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But wondrous things' the whiggiessay Thant' will will briti''g about sirs, Bufilickory Clubs are in way. They ne'er'willmake it out, sir, lied what I say, The - voting day - My boys just keep your eyes on, ey'il own tliey've fooled their time away With Clay and Frelinghuysen. For Polk's the boy, &c. heir blackest schemes they keep below, For "them they never mention, Eat they wilrfiud it all, no go, We well know ihekrilntenlion. Wi word about the ntifisterbank— The people hate like poison— Fad they tell, 'twill birst the shell .Of play- and Frelingliuysen,' ?Cr Polies the boipkc. ,Tarid nest, a cunniit plan Tn.Pring us to subjpiion, Id thusenslave their rellcitv-rnan, And then Bawl out Protection ! ty make us pay a heavy. tai • )n sugar, tea and coffee,' while the ralrorer swings the axe They lounge upon the sofa, But Polk's the boy, .&c. Jcember days will soon be on Our votes will tell the story : Harry Clay:to Theodore 'bey've blasted all our glory• ; go home to old Kentucls My corn and cotton rising, think we've had most datn'ed'hard luck -Both me,and Frelingbuysen, or Polies' the boy that spoiled our fun, And sadly burst our boiler, . We found a diffeient race to run 'tom- that of and Tyler tat Banner in the Breeze ' 42 z/ ocrLoinerto the breeze To droop or falter never more— Woe's far houniaries to the seas let roll upon the Texan shore. ing best 'gird on in might . crashing aims that freemen wield, ith tiabrokeri front unite form along the battle field. 'phalanx dense and deep, red and-firm, and undismayed, waves resistless sweep, [blade, march with Truth's bright shield and ill they couie,",th.e gathering throng! rings afar thithdndering cry, • it-to 4istant hostalong, Polk ! for Dallas ! 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Buchanan said he had been , greatly astonished, boilt„,,a-t7-the eliarac -tpr of this Bill.. agd the quarter from which it proceeded. ~:fig the chair man of the Cominittee an Finance, (Mr. Evans,) who had reported the 'fariff, Act, of 1842, and sustained it throughout, ;with distiriguislied ability, should now attempt to withdraw the protection which it afforded to the great iron interest of the country, was indeed wonderful ; nay, amazing.—Why this change? Was it because-the Senator, having 'already secured all the protec tion which he desired for the manufac-' tures peculiar to NetiEngland, thought 11. might, with safety, turn round and' ' rel i eve his constituents• from the pay ment Grduties on the great staple man ufacture of other states of the Union ! His Bill proved that he_ was.piepared to crush the vast iron interest, of Penn sylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey, for the benefit of Rail Road ;Comps, nies ; but a:Bill so unequal and unjust should never pass; whilst he (Mr. B.) entertail,ted any hope of resisting it suc cessfully. I am glad, said Mr. B. to perceive that I now, have the undivided attention, of the Senate; 'and if they will contin ue to accord it to me for a few minutes I think I can demonstrate, to their sat isfaction, that this Bill ought never to become a law. Arid, in the first place, j lay down the proposition broadly, that the bur dens of this government ought to be borne, in equal proportion, by all the citizens of the country. Special priv ileges are odious to a republican peo ple. Equality is the highest equity and justice., To exempt one. than, or class. Of melt, from taxes which you im pose upon -The rest of your fellow-citi zens, is to war against the.very, spirit and genius of out. government.: In the eyes of the law., all men ought to be equal. Now, what does this Bill pro pose? Whilst all other citizens of the country, under your general law, are compelled to pay a duty of $26,00 per ton on the rolled iron which they con sume, this Bill exempts Rail Road com panies from the payment of any duty whatever on the iron rails employed by them in the construction of their roads. I ask Senators, whether friendly or hos tile to a Tariff, 'if by their votes they can sanction such an odious discrimina tion ? • But this is not all.. Whatever May be the amount of taxes released to. these companies under the present Bill, the very same amount.must be raised, to supply the deficiency thus created ill - your Treasury. by addition. al taxes upon the hard earnings of the other citizens of the country. You- di - us render them tributary to these char tered monopolies. Such privileges, granted in abridgement of common right, must, from their very nature, be at the expense of the rest of the com munity.' Now, sir, I am no enemy to Rail Road companies. Far, very far, from it. On the contrary, they i ,deserve the gratitude of the people. All I desire is, that they shall stand upon the same footing with other highly meritorious interests, and not arrogate to them - selves special privileges. The ship Wilder, who constructs the vessel destined to carry our productions Over the world, uses much iron in this great national manufacture. Might he not, with equal greater propriety, ask exemption from duty on the iron which-'he thus employs! He might say : Ameri can vessels, engaged in foreign trade, have to enter into competition, upon the ocean, with the vessels of all other nations; and therefore it is the policy. of the government that they should be built at as cheap a rate as possible.