F,rs Goons-co.esrn for tie Po0r.-A most
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FREE Goops-Coseern for the Poor.-A most
unw;se concession to deunagoguisn, IN our Judge
rnent, has been made 5y Congress in striking out
Tea and Coffee from the articles subjected 10 duty
bv the new Revenue Law. These articles ere mol
PRODUCED or rivaled in this country, 50 that the
question Of Protection + rec Trade is no: affected
bv them. Bu, they simple luNurie'-whethe'
s,l,,,arv or peraciou., we will not here consider
and tbey are the products OF countries which refuse
N trade with Us on fair of reciprocity. Chi
IA sell. Us our Tea, and takes hard dollars OF Us in
navmep,-l,tls OF nothing else. One million OF
dollars nigh, have been collected om this article
aIone without costing the Government over S9'ooo'
wi,hou, temptation to smuggling. and with barely


percepube effect on the price OF the article to the
consumer. Bu, Messrs. CLAY and tiLLNoKE
r,,psxernhle demonstrations OF the necessity and
6t,e., Of this duty were overrued by the miserable
can't OF ta.riag TIE comforts Of The poor and me
dread of Honorable Merabers ,ha, the aged ladies
of their respective District. would institute cru
sade against the takers OF their tavorite beverage
Mus, our legislation always be thus governed


We rejoice that the kindrsd attempt to exempt
SAX from duty-the special policy Of the Mis'ou-
riun-was SO sgnally and properly defeated he
dutv on this article very light; Is one which
can hardly .e .nuggled; while tho Salt Manuiac-
,urc of the country is of great importance IN
which vast capital is invested, and in which our
State has a special interest. The abolition OF the
duty would have seriously shaken if not .ubvcrted
the prosperity of the great Sal, region OF which
Syracuse is the centre and probably suitrac,ed =
least 500 900 per an-um from the Internal I'm
provement Revenue of our State. Yet motion TO
abolish duty on Salt. after being defeated IN the
Senate, was carried in the House BY 81 TO 8: votes


among the Yeas % actual and nominal Wings and
nine Members from this Stats But this nice bus'-
ness could not be permitted 10 end here. motion
was instantly made TO make Sugar also free arti-
Gle: ca1ried-Yeas l05; Nays IS; then Cotton
carried-Yeas l05 Nays 7S then lr0ni which
failed-S2 to 100; then Tobacco; which also fail
ed 90 to 96. By this time i. began TO be sus-
pccted that the interests of one section or State
could not be struck down with impunity compar-
ison OF views was had, and the next morning
(Thursiayl the vote on Salt was reeonsidsred:
Yeas 95 Nays II; then Sugar-lOl 10 SO; and
then Cotten-ll4 TO so. And so Congress con
cluded 1T last not stultiy itself ard sacrifice the
great interests OF the Nation in the sorry pursuit of


local advantage and very poor sort Of popularity
