and gold, TO swell their own Golfers.
If the men of the West and the
working men OF the North do not see
this, they are not entitled to much
credit for political sagacity. The
Western people ought so know by
this time that we of the planting
States OF the South are their proper,
if not natural, allies. No such bill,
we verify believe, as this bill of
denominations, could be passed by
Congress, if the Southern Senators