New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-09-14

4 will fun ahead even Of the Wing strength,
and be trlumphantly elected. Three cheers for
the whole ticket Now lei go to wo:k and
elect it.
WbI~ Mass Convention OF the River
Counties.
The Wings Of ORANGE County invite their
brethren of the River Counties 10 meet with them
in Mass Convention ut Woshington's Head
Quarters, Newburgh, on Monday, the 23i inst
The notice is very short, and they entreat their
friends every where to spread this invitation and
ask all 10 come to their gathering.
Hon. JOHN NJ. BeRNEN, U. S. Senator from
Georgia. has consented 10 be present and address
he meeting Other eminent champions of the
Good Cause will also attend and speak, Come,
Wigs, ore and all, and your zeal in the Good
Cause will receive 4 fresh impetus from the%hril-
ing elqqpence Of its gallant champions
,y,,,, ,s ;t that American Mechanics and
Artisans cannot do American .fockf
This is a question we wish to press home on
the whole American People. The assumption Is
constantly made in the Polk papers, especially the
Journal Of Commerce and Herald, that ii we pro-
,cct cur workmen against Foreign competition
,hcy will necessarily be restricted to inferior IA
,rics ard pay far higher price for them. We
saw, Not 50 If there be no natural obstacles to
the production OF any article We need here, then
sa shall be better and cheaper supplied with lin
he long run by securing the work 10 our own
,yorAmen than by letting in food of Foreign
competition 10 overwhelin them. We y.ihat.
though the nominal money price Of the i'm
por;cd article mAy occasionally DO lower-s0
much so rs to shut up American workshops, in
which mon are paid American wagcs-yet the
-cal. average coSt--that H. the amount of our la.
DOR or Its products to be given for twill be less
,i we keep on; the Foreign article, aud let Amer.
can artisans have steady work in supplying US q,
FAIR wages. In this case they viii be constant
purchasers and consumers OF cur Grain, Meats,
Vegetables Fruits, ahd desirable customers of
our Hatters, Tailurs, Shoemakers, SC. They
will help pay our taxes, work our Roads, support
our Schools, CHURCHES &c. which English artisans
cunno, DO, so long as they remain in England
These may buy barrel of Flour or cas& Of Hams
Of US occasionally when the crops happen to be
Itch, in England, but they cannot spend one-tenth
Of their earnings in American produce, while the
American artisan (no matter where he was born,)
spends the whole here. Now we maintain that
it is cheaper and better TO buy our Cloths and
Castings, our Gallery and Wares, of American
workmen than of Foreign. Occasionally, an
article might be bought with less money
abroad; bu. it could not be a good bargain if it
threw some workman here out OF employment, as
it has natural tendency to do.
But are we to isolate ourselves, and buy no
thing of other nations? BY no means. Let us
freely buy ersry thing which ether nations,
through preponderanco of natural advantages,
can produce decidedly chcaper-that is, with less
labor-than we can. Let US impose no duties,
except for Revenue, on Tea, Coffee, Spices, Trop.
ica Fruits, or any thing else t.aat Nature has in
tsrposcd barriers TO our advantag producing.
Lex other Nations buy in Ike manner OF us. But
whatever cen flst as well be done in country
rs another, let each DO for itself. This is cheap
est. most bcneicent To all. t.sen barbarous
nation would do better to import spinning jennies
and power looms than cslicocs and shirtings; if it
DOGS not see this the fault is not ours. Enough that
zoe see it, and openly say 50 to the whole world
/, is the true interest Of all that each should pur-
chase freely such raw staples as it cannot advan-
tageously produce, and thereirom fabrcate for
itself.
We are sure this is the course permanently
I'll ~ ,ob
the Free Traders regard as the only economy-
tits fixed ia the reason of things that a nation
which fab.icates for itself thereby renders produc
tive and profitable vas. proportion Of its less
effective Labor which would otherwise remain un-
employed. 1t thus pays charges and profits on
the Importation of raw materials only; and not
on the greatly increased value OF the fabric.
Now will any man look at this subject fairly,
not at some petty detail, bu: at the great essential
natter and say that it is be our best poll.
cy TO send our Cotton TO Great Britain, and send
there our Grain and Nest (when they will take
,heln) 10 feed the manufacturers, and bring back
the Cotton as Shittings, Sheetings, Csicoes, sc.
and really be the gamers by the operation Is
not the assumption that we could obtain our
cloths and wares chesper-reoily cheaper-of
Foreign than of American wo,kmcn violation
u the planest dictates OF common sense? Does
not every men see that mere is vas, amcant OF
extra la6or to be performed, over and above the
,n,ount that would be required to take the cotton,
the iron and provisions to our own manuiscta-
c.pg villages, sud obtain thence the clo,hs and
,cayes we need? And if the labor is saved by
IIome Produc,ion-as il certainly mus. be-w;ii
not the lahoring class he sure to reap great pat
OF the benefit Ii not let Us devise ways and
,neans to secure il 10 ;hem-5u: let Us not sacrl'
flee clear and plain sdvantage-ap positive gen.
erai rood-in our dread that some part OF US
,nnsf receive greater share Of it than others.