The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-04
From the Oneida IN. ~ Morning Herald.
Impending Danger.

IL is an undenable fact, that while Congress is
wasting the time and the public patience IN IDLE
discussion upon distractions, and in the hurtiui
agitation of sectional differences which would long
since have been satisfactorily settled had the patri
otto suggestions Of President Taylor been needed,
| the practical interests OF trade and manufactures
have been suffered 10 sink into ineriority and ne
glect. The i'll adaptation OF our revenue laws 10
the wants and interests of the country Is every day
becoming more apparent, and the dangers OF
financial revulsion consequent upon the excessive
| importations and the impositions practsed under
| the present tariff more critical.
The continued agitation Of the subject OF slavery
has served for the last two years to divert the minds
of the mass from the approaching danger; but the
time is fast coming when il will stare them in the
face, and they will then, when II ID too late, depore
| the folly that led them TO waste the precious time
| in wrangling which they should have devoted to
| the prevention of the impending evils.
That the country is plunging head and heels into
debt-that it is running up an immense balance OF
| trade against it in Europe-wi not be denied The
importatons into the port OF New York during the
| last year have been enormous, exceeding by tens
of millions the amount of exports during the same
| time. The great balance against us has been tenn
| porariy provided for by the sale OF our Govern
Inent stocks, for which the plenitude Of money for
| investment in Europe has created temporary de-
mand. But this demand rests on precarious
foundation and when it ceases to be active at
present, and when the large amount Of obligations
created by the issue of these stocks begins TO fall
| due, then the ''crisis must come. Europe may no
longer want stocks; she will not need our agri-
cultural productions, for she can procure them
cheaper from more convenient source. The hard
cash must then be forthcoming. There must be a
drain on the specie circulation of the country, more
pressing than any we have yet experienced And
with this drain must come financial straightness,
bringing with ii ruin and desolation TO the COM
| mercial and manufacturing interests OF the coun-
try. on which the prosperity of all other interests
depend
tariff, the total abolition of the dd UdIorem system,
and the adjustment of the duties basis which,
| by putting efIectual stop to the importation Of
| those articles which we can produce at home, will
prevent the excessive importations which now
| drawing away the life blood of the country, can
prevent such crisis. II need not be argued that
If a tariff OF virtual prohibition be adopted against
| certain articles, monopoly will be created In
| favor Of the home manufacturer; experience has
eiIectually exploded this fallacy. There is no man
uactured article now brought in from abroad
| which may not be made with equal advantage
at home. Shut out the foreign article, and
| there will be lack of competition among do
| mestic manufacturers; and where there is compe-
| tltion there Is no monopoly, and no exorbitant
prices. Encourage home manufacturers by shut
ting out foreign products, and the article may
| be produced and sold cbeaply the imported
articles now are or ever can be. Our country pos
sesses natural advantages for all kinds of manufac
lures, which fully counterbalance the greater cheap
| ness of labor abroad.
| We should rejoice to see the day when the Wing
party, having happily disposed of the questions
which now hang likes mill stone about its neck,
and which, bearing down the prosperity of the
country, shall fall back to its first and most i'm
portant MISREPRESENTATION to american industry.
late English writer thus speaks of the causes Of
society in England;
| The gloom of England is, in truth, of the
most formidable evils of modern times. With
all the advance in morality and decency of the pre-
sent century, we have receded rather than gone
forwards in the attainment of that true Christian
| cheerfulness, which Notwithstanding the popular
| proverb-I believe to be the blessing next in value
| to goodness.
truly believe that one of the chief obstacles to
the progress of pure living Christianity in this
country is TO be found in that worldly carefuness
which causes our intense gravity, and makes US
the most silent nation in Europe. The respecta-
bility of England is its bane worship respecta
bility, and thus contrive to lose both the enjoy
ments of earth and the enjoyments OF heaven. IL
Great Britain could learn to laugh like
child, she would be in the way once more to pray
like a saint.
But this is not all the sensuality and gross vice,
and the hateful moroseness and harshness of tenn
per, which result from our indlspositon Tor gaiety
| and enjoyment, are literally awful TO think Of
Pride and RIGHTEOUSNESS triumph in our land, be-
cause we are too careworn or too stupid to enter
heartily into innocent recreations. Those two de-
mons, of which first cast man out of Paradise,
while the other has degraded him to the level of the
brues, served by myriads of helpless slaves,
who are handed over TO bondage of passion,
through the gloominess that broods nation
| al character. The young and the old alike, the
poor and the wealthy literally driven to excess,
because there is nothing in state OF society to
refresh them after their tolls TO make life
much season of enjoyment the inevitable lot of
| mortality will allow.
| Men fly TO vice for the want Of pure and innocent
pleasures. The gin-shops receive those who might
be entertaining themselves with the works of art in
| public gallery. The whole animal portion of our
being is fostered at the expense of the spiritual
| We become brutalized, because we are morbidy
afraid of being frivolous and OF wasting our time
The devil keeps possession of Englishman's
heart, through the fundamentally Of his carnal
passions because he is too proud and too stupid TO
| laugh and enjoy himself
Secret sin destroys its myriads, inundated on the
altar Of outward respectabity, and of regard for
the opinion of money getting world.
SUPERSTITION IN FRAscE.-Two respectable wo-