New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-10
The Proposed Tariff Compromise

dcates the scope and spirit:
THE Wing party set themselves up before the ~nole
country AS the particular ana oeeioeo menus ~ -f
portrrs Of the Manufacturers
We have fifty times re!uted this assertion, yet
here it is made as ippanty as If 1t had never been
o,sstioned II is utterly untrue that the Wings
rofs,s any special friendship for Manufacturers as
.nrb Tho Tariff Of '42 was not framed sus
t.tned for their benefit On the contrary, we be
hive the maintenance Of the Protective Policy
more important and its consequences more beneh
cent to the Farmers OF Illinois and Missouri than
10 the owners of the Lowell factories The Post
has always labored to place in the false position
which it is vexed and chagrined that our Represen-
tatives in Congress refused to assume, but has no
right TO say that the Wings have set themselves
mp for what it has unwarrantably charged upon
them.
We do indeed believe great extension and tar
Their diversifcaton Of the Manufacturing Industry
of our country most important to the general wei
fare We believe that to this end an efficient FRO
tective Tariff is most essential But we do not de-
sire we utterly protest against any Legislation Tor
the special benefit OF persons engaged In Manuac'
lures in any other pursuit. We lament the pas
sage OF the Tariff, not because it will diminish
or destroy the gains Of manufacturers, but because
1t will postpone if not prevent that symmetrical de
velopment Of our National resources that creation
or extension of new branches OF National Industry,
which we deem most important and bcnehcent
Not so much because our Cotton, Wooden and Iron
fabrics will henceforth be exposed to searching
and to some overpowering competition as because
our infant and comparatively feeble manufactures
of Silks. Linens, Gnghams. Worsteds, Needles
&c &c
posed to destruction by this act do we dcplore it,
passage.
The Post repeats its attacks on the Wing Sena-
tors because they did not try 10 defeat Mcknys
bin with the Manufacturers Compromise as sub
stituto. 1t admits that there is no evidence that
the Wings could have carried that Compromise,
but thsn they should have tried. 1t 1caS proposed
by Mr.. Cameron Mt the last moment, after y Loco
Focos had voted against Mr. Claytons far more mod
crate and indsputably Just proposition, and the
Loco.Foco Committee of Finance had refused to
comply with the instruction embodied in that prop
osition 1t was thus rendered certain that - Lo-
90. Focoy would have nothing else than Mckay s
bill md Mr. Jarnagin felt that he had gone as far
as he could in resisting them, and must now vote
for the BILL giving its friends majority. SO no
body saw fit to consider sustain the Manuiactnr-
crs' Compromise, and the Post is deprived OF Gov
etsd opportunity to exhibit the Wing Senators in
tho light of mere attorneys for the Manufacturing
Interest.
We rejoice that such has been the result. If the
Farmers of this Country do not desire the preva
lence Of the Protective Policy, let it so down If
the Laborers do not recognize it the policy which
increases Employment and enhances Wages, let
~. ~ no | he
ufacturers only, and not the People a, large are
benefited by Protection, let it sink We who be-
Eeve in it and struggle for it live without it pro,
baby as long the mass of our opponents.
We do not ask nor greatly care what moditca'
ton Of the Tariff of 40 could have been borne by
certain extensive Manufacturers or Manufacturing
interests. Their eliarc is as important that of
so many others-no more so. We do not think the
Tariff could have been properly readjusted in the
arbitrary manner proposed by the Compromise in
question. Plain Cotton fabrics, for example. could
have borne the reduction proposed without feeling
1t; while Prints, Ginghams and many descriptions
of Woolens would have been seriously affected
And all the evil results OF such Compromise would
have been seduously charged upon the Wings,
In our view, the first question to be settled is
this-'Is Protection legitimate and proper elc
mont to enter into the formation of Tariff Il
YES then we should proceed TO consider to what OBJ
jects it may be properly applied and what measure
Of tits requisite and beneficial. The first question
settled all the rest is matter of application and de
tail, But if the premises laid down by Secretary
Walker and the Evening Post are sound then any
Protection whateveris agigantic fraud, runous fol
". Between these warning principles there can De
no compromise-there should be none. Letthe Peo-
pie decide which-Protection or Free Trade-shan
rule in the formation of Tariff, and all else will
be easy. Until that point is settled all questions of
how much or how little are out OF place.
We believe the Manufacturing Interest a
whole is In aoctser position this day than would
have been If the proposed Compromise had passed
BY the accession TO the Wing strength of Just
enough Loco ocos to carry it-as il n,pst have
passed II st all Then Loco Focoism would have
pretended 70 be indignant at such cor,upt colin.
sion between the Wings and n few renesades 70
sustain the enormous profits OF the Manufacturers
then the cry OF Down with the Tariff would have
been renewed, and all the Custom. House officers
set to work TO provide material for another such
Treasury Report as the last But now the Free
Traders have had their will and wsv and any
change which may be made in the Tariff for wears
to come will De for and no, against Protection
We hope for Improvements at the verv next SEES
sion, we snail then see who are for and who
against moderate and just Protection to which, as
well as to honesty in Importation and equality in
payments, we hold Specific Duties, so far as thew
can be levied TO be absolutely Indispensable. Tha,
this is the view OF the more judieous and far.see
ing Manufacturers also we heartily believe.
rY- Hon. JOHN NJ CLAYTON for President and
Gen. ZACHARY TAYLOR for Vice President are pro
posed as the Tariff candidates IN the Bise Hens
ChicSen,' an able and influential WhiS journal at
Wilmington, Delaware.
g RoDolpHus DICKINSON, Esq. has been
nominated by the Loco. Focos OF the With District
of Ohio as their candidate for Congress. The DIS
tTict it now represented by Hon. Henry St. john
Loco, and gave Polk 1869 majority.
DEATH OF STEPHEN w. DANA.-We stated yes
terday thsi Mr.. Dana had returned frou, Europe, in =
state Of health which rendered his recovery hopeless