Nron the New Orleans Jeffersonian.
A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
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From the adoption of the federal constitution
down to the present time, $500, ,OO0O 900 have been
collected from the people, in the shape of duties
on imported goods. People do not get the col
lectors receipt for the amount they thus pay, and
hence is difficult see, in every case, the quar-
ter from whence comes the burden tha. is pressing
us down. But it is tax which every man who
purchases and consumes, must pay. 1t keeps up
the price of salt, leather, coffee, blankets iron in
short all the necessaries of life Reducethe tariff
duties to scale barely commensurate with the
necessities of a frugal administration of govern
ment and we should buy these staples at a CORES
ponding reduction of price. England has all
along imposed duty on our cotton, grain, tObac-
CO, and rice. (which must be deducted from the
nett profit of these stapIes) in retaliation for the
tax we impose on her manufactured goods. The
evils of this system have long been born by the
South. We have been taxed to the eyebrows to
foster Northern capital invested in manufactures;
and now, when all Europe is manifesting dis
position to review and relax the restrictions on
trade, what spectacle do we behold at home2
Why, strong disposition to aggravate these evils;
to deepen the extortion; to hold onto all they