New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-18

markable case Of that tyranny could be ad-
duced than is found in the nse OF the words
free. trade by the advocates IN England
and this country Of the system that looks TO
establishing in the former monopoly OF
the power to supply the world with cio'n
and iron, and Of the power 70 comPei INC
farmers and planters Of the world 70 "fi''s
70 England all the commodities tney pro-
duce, there to have fixed the Pfice o. d"
thev desire TO buy, and of all they require
70 sell Point out to them that every "hefe
I'M, system of trade results IN the rum OF
the PLANTER and farmer, and the dlmiOn''oh
Of the power to consume either cloth or ron'
I'd the answer is found in the cry OF Free
rrade'' Show them that m Ireland and
India, and everywhere indeed, the estab-
l;shme Mt of British power ever trade 10 fol-
lowed by diminution CT the power 10
trade, and diminution in the freedom OF
man. and the answer still repeated is free
Trade ~ W c have thus throughout the world
m attempt TO substitute words for things,
precisely as in the case of Church and
State. and other of the words of which the
witty canon so much complained
The same error seems to have found
Mace even in mind as strong and as well
DISCIPLINED as that of KossUTH and be-
eause we so profoundly admire him and so
deeply sympatbize with his political aims
IN general. we feel ourselves the more free
20 refer to case in which we are unable
10 admit the correctness of his reasoning.
In his speeches in England he has every
vhere been seen as the advocate OF local
self-government, and the opponent of CEN
tralization. OF the latter he speaks as
of fatal sickness spreading over Eu-
rope, and he tells us that he and few
friends had " struggled against the storm,
against those rushing waves coming over
the spirit of Europe, because he re-
parded and ever should regard municipal
life as a public benefit without which there
~ no practical freedom whatever" and yet
he also appears as the advocate of that
which in Manchester is styled freedom
Of trade, but which everywhere proves
itself the foe to freedom of man, because
it aims at the establishment Of monopoly,
and seeks to attain its ends by aid Of the
popular cry of &" Free Trade"
But few days since we offered our
readers an extract from the writings of one
Of the most distinguished authors of the
age, walter Savage Landor,) in which he
says that by reason of the perpetual growth
of Capitalization in England the liberties of
the people are losing their strength and
freshness every day" and yet it is to the
system under which Capitalization is thus
extending itself hourly-the system under
which government commissions are almost
daily supplanting municipal Institutions
under which the people are becoming
daily poorer, while the bankers and brokers
are daily more and more monopOlizing the
land, that Kossuth looks for aid in the estab-
lishment of free institutions in Hungary A
more remarkable case of the tyranny of
words has rarely, we think, been seen.
In his Manchester speech Kossuth tells
his hearers that the freedom Of Europe
is directly connected with the extension
Of free trade, and asks what would be the
market Of Manchester, if commerce were
free and Hungary were developed The
answeI to this question might be found in Ire
land, where Manchester free trade has first
ruined the people, land. owners and laborers,
and is now driving them out, that their
places may be occupied by the Barings and
the Rothschilds, the Hudsons and the Peels.
Ii might be found in Scotland, where thou
sands and tens of thousands of the descend
ants Of the first occupants of the soil have
been expelled to make room for sheep, and
hundreds of thousands live from year TO
year on the brink of starvation. 1t might
again be found in India, where Manchester
free trade has annihiated the whole class
Of smaller proprietors, who but little more
than half a century since had their system
Of local government for the management OF
their local concerns. 1t may now be
found even in England itself, where there
s daily diminution of the power to ex-
change labor for the necessaries of life,
and daily increasing tendency toward
the monopoly of the land Ii, then, Man
chester free trade has only ruined Ire
land preparatory, according to the free trade
Times, to its total abandonment, why should
the samc system tend to the Improvement
Of Germany' If it has depopulated Scot
land, can 1t profit Hungary If it has
1pstroveJ tho Local institu,;oos - i.