Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-13
From the New York Tribune

| Barbour bears henceforth unquestioned sway. III
has been deemed expedient, 6y certain magnates
of otherdays, in order to 'klll Seward that the
| Wing party should be crushed, and they nave
done the Job most efectually. neither they have
surely effected their own particular end by inc |
process, doth not yet clearly sppeari but we WIN
| Tor the present presume that they have done So
| 1t would be pity to have SO much LABOR anu eA
| pense waited, as though man should burn down
his own house 10 rid it oil haunting ghost, winch
should prove, after all but phantom projected pSl
| a guilty conscience on his own penurbed magma,
ltion! And unless dhe Death and Burial OF John
RnrleycoIn, are 10 be in this destruction
of Seward, we may hops that the bugbear Of 'rhe
Union in Dangerp will now. be permitted to SUM
Der for little while, until the politicians who
have Just secured the Spois' have reason to lear
Ihat they are in peril of losing them, when the old
stalking horse will be dragged out again to fghten
fools into The desired subserYeHcy and then be re
stored to the the atrcal thunderstorm whence 1t was
drawn. 80 e. Il Hl-A 60 ,L.7
| Well: the yictors can take nothing, from MS. We
never had anything, and probably never shall have
anything, for them to take. - Gen. Pierce cannot
possibly DO less for'us than any and every Wing
President has done, and each of them gave us all
we ever asked of him. We shall write hun the
identical number of letters we wrote TO them; so
that there is nothing lost on ATTACK; and then
the most sunwelcome labor of writing letters TO
heads OF Departments or Bureanx, begging places
for persons who would be far better employed
growing potatoes, is one which every Wing pre-
| sumed to have any influence at Court will very
gladly be spared. So, you sec, on the present
score, there are q good many who nave gained
rather than lost by our recent dlsct MIXTURE.
| But its public issues are far more momentous.
Commercially, the United States are reannexed
to the British Empire. London has. become the
metropolis of our Trade, the controller OF our In
dustry A vote in the Boardroom of the Bank of
| Enga nd may precipitate commercial crisis here
| at a ny moment. Successive meetings of the Bn-
fish Iron-mastcr will determine whether Amerl-
can Iron makers shall thenceforth be permitted to
In -, finn chnll hp en-
off by an inexorable necessity above their reach,
to build cabins and commence clearings in the far
western wilds-a vocation III which they are Who'll
ly uiskled, to which they are utterly disincned.
And if permitted, by the current price OF Iron es-
tablished in England TO continue working at then
own calling, they must adopt the wages virtually
fixed by the British masters OF their destiny.
| For whatever there may be unfortunate IN Tins
state of things, or discouragng in the prospect,
zoe are notresponsible. The battle for vital Amer.
lican Independence has been lost, but through no
lack of zeal nor of industry OH our part. Erross
of judgement we may have committed during IT'S
progress, but stand consciously innocent OF any
others.
We know that the Main Question has not been
decided on its merits. Dread OF Nahvisin, skill
fully fomented and directed against the Wings by
The engineers Ct the victorious host has been the
chief instrument of trump. An apprehension
that the Wings would prohibit or greatly restrict
Naturalization il they had the power, has throw
against us Three Hundred Thousand Votes OF adop-
ted Citizens, of whom two-thirds would have vo-
tied with us but for this. They did not intention
ally vote against anything we proposed, but only
against that which were falsely accused of
lmedi,ating. II the question could be fairly pre-
lSented-shall the making of Iron and Fabrics Tor
American Use be done mainly in America! or IN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF them would have voted
Ion the side of Home Industry, upheld, SO far rs
necessary, by protection Yet the result is just as
Idecsivs and almost as reversbe as If 1t had been
l intended. - ''t
There are thousands who have voted so as to
Throw themselves and Others ont Of employment,
who will be vainly seeking and grumbing at the
want of it, before they are many months Older Let
us all Any to find work Tor them to the extent oil
our ability. s3,fL ragE7 --.s !.---=
! There are thousands who have voted against i'm
pcdimentsto the graduation of the price OF labor
in America by the miserable pittance usually paid
Ito labor in the Old World. Letus strive SO far as
possible, to shield them iron the consequences oil
l this unntended- error. ~ ..s..,-s--a
The prospect Of any change in the Tariff favora-
j Bile to American Manufactures is now very remote
and dubious. In its absence, we must pay more
attention to the facilitating and fastening of In
ldustral progress by means of Invention or Me-
chanical lmproy ement This being the only line
of advance open to u.s. we must seize 1t with ener-
gy and follow ituith untiring Zeal. Every inyen-
ton that dimnshes the quantom oil Labor requIr-
ed to produce desired result, unless it at the
same time greatly increases the requirement of Cap
ital, brings us nearer the desired consummatlon.
European artisans work far cheaper, but ours have
3 discovered whereby. each hundred, days work
would produce II hundred tons of Iron, taking the
ore from its native bed and transforming it into
good merchantable bars, we should be brought
thereby many years nearer to essential indepen-
dSnce, even though al. the world should adopt and
/ profit by the invention. And this truth covers
. nearly the entire domain of Industrial Progress.
True we cannot thus profit by arts We do not
l cherish, and the march OF Invention IN Western
Europe has been only curse and a blight TO Tur-
key, India and other Eastern Countries whose ra-
der Manufactures have thereby been crushed; but
| we have the germs Of eninence and perfection in
1 Art deeply imbedded in our present industrial
state in our National intelligence and enterprise,
4 and must somehow ann them into full vitality
IItwill be far slower, more difficult, more arduouS
Labor to establish and perfect the Useful Arts in
this country without Protection than with lit
may require generations to accomplish what might
aud should be done in years-but we shall stub
bornly believe that wheIe there is will there is
way, and still hope and labor for Il G time when
\ American hands shall fashion American Cotton,
4 WOOL Flax, and Silk intoi all Cor nearly ally the
textile fabrics required by our people, and when
all the Iron used in America shall be dug from our
own soil and smelted in our iown. furnaces. This
hope niay be disappointed, as SO many hopes have
been, but since its frutionr may be achieved in
spite of Congresses and majorlties, we shall not
Gghtlysurrender it. ,ssts s'.,s. p. al7. e. g
/ we hope nothing now from legislation, and shall
be rather agreeably disappointed II the pressure on
Congress of the vast pecuniary interests lensaged
in Railroad building do not succeed in breaking
down the present duty on Iron, at least so far as
rails are affected by ill., OF the majority
ask nothing; but we do entreat the Wing minority
not to be wheedled, nor bulled, nor bribed. into
giving any support TO this exemption. We are now
paying far more for Railroad Iron than we need or
should pay if our duties on lion had been eff
GENTLY Protective for the last twenty years; we
are quite likely to pay still more in the absence
of any effective Home competition in producing
Rails; we shall certainly pay more if the duty be
taken off, If the duty on lion could be raised at
once ty s25 per ton with positive guarantee that
should stay there for ten years and Iron were not
cheapened thereby TO our consumers within two
years, we would ioyfully agree to be thrown into
a furnace in full blast. But it is too late to talk
1 of this now. All we ask is, that Wing Members
of Congress be not partakers in the new sacrifice