Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-08-12
THE ANGLo-AMERTCAN TARIFF.

From Pennsylvania there comes to us a voice of
wall not unmixed with certain other sounds, that be-
speak gathering public Notwithstanding of
all that muttndes suddenly beggared feel when they
know that they have been cruelty deceived and that
ruin is dealt to them by the very hands which they
armed with power We hear too of yet more de-
plorabe firms into which public indgnation is burst
ing-outbreaks, in derogaton of the law itself of
which the crmnaty great as it is is at least shared
by those whose gross deceptions when once discov-
ered tempt too sadly the duped CROWD to violence.
ThePhiladephia Polk, papers meantime, have some of
them, it seems, put on signs of mourning. Sable is
not, however, color invariably sincere; and chan
that the journals parties, in every in
stance, to the very imposition which Pennsylvania is
now to rue.
The truth of those arguments is now to be tested,
by which the jealousy of the aboring man has every
where been to certain extent, played upon against
the pursuits that gave him his best employment, by
representing the sole gamer from them the capt.
talist who sets them in motion. Not we who write,
or the politician who declaims, are now to see ,cho
ci be the main sufferers by this law for the
agement of foreign industry and arts it is now the
of print speeches. to view for himself the effects of
the new law.
He will see them in the sudden suspension of a
large part of the occupations that made each forge
mine factory, the busy centre of hvelke activity
and order in the instant stoppage, for thousands
around them, of all those comforts which rewarded
toll diffsed among the poor in the young cast into
dleness the decrept into want the robust themselves
INTO inability to procure food for families, the weak
er members of which can more aid in their own
support.
Certainly, i: that be any solace, and if misery
loves company, the ruined operative will not be with
out the consolation of seeing the man who gave him
employment struck down by the same blow which
has laid low the humber success of him whose sin
ews were his sole capital. But what then? They,
for whose elevation to power the rich made poor,
and the poor beggars, sit high. lords in the land
which they have impoverished and deceived Party,
for which was offered up all this human sacrifice,
ourshes, if every thing else ceases to flourish &
office holding and the spoils fatten if all else is to
grow lean.
Possibly too, he 1.-THE aborer] may be of large &
liberal soul, whose capacious affections embrace
much more readily all mankind than the narrow good
of his own couutry the selfish concerns of his
household In this case he will ofcourse reflect with
satisfaction that the wretched populations of Britain
and France and Germany will gain in wages and com
forts, all that Americans lose.
Sorry we to be obliged to add that the foreign
capitalist will also gain, in still larger proportion,
by whatever has been done rum the American one.
For, after all, little thought will teach any man
that this war upon what Secretary Walker and his
people call the |" boatcd capitalist at home is only
going except the ruin of our own poor)tO serve to
swell still more, capitalists still more bloated abroad.
National InteLigencer.