New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-17
The Tribune and Irish.Ancricaus.
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From tie htthfmt1t@H
THE Tribune, of "Wednesday, 4th inst,
addresses very ingenious article on Free trade
snd the Tariff to "Irish. Americans" we pub
sh it to reply to its fallacies and expose It's oeiu'
sons.
If Irish Amercans-that is Irish Immigrants,
made Americans by adoption according to tho
provisions Of the Consttution-were thinking,
acting, and voting in these United States Jor
HbA purposes only the positions OF ire f.1oune woulu
Re very strong. They would be nearly impregnabe.
But Irshmen and other foreigners, when taken TO the
bosom of The State and rendered nsturslized citizens
according and by constitutional privilege, who have
yotes are An orleans whose duty II ~ take the
aloie view Of any case Of public and political mpor
tnce and not look at il ACT Ii 10 any narrow In
consistent or sectional point Of view. When seeking
reasons 20 vote ishmen should think Of america and
American interests only.
ne TyiJrRs has Il that "Irsh Americans" act
arsDgely and biindy when they come here by attach
igthem,elves to the Democratic patty, who are Free
Traders and avoiding the Wings whose doctrine IL TO
encourage Native Manufactures by Tariff. Add the
Editor makes esrnest appeal 20 our people and re-
ronssrates with them for acting differently In Ireland
and Anne rca-for being advocates Of Native Manufac-
hre (asotaa EDgand) In Ireland, and Free Traders
(r England. In America. He contends that the
are similar.
tbecsmes our duty to show that there 10 no parallel
and II there were that such identity should not be adj
duced 40 an argument TO secure what 10 termed the
Previously 10 the Legislative Union between Crest Bril-.
n and Ireland the Capital and other large cities of the
latter nation carried on hourishing trade. The nobli
and gentry lived q home Thsy had country and
Of dollars, annually, were spent within the confines of
tie bland by the possessors OF property Agriculture
sourhhed. Manufactures fourished. When the Irish
Congress wss dissolved, and the Legislative power
merged isto the Parliament Of Great Britain the mon.
eyed classes-the nobility and aristocracy-becams
birds Of passage. They and their establish nents ml
grated TO London and the sixty millions of Irish dol.
ss-tbe rental Of Ireand-went into the pockets Of
London tracesmen every year, and contributed 10
swell the already overgrown wealth OF the modern
Babylon. Capitalization destroyed Irish trade and
manufactures. by removing the customer and con.
Surner from the market.
What parallel In this regard can be said to exist be.
tween Ireland and Americai
b How the argument which had been used in Ire
land In favor Of encouraging homo production be sup
posed to apply to the American csssl
The lsh agststors who desired 70 repeal the Ast Of
Union showed how the system of GENERALIZATION de-
Irish trade They conended that such trsde could
only restored by restoring tho balls of legislation and
drawing back 10 the Irish metropolis and 10 Ireland the
asocscy who spent the rental of the country out of
IT, This demand was made on the principle OF fororn
hope and exclusive dealing; not In obedience 10 any re-
oulrement of political economy or international reci-
procty. The unnatural system OF ownership Of the
coil had reduced the rish population to extreme des
tuition and when the pressure on the land becane no
longer toerable and its resources beyond avail the cry
Of native manufacture raised placsoo or par
usl cure for the national disease which existed The
Irish agriculurss had market for their surplus pro-
duce, with fair price ana profit she Americans have
best In the world that the landlords swallowed
up the whole II the Irish treated like any other
people earth that Ia they were permitted to live
had the Irish owners acted toward the occpers OF the
coll the Engkh owners do-that 10 10 allow third
10 the ewner onethrd to the occuper and one third
for expensesshe present parallel would not be drawn
between Ireland and America TO make case In favor
Of the latter for party purpose.
The whole social fabric In Ireland became ruin, and
the wholesale destruction the Union wrought was sta.
ted Foremo. among the causes doomed up the loss of
A.
cause Show us, If you can, the American ruin Of q
Ike nature from q Ike cause. The editor OF Tie Ut
bane WILL Of course remember the apothegm, DE non
sristnaJns Ct non orparenttbns eadea est ratio" The
parallel has not even the shadow of reality and 1t Is
hardly fair to ask lrshmen to cast mig or any other
American vote on Irish grounds-aod more particularly
On grounds untenable and fallacous.
There IL no analogy.
England purchases cotton and corn tobacco and rioe,
beef and pork wheat and other products from America
She is a good customer who de.erves reciprocity.
America has q South and West, as we'll a North and
Es,t The great Western and Southern worlds of Anne
rcssre being populated by myriads Of emgrant', who
root up the forest clear the ground, and cultivate It,
Trey apply their energies TO agriculture They grow
cereals and provisions In mighty abundance If they
had no market would II be- so II srif had sent Eng
land TO the Baltic, Black Sea- elsewhere for corn and
provisions WI ud the emgran:s come, and the great
West TEEN with the fruits of the earth England re-
qures the surplus, and gives Americs manufactured
goods In return. Here Is true reciprocity. Tue DEAL
Ing Ia fair the advantages are mutual.
How does this state of things this mutual benefit sys
s s.Iaa ~ Fsya !, there si,niIar,v IN
ss .M"b,a w. na,riculey be,wsen the two casesi
In Isa,sna ,hs isnaiord hacked nv ,e Laws soueezaa
All os 80 ,ho ,sr an, and Owes In re,urn Starvation
AL ou. "a ,au ho,hI ~. The nsrsIsi la hare
s ~. ~ oios, Of ;ns,.s
", aor .',r y, avnort a arn bornJ ~
s. =. .h i.,. y, o~.sdnaa =, 4. The fair n,sv
We 20 Tue ieciPioo'y VI eN'"""so '"' i p'"S
/" uasons soo. ,hs rd,,ov os TIL. 7r1,,. ns,n %
,. o. sls, n,.nJ,na ,hs, - The N.,,onsI psrtv In
e,snS ,sLe The Same view of National Economy a, wa
do snd iook 10 .,msr means 10 nrocure the desired
re,uts ,"
n Il unfair 10 sppes 10 Ir.shmeu on any point of 70
us,ous nrsnSIce or anv patriotic feeling or passion
nnacisS Nth nsiiveJand to sive Their iudsments
bss or S,rec,ion in tbroviny their American votes II
nsculisrv unfair TO ask them 10 come 10 an un Amer
ban conrlnsion from defective premises and on false
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