The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-24
The Reciprocity Bill and tho Tariff.

be considered, for this session at least decisive
scarcely reflected upon the pertinacity always
and everywhere manifested by Great Britain
in the effort to carry out her schemes, and still
less had they reflected on the extraordinary
gullibility SO often manifested by ourselves, al
almost every period of our history, in rendering
our efforts in aid of those schemes. Had they
done so, they would have arrived at the same
conclusion with ourselves, to wit: that the
screw would be unsparingly used to effect the
passage of the bill, and thus prevent further
exposition of the dement's of the measure.
We now learn that decision is to be
pressed, and that its friends count confidently
on its becoming law before the close of the
session, and by aid of Southern votes. Under
these circumstances, we think we can scarcely
fail to crafty our readers of the great agricul-
tura States, by laying before them the argu-
ments by which the South is being invoked to
aid in the adoption of measures so destructive
of their interests. They are, as we learn, as
follows:
Canada is disaffected. She has no market
for her products. Food is cheap with us, and
likely SO to remain. We can no longer afford
her market Her food, her lumber, and all
her products, are very low in price, and like
: ly to become lower. With you food and lum-
9 Der are high in price, because you have made
market for both. Canada desires to divide
that market with your farmers. She desires
to import them into the Union, duty free, and
to purchase her cloth and her iron from US. If
you will grant her this favor, and thus permit
3 her to enjoy all the advantages of State of
the Union, without imposing upon her the
performance of any of the duties of State,
she will be content to remain colony. If you
refuse this she will separate from us and set
up for herself, and then you will be compelled
to annex her, and thus destroy 'the equilibri-
um.' Grant her this law and she will re-
main without the Union, and you will be re-
lieved from the danger of any further increase
in the number of Northern States"
Rome extended her empire by means of SOW
ing discord among the nations, the provinces,
and the people Of the ancient world; and such
have been, and are, the means used by Great
Britain for extending her empire over the PEG
pie of the modern world. Ii was by sowing
discord among the sovereigns and the people of
the shores of the Ganges that she established
her Indian empire; and such would be the
means now used for establishing an empire
further east should she once obtain foothold in
China, whose people and government are being
pauperized and demoralized by means Of the
immense contraband trade in opium carried on
with the sanction of the British government and
people. Go where she may, she has been, and
is, the herald Of discord. If any doubt this,
we would beg Of them to study her proceed
ings, even at this hour with reference 10 this
Union. AT home, her journals hail the incor-
pOration Of California, free State, because il
will aid in the suppression of slavery; and the
belief is confidently expressed that the rapid
increase in the number Of the free States must
lead 10 the adoption of measures for its extinc-
ton. Here, on the contrary, her paid agenis
are urging upon the Southern States that they
should unite with her in preventing any in
crease in the number Of Northern States, and
thus prevent the adoption Of any measures hos
tile 10 slavery. She thus blows at the same
breath both hot and cold, and thus has she eve
rywhere done. At one moment leading jour.
nal proposes TO send a few regiments 10 Brazil
TO stir up the blacks and put an end TO slavery.
and at the next the shareholders Of America are
offered the aid Of the British Government in
Gripping the great agricultural interest Of the
North, that Canada may be built up TO stand as
the buttress Of Southern interests. Her policy
thus leads everywhere 10 the production Of dis
cord
There is now good reason to believe that the
harmony of the Union may be restored. The
slave questions are settled. The West and
the Northwest have been literally aided in re-
gard to roads. Nothing now remains To com
plete the disposal Of all the questions that have
heretofore agitated the Union, but the passage
Of an act for the protection Of American labor
against the violent and sudden changes that are
necessarily incident TO the existence Of the sys-
tenn by which Great Britain has 20 long en-
deavored to monopolize machinery, for the pur-
pose Of taxing the farmers and planters Of the
world. That would, and, as we trust and be
htNts Nui' Dt tht cfoNHlnR hedSufe OF lne
session, and thenccforth there will be peace
and harmony throughout the whole extent Of
the Union.
The result may prove that we are IN error in
this anticipation. Instead Of an act for protect
ing the American laborer, we may have one for |
reducing the labor and land Of the Union to a |
level with those Of Canada; and should that be |
the case, we venture TO predict that there will |
can be--no harmony. On the con-
trary, agitation must and will recommence, for
every Northern and Western farmer will, from
that moment, become an annexstionist, because
he will insist that, il the Canadian is TO enjoy
all the rights Of citizen, he shall perform all
the duties Of one, and thus be enabled TO estab-
lish for himself home market for his products.
instead Of continuing to be compelled to oversiock
our markets to the injury Of every man engaged
in the cultivation Of the earth. Once within the
Union, the Canadian will be raised to a level