New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-21
From The Sun of saturdau.


The TAslfr-The great question in political circles just
now is regard the probable course OF the next Con
very improbable The subject Of most interest seems 70 De
be CONCEDED that, even should tue present law
,irey repealed viii be so essentially modified as 70 !eos
dency of popular sentiment strongly towards trade
least approximation TO that principle when WI
Law on the Shelf probably for many years 10 COME the the
ory OF Protective duties 1t denied that the eec
Of Tariff thus far has been disastrous TO the Com
,nerce IN, This bnt abe whole country; and
men al ap,o vbra,e extremes, the next ira
of the pendulum will very likely take as far beyond
Tue true medium Pooy on the one sce as " nc" oh 'e
other.
~ Whenever any new Political juggle is to be
attempted by the leaders of the Loco.Foco party,
wo look for jesuitica, siaewise intimaton OF it
in the neutral Editorials of The San. Here we
have the new cheat on the Tariff question. After
winning power by deceiving the friends of Protec-
tien into the belief that they friends Of Pro.
tection, the Van B1rens, the Boucks, Marcys and
Croswells intend to keep it BY cheating the advo-
Gates of Free Trade also, and pursuing haf"and-
half yes.and-no, non.committal course. Protec-
ton is wrong Free Trade is wrong; we must
have q. true medium policy" Does not every
fair mind revolt from this shutting Will not every
honest man admit that Protection is either night
or wrong and should be either iniexibly main
1ained or utterly repudated? VIII not the friends
of Free Trade unite with in branding this Ell
fort to friter away obscure great issue, which,
for the prosperity and peace of the Country ought
10 be aeGntively acted and put at rest? Friends
Of the manly and intrepid CALHOUN beware OF
The Magician's juggles
The Sun says-we think misiakenly-that the
TIE hoe ooaro,ad d;sastrn,sly Com
merce. In the state of Indebtedness, embarass,
rnent and prostration in which that Tariff found the
Country, it was clearly the interest OF the Com
ercisl no less than of all other interests that our
importations SHOULD be light for months TO come.
When We have paid off some portion OF the heavy
Foreign Debt which weighs US down, it will be
high time TO commences importing largely again
Meantime it is idle to expect that Commerce and
Navigation can by any policy be shielded from
some share in ,he embarrassmen,s which have over
taken all other interests. But suppose our Foreign
Commerce had been a little diminished by making
mere advautageously at home articles which we
formerly purchased abroad, Is thisto be regretted
Suppose we should save the cost of voyage round
the world, and divide it among the Producers Of
our own Country why should we lament it? Ii
is too much a matter Of course consider the
extension of Commerce and the interests of the
Country Identical.
Es Col. THos. H. BENTON has just written 8
herce letter 10 some Of his constituents who invited
him to public Dinner, in which he denounces the
Exshequer project as a kind of National Bank
he says Nicholas Biddle is It's author--,hat be
impaired 1t to Webster, who palmed it on Capt
Tyler, who presented ii to Congress "sohers IkiH.
ed Rin single Speech" This is the Ballroller
to the iife1 He says Missouri (Which has for years
implicitly obeyed all his directions in Legislation
and Currency is now afflicted with small notes.
.'deprecia,cd paper, spurious banking, usau,bor-
..zed issues of paper ,rasn lawle.s corporations,
.aud the introduction of paper from other States
land all this in spite Of the most ferecious egis.
lation against such nusances. Poor encourage.
nent, certainly, for other States TO plunge into
Bentonis,n. By-and,by these Currency-,inker
will end GU, tina, the true way to get rid of BAG
Paper Currency is by making and sustaining
good one.
~ Hon. Henry CLAY leaves Ashland inme
diately for New. Orleans, where he will MANI.
spend the winter for the benefit of his health.