Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-13

the future will show, so complete Al act
Of faulty as the North Western States
committed, in denying the right OF
eleven States to withdraw from the
Union and establish g separate nation
atty for the right to do so, though not
one TO be exercised hastily, rashly OF
except in the last resort, was the
only real barrier against q general over
flow of moboeracy, and the sweeping
away of all the guarantees and safe
guards of the Constitution. Neither a
| Conservative President nor an upright
Supreme Bench of Magistrates, venera-
bic and wise, can stand for a moment in
the way Of a raging sea Of popular opin-
ion, of a mad and u~nreasOning demOc-
rscy, whose present organs and
future victims are such hideous and
hateful exaggerations Of infamy
as MARAT, CoUTHoN, and THADDEUs
STEVENS. When beings as detestable as
these are allowed by God to govern ma
tons, as the instruments of His avenging
| Justice, we doubt whether He is not al
Omnipotent cynie who has made this
miserable world to crafty His malevo-
lence, and that BE may smuse Himself
with the antics and petty rascal tiles Of
small knaves wearing the robes OF office,
and with the writings and contortions
Of nations wrenched limb from limb
upon the rack.
We cannot by any words Of our own
more forcibly show the system of black
mail to which the Northwest has sub
mitted itself by aiding Europeans, Cana
dams and negroes, bought aud paid by
New England, TO crush the South ny
mere weight Of numbers, than by copy
ing here the following eogent arguments
from the National hteAHgcacer:
THE SENATE TARIFF BILL.
1t seems probable that the senate viii
/ pass the tariff bill low pending, which
is, in its main features, the same as
| the one passed by the house last ses-
4 sion. The alterations made by the
! finance committee, which were generally
improvements, are being rapidly e!imi-
mated, and by the time the bill gets
through the senate and the conference
| committees ID will be as bad as it was ia
| the beginning, il not worse. lthe lobby
nave turned their batteries on Senator
l.Fe>sendeu, ana have beaten bin one or
two votes There are not six members
Of the senate who do not believeiu their
hearts thai the bill is morally wrong,
that Il is economically a bl1nder, and
tnSt it Is fraught with extreme danger to
the republican party. We make the
statement upon our responsibility, that
| the number Of senators who believe that
tue bill is right, and that it ought
TO pass, does not exceed sir. let
they are guaded on to passing it
by an impoFtuuatc and merciie-s
lobby, whom they have not the courage
to resist. There are a few senators who
| sincerely believe that a prohlbi ion offOr-
! eign commerce is the great di~ideratum
of this country. They would copy the
commercial system Of Paraguay add ia
pan if they could. They believe that
the surest way to get rich and powerful
IS to fight on the bOunties which BivinC
| Providence has bestowed upon other
lands, and produce them at home at
! three times the cost. These philosophers
would refuse 90 buy wool frum South
America, because II is SO cheap. The
4 IMNNaA ~ al ~ SDAANtA All al
give US ten pounds Of wool for a dollar.
" No. says congress, " we want only
two pounds Of wool for q dollar we are
/ for projecting home industry" Bat the
! South Americans take our produce IN
payment for their wool, and if we cease
TO take their wool they cease to take
our produce. For 2 barrel Of -four they
give Us, say, one hundred pounds
Of wool. To protect American industry
/ congress enacts that tie American pro-
Queer shall not exchange his barrel OF
| flour for one hundred pounds Of wool.
| but shall exchange it for twenty pounds
So the American producer is cheated out
OF eighty pounds Of wool, besides losing
q valuable customer in South America.
But this is not all. 10 order to protect
American industry in the vi de
scriOed, il becomes necessary TO raise the
prices Of clothing Jour times, when We
| raise the price OF wool suce. To get a
dollar away from the rightfui owner,
and into the pocket of the wool
I grower, we must first throw four dol as
| into the sea. The wooden manufacturer
does not want the tariff on cloth in
/ creased, unless the tariff on wool is 70 be
raised. II the latter is raised, however,
he must have the prices of his goods
raised in the proportion Of jour cents per
pound on cloth for every one cent per
pound on wool. And then the iron
m1ngprs, and the salt h0jler-, and the
glass blowers, and the cotton ~spinueIS,
aud every other interest that has a mo-
nopoly under existing laws, or wants one
] created, m racing 20 the heels Of The
wool and wooden men and the net Tc-
sult is e bill to rob the American people
of some hundreds Of millions OF dollars,
aud to give the finishing blow 60 oar
already crippled and declining com
! merce.
If such a bill passes congress, we hope
Andrew Johnson viii veto it, and II lie
Yetoes it We shall certainly sustain that
veto. More thau.this, we shall point ont
every particular item of kuaveTy IN the
bill, and, so far as we are able, show how
it came TO be there. Such a bill # it
passes, will cling 10 the republican party
like a shirt Of Nessus. The paralysis
which it will infiict upon the industry Of
the country will be keenly felt about the
time for the next presidential elecr~S
We nave now a tariff averaging GIy-
eight per cent. in gold on all dutiable
goods The cQNEpf everything that the
American CONSUMER buys Of foreign pro
duction Tor of American production, if
the article is protected by the tariff is
ifty-eight per cent. higher, on the aver
age, than nature and the laws of trade
would make it. Hence tie American
consumer must charge ffty-eight per
cent. more for his labor and products
than they are worth, 90 make himself
even. But other countries, which have
gone through the folly which prevails in
Paraguay and japan, transact business
on The basic OF buyiug and--eiliug things
& for arnafta- Tz-hur fHLEr p Rr.rHis fF.r-aL
they uHdeTsell Us by 61y-eI.ht per cent,
and drive Us out Of all tie market of tha
world, ami owe the seas with q ura-na.-
Gus commerce from which we have been
excluded by out own stupidity. Our
trade with south America has fallen o.
one-siEth Of its former GREATNESS. i1 the
injury Of every "home indus Ty" that
produced anything which entered into
that trade, and now congress r. preparing
to blot oct the remaining sixth bv nut
ting a prohibit0ry tariff on wool.
Senator Grimes is right in saving that
this bill viii be a grinding burden on Che
agriculture Of the country. Every blow
leveiled at commerce is a blow al arfi-
culture. "lndlssolubie bonds hind him
who plows the land and him who pi0ws
the sea-" said Daniel Webster in one Of
those pOnderons sentences Of his. Every
iUlDDfttu AitlCte has 20 Gt ialN TOT WIN
an exported article. The American far
mer is now paying for everything he
buys fifty per cent more than it might
be had for, and suffering from q dimin-
ishing foreign market. which congress
proposes still further to diminish by n
higher tariff Meanwhile domestic man
ulactures in the aggregate are not in
creasing, the prices of goods being 50
high that people cannot buy them. And
still congress would make them higher
II this bill becomes a law, then upon
the heads of those who pass it be the
ggilt OF the political and commeTcialruin
which VIII follow in its train. We will
not defend robbery. nor apologize for
fantastic folly in high places.
The same paper had said in 3 previous
number
Be'erriug to this subject in autumn
last, in the connection q. tue prospect Of
a presidential veto Of the Tapscicus meas
ure, which we then felt assured would
pass, and Of the game Of the d~estructiyes
to impeach the president, and thus get
rid Of that obstacle" we wrote as fol-
lows.
ave ore greatly surprised that the
Chicago Tribune should exhibit 70 much
less Of sagscity than It's radical c0tam.
porary, the Republican, together with
macy other radical presses, as 70 sustain