New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-05

We are not the enemy of England.
We render full justice to her great qualities
and great deeds. We do not doubt that
Providence has assigned her a lofty and
important career in the future as well as
the past But to that policy which aims
to render her the focus and arbiter of the
worlds industry-the general market of
raw staples and the chief supplier of fab
RIGS for other nations-we are intensely
hostile, because we believe it at war with
Human Progress, with general well-being,
and even with the ultimate interest of Eng
land herself We regard that policy as
tending to prOlong the reign of boorishness
and barbaIism by keeping the Nations ig-
norant of these Arts through which Skill
is attained, Intelligence ditlused, Know
edge increased, and just and proper indie
pendence realized. We believe that, if
Great Britain would take our Wool, Cot
ton, Flax, Hides, Wheat, &c. and return
them all to us fabricated into Clothes,
Shoes and Bread, charging US nothing for
the labor, it would still be damage to Us
to have our work so done for nothing, be-
cause we ought to understand the making
of Clothes, Shoes and Bread, and do for
ourselves. We believe Labor, in the wise
Providence of God not a curse but prac-
tical blessing-a chief instrument of Mans
moral, Intellectual and social elevation
But to this end it must be redeemed from
the character of mindless drudgery-it
must be no perpetual round of iteration and
imitation-but a process which calls into
play mental as well as physical faculties.
The People of Italy, like those of Ireland,
are naturally quickwitted, active, enter
prising; they are degraded and brutalized
in part by the absence of that diversified
and comprehensive Industry which is es-
sential to a true \ ational life. Belgium
has the same religion, no better soil and is
heavily burdened; yet its people are far
above the Italians and the Irish in culture,
comfort and thrift, because the lndustryof
Belgium is happily diversified, and the sur
plus products of her admirable Agriculture
find markets at the farmers doors in her
ample Manufactures.
The London Times chronicle the whole
sale expatriation of the Irish from Ireland
with open complacency and thinly-con-
cealed exultatiQn, seeing that their places
will be taken by English and Scotch
farmers, whose skill and knowledge, ac-
quired under happier auspices, will enable
them to obtain larger crops per acre with
less labor, and so pay higher rents to Eng
lish landlords and turn off larger SURPRISES
of produce for English markets. Then the
expatriated Irish, says The Times, are not
lost. Driven to America by the pressure
Of famine at home, they earn better wages
and buy more British goods than they were
able to procure in their native land. Pat,
who could hardly afford to cover his bones
once a year with some three-penny stuff
while lie lived in Ireland and jumped at
the chance of earning ninepence a day,
when transferred to an American Railroad
track or embryo Canal and set to work at
a dollar per day, soon clothes himself re-
specially in wooden and buys gingham
dresses for his wife and children, causing
the heart of British Manchester to laugh
outright. Bull has a habit of regarding
every body from the shOpkeeping point of
view, and be finds that every lrishman in
America is equal as a customer to three
Irishmen in Ireland: so the more he drives
into exile the greater are his trade and
profits. But he does not seem to under
hausted yet. Seven-eighths of the Irish
men in America have hitherto given their
votes and their efforts to sustain the Brit
ISL Manufacturing supremacy in this coun-
try. Without those votes, Mr.. Clay could
not have been defeated in 1874, nor the
Tariff cut down in 1916. By these votes,
this country was thrown back into the path
of Colonial subserviency to British ascen-
duncy and British policy. We are sure the
voters did not mean this, but such was the
tendency; such has been the result.
We have strong faith that the Irish
Americans, as a body, will take different
course hereafter. They have at no time
meant to be the servitors of British policy;
but they have been misled by the specious
cry Of Democracy into supporting a policy
opposed to their own most cherished as
pirations. We trust they will act and
vote Lnreafer fnr TINT nnlicu ,rl,;ch 90.