The republic., 1852-01-15


was discussed during the morning hour; and a
debate took place on the motion to refer to the
I Committee of Ways and Means communica-
lion from the Secretary of the Interior.
| FalIaciex OF the Intervention Doctrine.
M. kossUTH processes, and we doubt not
feels, a strong desire to avoid all interrentiOn
| in the domestic affairs of other nations, and yet
is he perpetualy led to interfere in them. la
talking to the people of Manchester, he urges
the vast advantage to be derived from the es-
tabishment Of free trade with the people of
Europe who produce food, and yet the question
| he thus discusses is precisely the one which
now divides the people of England. In South
ampton he stands side by side with Mr.WALY-
Err in advocating the system of the latter,
which looks to converting all our people into
farmers and planters, and rendering them de-
pendent upon the people Of Great Britain for all
their cloth and all their iron-the question now
under discussion here.
Arrived in this country, he thus dscourses
to the people of Philadelphia:
Regarded from the point of view of mere ma
terial interest-ina national State, local sense
as affecting the Union, the State of Pennsylvania
or the city of Philadelphia, you have deep stake
! engaged, as well a solemn duty to perform, in
/ forwarding the establishment of free government
| in Europe, and tsat your manufacturers, opera
/ tivcs, miners, merchants, and ship builders
more interested in your unrestricted inter-
course with Europe than State of the Union
was in the prosperity of another quarter Of CEN
! tury ago
/" The Union in general, and particularly your
State is more interested in this age OF steam
munication. now that your tonnage nearly doubles
that of the whole continent OF Europe that the
immense of Pennsylvania in coal and iron
are 80 rapidly becoming developed, and now that
Philadelphia is grown great and rapidly increas-
ing manufacturing city-you have, cay, an inn
Inense and immediate interest that few families
and individuals, those Romano1s, whose
sion, almost unbroken succession of murders,
has porpctuatef the beardess Nero Of Austria, the
buffoon king Of Naples, or the French mock Cesar,
should not be permitted to exclude you from the
immense market which hundred and thirty
millions of consumers would Afford all anxious to
trade with you, and all non-producing, in a manu-
featuring sense. Seventy millions in Russia,
twenty millions in Italy, thirty seven millions in
Austria and Hungary, arc in this category. What
matter IL you have 10 share those markets with
your uansatlanuc brethren, go they nre open to
your industry and enterprise? Philadelphia ia tue
first manufacturing city in the New World, but /
| am Informed exports hardly any Of it's manufac-
| tured produce The markets now open are not
/ fitted TO its products, and those immense market.
are shut up in which it might successfully now,
and every day, more advantagcously compete with
| the Old World"
! The people Of Pennsylvania have food to sell
and the only manufacturing country in which
/ they can sell it is Great Britain. The less they
have to sell the higher will be the price Of it
and, with view to increase the demand and
raise the price, they desire to convert portion
Of It into cual and iron, aud therefore adopt pro-
lection, which in Southampton is denounced by
Messrs. kossUTH and WALKER as one of the
features Of despOtism. Arrived here. the for
mer enlarges on the advantage to us Of the Ger
man, French, ard Russian demand for iron.
provided only that those markets could be open
ed; yet France and Russia are both exporters of
food, and they, like ourselves. are engaged in
the endeavor to make market for il al home
with view to diminish the quantity that needs
to seek a market abroad The direct effect of
any change in the German, Russian, or French
tariffs beneficial to British trade would be {,
increase the quantity Of German. Russian. and
French food that would be compelled to find a
market in England, and to diminish the price
oftbat we had to sell; but, to counterbalance this
we are offered the continental market for oui
cloth and our iron, while France. Belgium. anc
Germany, aided by protection, are nundatinr
us with their manufactures and closing up ou
factories
We have little TO export but food and raw
materials; and such being precisely the cast
with eastern Europe, the interests Of both are
to use the expression Of NJ. KossurH. .oli
dare with each other. We are interested il
their making home market for their food
and they are interested in our doing the same
and this dininshcs the quantity that require.
10 seek the British market. II is by aid o
protection that we are 10 obtain a power q
supply our domestic market, aud ultimately Il
exchange iron and cloth with the people VIII
produce coffee, sugar and tea. When we shal
have acquired power to supply ourselves witt
iron, it will be time enough to think of ex
changing it with Russia and Germany; but tn
time for that, Judging from the last Trea,ur,
Report, is far distant under the present system
, Protection looks to continuing manufactures an
! agriculture, and thus promote trade.
Between people who produce the same com
moduies there can be but little trade, as th
farmer does not need TO trade with his brothe
farmer. As employmenis become Oversize
! trade grows and therefore il is that our trad
with continental Europe increases as its variou
: countries become more protective. With mort
!, Germany we had little trade until the fo
y nation Of the Iotl- Vecin, by which protectio
was established and the consumption Of colto