New-York tribune., 1841-11-30
Hor1e Industry.

Ii okde EcauskEt'
There has been an effort made to weaken the
influence of tina American Institute in its endeavors
TO sustain Home Industry. Some directors would
coafne the conductors OF il merely to examinations
and rererts on improved fabrics and machinery
annual exhibitions by fairs, &c, but take FIRE at
single word about protecting tariff. Some OF is
,i-norons friends fear it viii raise UP hostility
Suppose it caa be shown that all these classes of
articles tia. were early and amply protected. are,
to the acknowledged benefit Of al consumers, new
JADE here in high perfection and sold at reduced
prices. and that these articles which have remained
unprotected or have received only small protec-
ton are imperfectly made and can only be procured
at comparatively nigh prices: that the producers
constantly annoyed BY auctusting markets, caused
By irregular iPor;ations, occasional loss Of their
customers, decoyed BY new fashions, long credits
Sc-have in great measure abandoned their oc-
equations. We ask If this i. plain and clear to
the Institute IS it not duty TO proclaim the fact
Was there ever any great and coed cause sustained
by advocates afraid to espouse il It's merits II
the repeal of dutie. has multiplied mpOrtaiions on
the ds,v-free articles SIX fold and brought d. in debt
Two Hundred Millions of Dollars 10 country tina;
forsds her subjects receive in exchange the pro-
duce of our soil ana perseveresin compelling them
to buy other produce at double prise, should not
hi, be made known and if it DO pcaceably
corrected BY countervailing duties, ought it not to
be done and is it not the province OF the Aaeri-
can Institute, constituted one of the guardians OF
industry By Legislative act, 10 exert it. influence
for that purpose
The British agent snys We have no right to com
pei citizen TO buy an American coat where he can
buy British one cheaper. Ask him il john Bull
has right to compel hi. subjects to pay for every
loaf Of broad they ca; as much would buy two
loaves, if American grain was not kept out by his
Corn Laws By the operation of these Corn
Laws, If a farmer buys British coat and pays in
grain, he must give 30, 30 so, or perhaps 100 per
cent. more, Just according to circumstances rcsu-
lated by an evsr-changing law. This is what the
British agents call reciprocity, and our Govern
ments called upon acquiescs in this or be charge
able with violating the principles of Free Trade
The Post says it is wrong that the farmer should
be compelled make this sacrifice, but there is no
remedy for it. If our Government, enacts that
there shall be no exchange on such unfair terms,
that the same deduction shall be the coat as Is
required on the grain SO as TO produce fair equal
and reciprocal trade, the Post says this is also
wrong, and though it admits the first wrong pro-
ceeded from ohm Bull, yet, as two wrongs never
make a right, it is the duty of our Government to
scquiesce. On the same principle, if John Bull was
to come with his fleet and boa,burd our City, US
war is in principle wrong, we could not be justified
IN firing back, because two wrongs can never make
right! There is accordingly nothing right for
us but submission. The illustration beggars all
logic We think this should be credited to the
Post, if not scintillatien OF genius from the Jour
nal sf Commerce. 1t is this in substance. If you
cut of your fingers 1t is wrong, and | cannot
rect the wrong by cutting of my fingers; and
70: the very sage reason that it would be wrong
likewise to cut OFF my fingers, and TWO wrongs
never make right, therefore submission to in
justice is our duty and conformablc to tho be-
nigu principles of modern Free Trade as illustra
ted by the Post. Is it possible that the Country
can patiently submit its great interests de-
stroycd and its producers deprived of markets by
such poor fallacis. am