New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-11-10

our deliberate conviction With regard 10 IT'S Tecen
course and we could not recant it to please even
a more valued personal friend than its Editor
What is writ is writ and we heartily abide by
it. We knoao the first article of that paper on
which we commented was calculated, we believe
it was intended to defeat the ticket carried by
the Star at it's head and elect the Loco Foco
| didatcs So believing, could the Star expect us
70 be passive or to use dainty words? Toward a
! manly adversary we can easily be courteous tc
a treacherous ally we cannot be. That such a
one should characterize our exposure of him as
violent abuse we can easily imagine, but the
public must Judge between us. And when 'The
Star boasts of its established character in this
connection, it compels us to remind it that Its
course throughout the lasttwelve months has es-
tabllshed' very different character from that
formerly borne by it.
II the Star can reconcile its former talk about
the encouragement of Manufactures levying a
tax of millions per annum' on the country, foster
ing dark and leprous Crimes &c. with fidelity
| to the cause of Protection, we cannot Its very
language now, it's incessant talk of protecting
Manufactures, as though this were an interest to
be fostered only at the expense of others, and not
for their benefit, evinces radical unsoundness.
We are ready at all times to demonstrate that the
Agriculture and the Labor generally of the coun-
trv are Just as much interested in and benefited
by our present Tarif--yes, even by the duties on
Foreign Cottons, Silks and Woolens-as are our
Manufactures themselves To separate the great
Interests of the Country and array them against
each other, is the proper vocation of Loco-Foco-
ism, and in its hands we are content 10 leave it.
| A word on our original difference with the
| Star. Manufacturers it is alleged sometimes
exact too much work of their aborers, and give
| them too little pay for it. This. is undoubtedly
fact, and it is just as true of other branches of
business as of Manufactures. The Planters of
the South, we are told, often treat their workmen
very badly-but does this prove that the Cotton
Culture should be discouraged2 Would the dis
continuance of that Culture renaady the evil COM
planned of? Never. He who, if the question of
sustaining the Cotton planting interest were under
discussion, should string together number of
cases in which Planters had misused their laborers,
and urged it as an argument against the Cotton IN
terest, would be guilty of playing upon the popu-
lar sensibilities and binding the popular Judge
ment to accomplish sinister ends. He would work
| great public evil and do not the least good TO
those he pretended to pity.
| If it be indeed valid argument against sus-
| tanning and perfectng our Manufactures that
those who conduct them sometimes Cypress their
workmen, then the opponents of Protection have
an easy path before them. They have only to
buy or construct two or three manufactures in
different quarters, fill them with needy operatives
and then practice on the legitimate Free Trade
principle of getting the most possible work for the
least possible money, until the laborers can stano
it no longer but appeal to the public sympathy
| and they have supplied themselves with IMAM
swerable arguments against Protection, which
they can multiply and expand at pleasure. Neeo
we add more on this head
| We should be willing to unite in urging law
providing that no minor shall be kept at work II
| factory or elsewhere more than ten hours pei
day; also that SO many hours shall constitute 3
| working day in any business. We suspect il
would be impolitic to forbid and mpractcable tc
| prevent by law adults working longer if they
chose and making their own bargains as to pay
What we here propose is as much as Law car
DO for the protection of the Laborer against rapa
city and oppression on the part of the Employer
The real, durable cure for the evils complained
must be ioundin amore harmonious and equitable
system of combining Labor with Capital in the
operations of Productive Industry but for TINS
the public mind is not yet ready. Meantime, al
vague clamor against employers as eSactlng toe
much or giving too little, is hap-hazard and per
nicious. We have known employers cursed fol
not paying in cash when to pay it was impossi,
bic, and for paying too little when they were
losing money at the rates they did pay. To stil
up as much i'll feeling as possible between the two
classes is a fit business for the Plebean, but not
| for Wing journal.
IL The Harrington Canal, from New Haven
Conn, to Northampton, Mass, which has been
DISTRACTED some time by the disasters occasioned
BY violent storm, has been reopened, and is now
doing an active business
CoRREcTIoN.-in yesterday mornings paper
two classes Of cases were put under the head Of
New Trials Granted" The second should have
had for its heading " New Trials Denied" The
Rochester Democrat, from which the report was
taken; made the error and hence it appeared in
our paper.
| u There have been 81 steamboats, built at
Cincinnati thus year. Aggregate tonnage IL ,035
Cost, S705,0O0. About 800 workmen have been
steadily employed upon them
| u VIM. H. Kehoe, the prince of counterfeit.