— Relieve us, then, from the duty. Rail Road companies have not to, contend against any such competition ;—they enjoy a monopoly of the domestic travel and trade, and therefore the ship builder ought to possess atleast equal if not greater privileges." Our uncom- . plaining farmers who pay their taxes without a murniur, might with equal justice ask .an exemption from the diih ties' on the iron used in their ploughs and other agricultural implersents.—• But neither the ship builder, the far mer, nor the , mechanic has ever thought of asking such' privileges from, C.on gress. Such a demaid could only hive been mails by Corporations. ' . ' itiegardir.o frof beniusciation froni: cinii"Quarter'.:-GOv".PiniTzu rUP77I4ICI:OI 1 - 42,E212 1 02112)CatlYSTUUsi .. 2; 1 1;40 goln y fizm ,, l T z ,. 4l . ) . •. - • • Ancl - whatoiiir is the chief and'prom ineut.reson which. the Railßoad com panies present 'for asking , this exenip lien from duty? - They most earnestly insist that because such ConiPanies had enjoyed' this privilege for. eleven years, previous to •March,. 1843, that, .there fore, they ought to continue in : its en joyment. By.this argument an exclu sive privilege once granted can never be arrested, and becomes perpettial.— NQ matter •ivhat may be the abuse, it must continue for ever. • But herelet us briefly review our past legislation upon this subject. In May, 1834, the duty on rail road iron was reduced to 25 per cent va lorern and by the Act of the 24th Ju ly, 1832, it was abolished altogether in favor of states and incorporated compa nies, provided the iron should be laid down upon their roads within three . years after its importation. :Thus good the law until the passage of the Act of 11th September, 1841, which imposed a duty of twenty per cent' ad valorem orprail road iron ;-but provided that the Act should not effect such iron if im ported and laid down prior to .the 3d March, 1843, "on any rail road or in clined planes ofwhich the construction has been already commenced, and which shall be - necessary •to complete the same': 1 - - Thus, sir, you will perceive -that, when Congress determined that Rail Road companies ought no longer to enjoy a privilege denied to all other classes of the community, we were yet still so indulgent 23 to continue 'this privilege during a period of -eighteen months; and with this, in all consci ence,the v ought to have been satisfied.-- When, during the progress of that Bill, on the 30th August, 1841, I moved to subject all rail-road iron, imported after its passage, to the payment of, duty, this motion was earnestly and ably re sisted by the Senator from Georgia.— (Mr. Berrien.) We then had an infor •tnal • understanding on the • subject, which the Senate sanctioned,; and the 3d day of March, 1843, was fixed as the last day on which this iron should be imported free of duty. I then hop ed that - thelluestien was finally; settled ; but my hopes were'vain. Whilst the Tariff of 1842 was be fore the Senate,•another effort was made by the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ber rien) to extend the time, during a period of three years, for the importation of iron .freepf duty, but • alter debate, his propositidb was negatived by a major ity of more than two to one, and thus the 3d March, 1843, was again estab lished as the last day on which this 'iron should be imported free of duty. Nothing 'discouraged, however, these companies, at the very next session of Congress, renewed their apelication succeeded in obtaining a report in their favor, from the committe on Finance. That Committee, by their Chairman, (Evans) on the 3d February,.lB43, re ported a bill which was never acted upon, for the remission of duties on Railroad iron. This _bill was modest in its demands., compared with the bill now before us.• It did not propose to remit the duties on any rail road iron imported since the 3d Marc-h, 1843, and in this respect it confirmed the two previous decisions of the Senate,•but it merely extended to these companies the privilege of laying down their iron, which had been jmPorted previous' to that date, until the Ist December, 1844: and if this were done, it• relieved them from the duties. Besides, it was con fined to Rail Roads, 'which had - been commenced previous to 'September, 1841, and to iron necessary for their completion That bill contained one most impor tant provision for the security , of the public Treasury, which, has been en tirely dmituted from the present bill.— We all know the enormous prices which have been demanded by these compa nies for transporting the mail. In this respect they are perfect monopolies.