New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-07


Now If this be found be untrue IN point OF fact and
that the reverse is true that they reduce pEices and OF
course kssu burdens then what becomes OF all your az
guen,s and speeches against the expressions OF the Ia
riff They fall lifeless 10 the ground.
He denied the right of the enemies OF the lam 70
assume these facts and called them for the proof &c
facts lie the foundation of the whole qceaon a' &c
trusted they would be furnished -.,,e
The President and Secretary tell US they wan &C.
nue. TariH-a Tariff tha, will just yield revenue
70 meet expenditures. and no more gu 80 ,bin,
- ID; - Sborinp the present Tariff is the very Inins
49, ,ys,, They tell officially that tns expenditures
49,; year have been $40 96S 201 and the re'ehue mas
been s29 76e 33 Now is it possible 20 &c. ahe
when according TO their theory II IS exactly rignt
Last session we threatened with alarge surplus
and were then told we must reduce the arm 70 Teance
tho revcpuer Now we are told we must reduce the
Tariff To increase the revenue so, whether there was
TOO much or tle the remedy was always the same
reduce the Tariff-reduce the Iarifi Doctor san,
grades cure for all things oieeoihg ana warm
a laugh
Mr. Stewart has published as an Appendix 10 his
Speech, Circular addressed to Merchants Manu-
facturers, Mechanics and Farmers in which he puts
10 those various classes series OF questions de-
signed to elicit their opinions points of the great
est importance connected with this subject Ihis
Circular shall have place hereafter.
"a The E1Dress makes q characteristic reply 70
our article in Thursdays Tribune on BRUSH opPfes
sion and American Slavery. Our argument IN OK
tenuaton Of the rebukes administered TO tnis country
by foreigners founded the inconsistency between
the Nations professions ond practices, 1t meets by
d.n;aI of the existence Of such inconsistency
Tho Government" we are told, never pledged
liber,v nor equality TO the Slave" Indeed Then
al, the lamentations OF Washington, Jefferson
Patrick Henry and the other fathers OF the hepuo
lie over Slavery rreconciabe with the principles
TO which they pledged their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor all mistake There is no
discrepancy between the doctrine that +" all men are
created equal" and the practice OF holding men IN
Slavery The Slaves niggers and no part of oil
men, o most astute and profound casuist "A Daniel
come TO judgment-yea a Daniel What pity that
the Express had reared its wise head above the poll
teal horizon earlier day to save JOHN JAY the
modification of writing those memorable words in his
letter TO an English Abolition Society," undoubtedly
ia very inconsistent with the declarations of the People
of the United States the subject OF Human Rights
to permit single Slave be found within their jurs-
diction ind zoe confess The Justice Of your structures on
that head" If the light which radiaes brilliantly
from the Express could only have fallen upon his dark
ened mind he might have answered the impertnent
EnBllbuuleH iHosl ~ 'S~S N.N ~'ccO
about British paupers and all that
The Express has made one discovery for which we
must tender ii our hearty congratulations 1t tells US
that man is man. and of nature not to be kicked and
cuted into reason" This is well spoken but when we
look at the practice Of the Express in the light OF this pm
cipe we are sorey perpeXed. The contrast Is almost
as striking to dull apprehension as that between tue
of Independence and Slavery Perhaps how.
ever the principle which the Express lays down with
such n flourish Of oracular wisdom like the doctrine
tina, Gil men are created equal" has its limitations and
as nggers may be enslaved without violating the latter
go Anti.Reners National Reforners, Fourierites and
Abolitioniss. not being men, are OF nature 10 DC
kicked and cuffed into reason" Our neighbor, after all
we fear thinks the Shareholders the only whom
il is wrong TO abuse for in the very article now under
notice it heaps upon men conscientious If not as wise
as itself the approbrous epthets calling them ac'
cursed thrice accused madmen," and charging them
with acts abhorrent 10 their souls We are neitnsr the
apoogst the defender Of the any OF the unwse ex
travagances of the Aboltionss the National Reiormers
or the Anti-Rentcrs but believe that even they are
men and of not 10 be kicked and cuhed into
-eason If Stakeholder cannot be converted from the
error of his way by calling him man.steaer, neither
IAN an Anti Renter by calling him an nsurrectionst
Tor National Reformer by branding him as dsorgan
ser and fanatic, nor an Aootlonls oy Calling hit
mailman
The Express says:
we do not disagree with the Tribune to the crls
aanities and OF Slavery but la our eyes u is
lonen question: stupendous existence we do not
early the way TO approach. We dare not come 10
"a tho Tribune doc. ,ippeucy OF ignorance and
vecklessneSs OF presurnption-but think of it
f. Ell deep of its awful magnitude, and we con-
IS we. shrink from it."
OF the spirit and tone in which The Tribune discusses
e Slave question let its readers and the public judge
hey can ao Judge whether the Express is better en-
lied from in' character and manners TO rebuke US on
ls score than is Enelishman to assail this Coun
" for Its Slavery. If the Express would convince US
lat is as serious it preiends to be in view OF the
Magnitude of the question: let it cease its practice o.
narlnr at every body who differs from it in opinion