MIR. RHETT'S RESOLUTION.
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In our summary of the most interesting items of proceedings in Congress, we give MT. Rhett's motion, in relation to the Tariff, which was rejected. The following remarks upon this subject, so just in sentiment, and doubtless so true as to the views of the De- mocratic members of the House, are

 From the .N Y Eveming Post

 No doubt it would have been justly re- garded as triumph for the friends of free trade, if MT. Hhett's resolution, offered in the House of Representatives on Monday, had been adopted; but we do not see that the re- fusal of the House to suspend ats rules, in order to admit it to consideration, is decisive of the disposition of the House on the tariff question: The resolution directed the Com mittee of Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of so revising the tariff as to make it conform to the compromise act. Nothing is more reasonable and just. We doubt whether any man in the House of Rep resentatives, except John Quincy Adams, who, from the beginning, set his face like flint against the compromise and the com promise act, would have the hardihood open ly to maintain that the conditions of that great national agreement should not be hon. estly fulfilled

 The compromise act was compact Of peace between the party of nullification and their adversares. It was scheme for gra- dually getting rid of the whole system of protection which had so exasperated the South, with the express understanding, that when the lowest point of reduction, contem- plated by the act, should be reached, low and uniform rate of revenue duties should be established. It was offered by the chief of the protectionists, MT. Clay, accepted by the free trade party, and ratified with great unanimity by Congress.

 The present tariff is gross violation of that agreement. It turns the whole compro- mise, so far as the protectionists are con- l cerned, into a most foul and atrocious fraud. If the present House of Representatives, with Democratic majority, allow the question to remain where it now is, if they neglect to do their part towards bringing the tariff into conformity with the spirit of the compro- mise act, they will be accomplices in this breach of faith, and sharers in its infamy.

 It does not follow, however, because the House of Representatives declined setting a. side the rules for the sake of admitting apro- position for revising the present tariff, that they are, therefore, in favor of leaving the tariff as tits. We certainly hope better things of the present House; nor do we perceive, on looking over the votes of the members on Mir. Hhett's motion to suspend the rules, that all the friends of free trade voted for it. On the contrary, we find among the nays, the names of several persons on whom we should rely, with great confidence, as hostile to the present tariff, and desirous to bring it to an early. and thorough revision.