New-York daily tribune., 1843-05-27
FIR. webster and bis Friends.


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GIr. Webster and bis Friends.
We do not see how it is, that while Nh Web
ster both in his letter 10 his Boston friends, and
ms Speech at Baltimore, takes such strong grounds
IN favor Of the Protection OF Home Industry. the
Free Traders are enabled to extract 50 much mat
ter OF consolation and exultaton from those docu-
mcnts His Baltimore Speech sets forth both the
utility and the necessity of Protection cogently
that we would chcerluly take our stand on that
alone in opposition to any thing of equal length
which has been published on the other side And
vet, while It's facts are so forcbc, its doctrines IN
the main so sound, lis recommendations arc
strongly at variance with these: and It's idea Of
settling the Tariff question by making a Com
rnercial Treaty with England is unaccountaby at
war with the practical good sense OF the whole
Speech beside Justly dccrying change in our
public policy the great source OF National and
individual disaster, he proposes very great and
wild change change from prosperity and safety
to experiment and doubl--a change from the pol
icy most approved by experience to one of the
rashcst innovation. Nay he shows us that eli
our attempts to promote our own welfare by dri.
wing bargains with other nations have resulted
badly for US, and then urges us TO try that very
exploded experiment over again. We cannot
consent to it.
Bat the Boston Courier, which has ever pro-
lesscd to favor "a Protective Tariff, endorses all
that MIR. Webster has at any time said-his last
utteranccS beng of course the best. 1t cannot
be content with this. but must make an opportl-
nlty IN the cOnnexion to throw stone at The
Tribune for venturng to concur IN Mr.. Webstcr's
facts and arguments rather than III his recon-
mcndatlons. In introducing the correspondence
between twcnty-hree respectable Bos,onianS and
alr. Webster, which gave yesterday, the Cou-
ner can think OF no way more feasible, to lei
The Tribune and the class Of papers with which
1t is associated know what New England people
think OF such matters, than to publish this cor
respondcncc." ttalks largely and with char
actcrstlc courtesy of our Ignorance and assur-
ance in assuming that the policy indicated by
Mr.. Webster al Baltimore would be injurious to
the interests OF New-Engand and thinks that
after this The Tribune may understand New
Eng land interests better, Thus pleasantly
schooed, we have read and reread the correspon
dence but, so far from having learned from it
what the Courier would have lis. we cannot
quite understand how the writers of comph-
mcntary letter to Mr.. Webster on the 2ctfl of
April can be held as endorsing the sentiments of
a speech made by Mr.. W. on the 18th Of May
twenty-one days aitcrward. We can very well
sec why the capitalists of Boston, hearing that a
| PROJECT OF Commercial! Treaty with England is on
foot, should prefer that that Treaty should be ne
gouated by Mr.. Webster. an able advocate of
Protection and special champion of New-Eng.
land interests, than by some Free Trade Loco
Foco from another quarter of the Union. All
this Is SQUAD and sensible, and we can cutie agree
with McssrS Sears. OTIS & Co. Bu, If they
commit themselves farther than this, our igno
rance Is 50 dense that we cannot perceive it,
\ word now to the Boston Courier The Ed
tor OF that journal is one whom we delight to
have for an opponent, FOR the fact OF his hostility
I ever gives US lively assurance of success HIS
arstocratlc spirit and bearing, his gross contempt
of public opinion, did very much toward the over
throw OF the old Federal Party. His detraction
give that veteran the hold upon the public feeling
which secured his nomination III '39 and his cleo
/ ton III lSlo. Atthe time of the Harrisburg on
! ventlcn, the Courier did Gen. H. the favor of de-
CRYING hm very zealously, declaring that, ii AIr
/ Clay was not nominated, Massachusetts would
surely GO for Van Buren, But Gen: Harrison
iods nominated, Massachusetts, taking the lead
therein, and Massachusetts gave him 10000 ma
Ionty. That year, the Courier tired hard 10 pre-
vent lhe nomination OF John Davis for Governor:
he was nominated, Of course BY acclarnation, and
received some l9,e00 majority Since then the
lourer mas distinguished itself bv sustaining the
cause OF Anarchy and Arson in Rhode Island bv
audlns Mr.. Webster wherever he has acted mn
hike his former self, and BY trying hard 10 force
Mr. Gushing upon constituency whereof no par.
+ " would take him. Now that the Whig party
united MIR. Clay for next President, the
Courier diScardS HIM. puts lis nose to the wind
again, and insists running -Hr. Webster So
wags this crooked world
u 4 True Wing suggests that the paw Of
Police justices (SI.600 per alnuml should b,
cut down, and that Of Police Officers raised 10
5000 year and rewards for special services.
lie suggests also that our Police Justices should Be
located IN different parts of tins ci,y.-Nve offer
no opposition TO these Suggestions, but the Police
Reform required BY our Ci:y is much broader than
this.
II L. s writes Us 3 short criticism, on the
resolution OF the late Convention OF County School