The republic., 1851-04-10

BRADBURY, and the Baltimore platform gentle
men--are On one side; the Administration, the
WHue party, Mr.. CLAY. and his followers of
the Democratic party, are on the other. Let
the people choose between them.
While the Wines occupy the true Demo
cratic position on the question of River and
Harbor Improvements, they are equally strong
in their policy on the Tariff question. The
anti Democratic party are in favor of Free
Trade. They would throw open our ports to
unimpeded foreign competition. They say
that the wages Of labor in this country are too
high, and that they ought to be equalized with
the wages of other countries, by admitting the
results of foreign labor to our markets at the
smallest rates of duty consistent with the col
lection of the smallest amount of revenue ade-
quate to the wants of the country. They go
so far as to favor the entire abolition of the Gus
tom houses, and the support Of Government
by direct taxation. They would levy rates
upon our houses and farms and domestic
utensils and personal apparel, and cover the
land with excisemen and tax collectors, that
they may carry out their notions of free
trade. They think that our mines, furnaces
and manufactures ought to be closed, until
wages can be brought down to the European
standard, and thus enable the proprietors to
work them to advantage by the labor of an i'm
poverished and starving population. This is
the Democratic" doctrine OF Mr.. RHETr and
the Richmond junto. The Democratic doc
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party, is the reverse Of all this. 1t favors the
protection of home labor and domestic industry
against the pauper labor of the rest of the
world. 1t knows that when this labor and in
dustry are protected by judicious legislation
when they are not driven to ruinous struggle
with the starving millions Of less favored
lands--the country is thriving and prosperous,
our productions are marvellously augmented,
the mass Of the people are wellfed, we'll
clothed, well-lodged, comfortable and con-
tented. Under the opposite policy of buying
every thing in the cheap-labor markets Of Eng
land, and producing only what labor equally
cheap can produce at home, the country Ian
guishes, the foreign debt accumulates, and a
term of false and hollow prosperity is followed
by convulsion, paralysis and general depres-
| sion. We entertain no doubt whatever that,
on the issue of free trade and moderate, or
what General JACKSON styled judicious tariff,
la large majority of the American people are
on the side of the WH1Gs and the Administra-
ton, and that the policy which they advocate
is the true Democratic policy of the country.
So in regard to the Compromise measures of
the late session of Congress. Notwithstand-
ing the extreme opinions expressed by the
RHErrs and MAsoNs ON one side, and the
CHAsEs and GIDDINasEs on the other, we have
no doubt that large majority of the people
sustain in this respect the WING Administra-
ton. The Abolitionists and Disunionists can
make no headway against the policy Of the
PRESIDENT and his Cabinet as announced in
the annual message. That policy was endorsed
with the warmest appreciation by the press
Of the country on its first announcement. All
the leading journals, excepting those of the
Disunionists and Abolitlonists, commended it
in the most cordial terms. 1t was distasteful
only to Nashville and Buffalo conventionalists,
sectionalists-men of one idea--men who de-
rive importance only from their works Of mis-
chief. If the expressions of the public press
were sincere, and, whether sincere or other
wise, they are upon record, the PRESIDENT and
| the Administration were encouraged in the
course laid down in the message by simulta-
neous burst of generous and enthusiastic ap-
plause from all sections of the country. Thus
encouraged, they have persevered in it, and
however others may change, they will continue
to persevere in it. The journals which hailed
this policy with acclamation may now assail
the measures of Compromise, may denounce
them as ''frauds," and stigmatize all who sup
port them as submissonists at the South, and as
dough-faces at the North; but the stand of the
Wing Administration has been taken, and will
be maintained, and we have no doubt that it
will be sustained by majority Of the American
people.
In view Of the position of the Wing Admin
istration these uing questions, it is but labor
lost for our venerable contemporary Of the
Union, and the distinguished Democrats Of
Richmond,'t to be worrying themselves about
"sedition laws" and national banks" and
''old Federalism" If they have any thing to
advance against the Wing policy Of 1850, let
us hear it, and we will argue the matter with
| them before the people; but when they are
compelled to seek their topics Of offence from
questions that were disposed of before the pre-
sent representative of the WING party of the
Union was born, or before he came into public
| life, we shall leave them in the undisturbed
enjoyment of these reproductions of second
childhood.
| Mr.. Gliddon.
This able arch@ologist and highly talented
lecturer gave the first Of his course Of lectures,
on the antiquities of Egypt, on Tuesday even
ing last and was listened to with the most