New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-08

changes theslordiy port OF dogmalic anu
vaporing bully for the dropping crest of
ouibbler and a sneak. Ii becomes as
double-tongued as diplOmatist andss agile
as trout. Put your finger on it wherever
it may seem to be, aud you will not find it
there. Ask it to say whether Our present
slippery and fraud-inyiting system Of Ad
Valorem Duties ought to be perpetuated,
when every other nation prefers the hon
ester and simpler plan of Specific imposts
on all articles to which such impO'ts can
be applied-and Democracy stands mute
Ask it if it deems wise or just the imposi-
ton of higher duties on raw materials
largely imported, and loper on the fabrics
produced therefrom- and still Democracy
is silent. Ask it if it condemns the policy
of discriminating, in the adjustment OF our
Tariff, in favor of American Industry, ex-
posed to depressing rivalry from Europe,
and it says nothing directly, bat skulkingly
affirms that "justice and sound policy for
bid the Federal Government to foster one
branch of Industry TO the detriment Of any
'oher, or to cherish the interests of any
portion TO the injury Of another portion
: of our common country. Who ever de-
MED this What is it to the purpose
Why not speak to the question or else keep
silence!
So with regard to River and Harbor
Improvements. The Federal Government
claims and exercises an exclusive right of
levying imposts on Commerce. IL collects
over Forty Millions per annum in Duties
on Imports. But the goods it thus taxes
can be imported only in proportion to their
sale, and this depends on the facilities af-
forded for diffusing them all over the
Country. A bar in a river, or the want of
a safe accessible harbOr at certain local
ity may diminish the annual Revenue by
many thousands of dollars. Now who
ought to remove that bar or improve that
harbor if not the Government which alone
derives revenue from Imports How else
can the cost of the needed improvements
be so fairly and equally assessed on those
who ought to pay them as by Duties on
Imports If that which we advocate be
not the true doctrine on this subject, what
is? Look the question fairly in the face,
and not go round niobling and munching
in its rear Yet the Baltimore Platform
only tells US
"That the Constitution does not confer upon the
General Government the power to commence and carry
on general system Of Internal improvements"
o most luminous headlight why not
tell us what system it does authorize! If
none at all, why this deceitful qualification
Has Democracy no other function than
to prevent any good being done by start
ing cavis as to who ought to do it J
But when the subject of Slavery is
reached, Democracy becomes all at once
positive and valiant. Having just asserted
that the principles embodied by Jefferson
in the Declaration of Independence make
tours the land of liberty and the asylum
Of the oppressed of erery nation, its exPosi-
tors and champions turn a short corner and
pledge their party to " faithful y alacrity
in catching and reminding fugitiyes from
Slavery and to the suppression. of every
whisper of discomfort at the existence and
despotic ascendancy of Human Chattel-
hood. No matter what may be done, I'M
der cover of law or in open defiance of its
mandates, to extend and invigorate Slavery
no matter though California may be di-
vided in its behalf, free citizens hurried
without trial into everlasting bondage, or
thrust into Southern jails for no other crime
than that involved in the color OF their
skins, yet Democracy pledges itself with
out reserve to resist all agitation that
is, inquiry, remonstrance, discussion DO
you believe these politicians when they
thus vaunt their devotion to principles
which render this country 1.-THE asylum OF
the oppressed of every nation" at the
same time that they evince such a relent-
less feeling toward our otcn fugitives from
bitterer oppression, deeper degradation
than any known in Europe! Alas the
African fugitive has no power, and little
hope of any; while his uropean fellow
sufferer has the active sympathies OF Half
Million Voters already, and will soon'
with Half Million more, be voter HIM
self. Rely on it, the man who would
hound a negro back into Slavery would
steal and sell white man if he might do
SO with perfect impunity.
1.-The People of the United States were