The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-29

Horn. Its coumnar length suggests the sea serpent
BY the Baker street test is prize speech Wepever
saw so boundless continuity OF stuff Everything is
gged IN 70 augment its bulk and polong its tail Strings
Of Massachusetts, resolutions caenas of presidential
no5ss Gsns assoans Of
left out financial returns, abstracts OF legislative
acts and other unspeakabe, ndesrdbable. immune
rabe rubbish, are ali arranged together into as
|guar collections of old iron locks, keys, nngs,
tools, hinges, &c, or rags under their multi
iudinoqs varieties, which one may see in con
hnen,a market place, The speech looks rather like a
presidential address gone off at half cock We have no
doubt, however. that the worthy c,uror himself per-
iecily satisfied with the time, place, and circumstances
under which he has pulled out his half mile Of rhetorical
tape The speech was delivered at Philadelphia, and of
course went down .nctWously enough with the inhabi
tans of that celebrated city. f
Now, long speech is very fine thing, particularly
when the speaker delivers it xans pse IN uno This OF
course was Mr. Webster's position, when he took his
ground on the protection Of manufactures. ayowedly to
the encouragement Of agriculture, and the interests of
comparatively crowded region, avowedly against new
settled and almost new-discovered comment But the
exhibition, barring its longitude, is by means
enormous and almost trackless interval between the be-
what q his original purpose We defy any ingenuity to
when the first forgotten We are not goins to com
ment the vulgar tone Of the addresstha shall speak
for itself, and ,cW speak for ITSELF to almost any English
reader.
Whether protecton for labor has any more PLAUSIBLE
ity in the United Staes than in England we should think
does not admit OF very mitch Question Consider for
in the far west the shores Of those unparalleled rivers
and lakes will understand by ga iaw irhi shall induce
capitalists 10 employ Their money IN such manner as
shaN oscnpH and employ Anericdn iobor?" Will they
think these fair promises fulfilled by tariff which, far
cam shall prevent the increasing population of Brit
ain from exchanging the work Of their hands with the
prbdnee Of the American soil There is region in the
whole world where labor and capital are to be seen on so
vast scale and With such rapid and brilliant results as
in the new States-for example, Michigan, which in
twenty years has progressed from forest to almost
well-peOped, well-cted, we-ported country that, in
some respects, could stand favorable comparison with
central Europe Canals, railways, fleets of steamers,
carry here and there population and an amount OF pro-
duce which, even III the sapgune thoughts OF the last
generations could not have been conceived Is not this
''captal and labor" Yet this is what Mr. Webster pro-
fesses to benefit by tariff which forbids it TO inter-
change its superfuous fruits with manufacturing Eng
land.
MIR WEBSTER AND MIR. DALLAS
From the London Times, Dec. H.
As for the comparative consistency of the two as
ga STATES AN reminds us, has been the fortune OF
both to change "Mr Dallas was motectionst, and is
now ree-trader Mr.. Webster was federast, and is
democratic swing" MIR. Dallas has enlarged his
sympahes to the breadth of the Unions Mr. Webster
Has contracted them to the proverba prejudice and
rowness 6f New England manufacturer. Mr.. Web
sler is the remarkable He has long been dis
tngushed for information, astuieness eloqdence,
saty, and, above all, for his intimate acquaintance
with the law and institutions of the mother country.
He has been called the Brougham of America Whe-
Tier such qualities the most favorable to the growth
of political honesty. candor, and sef-sacrce, will
leave to ethical wIefs II is vulgar opinion that they
are very compatible with selisiness and prejudice Mr..
Dallas has not been so Observation-Disclosures is, till his
cent elevation If, however, his recent reply to the
Washington committee is be the test he not only pos
great talents but he is pre- emneny man TO be
trusted and believed.