— The Post Master General must accede to their terms. He has no other alter hative but that .of returning to Mail Stages which would not be endured by the public. The Bill of 1843,- there fore, most wisely provided against this extortion. Under it, the Companies receiving its benefits, if they could not agree with the Postmaster General up on the compensation for carrying the mail, were bound to refer' the question to arbitration. ' I ask the Senator from Maine, why, in , the present Bill, he has abandoned this excellent regulation? Surely our .experience ought to have taught us that such a .provision - is in dispensably necessary, to prevent, ex l tortton Disregardink the- two"soleinti ' sions of the Sehafe, to which' I have referred, the present Bill, as reported, granted to these Companies, 'the 'privi lege of iinpartinw'Rail Road iron free' o? - dj.ity, during c 'the Wind of Otreyears from this period, three .yearrilotiger were • aallo'wed. to lay down : the iron. thus. imported. It embraced' all rail roads 'whether old pritew ; 'Mid even those which had already once enjoyed this privilege, might enjoy it a second time. It is truellia, the Senator from Maine has since amended the Bill so as to limit the privi l ege of importation, to two.-instead of r ifive years; but still allows three years •after the two years shall have expired, to lay, down the rails . . ' .And again, it has been •so amended by him, that a Rail Road company desiring to enjoy the privi lege for a second time of importing their iron free of duty, upon the old iron' re-. moved front their road, the duty paid by law on old or scrap iron. This duty is $l9, per' ton, whilst the duty on Rail Road, under the Act of 1842 is 525,00. Thus these Companies, un der the amended Bill, would derive ,a benefit of $l5 per ton on their - nets?' rails, after havingimperted the old ones free from duty altogether. ones free And what amount of duties, sir do you suppose we have remitted on Rail Rail Road iron between the first day of January, `1832, and the first day of March, 1843 ? According to the offi cial docments now before me, the ag greate sum is $5,089,991, in round numbers, say six millions of dollars ; which amount has been necessarily sup plied by taxes on the rest of the corn-. munity. The farmer, the shipbuilder, and the mechanic have not only paid the duty ou their iron, from which Road Companies have been exempted, but they have been compelled, by the pay ment to increased taxes do other. arti cles of consumption, to make up •the deficiency in Treasury thus created. Sitppose we had been asked 'to ap propriate half a million a year, for elev en Years, out of the public Treasury, to the construction' of Rail roads, how many votes would such a proposition have received ? ' And yet several of the Senators who deny the constitutional power to make appropriations to inter nal improvements, are the'most ardent friends of the present Bill. I ask What is the difference, either in fact or in principle, between., relieving these Companies from the payment of till's amount of duties in the first instance, and appropriating the same amount for their use, after it has been received ? For my own part, if I were compelled to choose between the tw , t alternatives, I should greatly prefer a direct appro priation out of the •TreaSury. The world would then know what we had given* and the manufacturing interests of the country would not be injured by donation. . _• These Companies, so far from being' satisfied with the.past.munificence of the Government towards them, rely upon this as the foundation on which 1 to rest their hopes of obtaining more: They are never discouraged. by defeat: They always return tothelcharge, in creasing their demands on each success sive application to Congress. I con fess that 1 dread their combined power and influence. There are now fifteen of these powerful Companies before Congress, asking for a remission of the duties on Rail Road Iron. Their roads are ramified throughout a large extent extent of the Union, and the Stockhol ders are men of influence and character. The North, the South ' the East !and the Nest are thus combined in an ef fort to repeal the. Tariff 0f , 181.2, 'so far as the great _manufacturing, interests of Pennsylvaipa is concerned; and it is extremely doubtful whether we can make a successful resistance. T They urae / that as all the Rail Road Compa nies. then in existence had enjoyed an exemption it shouldbetextended to those which have since come int° „existence and have not enjoyed the same benefits. Should this principle prevail, the priv ilege.can never end. Indeed, the ar gument would become stronger, as the number of companies increase to which you might extend the privilege, until at last it would. be irresistible. : In full view of"all the considerations belonging to the subject, Congress in September, 1841, determined' that rio Rail Road. iron should be imported free of duty after the 3d March, 1843, and this de termination. was afterwards, confirmed by the Tariff Act ,of August, 1842-- Thei thtii gave