New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-24

an account OF tne ldiln lnat Is III uS-d Idlli
which holds first to the Bible, and secondly to
American Institutions, which have made us free,
which will free our brethren in bonds, and which
will be triumphant in pulling down the strong
holds Of Tyranny throughout our globe
| sincerely thank you, Mr.. Editor for your
kind liberality in publishing these letters without
money or price, but with perfect typographical
accuracy With your clear head and sound
heart, long may you preside over the Tribune of
the People Very gratefully yours, c,,,ry
hay" s@id IS per cent the ratio Of mortality
el the coored people in this city, IN IS years
Views of n Southern 1Vhig-A Protective
Tariff-A National Bank.
To the Editor Of The Tribune:
| have noticed for some time past, your zeal
GUS defence Of the Tariff and complete refuta-
ton of the anti-Amcrican attacks that have been
made upon it. am a Southern man, sir; my
immediate relations and myself own upward OF
five hundred negroes, engaged in cotton plant
ing, and not tmberhead do we own in man.
ulactory; and yet l am a Tariff man, Bank
man, and consequently Whig. Do MT under
stand me to be a judicious Tariff man, for that
simply means vote-catching: but in favor of such
a Tariff as will fence out foreign importations
and give our own hard-working mechanics,
manufacturers, farmers and planters their own
market for their own productions, which will
never fail in peace or in war. In advocating the
Tariff, | do not stop to ask whether it will ad-
vantage this or that manufacturer, or disadvan-
tagc this or that foreign importer of screws or
screw drivers; the question ISIS it of National
advantage, or is it not /? | think it is, myself
and from the experiments that have been made
fer the last ten years, think the People are
pretty generally beginning to think that not only
Tariff but National Bank is Of national ad-
vantage, and that they have been humbuggcd
quite long enough.
During the Last War, although boasting of
our independence of all the civilized nations on
the earth, we were the most dependent for even
the necessaries of life, and what was more hu-
initiating upon our very enemies for blankets
and clothing for our troops? At this state of
things my American blood rose to fever heat
wished to see my country independent in fact
as well as in name and this could only be ef-
fccted by encouraging part of the country to
manufacture for the others, and IN return take
their surplus produce. We had talent and the
necessary capital, with an abundance of water
power-indeed, the State of Maine has enough
| running to waste to manufacture every pound of
raw material produced in the United States
| Had Great Britain this water power, she would
have made enough out of it to pay off her Ma
tional Debt long ago and bid defiance to the
world But to return.
At first supposed we might have to pay, for
several years perhaps, twenty-five per cent. more
for our supplies, but then | felt assured the ad,
yantages to be derived would more than COM
pensatc in the end but, to my utter astonish-
ment, domestic manufactures were no sooner cs
tablishcd than goods began to fall, and continued
so till We get our supplies at one half of what we
did twenty years ago. With these facts staring
us in the face, does it not appear strange that a
single intelligent man should be found in the
South opposing the Tariff
But it is not the Tariff, sir, but quite another
thing altogether II tell you what it is. About
ten or fifteen years ago it was discovered by an
old Englishman by the name Of Cooper, then
President of Columbia College, S. c., that if
manufacturing was established in the United
States, it would be by the Free States; this
would check emigration TO the South and South
West, and secure dense population North and
! East, and consequently an increased representa-
ton in Congress- and when they felt themselves
sufficiently powerful, in defiance of Law and
Constitution, they would abolish the institution
of Slavery Hence the cry Of taxation, vexa-
ton and notification! The nullihers have been
kept alive by the Aboitionists, each making
about an equal number of proselytes, equally fa-
natical, and the country has been kept In fer
ment ever since. Out of this State OF things
grew Loco-F Focoism, which means reckless, sell
fish demagoguism, and hence the guillotine was
erected and the great leading interests of the
the country decapitated. But thank God
through the instrumentality of Wing measures,
the People, East, West, North and South, begin
to see daylight! do verify believe, Mr. Editor,
that were it not for the conservative principle of
Whgsm, ere long our country would be deuged
in suicidal blood. But pray God to avert SO
dire calamity. have some hope now that the
People will think and reflect for themselves, and
not fail to keep before their eyes how different
!, their situation is under Protective Tariff and
Sound Currency and in the absence of both, and
that both Abolitonists and Nulllhers will not for
get how much it cost to establish the lndepen-
, dence and Union of these States.
, am so much in favor of manufacturing in
this country that hope the day is not far distant
when we shall manufacture every pound of raw
material produced in the United States. Should
it become more profitable than cottor planting,
instead of taking my surplus to buy more ne
groes to make more cotton to buy more negroes,
shall invest it in manufacturing stock, and then
at least, should the Aboitionists get the upper
, hand, shall have an anchor to windward. Were
, manufacturing thus extended, instead of export
ing fifty or sixty millions of dollars worth of the
, raw material we should export from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred millions of manufac-
| tured goods TO South America and every part of
+ the world where Great Britain finds market.
Then we should be able to import twice the
amount we do now of necessaries and luxurles,