New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-25

redress that the Irish Parliament imposed
heavy duties under which ireland and Irish
men prospered, until the nation OF shop
keepers" by aid ofbribery and corruption,
established British free trade, the results
ofwhich we are now witnessing. Bribery
and corruption gave England the control of
the trade Of Portugal, as has since been
the case in India and Turkey, all of which
are now to be ranked among the poorest
and most contemplate communities of the
world. Bribery and corruption are now,
as we believe, at work among ourselves,
and should they succeed in giving to this
country the blessings of British free trade
and direct taxation--emphatically the sys-
TEN of Turkey and of India-the day must
come when this country will be qualified to
take its place by the side of the ruined ma
tons of the Eastern Hemisphere, and this
result will, as we think, be due to the ex-
ertions of that enlightened class among
ourselves called Tariff Democrats.
1t is now three years since Democracy
obtained the control of Congress, by put
ting Mr.. Cobb, ali Anti Tariff Democrat,
in the Speakers Chair of the House of
Representatives, and his first act was so TO
constitute the Committees that no measure
relative to the tariff could become eren the
subject o. di.cussioa, and his successor
MIR. Boyd, has followed the iHustrious ex-
ample. Year after year the President and
Secretary OF the Treasury have urged the
matter on the consideration OF Congress,
and year after year memorials have been
presented scom ilrmers, mechanics, and
laborers, all of which have gone to tie
Committee of Ways ADD Means, but that
Committee has steadiastly adhered to the
policy Of making no report, either favora-
BILE or adverse, because, by so doing the
question would be brought under consider
alton of the House, in which there was,
rs was well known, majority favorable to
a modification of our revenue system.
Year after year, the friends of the tariff
have been driven to the necessity of en-
deavoring to attach their bills TO the tail Of
other bills, and as uniformly have their
amendments been ruled out as being "out
of order"--as they most probably were
and, being so, it was impossible to obtain
majority of the House to reverse the
Chairs decision. But a few days since,
such decision upon this subject was most
Unexpectedly reversed whereupon a new
count was instantly demanded, and granted
by the Chairman, as II tcoaLd not have been
had the demand come from the other side
of the House. Forthwith, the alarmed
friends of British free trade mustered all
their forces, and were thus enabled to sus-
tain the Chair and gag the friends of
American farmers, laborers, and me-
chanics, as they had already done for the
three years past
We beg our Democratic tariff men
to observe that Democracy has now come
to mean that the minority shall rule. One
third of a Democratic Convention makes
Franklin Pierce candidate for the Presi-
dency, in opposition to the claims of Bu
chanBn, Cass, Marcy, and host Of others,
whose best exertions have been given to
the support of the party, at the sacrifice Of
their country's interests, and who, there
fore, had some right to look for cOmpensa-
ton. A minority Of the people Of the
Union favor British free trade, but Demo-
cratic tariff men aid in sending to Con
gress majority of men, who, in their vote
for Speaker, go for party, at the sacrifice
of the interests Of their constituents, and
the Speaker takes care that his Committees
shall be SO constituted as to gag, not only the
Wing tariff men in the House, but the
Democratic ones too; and thus it is that the
minority rules the majority, in the name
Of Democracy. Whether bribery and
corruption are used to produce this state of
things, we will not undertake to say, but
sure we are, that if there were, the matter
could not be more dexterously managed.
We beg our Democratic friends now to
remark that the Wing party recognizes
every where the right of the majority to
govern. A majority of their Convention
selects their candidates for the Presidency
and Vice-Presidency, and they ask only
that they may have a chance to ascertain
whether there is, or is not, majority of
the House of Representatives favorable to
carrying out the recommendation of the