New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-11-20

suu.rd in looking over the late leading articles OF
The several Ps,is journals upon tue character and
policy Of this country. For years it hus been the
cue of these journals to praise the United States
to pat the Yankees on the backs call them clever
fellow., and try to them into with
Great Britain, that great eyesore III the eyes Of
every liege citizen Of young France and wor
shipper of glory But the war comes along
rather slowly, and. Just French expectation Is
on tiptoe for its commencement, Cut st the Mcleod
case, behold our Government driven 10 it by an
imperious public necessity, imposes higher but
still very moderate duty Oh French Silks and
Wines. In all instant all their smiles for Brother
Jonathan are changed to rown. their fia,terios "
Pronunciation. He is no longer the dashing,
thriving gallant fellow he had SO long been repre-
sented but u treacherous rascal, uncouth can
nibal, redemptionles, Bowie-knife savage, whose
insane tngratitude TO France deserves the most
condign punishment. Retaliation, revenge, and a
vigorous commercial warfare are yehcmenly urged,
as though France had any thing to gain and nothing
TO hazard by such course, even were she really
aggrieved.
Mr.. Draper, the U. S. Consul at Paris has an
dertnken TO stem this torrent Of obloquy, and in
calm and able letter to the Journal des DeJats
has demonstrated by indisputable facts and Stats
tics its absurdity and injustice. But his voice is
hardly heard amid the roar of the tempest and
his facts, which cannot be answered, are suffered
10 pass unregarded.
The simple truth of the case is that the United
States has long endured from France such treat
ment in our commercial intercourse as no slave
ought to bear tamey. The paltry FIVE millions of
dollars, obtained by so much buster and received
with such parade, in payment ST just debt of
twenty-five millions, have actually cost us ten
times their amount. For years we have been re-
ceiving French Silks, Wines and irippery either
entirely free or upon the payment of duties nearly
nominal. Yet all this time there is hardly one of
the staples of the United Suites that i, otvirtualy
prohibited from entering the ports of France -
Our Grain, our Beet, Pork. our Butter, Cheese,
Fish, Rice, Sc &c. as we'll as all our varied Man.
ufacturss, are shut out from her markets; our To-
becco is taxed seven eight hundred per cent
so high that the consumption of that cosairy is
not more than half Us much as it wa. fifty years
ago, though its population meantims has nearly
doubled, and the of foreign luxures greatly in
creased. And finally Cotton, the only American
product which is admitted at moderate duty
and this because France cannot produce it and
must ruin her own manufactures if she over,axcd
it's charged fully twenty per cent while that Of
Egyptis admitted nj duty twenty-five per cent. less
And vel this nation, which taxes American pro-
ducts, full hundred per cent. on the average
which takes nothing from US which she cun pro.
duce-which taxes seven hundred per cent. on
staple she does not produce-and which sub
jects us to an onerous and unjust discriminating
duty on the only staple she take. of Us at mode.
rate rate, actually grows indignant and talks
tiercely Of retaliation because subject her pro.
ducts to tax of twenty per cent.
We trust the day is at hand when the United
States shall say to all nations, Trade fairly with
us, or not at all We will take your products at
low duties or none if you choose TO recproca,e;
if you will not, we shall treat them as you trea,
oars.'-What honest mind, wha, honorable nation
can object to this Andwhat glorious revolution
might be wrought with itn the course of few years!
The shackles which now impede Commerce would
be broken, the barriers which uenste nations re-
moved, and the load which presses millions TO the
earth, under the sway of Monopoly and D.spo,sm,
would be thrown off for ever What American
heart will not respond to the sentiment, Fair
Trade with each nation or none =
r. The above article has been crowded of pa
per from day to day till its ssbstaaeo forestaed by
contemporary. The subject however, still calls for gen.
sral consideration. -
u Hon. Albert GALLArIS, now President OF