The following extract is made from the New York Journal
of Commerce. The following extract is made from the New York Journal of Commerce.
" Frauds on the revenue have increased to an alarming extent on the North- ern frontier. There is an immense smuggling business done on the Canada frontier; and done in such a manner as to set the Customhouse and all its train at defiance ; and public sentiment will not stop it while our duties are 55 per cent, payable in cash."
The absurdity and inefficacy of the American Tariff becoine continually more glaring. Let any one turn to a map, and ob- serve the immense extent of coast washed by the ocean or the lakes which form the boundary of the United States, and then endeavour to conceive the madness of the attempt to establish a "prohibitory system" in such a country. What a fleet and army would their Preventive Service require, to be even partially effec- tive! North America would become the paradise of smugglers were the Tariff to continue. Fortunately, it has received its death-blow.
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