New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-17

Protection ia the West.


The following extract from private letter to the
Editor of the Frankfort (hy.) Commentator speaks
the sentiment Of men of all parties in the West.
There as here, many rote for certain candidates
because they are called Democrats who think
undoublingly that the policy and measures OF the
Wings on those great practical questions of public
policy which divide the Country are right. This
discrepancy will not long continue under Loco-Fcc
legislation The writer says:
81 regret that ii was not in my power to attend
your great Barbecue Circumstances existed which
imperously required that should be al home when
il occurred. reg the more that was compelled
TO be absent, because learn that very few of the
citizens Of Mason were there. You must ascribe
this to any other cause than want OF zeal IN be-
half of the good cause, Of friendship Mr.. Clay.
assure you that the feeling here is of the right
kind in both respects. | had conversation not
long since, with an influential Democrat of our
County, (who is friendly to Protective Tariff, J
who declared that he meant 10 go for Nh Clay,
because he believed his election alone would give
stability and permanence to the Tariff lately en-
acted. There can be no doubt of the correctness
of this sentiment; and as large majority of the
Democratic party in this County, and perhaps
throughout the State, are friendly to Protective
Tariff, believe that very many of that party will
be convinced. before the election comes on, that
the election of Mr.. Clay alone will restore the
now depressed condition oi the Agricultural in
terest of the Country. The present ruinous prices
of all Agricultural products, not only affects, IN
most deporable mnnner, that greatest interest OF
the Country, bot all other interests because these
interests are dependent upon the agricuturists for
their very existence II, for instance, the Farmers
are in prosperous condition. they are enabled to
purchase freely the products of the Manufacturers
Mechanics, &c. and the goods of the Merchant
They can also furnish to Commerce and Naviga
ton the means Of brisk and active employment
But when Agricultural products are SO low that
they will not bear transportation to market,
Farmers will be compelled to resort to household
manufactures Of common wear, and live chiefly
upon their own means mourning as few expendi-
lures as possible This must necessarily most Sc.
rousy affec, our Mechanics, Manufacturers, Mer-
chants, &c.
TO give prosperity to agriculture, three things
are necessary FIRST, Home Market for our
surplus products which cannot be affected by the
regulations Of foreign nations. Secondly, Ma
tionol Currency, of equal value, throug bout the
Union, which will greatly tend to facilitate exchan-
ges, and promote brisk and active demand for
all agricultural products, thus atfordlng to the
farmer a fair remuneration for his agricultural la
bors. Thirdly, the greatest possible facilities for
d cheap aad rapid transportation OF agricultural
products to the places where they are required for
consumption, thus taking little possible from
the profits of the farmer pay the cost of trans
portation. 1t would seem to me, thatif the farm
ers were to look al these matters in their proper
point of view, they would all be in favor of
measures so obviously calculated to promote, not
only their own interest but the interests of all the
other classes of the community. AS the farming
interest constitutes more than lhreefourths of our
whole population how ia it that they have so long
neglected to look their interests, when they
are called upon exercise the elective franchise
It is because they have suffered themselves to be-
come too much of partizans, and have looked
more to the interests of their party than the gene
raj good. tits lime this state OF things should
cease, ard am glad To find that. at least, some OF
the Democratic party determined TO throw Oft
the shackles of party, and 60 for their own inte-
rests and the interests OF the country, at the com
ing Presidential election.