New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-07
Tho yyronued Insultrd.

Tho triumphs of Loce. Focoism morally GER
tain TO result in disasters to the People go 1t has
been, 80 it doubtless will be to the end OF time
The ideas entertained by the mass oil the dominant
party of natural antngonism OF interests between
Wealth and Poverty, Capital and Labor, all tend
to this Tho measures which that party is con-
s.antly urging are naturally calculated to produce
disruption and convulson in Business pursuits and
relations We IRE not now asserting that these
measures are intrinscnlly wrong and pernicious,
though we surely believe them to be so 1t is
enough for our present purpose that they contem
plate radical and violent changes in the wide do
mains Of Industry, Commerce and Currency. Be
their ultimate result what it may, who can doubt
that the immediate effect Of Mckays Tariff and the
sub.Treasury must bear hardly on many worthy
personsl There are thousands in this community
who regard Paper Money, for instance as calculated
to do more harm than good but is there one reflect
ngman who doubts that the immediate extinction OF
all Paper Currency, whether by the Sub-Treasury
or otherwise would involve thousands in bankrupt
cy and throw tens Of thousands out of employment?
Whit right.minded kindly man could fail to de-
plore this necessity Would not such be induced
10 say to the victims, Friends! regret your mis-
fortunes, but the public good must be held para
mount to individual grievances, as the commander
in battle must often order charge which he knows
will produce many deaths and great suffering
Bear your msfortunes nobly, then, and be assured
sthat, though we are compelled to take course
(which seems harsh, We really desire your good, so
far as is consistent with the highest good of alll
L. not this the spirit III which inevitable individual
reverses should be contemplated
The Evening Post however, goats over the per
plexity andapprehension which the measures OF its
perty ore producing rs if they We're the great ends
for which those measures were undertaken 1t
wakes facetious the distresses of thousands Of
cur countrymen, tells how often the country has
been ruined by similar policy, and recounss with
evident gusto the obscene Jest Of dead lbertne
respecting French woman who liked 10 be ru-
ined' No amount of calamity visited upon the
manufacturing classes OF our countrymcn can quite
satate the magnity of the Post and its large circle
Of echoes. The People will remember these oxhi
billions.
That the recupera,ivc cnergie, OF American char
acter and industry are invncible we oyfully believe
That no amount or degree of misgovernment car
utterly destroy even permanently Prostrate thos
energies. we hold and proclaim The tornado may
pass over the land to-day, crushing every thing be
fore it. but life and verdure will spring up anons
the wrecks Of its progress tomorrow We shaI
most Of us live and some of thrive under the mos
mistaken and perncious policy. though we should
generally live better and thrive faster under be
nignan: and wise policy. But is it worth while &c
throw down the fabric OF our National Prosperity
every few years, in order to show thst it can b.
built up asain1 Is it wise to be continually test
ing the capacity Of the Country to bear disaster il
the FIRST place, and ultimately toovercome il, Tha,
is the practical question