Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-08-01
THE ANeLo-LoooFoco TARIFF.

From Pennsylvania there comes to a voice
of wall not unmixed with certain other sounds
that bespeak gathering public resentment-mut
terings of all that mulhtudes suddenly beggaret
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 deplorable forms into which this
public Indignation is bursting-outbreaks, in dero
CATION of the law ITSELF of which the criminality
great as it is, is at least shared by those whose
gross receptions, when once discovered, tempt toe
sadly the duped crowd to violence.
The Philadelphia Polk papers, meantime, have
some of them, it seems, put on the signs of mourn
ing. Sable is not, however, color invariably sin
cere and it chances that the same journals were
parties, in every instance, 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 mere laboring 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 capitalist who sets them in notion Not
we who write, or the politician who decaims, are
now to see ,oho wiH be the main sufferers by this
law for the encouragement of foreign industry and
arts it is now the laborer himself, who is every
where without the aid of print or of 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, or factory the busy centre Of hve-like
activity and order in the instant stoppage for thou
sands around them, of all those comforts which re-
warded toll diffused among the poor; in the young
cast into deness the decrepit into want the robust
themselves into inability to procure food for fam-
lies, the weaker members of which can no more aid
in their own support.
Certainly, if that can be any soace and if misery
loves company, the ruined operative will not be
without 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 sinews are his sole capital. But what then
They, for whose elevation to power the rich are
made poor, and the poor beggars, sit high, lords
in the land which they have impoverished and de-
ceived Party, for which was offered up all this
human sacrifice, fourishes, if every thing else
to flourish and ofice-holding and the spols atten,
if all else is to grow lean.
Possibly, too, he (the laborer) may be of large
and liberal soul, of which the capacious affections
embrace much more readily all mankind than the
narrow good of his own country the selfsh.,con.
Germs of his own household. In this case he will,
Of course, reflect with satisfaction that the wretched
populations of Britain and France and Germany
will gain, in wages and comforts, all that Ameri-
cans lose.
Sorry are we to be obliged to add, however, that
the foreign capitalist will also GAIN in still larger
by whatever has been done to ruin the
American one. For, after all, little thought will
teach any man that this war upon what Secretary
WALKER and his people call :" the bloated capital
list at home, is only going Except the ruin of oul
poor to serve to swell still more, capitalists still
more bloated abroad.