Mr. MORRILL. I have heard the Gentfrom Pennsylvania and his colleagues on this subject, and the more I have.heard from them the more I am convinced that we ought to abandon even any duty at all on the article. Ever since the foundation of the Government this article has been treated as one that should not be subjected to any considerable tax. The Congress of 1842 and certainly that Congress was sufficiently protective to suit even my friendfrom the ittsbnrg district, [Mr. Wit. LlAMS] lmpo58d a duty of 5%. upon that article. The Congress of) 1846 placed upon it a duty of 10%. That of 1857 of only 4%. That of 1861 made it free. That of 1864 put a duty of 1/2 a cent perpound upon it. More than 25%. already exists upon it, and there is no Probability or prospect that it can be successfully manufactured in this ectintry. iThe gentleman appeals to me, to my local feeling, because he says Vermont possesses cop perand iron pyrites which atford a sufficient amount of sul bar to manufacturathis arpicle. I can tell my riend that we have no coal in Vermout and no salt, and wood is so expensive that the article cannot be manufactured there. Be sides, we have no salt there. His appeal is therefore otnoforce int hatrcgard. Moreover, the experiment so far as sulphur or sulphuric acid has already been tried there. Many 1000s of dollars have been expended in order to manufacture these articles, and it has proved a failure. And if we raise the duty to the extravagant rate on the article as he proposes, then, as I have plready said this evening, we have got to go through the whole famil of the sodas. We shall also have to increaset ie duty on glass, on soap, and other articles. Now, it does appear to me that if there is one article in the list on which we ought to hesitate about raising the duty it is this one. It presents to me the most cogent arguments in favor of being free. I am content, if the gentleman be so, to let it alone, to leave it as it is; otherwise I would be quite willing to act with any portion of the House to make it free.