New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-20

Rr;,isb arms! Or Is it in the recent grab
Of the Island of Ruatan, or in the Mos
ouito humbug, that we are to find pat
tern Of political morality of the true Brit
ish stamp?
But ~ according to the Catholic dogma
the rites Of religion are efficaciOus though
the priest who performs them be rogue
90 truth is truth. though dropped from ~
inc Inns. and wisdom is wisdom, though ut
tered by charlatan. And so, whatever
we think of The Times, we hold It's DOC
tripe TO be sound and its advice good IL
is true that the only solid and enduring
greatness of a nation must be the WORK OIL
IFS own industry and attention to It's own
affairs. The United States prove this.
Our power is built up at home, on our own
soil. in the benignant air of free instltu-
tutions and of peace. This power OF foreign
conquest and war would not enlarge but
diminish and vitiate. Moreover, national
iniu,tice is the deadliest of poisons for the
nation that commits it. But labor and en-
terprise, the increase and diffusion OF
wealth and of intelligence, the trlumphs
of the thinking head and the creative
hand these will not only fortiiy and illus
trate our country, but are pregnant with
the future liberties of the world.
ene branch Of the subject our London
contemporary prudently avoids. That is
the connection between the policy OF
British free trade and our deviation from
The career of peaceful industry which 1t
comments, for that of territorial aggran-
dizemeLt and slavery extension, which it
condemns. And yet this is the essential
point of the story. When we had pros
porous and expanding industry; when
every spindle and every forge was busy;
when we were building new mills and fur
naces, and opening new mines of coal and
iron; when our furnaces found ready Gus
toners at home for their surplus products,
and every day concentrated the population
by bringing the tiller of the soil and the
artisan nearer together; when we were
thus daily adding to the wealth and the
power of the Union-then there was no
occasion for hypocritlcal advice like that
on which we now comment.
Blu; ills STATE Of things was not destined
70 continue. The system of The Times
prevailed in this country, thanks to those
..vsuble allies of the commercial policy OF
England" the so.caled Democrats and the
present supporters of FRANKLIN Pierce.
British free trade was established with re-
suits analogous to those it has produced
elsewhere. American industry is struck
down. Mills are closed, mines abandoned,
furnaces sold by the sheriff. The growth
of the country in the production of wealth
and in real power is checked. Farmers
lose the home market without obtaining
an equivalent foreign outlet for their pro
ducts; artisans are driven to become farm
crs, thus Increasing the amount of bread
stufls and provisions to be sold while di-
minishing the number Of buyers. The
spirit of restless adventure and grasping
cupidty grains strength and influence as
that Of peaceful labor and solid progress
declines the population scatters abroodin-
] stead Of concentrating; a. is natural to
people that will not sit down patiently
wi lie its circumstances deteIiorate,
thoughts of foreign conquest and territorial
! extension take the place of that honorable
] devotion Of the national energies to the
great work. Of the national Development,
which, as experience demonstrates, true
sy stem of American Policy must of neces-
sity produce.
Such is, in brief, the history of the ten
denotes which our English oracle rebukes.
British free trade is at the bottom of the
I matter it is the disease, and they are but
| the symptoms. The Tines, that with airs
Of pompous infallibility lauds and worships
the one, with equal airs, high.ened by
delicate tinge ofmoral indignation, inveighs
agains, the other. With equal claim to re-
! spect might the Father of Lies lecture his
children on the enormity Of the falsehoods
whose telling he had himself inspired.
swINDLING DEMOCRACY.
1t is perfectly notorious that the system