Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-23
From the Baltimore American.l
General Pierce and British Interests.

The importance which the British government
and people attach to the possession OF the Ameri-
can market for British manufactures, and to the
continuance of this country in its present colo
NAL relations with Great Britain, may well give
rise to much solicitude across the water in re-
spect to the issues of the pending Presidential
election. The earnest wishes, the most anxious
concerns, the liveliest sympathies of our English
friends and rivals are for General Pierce aud hls
cause. "We are without information" says the
London Leader, "as to the views Of General
Pierce on the subject of cooperation with Eng
land but zoe cannot say that eCe feel any dPpredea-
Si0as on The point, and a0e shall awda the final eec-
ti0n not tCithom share in the confidence Of many
American friends that IL aoW result weH"
During Gen. Pierces service in Congress, the
question of the tariff was withdrawn from dis
cussion in the halls Of national legislation by the
gradual and prospective action of the Compro-
mise of 1928. We have, therefore, no direct
votes of the New Hampshire statesman-if we
may call him so--on the subject of the tariff But
his position that question is not liable to doubt
His extreme hostility to the improvement of rivers
and harbors, as indicated by continuous series
of votes in both houses of Congress, denotes
clearly enough the political school to which he be-
longs. The resolutions of the Convention which
nominated Gen. Pierce for the Presidency, and
with which he has expressed his concurrence, are
altogether conclusive to his position in refer
ence to the protective policy. The manufactur-
ing interests of Great Britain, therefore, mani
fest the accuracy of the knowledge they have OBJ
tanned concerning the policy which Gen. Pierce,
if elected, would pursue on the subject of the
protective system, when it is declared that they
do not feel "any apprehensions on that point"
Cooperation With England, to use the phrase
ology of the London journal above quoted, stands
in direct contrast with a distinctive American
policy To cooperate with England is to aid in
the advancement of her interests, making our
own subservient to them. 1t will not do TO raise
tho rates of duties uponiron in order to strengthen
and sustain the iron interest of the United States
because, as Sir Henry Bulwer once declared, in q
sort of protest addressed to our government, such
an increase Of duties "would produce very
Idisagreeable state Of feeling in England" CO.
operation with England forbids any such policy
on our part. Cooperation with England requires
that we should yield the possession Of our market
to English n-masters-even although our own
iron establishments may thereby be prostrated.
In so far as our home industry supplies for home
use any products of mechanical or manufacturing
labor to that extent we depart from the policy
of cooperation with England and by so doing
"produce very disagroeablc state Of feeling il
England"
But this principle of encouragement and pro-
lection to American labor, with view at once to
the enlargement of the home market for agricul-
tural products and to the useful development of
the natural resources of the country, is princi
pie of the Wing school: and hence it happens
that the success of the Wings in the next Presi-
dental election "would produce very disagree
able state of feeling in England" the
triumph of Pierce and his policy would be hailed
with delight in that island, anu would be re-
garded by British capitalists and manufacturers
as an assured guaranty of an adherence, on the
part of his country, to the system of "co-opera-
ton with England"
1t would be better for British interests to have
that system continued and made permanent than
to have this country subject again to the Crown
and Parliament of the United Kingdom-be-
cause, with the establishment Of that system,
England holds us once more in colonial relations,
without mourning any expense or responsibility
in the maintenance of them.