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u Orleans zclotfis," made of cotton and worsted,
and sarsnet cambrics " for cloak Innings, which
are loaded down with these enormous duties, rang
ing from So to 148 per cent ad valorem. And it
is the courteous, polite hgh-minded, magnanim-
Gus manufactures, who desires, through the aid of
mendacious, fraudulent, cheating device, in the
tariff laws of his country, to exact these enorm-
Gus duties (which serve the double purpose of
giving a revenue to Government and bounty to
himself) from poor men and women, while it pre-
tends only to tax them 80 per cent. Out upon
such Legislative fraud, such shameful knavery!
What effect can such base practices have upon
the moral characters of those who are guilty OF
them2 Can the representatives of the people
hesitate to blot such infamous provisions from the
revenue system of republican nation, the funda-
mental principle of whose institutions and laws
is justice and equality? cannot doubt it. II
remains to be seen whether democratic Con-
gress will longer tolerate tariff system contain
ing such iniquitous provisions


l designed to explain the device of specific dH-
ties in this communication, but it has already
transcribed the limits had assigned to it, In
my next shall take that subject up, and, in con-
nexion with it., show that the present tariff dis
crimnalcs in favor of the manufacturer against
the farmer or producer Of the raw material, and
in favor of the rich against the poor; thus bene-
fitting capital alone, and tending to build up in
this country that most mercenary, most selfish,
and basest of all aristocracies-A MoNEYED ARIs-
TocRACY. BUNDELCUND.