New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-02

By every measure that tends TO make market on
Me land, while both you end they suffer by every
one that tends TO produce dependence on distant
markets. Had the tariff Of lS42 continued to the
present time, there would have been lar less ne
eessity for abandoning the old States, and you
would have less competition to meet from the oc-
cppsnts Of the new ones, while the markets that
would have grown up around you would be abb
sorbng vast proportion OF the food with which
YOU now deluge the markets Of the East.
So far does protection tend to diminish your
Aepepdence on the East, that il il a well-known
hct that many manufacturers deprecate the adop-
Non Of measures Of efficient and complete protec-
t;oa, under the impression that they would pro-
1uce domestic competition and such men would
prefer even the present state Of things as tending
% compel you to send all your wool to Lowell or
Providence, and to limit the planters to Lowell,
Lawrence and Manchester. These men retain the
erroneous monopoly views Of tho Manchester
sshool. That views like these are entertained no
ono can doubt, but they are not entertained BY
men Of enlarged ideas for such men know wei
Nat il the South would determine to adopt meas
world with coarse cottons, they would at once be
snabIed TO turn their machinery to finer ones; that
n the West would determine to make negro and
otber coarse cloths, they themselves would be en-
ahlrdto sell ten times the quantity Of shawls and
CARPETS; and that il Ohio and Indiana Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Tennessee would enable themselves to
make all their stoves and other castings, they
would be enabled to purchase more railroad bars,
stesm-engiDes and locomotives, and that the only
serct of such measures would be TO increase the
reward Of labor and Of capital in every part OF the
Union. There is perfect harmony OF true interests
between the North and the South, the East and
tho West; between the laborer and the capitalist
~ farmer and the manufacturer. Manchester
hce trade teaches the reverse, and the prolonga
lion Of It's existence to this time is due to the fact
Nat II every where teaches discord, and every
vheYe produces such dscOrd now exists be-
tween the Northern and Southern portions Of the
Union, due solely and exclusively to the British
monopoly system.
That it should produce discord is the natural
consequence Of the poverty that everywhere &C
companies it's existence. IL destroys the local
demand for food, and, as a necessary consequence,
avpover,hes the land and its owner, who is de-
prived Of the power to manure his land or to inn
prove his machinery of cultiv ton, and lie thus
compelled to abandon his property and fly to the
West. 1t everywhere destroys the local demand
Tor labor, and men starve in Ireland because un-
able to find employment at even sirpence day.
Look around your own neighborhoed, and see if
there 10 not more labor wasted every year than
would suffice to build mill or furnace, and mora
avery year than would suffice for the production
of all the iron and all the cloth that are consum-
cd. It destroys the power to vary the products
Of the earth, because every man is compelled to
cultivate those articles alone Of which the earth
yields little in reward Of labor, and that will
therefore bear transportation to distant markets;
and a necessary consequence Of this is that I'M
favorable weather for few weeks is followed by
N almost total failure Of return TO labor. How
di6erent would it be If there existed local de-
nand for all the various commodities that are pro-
dused from the land Of Belgium and OF England
h. Tho nearer the market, the greater are the pow
srs Of the land and Of its owner the more distant
The market, the poorer tho land and ito owner,
and the less the power OF the latter TO determine
or himself what shall be his course of action.
u 10 to this absence Of power over their own ac-
lions that we the fact that our people are
constantly scattering themselves over the earth,
when every man knows that his labor is doubly
productive when he works in concert with his fell
low-men. When men come together, they have
better schools and better teachers; their morals
and their intellect both improve, and their labor
becomes more productive. British free trade looks
b the dispersion. Generalization, and impoverish-
Dcnt Of man. and therefore it is that it is every
where accompanied by dscord.
Gold becomes moro abundant, and yet the price
OF wheat declines when it should rise, aud would
yise were il not that all the world 10 now engaged
IN raising food for the diminishing market. The
tstal population Of tho British Empire in Europe
= scarcely more than it was dozen years since,
md II 10 gradually but certainly declining, as the
emigration 10 more, and considerably more, than
the excess Of births over deaths. II is adults,
too, that ay and their places are supplied by in
hnts, among whom deaths are three times more
numerous than among men and women who emf.
CRATE Ii is impossible to Of idy the facts now
occurring in England without being sstis6ed-
I. That the numbers OF the only manufacturing
ban years hence thar they are now; and,
9. That the power to supply themselves with
home-grow food viii be far greater than now.
At the moment Of writing this, meet with an &c.
sount Of the discovery Of species of wheat that
promises to give returns thrice as large as any now
cultivated; and il such should prove TO be the
ease, you will, think, SEQ that the day is at hand
when England viii cease altogether to import
wheat. On the other hand, our population in the
next ten years will grow at the rate OF more than
. million per ar mum; and if all become farm
ere, as they must what, would ask you, will be
our condition. 10 il not clear that we shall have
abundance OF food for which We shall have no
market, and that such state OF things must be
ruinous to the farmeri