Port Gibson Herald

PENNSYLVANIA VIEWS OF THE TARIFF.-The Philadelphia Sentinel, a very able supporter of Mr. Polk and his general Administration, has these remarks on the proposition to repeal the tariff, which we commend to the attention of its brethren of the Locofoco ranks.

The anti-tariff men are prodigiously inconsistent just at this time. The old theory that they advanced and clung to was that high duties overflow the Treasury. Hence Mr. Walker's report suggested the propriety of bringing it down to the revenue standard, which means just enough to let the Government live from hand to mouth. But now that the Administration will, in consequence of the war, have occasion for not only Treasury notes, but as much as can possibly be obtained from duties, the anti-tariff men insist that the low duties, in accordance with Mr. Walker's bill or the bill of Mr. McKay, will bring more money into the Treasury than the present tariff law. How utterly inconsistent is this with their heretofore doctrine! Besides, all experience shows that low duties do not fill the Treasury nor the pockets of the anti-tariff men. This was shown when we had our duties down to 20 per ct., at which time the South was terribly affected with bad times, and the National Government stood so near zero in the European money market that no one would lend us a cent, our national promises being then of no value in the money market of the world. Besides, the Southern papers have recently published that the present tariff law was intended to be only a temporary enactment, and gave as a reason for Gov. Wright's voting for this tariff that the Treasury was empty and had to be replenished. With these facts staring the members of Congress in the face, we cannot believe that they will alter the present tariff. If they shall in folly change it, the bad effects will be felt all over the country, and in no part of it more seriously than in the Southern States.