New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-25
A Word 10 those who will Hear.

THe Times assures Us that " 50 far as the
federal revenue is concerned, there is now
absolutely no pretcnse fer additional duties"
that ga, to protection, the Improvement
of the revenue under the system which Mr.
Corwin denounced as Injurious to domestic
enterprises is itself Il sufficient reply'-that
before many years the federal debt will
probably expire, and with it the greater
part of the import dutcs'-and having thus
bestowed upon It's shopkcepng readers a
quantity of information precisely similar to
that which it furnished shortly previous to
to our last crisis, and shortly prev lous to its
own denunciaton of all Americans as black
legs and swindIers, it closes by asking trl-
umphantlv, "Nhat has so great and growing
a country to do with protection = What has
a giant to do with swaddhng clothes?' How
can the greatness of the Union be promoted
"by taxing tho many for the sake of the
few, and by sacrificing the whole of the
Union to the convenience of some few man-
uiacurers in New York and one or two 9TH
er States"
1t is by trash of this kind that England
governs this Union. The Times can utter
nothing, however absurd, relative to this
country-how utter Soever may be the igno-
rance it manitests of all our commensurate
Is not republished and greedily swallowed
by the numerous journals 50 busiy employed
throughout the Union in locating the
maintenance of the manufacturing and com
mercial supremacy of Great Britain. That
1t IS trash-the mereSt trash-wo hope to
satisfy our readers and will satisfy every
one that will examine carefully the figures
we shall lay before him.
The burden of this song Is, as We have
said, the public revenue. Because the
Government collects large amount of tax
Is, therefore the nation must be prosperous.
We have, however, on two former coca
sions, had revenues nearly equal IN absolute
amount, and far greater IN proportion to
popuiaiion, and both proved to have been
but the precursors OF a state of poverty
that led to the establishment of highly pro-
tective tariffs, and it remains to be seen
whether like causes VIII not IN the present
case. produce Ike consequences, The
Times to the contrary Notwithstanding. 1t
IS supposed because the Government
can now collect a large amount of taxes,
that therefore the power to collect taxes
must increase, whatever be the condition of
the tax-paving population In the only
two cases, however, IN which We
have before had similar revenues, they
have proved to be a sort of pyramid, be-
coming as they grew " fine by degrees aud
beautifully less" until the revenue almost
/ tapered off 10 a point. 1t Is held too by
/ of political economy, as he has invariably
shown himself in regard TO this country ig-
norant OF the laws of decency, that because
the revenue Is large therefore the debt
( will be paid of. and no other debt will be
created. We have, however, twice before
had similar revenues, and they have both
been followed by a pressing necessity for
the contraction OF loans TO sustain the credit
OF the Government Ii is held that because
wehave large public revenue the Union
must therefore be increasing in strength
and greatness. We have twice before had
such revenues, and the last occasion was
followed by 4 state OF weakness and ex-
haustion so complete that the government
was obliged to beg, and beg in vain, for
] loans in all the markets of Europe, and was