Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-12

THE tariff and direct trade are the
two great questions that more deeply
concern the people of the Northwest
and Southwest than all other ques-
lions, and on which the next great
battle for constitutional liberty viii be
fought. Parties and politicians can
not keep them in the background
much longer. Now that the slavery
question has been forever settIed-the
only one that could or ever did divide
the councils Of those two great FREE
TRADE AGRICULTUEAL sections, which
was by cunning and designing men
thrown ike a frebrand between
them, that whilst they fought over a
mess Of pottage, they might and did
get possession Of the Government,
with which by high protective tariffs
and other equally unconstitutional
and ~sWindling schemes, they have
robbed and plundered the people until
longer f-Orbearance has ceased to be a
virtue. Men must and will be brought
to an account for their acts. The man
who plOws or mOws in a hay OF corn
field Of the West, no matter whether
he b white or black, Republican, Rad
ical, Or Democrat, will rightfuIly in
sist that if the man in New York, or
New England, who manufactures cal
leo, shoes, blankets and shoddy, has
protection, so must he be protected.
So with the lawyer, the doctor, the
mechanic, snd every other branch Of 1
labor and industry. The Southern OF
Western merchant who goes TO New
York, Boston, OF any Eastern city, and
buys a stock Of goods, which it may
be to his interest to bring hons by
way Of New Orleans and the Mfssis-
sippi river, believing that he has a
clear right TO ship them on d shin
that win bring them the cheapest, I
what viii be his surprise and indigna-
ton when informed by the foreign
ship-ma5ter that the goods dare not
come on board Of his vessel IL he
would carry them for nothing; that
the laws Of Congress prohibit foreign
built vessels, owned by foreigners,
from the cOssting trade at all; and the
coasdng trade means from " Georgia"
TO " Oregon" This, Of course, forces
these goods on Northern ships, OF
railroads and canals, at a much
higher rate Of transportation,
which the Western and Southern
consumer has to pay. The same way
North, everything we produce and
send from home to sell, for the greater
the expense Of transportation the less
the producer viii realize for his labor.
The St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago,
Pittsburg OF Louisville merchant, at
no distant day, may want to buy a
ship, with which TO do his own
freighting TO and from Europe, or
countries, and under the belief
that be would have the right to buy
a vessel from the party who would
sell 10 him the cheapest, be made the
purchase from a foreigner-for they
are built in foreign ports thirty Der
cent. cheaper than in Eastern ports Of
the United States. He is then in
formed that unless half his crew and {
tWo-thirds his officers are American 4
citizens, be is again under the ban Of I
the laws Of Congress. For fear that !
our readers may not fully understand I
them, we viii here place them
before the public. Here they are: $
American vessels en- {
yaged In the coasting trade shall pay I
fifty cents per ton, unless th~ree-fourths
If the crew are American citizens: !
hen OnlysiX cents per ton. The same
With American vessels entering from /
oreign ports, unless the officers and !
WO-thirds the crew are American D
itizens. Second-The entire exclu- I
ion Of foreiRn-built vessels, though :
Wned by American citizens, with an a
ntire equality in the cOasting and 4
Their trades OF the United States. O
entire exclusion Of for !
ign vessels, owned by foreigners, from I
be coasting ansde. People and mer- d
hants Ofthe Mississippi Vaney-what q
o you think Of these laWs2 Whatdo :
on think ofthe men whom you have h
cen sending 20 Congress % represent Il
or interests, who have thus basely 4
their trusts by protect
& every persons interest but your n
Fn2 e it not time to stop Al