New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-26
The organ on Protection.

The organ on Protection.
I,saplessan, duty 70 discuss coutroverted
topic with modern Free Trader after you have
60, used TO it. To say nothing Of such clever tricks
as commencing with complaint Of what YOU offer
rs elaborate and when quietly checked on this
tack, coming square round and asserting that your
remarks evince inconsiderste haste and that YOU
might as vel have taken a little more time for
the tssk-it Is delightful to be told through two
or three columns ,ha, oil you have urged 10 behalf
Of your own convictions ia sheer nonsense. gross
folly, and only III % be ridicued rather than re-
iuted. IL is some consolation 10 be sure that you
are told that you state your case as ably as any
one oould-that YOUR propositions are legitimate
deductions from your fundamental priucipl.-but
then that principle Is such embodiment Of an
stupidity and faulty that Washington aud Ham
lton, Jefferson and Madison, Clay and Baldwin.
Calhoun and Jackson. Niles aad Mathew Carey.
Buchanan and the Dallsses Y right and Van Blu
rem, must have been utterly demented or pitcousy
imbecile when they gave IL their countensnce
Each OF these stands on record as iayorine the
doctrine Of Protection. the four last named espe
ciaIy having ooncurred IN the enactment Of the
Tsnf ofls2s. a measure svowcdy and exclusive
iy Protective. and imposing the highest average
rates OF duty ever known IN this country. And Il
was in reference to similar struggle for Protec-
riou simply that Gen jackson m SPA wrote his
famous letter to DR.. Coleman OF y. c of which
the following is the material passage
Heaven smils3 upon, spd gsve u. Liberty snd hide
pendence Thst zane Provdet &C hai es.ed with 10
Of Nsiionsl Independence and Nslonsl defence
he hss filed our mountains and our plsns with
mnerss-wnn lead iron eoppe' and given a. emsie
y Y q A Thrso b-ir.
The grand mseriss Of our Nstons 5ef-nce hey GU,
have extend sd to them al, ouale ard FAR o.ecro hal on,
and LAHORE way be . sced On q f.ir
composition with those Il Europe, and that may have
whu our own COUNTY, .opply Of these l-.dins NO Inn
ponsng sruc-s, 90 essential 10 Beyond h.. l look
the rsnf ~iih eye tn the prope dsibEfoa q L.soK
and Of kevenae with discharge oor NStonsl
VII Ssh wh.,s The real situation Of The American Az
realiar,i Where Ia. he Amsrc an farmer AZ, fof
ms safrlus pTotaoi Except for Cotton he hiss n ilhsr
fsesn mr. II cm- msAes Does not tbs clearly prove
that there too -Hea labor employed IN g ielf,sl aud as
TIA e.ass' 70, Labor ,,otld * " ttsai Common sense
points oat Al once the remedy IyU tgTtcaars this
fsetuIvs hereby crs.dn. flo Mukr f,r your Bread
sna and 81 itesiss Lasor % ne 800 greffas aoosHf
aod benefits TO the country Will result TsAe from s,sH
tao. In ,be United states. sS hundred hou.soa men,
wom-o and shidren ard va tti afohce srs Howe Nv
ssi 70, Bsa 'fss. t.as al Europe f4rHshe,w IN
saort SIR, haze cng sut 20 p1cy The
Bnnsh rncrchsuts Il q time tina, should become little
more A~sssaaissL se ke lsee The ia letter Nuess
Rssis,es Jaas H. lssa, AUD We viii ,hstk The Unon
copy IL
Here il the sist, the essence OF sn wehavc ever
contended lor on this subject Gen. jackson calls
il common sense does The Ualon regard II as
sheer nonsense or gross folly Let US hear
distinctly That Napoleon Pitt, Gaming and the
most eminent French Statesmen Of the last cent.
ury, as well as two-thirds of all who have risen t.
eminenee in our own Federal Government lived
and died entertaining kindred convictions is no
,orious. Should not decent respect for such
names counsel the Official sdmirer OF W slker who
assails us whether IL be the Venerable or the Yer
dsnt of the Editors OF the Union to treat with
some semblance Of decorum the principles which
have been cherished by majority OF the public
men o; our country since 1t had substantive ex-
issencei
The Union deigns at length 10 recognize the
existence Of our original explanation that by Pro
lection we sought the limitation but by no means
the destruction Of Foreign Commerce. bat II SAYS
that lin mercy only we reirsired a. that time
from exposing both its owl sbsurdity snd It's aat
contradiction OF other parts OF the same article.
But, neishbor we require sruit Of YOU not
merry, and when YOU suppressed ths, para.
graph ana represented Us ~ contemplating the
destruction or stoppsge OF all such commerce.
yoa asserted an antra;h and gave it plausibiitv
BY dishonest suppression. Look 70 vour own
integrity and leave to US the care Of our consi,
tsncy
When the policy OF Protection hrst became
prominent topic Of popalsr and tresde discussion
say in lseo-s<-we well remember that II was
then generally urged snd 10 great extent con
ceded that its adoption would speedily diminish
and ultimately dry up the Natiossl Revenue from
Customs. We recolleot the concession in one Of
MIR Clays speeches Of that time, also the decs
ration Of the large lsndholder whose estate our
parents then resided, that # the policy were
adopted, he should sell off his landed property and
return to his earlier residence, Boston. He was
q Boston Federslst, and took his views from the
journals and orscles OF that city sud Boston was
then the Meccs Of Free Trade; Protection being a
Democratic and Free Trade Federal doctrine in |
those dsysl But few years experience OF Pro
lection disspsted al serious fears OF its proving
destructive to Revenue from customs, sud Il has
since been fashionable 20 asssil 10 SIS tending tO |
produce TOO nseh Revenue The Duck Creek |
iuminary who by virtue Of the Kane letter, now
ILLS the Executive Chair OF the Nation. has at
length been embo6ened 70 sssert IN his Message 1
lnsi ne eject Of the early Pro,setlonists was the