all,conceitied, fair , no tice that!' during the period of eighteen' months, they might make as heavy free importation as ,they',pleasedi, but .that after. this. ,such ,importations . ; should "cease. ,- "Thesia, companies doubtless availed therfiselibi - citthis 'extension of their license ; and. then 'they ought, to I have been content. :' If you; will -Ow- L.; 11.1 reverse the twosolernti deciSions which have', been already made, and 'grant •then - i'tWomore years . .from the passage of the praent•Bill, to make free Impor- Aations, and at ;the end of _this .period three - years lon,ger,Zto lay down . their rails,. you can never afterwar'ds impose any limit on yourselves.' So Litany Companies will then have enjoyed.the privilege, that you will scarcely be able to deny it to those who may come after: hi the face of all facts, ,none but in corporated companies would have still persisted in . demandina this exemption from tho common burdens borne by the rest of the coMmunity; These com panies,.now banded together to accom plished a comtnou object, and confident in their own power, seem determined to exprt this privilege from Congress. They will persist, as they have already persisted, from year to year •in urging their , claim with thesaine ardor as if they really believed themselves entitled to stand above the rest of the commu-: nity. It you defeat them at this Ses sion, they will be here in greater force . than ever at , the commencement of the next. Their importunity/ will never cease whilst the least hope of success shall remain ; and we have learned from our own experience that they haveboth the ability and the will to select ihrewd and skilful agents to accomplish their purpose before Congress. Thus, I think I have demonstrated, that even if the duty on Rail Road Iron were a mere revenue duty—even if not a pound of the article had ever'been or could be manufactured in the. United States, equal justice requires that it should pay the same rate of duty with other iron. ' I shall proceed now to 'consider the question as connected with the great party policy of the country. It will be admitted by all that if there be any article which deserves inciden tal protectton, this ., article is iron. It is necessary to our defence in war and to our independence in peace. Na ture, with. Tbountiful hand, has spread the ore over many States- of the Union, and by . its side, in several localities, has placed anthracite aud bituminods coal in the greatest abundance; as if to tempt manly,. engage in the smanufac tore. Wherever iron works exist,they create a great demand beth•for labor and agricultural productions. With out entering. upon the 'argument at e length, surely none will deny that the vast capital already employed' in these establishment ought to be preserved from destruction; dud ! that they ought not to he suffered to sink under the weight of foreign competition., Such has long been the policy of the Gov..' ernment. Even under the act of 1816, which all .parties_ have approved: rolled iron was st - ibiect to a duty . .of ,5.30 per ton—rive dollars . higher than the ,pres• entduty. I • I But it has - been asserted by the Sena tor from Maine, that rail-road iron has notbeen and cannot belmanufactured in the United; Slates, even at,.the present . prices, with the duty included ; and; therefore, that to admit it free of duty will not injure the inn• that has been manufactured in our- conntry ? Is it for want of capital, skill or enterptiie ? Surely - this will not be contended.= There is no mystery in the manufacture of Rail-Road Iron. It is a very simple process. We are informed by Mr. Oak ley, of the New Jerse3 l Iron Company, that ‘. there is no di iculty in making Railway Iron, much lens than in making many other kinds that have long been produced in this cont 4 try." All that I have ever read or hear upon the-subject, 1 corroborates the truth ; of this assertion. Why then has it not been manufactured? Simply, because, during the period of More than eleven yeqs previous to the 3d March, 1843, it was imported flee Of duty, and ever . since the passage of the Act of September, 1841, there has been one continued struggln by the Rail Road' Companies, again to make it a free artic le. All will admit thait so long as it was imported from England, it could not be manufactured in this 'country. But the Senator from Maine asks why has it not been manufactured since the present do-; ty was imposed? I answer, simply be.' cause there is no sectikity that it will not speadily again be maple a free article.