New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-21
Stand nv Home Labor.

tates of British Policy would never have gained Tor
our Agriculture the repeal of the British Corn
Laws. Had the Nations who formerly purchased
her fabrics 80 freely continued take them without
scruple, England would never, in all human proba-
bility, have abandoned her Corn-Lews. But the
necessities if not the forecast OF Germany hussia'
the United States &c. have compelled ueN -
foster Home Manufactures instead Oh ouyins G"
their fabrics from Great Britain ana now enc mas
mn cboice mt 10 change her policy or lose many OF
The markets which yet remain 70 heF- ana now WIN
,he prevail on the nations once but no longer de-
oendent on her work shops to renew that depend
ence7 In Europe we are confident she Will not
Russia will hardly modify her Tariff so far as Cloths
are concerned; Germany will maintain the ZoN
yerein and the rates of duties now imposed by IT.;
France will maintain her settled attitude. On these
United States the great impression is expected to
be made; and complete abandonment OF our Pro-
tective Policy is expected. The coincidence of the
Polk ascendency in our National Councils renders
this calculation very reasonable one.
That Great Britain will largely profit by the
change she has made in the way of securing wider
markets and an increased demand for her fabrics we
cannot doubt. The change she has made was plan
ned by one ofthe ables Statesmen who ever directed
her Councils who has studied well his Tune ana his
means. We wish well 10 England, and do not DOUBT
that this stroke OF policy secures ner Aahuiae
turing and Commercial ascendency ior many years 70
come. and will probably augment her riches and
nower 1t will go far to prevent the Establishment
of nom defensive Tariffs by the Nations now rising
n consequence or emerging from barbarlsm, by re-
lievine them from the imminent pressure of neces-
.i,v therefor. and enable her deluge Continents
with her goods Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, will
expand and flourish, if War does not interpose its
hideous Instructions, and policy Is carried out
and maintained.
And vet we cannot counsel our Country, nor any
other 10 fall in with this phase OF British Foil
cv for we are morally certain that our highest in
terests material and moral, would suffer from such
course. We would treat all Nations fairly ana
kindly; we would reciprocate all good othces; out
we cannot believe il really best for any that one
;,,le island ia the Atlantic shall be the workshop OF
tho whole world-that to il the staples OF all ma
,ions shall be ,aken TO be wrought up into fabrics
and carried back over fourth ofthe globes crcum-
ference to the point of consumption. Just think of
the enormous cost of taking Cotton from Memphis
and Corn from the Wabash to Manchester and BIZ
mingham-the former as the staple OF fabrics to be
worn in our Western States and the latter TO feed
the laborers employed in producing them The
workman in Manchester pays dollar oushei LOT
the Corn while the farmer on the W aoash gets Out
IS cents for it, or less than oneSaIth It's ultimate
price What enormous waste and loss IS mere
What diversion of Labor from the positive pro-
duction of Wealth 10 the mere transportation and
Of products! How vastly more ad-
vantageous 10 all the aborers to plant the factories
and print.works on our own Western streams, take
,hither the raw cotton and the corn, and make the
fabrics for ourselves! Suppose they should nori-
nally cost tt cent two more per yard-who does
not see that our Corn must command much
better price where grown, and our Products
and Labor buy far more Calicos, than under
the policy which carries the raw staples across
half continent and broad ocean TO be lab
rca,ed2 Will not our People will not even
our Statesmen. think carefully oil these things!
We would cherish u generous friendship Tor the
English people, as our common origin dictates but
we cannot consent TO surrender proper inde-
pendence nor the best interests Of our Country
nav, of Labor universally. The triumph OF Free
Commercial Feudalism in whose tolls the civilized
world is fast becoming enveloped which threatens
TO transform the mass OF men into mere counters
with which the vast games of the multiplying Roths
childs and Earrings for mines and provinces are
PLAYED. Even now, the impulse is given by the
British change 10 that spirit which inclines every
aspirant for enormous Wealth TO Commerce, as the
9 pirants for power rush into the Law. These are
tendencies 10 be resisted and overcome before the
world can advance TO higher civilization We
shall yet realize that the Tariff revolution in Great
Britain, though gladdening as blow at the iron
rule of the Landed Arstocracy has yet other issues
which are far from being subjects of graduation If
our Tariff co uld but be let alone our farmers would
have a choice Of markets and our States might re.
deem their Stocks held abroad. 1t will be sad
day for us and our children in which we subvert
this bulwark of our Prosperity