New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-17
THE TRIB U NE.
Remarks of Gen. James TaIImadse,
On taking the Chair of the Home League, after
his Reelection as President.

FRIDAY EVENING, Oct II.
GENTLEMEN: Before proceeding to BUSINESS
allow me TO express to YOU my high gretihcauoh
a, the high compliment you have you nave pau
me in reelecting me your President. ni'"o'sA
had desired TO be excused from further service IN
,b;s nos, and had so informed you, yet, since you
hor. dec;ded To command me farther, l accept
y. s,a,;on Indicated and shall endeavor to dis
.,,.,oe i. du,ies with zeal and assiduity.
-,t7;. ,.ars to me Fl, occasion for one or two
-.,,.rks bearing on tho principles and objects of
:, Home League. feel that our labors for the
,,s YEAR have been beneficial to the Country. We
h.ve reared the standard of true American prn-
.inl,s. and disseminated truths which will long
OYER, salutary influence. | feel that our Asso-
cation should be perpetuated, and that we should
n,pe the Importance Of forming similar Leagues
Il the friends of Home Industry in every State
,r,; we shall present an organization complete
.na unbroken from one end of the Union to the
obsr. Never were our principles more important
,ban now-never was their maintenance more es-
Genital to the well-being of the Country.
The time is favorable for asking your attention
few moments TO some facts connected Will uio
r,nciples which We seek to establish.
The late Census informs us Of the remarkable
fact that lourfths OF the entire Population of tho
Union are engaged in or directly supported by
Agriculture The great Agricultural class are the
,nlers Of the Country. They are essentially sound
on this vital subject of Protection. They are right
when thew act upon it at ALL They need but to be
awakened TO the Importance of prompt and vigor-
IN. action TO secure the decided and abiding tri-
umph of our cause.
Let us turn moment to the condition Of our
National Commerce. Our Imports last year
amounted to $127 900, GEO; on which we imposed
and collected Duties amounting in all to $l4 600,
QOO or barely l. per cent. on the aggregate. Dur
ing the same year, our Exports of Home Products,
mainly Agricultural, amounted to $91 600, O0O on
which Foreign Nations imposed duties amounting
10 sl33 000, 600, at the rate of 124 per cent on
their total valuc-or balance Of over one hun
bred per cent. against the Labor and Production
Of this country Can the country bear this =
Ought not all considerations of mere party inter-
est bo made to give way untilwe can devise per-
manent remedy against this enormous injustice
II
r,,oh, we 20 rest contsnted under burthen OF one
hundred per cent imposed on the Free Labor OF
this Country in competition with the vasssl labor
Of Europe living on sinpence a,day
The Commercial Statistics of our Country have
only been collected and preserved systematically
since 1876 From these the following facts are
drained
Our Coasting Trade is entirely protected against
+. Foreign competition Since 1916, our Coastins
Tonnage has quadrupled, while during that Same ;
period cur Tonnage employed in Foreign Trade
In, No, augmented at all! During that term our
Formulation has doubled Why not oar Eorelsn
Tonnase The answer to this question 49, that
during the term the British Tonnage engaged Ill
trade with this country has doubled, while the
German has trebled
Inouiries made within the last year show that
Of the heavy Importations into this port eaeA1y-
three per cent (Gve-sixths Of the whole) were
ayowedly on Foreign account while OF the residue
abou, onc-half was nominally imported by Com
mission Houses, but really on Foreign account
Also Here are our own Merchants, Native and
Na,uralized. driven out of the Trade of their own
Country, and forced into retirement or Bankruptcy,
because nine-enths of the business which should be
theirs is surrendered into the hands OF Fcrelgners
The time was when Now York was the Com
nercial Emporium of our Country; ls it so now
Is not our Emporium virtually London or Liver
pool? The time was when she had forty ships on
The stocks; the time is when she has not one !.
The external Commerce of the country has passed
mainly into Foreign hands, carrying with 1t our
Carrying Trade, our Tonnage, our Shp-building.
Is not time that the country should earnestly
resolve to take care Of its own interests-to cher
ISL efficiently its own Commerce and its Home
labOr9 Let US hope that the passage OF tho
New Tariff marks the commencement OF such a
policy.
Gentlemen, | could wish to present further facts
Of similar tenor to your notice, but time Will not
permit. Let US proceed to the business OF the
evening.
CD. soCRATESN N. SHERMAN OF Ogdens.
bMshis the Wing candidate for Congress fctr
The XVIIIth District, composed OF st. Lawrence
and Lewis Counties. He is @ firm and cfhcien'
Wing, and il he can only bring his crafty opponent
to a distinc, avowal of his opinions on the great
Question Of Pro,ec,ion he will be elected.
Us The Wings Of GRIEVANCE have nominated
ALFRED PunpY for County Clerk, with DEuAs
HUBBARD, lr. orls J. TRACY and HENRY BEs'
NET for Assembly They arc pu, up to be elected
and our friends in Chenango saw i, be done.
nT The Wings of CORTLAND County have nom