New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-07

of course, we understand that the
shareholders will ask for more Law if what
they now have does not answer their pur-
pose; but asking and obtaining are not ex-
actly the same thing in this case. The new
Fugitive Law was only carried as a COM
promise-an offset to the Abolition of the
District Slave-Trade land if more Is
wanted, an equivalent for it must be prof
fered. What is Virginia prepared to give
in exchange for afixing another chain and
ball to the ankles of her fugitive laborers!
How many Buels will she be apt to fad
in the next Congress or the next!
But The Wing has a rod in pickle for
us! Hear and shudder
ave have but one word more for Mr.. Greeley
and his subscribers. The Tribune has been an
earnest advocate of Protection TO American Labor
1t has appealed to the support OF American
patriotism 1t has been responded to from the
South by a cordial support for Mr.. Clay, Mr.
Webster, Mr.. Frelinghuysen, Mr.. Sargent, Mr.
Fillmore The Protective Tariff has been sus
tanned by Southern Wings, IN the persons and
pretensions of all those gentlemen; year alter
wear have Southern Wings been led up to main
lain the propriety Of Protection, and have been
shot down, with the warcry Of patriotism upon
their lips They have been led where they were
"damnably peppered, and many OF them are Tor
"tbe towns end for life and all for patriotism
which being interpreted, means the promotion OF
a most sordid sectional interest which, In return,
seduces or steals our saves-encOurages their
escape-counsels armed resistance TO their re-
covery, and subscribes money to the free niger
Ill no a ryc n COnpraeq
effect
We beg leave to assure our polite CO.
temporary that The Tribune not only has
been but is "an earnest advocate of Pro-
lection to American Labor" and yet if 1t
can only procure Protection to the Labor
of New York by conspiring to rob the La
borers of Virginia of their just earnings, it
will spurn the bargain.
We know there toaS a time-Or we
have grossly misread her history-when
Virginia would have disowned the son
who ventured in her name to address such
an appeal to the North as we have just
quoted from The Wing. We know she
had a race of Statesmen who supported
Protection as no sectional interest but de-
manded by the permanent and impartial
well-being of the whole Nation. We
thank her most heartily for the lessons of
wisdom and true patriotism on this subject
of Protection which we have learned of
her Washington, her Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Newton and Stuart-yes, thank
Goodness, the breed of noble blOods is
not yet wholly extinct, for the Home De-
partment at Washington is now filled by
Virginian whose arguments for Protection
as of the first Importance to Agriculture
as we'll as Manufactures, Virginia as we'll
as Massachusetts,, are among the most for
chile we ever read. Never, from the lips
of her Statesmen whom the Country has
learned to respect and love, did we catch an
intimation that Protection was intended or
calculated to subserve 1.-THE promotion of
a most sordid sectional interest" Such
language from the mouths of her Ritchies
her Baylys, her BOcocks, would not sur
prise us-their souls are incapable Of
grasping more of the effects of Protection
than fly would perceive of the architec-
tural proportions of St. Peter's-but it is
q mournful sign of her degeneracy when
we find such language as we have quoted
in journal once edited by John Hampden
pleasants. We know its radical falsehoOd
we despise its bullying purpose. If
there are three States in this Union which
more than others would be benefited by
efficient Protection-which more than
others truly need such Protection as car
dinal feature of our National Pohcy-they
are Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. And
if their Statesmen imagine that in support
ing Protection they are promoting North
ern sectional interest at the expense of the
general good, we entreat them to forbear
until they shall have been further enlght-
ened. The wisdom which cannot penetrate
their minds through any existing avenue
may be borne in on the tide of National
and general disaster which our present
policy of running in debt to Europe for
staples we ought to produce for ourselves
will certainly ensure. Ifthey really imagine
Protection a boon to be conceded to the
North at the expense of the South, we in
sist that it be not granted.