New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-16
ue,v the Tariff II assaulted.

We have before us the Rochester Da'iy Adrer-
engaged in the work of assailing the present Tarih
Each Of these papers directly asserts that the recc
importations Of Foreign Wool, which has been
seixed by the Government fraudulent, introduced
a. costing less than il really did cost, were made by
American Manufacturers, and that these were the
defrauders Of our Government Now the fact ha.
been early, repeatedly proclaimed that this Wool
was sent to this Country by British merchants in
South America, consigned to Free Trade merchants
In this City By them sworn through our Custom
House and mainly sod to Lowell manufacturers u
whose hands a part Of il was seized The fraud wa-
Hrst suspected by our American merchants and
manufacturers finding that hey could not import
Wool from Buenos Ayrcs as to enter ii at the low
duty. and were driven from the trade by Foreign
ers who could do il. This circumstance excited
suspicion. and led to the seizures in question. And
yet the Rochester Daily says
"Iet the reader mark this admission. TO wit-tha The
s.onxfdfuvers hare cheated The Goryamenf ont Of MUg
frs millions BY smuggling UooL while pretending all int
while TO be in favor of high duties for the benefit Of the
vool grower Mark farther When this system of FRAUD
Il attempted be broken up, the Wing papers, instead
of condemnng those engaged In this cheaery cry out
IL 10 scheme 10 destroy Protection TO attempt far
ther exposure of this scoundrcsm would be to insult the
GOOD sense Of the reader and leave the subject sim
ply requesting those interested no, 10 forget the adn
sion of the Eagle that The rcy persons most cda0roas pr
Protection 10 The rool gro~er are Nose most deepy eHSd
IN dsraSdins tss rcreaue derrab from that rey article
Now the Massachusetts, Eagle, which the ADV.
pre.ends to be quoting had said nothing at all Of
our manufacturers being the authors of this fraud
nor of its amounting to s35,ooo,Oo Yet the Adj
vertiser roundly asserts
"Thc Eagle does not hesitate to charge te manu- octgr-
srs of party with thousand eyasions Of the law SINH
lar TO the one here detected y
This is naked cscntation-swindling of the
blacklist kind. The Woodstock Age perpetracs a
similar fraud and so do hundred more of the san
kidney.
- Here il another case a Connecticut Loco
Foco paper IL chuckng over the fact that the Pre-.
sident's House IL to be furnished with ialeyic0a
Caspefs a. an evidence of Loco Foco affection for
American manufactured Now the fact is that
when the appropriation for reduing the President
House passed Congress at the last Session. Wh,e
moved proviso that American fabrics should be
used Il possible; and this though strenuously oppos
ed by Loco Focos and none but Loco Focos pre-
vailed and Incorporated in the bill. OF course
there 10 now no alternative but to purchase Amer
can fabrics or violate the law and though we be
levc the Commissioner of Public Buildings is q
Whig. we do no, consider his conformity to an ex
press law Of the land deserving of special common
dation Neither do we consider the policy and wis
dom Of Protective Tariff to be affected in any de
gree By the fact that the perpctrator of fraud OF
the Government belongs to one party or the other