--;- Let the Rail-Road Companies cease horn ; . agitating this questionl—let them quietly : I submit to the,existiti4 tariff—let it once be established that Rail-Road Iron Shalt' pay, the same rates it(duties with other rolled iron and we shall boon have an übundant supply of the'domestic article: This conclusively appears from.the let ter of . the committee ~a ppointed at ~a iteeihig' of tli - e" . iron I and - coat 'trade in Philadelphia" to the Senator frdiri Maine himself. , Mr: .Eariii, .the ':Ptesident ' Of the. Lehigh .Granii !foil i Company c de- clarcd 'th4t.under the ,eistinthriff, IDS2IQ Clch 1 .54 0 OLC311(6111 CS }3Qata BEIMEMI Railway Iron can . be ~ produced country at the= present - late, of import,, (say fifty-five dollars per ton.)' "We have Jui hesitation in.saying; that-with a . satis- Tactor,V aSktrancelof a,ccintinuance °film ;present duty, that would in • a Islfort tune.' be extensively. made in this country. and with such assurance we are prepared it'once 'to put up a iolling mill and.inake ,contracts for the T .or edge -raira't . the. price above stated." ,Oakley, of the New, Jersey Iron Compa ny, makes nsimdar statement, but says it can be furnished in large quantities for less than $55 pet. ton. This Company, he asserts; "would be-glad to enter into contract with responsible parties, if the quantity reqUired should be sufficient to justify the outlay and prepar4n at much less than the alieveprice ; an offer of $5O per ton Wouldlie entertained. I have no doubt that should the present iluiy be continued, it will befurnishedin less than five y6ars by our-manufacturers for $4O per ton.' Mr. Oakley alenin foram us that this company " have al ready procured all die drawings and oth er information, necessary to the erection of the most perfect machinery for ma king Railway Iron, and when it Shall be ascertained e that the* present 'Congress will not reduce the duty, we intend to prepare such machinery." We further learn from thej Senator from 'Maryland, (Mr. Merric) that the Mount Savage Ir on works in his State, are now actually en gaged in the manufacture of Rail-. Road Iron, and are ready and willing_to make contracts with:Rail-Road Coinpanies for ,its sale and delivery. And here I might advert to the faet that Rail-load lron was manufactared some years ago, at the Great 'Western. Iron works; on the Alleghany River, in Pennsylvania,- - Governor. 'Morrow, of Ohio, informed me that he had pUrChased three hundred tops of such iron from these works, at fitly dollars per ton (according to my re- collection) for 'a Rail Road Company. of which he was i thePresident i and expres sed himself entirely satisfied with, the quality of the article. But, I admit that the Senator from Maine,' so long' as he shall. urge the re peal of the existing duties on Rail Road iron, will most probably serve for him self the argument that little, if any, soil/ iron is manufactured in the country:— .Who would change his purSuits, divert his capital from other subjects, and ex pend large sums - in preparing to manu facture Rail Road iron, whtlst the very friends of the 'Farifrare incessantly strug gling to repeal the present duty ? Per manence and certainty in your system are - necessary to attract both capital and conAtlence; and while it remainsidoiibt ful whether these Rail Road companies shall not triumph over the Tariff poli cy, thete.wili be tio large investment'of capital in therbuSiness. Thus ivis clear that if Rail Road iron 'has not been extensively Manufactured in this country,.it. is .. solely because it has,not heretofore received_ that, inciden , tar protection which othe'i rolled iron has enjoyed. kis a litttle too much forhu- Man patience itci be informed by the Rail Road, companies that webave not manu factured, 110 - , cannot manufacture, Rail Road iron ; when the . special . privilege ! Winch they themselves had enjoyed for ieleven years, and their perpetual strug gles ever since to obtain its restoration, are the only causes why this branch of manufactures is not new in as flourishing a conditionas any other. I confeis, sir, that • I hate a little American feeling on this subject. As an American citizen,l cannot brook the idea that we shall be dependerit upon Great Britain for the very material's ne cessary to construct the roads on Which we travel. Surely American Rail Roads ought to be constructed of American iron ; when this 'effect can, as it will be produced. by imposing the same du ty on Rail Road iron as on. all other iron of a similar character. • . The Senator from Maine contends that the construction of rail roads a most important and • useful domestic manufacture, and ought to be, cocain . aged. No man will &Ty the truth of this proposition.. -But in. what maser encouraged ? Xt the . - expense of the Tariff policy ? He certainly Aril' not say so. - - Iron is the raw 'material used .in the-construction of these roads, as wool is - ihe raw . material employed in the manufacture of cloth. You may contend, with equal propriety, l that wool ought to he admitted free of duty ; notwithstanding it -might prejudice our wool grower, as that rail road iron should be dins admitted, : to the injury of our iron manufacturers.'!3The. truth is :that this, questioOnvolties, the ,Vgliole prinqiple ,cif !protection., ! ;th,e,sytioin mist standor fall tOpther ; antlYentnust equally prote4t•the raw Material if it be a domestic produntion,anif the mann -DEL F01111;p1 IiAGE•I - ! ' .I' El zit.)o
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