The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-14

mese labor for which alche the National Intelligence
sympathzes IN considerable degree This ncdenta
effect (Mr Sevl%r of the Senate called it accidentally
lnseparabe from the imposition Of duties at all for the SAX
OF revenue. Mr. Buchanan lately declared that thes,
rahes averaged about 80 per cent No one objects IL
this effect On the contrary lends an active encour
agemen to certain branches OF domestic labor we would
cheerfully them flourish with the aid of those rev
enue duties. That under the tariff of 1885, manufac
lures are ourshing and factories are sprngng up nc
doubt who casts his eye over the country Some
few branches may now and then flag it is the case with
every species OF labor 1t is the with the great sta
pie industry of the Countryside agricultural interest; fo
the prices OF its productions uctuang depending
they do upon the great law OF supply and demand We
shall publish some statistics in paper of
to show the growth and prosperity of manufactures from
speech which delivered at Lowell last Friday
evening But what have been the other effects of the
tariff 1916 Under this tariff the revenue has been ample
to carry the treasury in high credit through the war; while
both exports and imports in the healthy OF trade
have been larger than they before. This
"war." too, upon and industry, is now to be
stopped. IN the Inelligencers opinion by the substitu-
ton of high protective tariff in place of our present
whether the tariff to be modelled upon the law of
s42 which Mr. Webster in the Senate at the last ses-
sion, pronounced to be the best tariff ever adopted BY
any country desperate effort will doubtless be made
by strong wing of the whg party for its substantial
reenactment and at all events if the Integencer
clearly, we are to have tariff for protection its prma
ry object Be it so, again say. if so it must be We
are ready to go to the country on that issue too
Again. isprey broadly ntimated to us by the ntelli-
gencer that the bank andproecton is to bring
with it wide and sweeping system of internal improve
ments, and to do away entirely with that strict con-
sucton of the constitutional powers of the federal gov
which is alleged to deny it in fact almost every
attribute of good" At all events if the Inelgencer be
right Congress longer be restrained or checked in
any legislation, however vcoussby the of the Veto
If the nelgencer be right then we are TO see General
Taylor and his friends repudatng the veo and the pro-
found views which Mr. Madison delivered on the eve of
his retiring from power If the ntelgencer be right we
are also 10 see not only the payment of the public debt
postponed but presume the land fund again to be dis
trbued and scrambled for among the States And
also to ahgher imposed to build up aggantc and
extravagant system of internal improvements Who shall
say Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther 1t
almost impossible to limit the of the State gov
enments in contracting loans and debts for internal i'm
provements when each Legislature responsible to its
State constituency; and it will be found more
difficult to limit the sphere of appropriations, when
the members of each State TO dip their hands,
without the responsibility, into common treasury.
Again say be it so, if the wings think proper to
their In opposition to all this
willing to appeal again to the country the old platform
of the democratic party.
the principle of prescription" is the Intellgencer's
next topic and far words CO. is denounced in round
terms as anti social" "detestable" and cat war with
the genius OF free government This declaration of the
wing organ put on record. We need not comment
it now. The time will come when can Judge with
certainty how far the wing policy, for the next year
or two will be willing to bring its acts within the cate
gories here plainly set FORTH But meantime deem
it prudent to remember, that not generally so
scrupuous the procamaions which they send before
them.