The Cormorants

Kot satisfiecl with the highest possible duty on manufacturad próducts, tho pets of protuction aro domanding freo food, fuol, lumbor and raw material. Canadian Bupplies are askod duty free. The duty on coffee and teas to bo ropcaled. The sugar reiiners havo askod such a roduetion of duty on plantation sugars as would enlanco their profits on the nianufacturcd artiele. Aud now comes a proposition to ;nko the duty off rico, an article of food ontering lurgely into the uso of all citics and towns. The argument shows that he rico erop of tho South has boon so far ojured by tho war that it can not bo reston'd without excluding the compotition of Coolie labor in India. Some of buf merchants and dealers in rico have remonstratod against tho repoal of this proection, and aak their Senators to use ;heir inflaence in defesting tho measuros now befóte Ibeir honorable body for tho abolition of tho duty upon rici:, as such a moasnro would be ruinous to tho rico cul;ure of this State, which is and ha9 bui n 'or sevoral yoars past 0110 of our most imortnnt ogricultural industries. We hav(! cxaiiiined this subjoct carefuly, and fully indorse this statement. Tho olored pooplo may form sonio idea of the ncerity of their frionds, the mauufucturrs. llico culture gives employment to a arge number of colorcd laborers, both in arolina and liere. It is a toilsomo and ot a hoalthy business, and tho laborer arns cvory dollar ho receives. This hard rned pay is grudged tho colored laborer. ; is desired to talce from bis wages to cn ïance thoso of the man who makes the ïocs and hat with which the colored man ciad, and the hoo with which he la(Ors. Bnch is the ainoerity of protection nd of philanthropj'. Wo shall soon eduitc uur colored population out of this