Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-15

10 - ~ HalN 49, 80 80
: conflicting interests of the great agTicul
{, tural west and New England on tn
question Of protection, or ~ tariff wi'
l.ssaIs.u iarsr1 plUpoTuOus. IL Is IN IN
nature of things that this should be so
! This conflict will be q powerful wedg
in dividing the present dominant polit
Z ical party and in reforming other parties
We cannot doubt as 10 what will be tn
result. The extraordinary growth O
/, the west must give that section a pre-
pOndersting power In the country. New
England, with its selfish protection dog
mas, will be left la the background
and the more persistently it urge
its tariff notions, the more viii j
hasten its own isolation. IN contsmpla
ting this result we cannot help refectinl
on what will be the fate Of the radica
protectionist Organs, and particularly
the fate of the chief ID In this city
RI Greeley's occupation, like Othello's, vii
he gone. He will be left out in the cold
Even his present protection friends vii
abandon him for having pushed them 4
a fatal extremity. The balance sheet o
bis paper. which now shows such slim
assets, will run down % nothing. That,
however, may not cure him of dreaming
about high tariffs aid protection. Like
all men Of one idea he viii probably die
in his faith. Against all the influence
Of New England and the +" impOrtunate
aud merciless lobby - Of which our Chi,
cago contemporary speaks, We shall hope
Congress may throw out the monstrOus
and iniqUitous tariff bill now pending
TIE NEW FORM OF sLAYERY-WHITEs
ENsLAvED BY GLASS MoNOPOLIEs.
From thsC hicasO Tribune. Rad ReptL
The brief speech of Senator Brown, OF
! Missouri, upon the tariff bin describes
/ the proposed bill AS the incipient re-
establishment Of slavery in the United
States. One of the fundamental princi-
PIES o fjustice upon which the people Of
The north opposed African slavery was,
that it denied to four millions of people
the right Of receiving the products OF
their own labOr. q
Slavery has many forms. There is
none more CALLING and oppressive than
that which selects a class of the com
munity for its victims, and takes of their
substance to give 10 another class. This
il practical slavery, though the law may
call il by another uame-that system
which degrades the many 10 the condi-
ton of mere hewsrs OF wood and draw
ers Of water. There is a process known
in Mexico as a forced lOan,n whereby
the dictator or usurper issues a decree
that the people Of certain districts, or
that certain classes, such as farmers, the
merchants, the bankers, the clergy, or
the miners, shall pay to him a stipulated
sum Of money under pain Of having il
taken from them by force. Ofcourse he
tells them it is done for their own good.
But even in this system of taxation,
which the world styles robbery, the rob
Der theoretically takes the money for the
use Of the government. Even Mexican
morality would be shocked if the dicta-
tor should decree that the merchants
should pay 10 the miners, or the farmers
u the bankers, a tax equal 70 seventy
per cent upon the real value Of all arti-
cles they might purchase for their own
use. That would be a despotism to
which even Mexican debasement would
submit.
g. The constitution OF the United States,
in giving to congress the power Of taxa
tiGB, required that il should be uniform.
When taxation is for revenue, and APP |
plies to all alike, there will never be
but when taxation is not for
revenue, but Is framed TO diminish rev.
enue from imports, and to secure bOunties |
10 a privileged class, the whole spirit OF
the constitution is violated, and the tax
becomes, as Senator Brown properly OBJ /
serves, statutory theft and pillage.n It's
Effect is to bind the many in seryitude to /
lie few.
The farmers Of Illinois may feel the
hardship and severity Of a law which
,ompels them to pay a certain per centsge
u their earnings TO the support Of the
government; but as long as that tax is
necessary % uphold and maintain the
Inion aud the public credit, il will be
Ill vw-a.~#H- - .H.-wE-FF-- d. -. Z
he farmer or laborer who purchases a
ora keg OF nails, or a pane of
glRss, or a yard Of cloth, or a cooking
,tove for his kitchen, OF crockery for his
.sble, is told that he nus ray down in
ash, upon thepurchase Of either of these,
!. tax equal to seven per cent. Of its
value, we question whether the exactiOn
If this tax VIII be considered any less
han q new form Of slavery when he is
old that not a penny Of It goes 10 the
government, but is collected OF the thirty
Millions Of consumers 70 be paid over as
bounty TO the noble lords on the other
ide OF the Alleghanies, who can spend
lis money to so much better advantage
han be can spend il himself. Let the
farmers and labOrers, who voted and
and gave Of their money 10 eman-
ipate the slaves, and to secure to them
be right OF eating the bread which their
.wn hands earn, ask themselves if thew
re now 10 be reduced TO a slavery more
insulting and not less oppressive than
hat which has been abolished after four
of war. We thank Mr.. Graft
whose pen aud tongue were so
lsquent in assailing the b~attlements Of
African slavery, for thus boldly attack {
ng this new citadel OF American slavery.
Every farmer who pays in the course
{ a year n thousand dollars for the ,
Of his family, and for other arti- I
les embraced in the tariff bill, will pay
hundred dollars as a bounty to the :
rOduceT OF these articles, who is engaged
ne-half Of the year in pToclaiming his :
esire 10 advance the wages Of American I
lbOrers, and the other half in a fierce
with those iabOrers to keep their ,
ages down. Not content with this
Of eXtortiOn, they have invented G
mother, which they style a drawback ?
- by which they put their hands
the treasury and take out a bounty for ,
le expectation Of their articles to foreign :
BY their oppressive taxation '
icy nave forced prices up so high that q
ley cannot sell anything abroad unless +
.e government pays them a premium, q
I'd this too comes, In the end, out Of the
q AAAAA AAA A4kWAEAs me save mao
Cd, clothing, medical attendance, and Q
hat he could steal. But these self c
instituted masters are not so liberal 10 D.
cir slaves. Here the white man has -
pay for his OWN coat be has to fur
sh wheat, or corn, or flour, not only to j
e real value of the coat, but seventy Ii
e per cent additional. It is inmate y
II whether the crop is short or large. =.
csc tyraRts demand their cent per cent OF
they part with their goods. They
ohibit rs from going elsewhere 10 n,
and demand not only the value Of =
e goods but nearly as much more. and -
en- insult Us by telling US hat il was Dc
done for our goOd-thAt We are poor
wills and cannot take care Of ourselves. g
The days o. slavery have passed for
er, and 10 makes no difference in what ~
10 that slavery 4 esents itself-whether u
takes the earnings Of the laborer Ia
aud dsles him cut his food and
OF whether Is takes his earn
. as the price of the bed he rests mon &c
utensils with which he works, or Gu
plow with which be tills his fields he
agress may legalizs this form OF -,
very, but the people viii crush ID as "
y crushed the other, and far more &c
eddy. ia
We near 10 lONb rom TIE NOFIDWeSt SIC
N the subject Of the grossly %unoonsti-
and still more iniquitous tax on bill
bales, that violates three OF four res
tive provisions OF the Constitution, rel
fundamental principles Of political tai
nomy, and those Of justice, equity and an
honesty at once. Let the in
yes howl over the carcass that is not
icient 10 satiate the sppetites of all. ]
is s
HALE COUNTY. Of
has named one OF her new ella
lties bale, in honor OF STEPHEN r. lHbs
who commanded one Of her regi- mil
It's, and died from wounds received 1re
ne Of the battles around Richmond. ore
HALE was, we believe, a descend stri
Of the old revolutionary stock OF VIII
LES, Of Massachusetts. Yea