If the Louisiana planter. with his expensive machineryand the high price he pays for supplies to the Northwest and for transportation by steamboat or by railroad. as the case may be. growing his staple as he does under iost disadvantageous. embarrassing. expensive. and exacting circumstances. is to be innlcted its this manner and put under the hammer of revenue revision and reform by cutting down his ad valorem protection or duty to 35 per cent.. as last proposed by the Senator from Maine. what shall be said of tl isiannifacture of windowglass and of all those articles of manulhcture that I have been overand I could go over many more. and point out in the different schedules of the billwhere you protect the man who has all the advantages of cheap labor in the North. and of cheap transportation. and of every facility in the way of not only cheap transportation. but all things around him calculated to make his labor profitable and to cheapen the cost of production of his manufactured article. when it is proposed to give from 60 to 75 per cent. ad valorem protection? In one ease it is proposed to give to a fewcorporations iii Providence. Rhode Island. if you please. or in Boston or in New York or in Brooklyn or in Philadelphia. 60 or 65 per cent. protection. employing a great many men. whether naturalized citizens or others makes no difference. while here. to a limited extent. in a locality comprising onehalf the State of Louisiana. sugar is raised by brawny laborers who with all their multitudinous interests are citizens. men who participate at the ballotbox. and generally. I am glad to say. vote the Republican ticket. That proposition is made on this side. and I an sorry to say that the majority of my Republican friends yesterday put themselves oil record against my black cohorts. against our friends in the South.
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