Daily American telegraph., 1852-09-04
WASHINGTON, Aug. %, 1852.
The Coalition--How 1t Works and how II
4@ won't work.

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The Coalition-How 1t Works and how it
won't Work.
We said few words on this subject yesterday,
and shall offer few more to-day.
Robert j. Walker, the great apostle of free
trade, has for many months been sojourning in
England. He has been dined and toasted by
the British aristocracy and is onized until there
begin to exist very strong suspicious that his af-
fnities for the Lion quite as strong are his
affections for the emblem Of has o,on country. 1t
is understood that he has made large purchases
of iron, for railroad purposes in this country,
principally in the West Iron Of equally good
or in other States Of this Union; but then, of
course, England could not have made sale of
hers to so great an advantage, and it is all-im-
portant that her furnaces shall continue in active
operation, even though ours shall have to sus-
pand. Hence Mr. Ex-Secretary Walker is u
great favorite in England, as we'll as Gen. Pierce,
who is the representative of the policy advocated
and practiced by the former gentleman. Hence
the principles of the Democratic party in america
are Landed by monarchists an Europe, while the
principles of the Wing party are characterized
by their leading journals as truly "oDIoUs."
Can the fact he denied that there is league
between the British and the party in this country
advocating British interests, for the purpose of
breaking down the manufactures of this country
and sustaining those of Great Britain? Will the
Union y deny the fact, and call upon us for the
proofs? Will it agree to take the admissions of
one of the parties in interest upon its OoT dire,
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other party from its own acts and declarations?
We caution the Union to beware, and to consider
well the consequences of q controversy on this
subject; but, having given this admonition, we
leave it to its own discretion.
And who is it they rely upon to effect the pur-
pose of their coalition? Is it the merchant, the
professional man. the politician? No. 1t is the
laboring man of this country; the farmer, the
mechanic, and the miner; the men who are to
be ruined by their British free-trade policy, that
they expect to dupe and deceive, and render sub
servient to their purposes. They start out upon
the presumption that the masses of the laboring
people cannot comprehend the workings of their
system, and that they therefore will receive it as
a special favor for the British, who understand
all these things, to teach them what is their in
terest. AS practical illustration, the American
party send their great apostle over to England
to buy of the British party large cargo of rail
road iron, to be used in Ohio, Indiana Illinois,
and in various portions Of the great Mississippi
valley; the effect of which is to close our fur
naces at home, to drive large population into
agricultural pursuits, 10 increase The quantity Of
surplus produce and diminish lis value, 80 as to en-
able the manufacturers of Great Britain to OBJ
tain for the consumption of their operatives all
the necessaries of life at a nominal price, while
ut the same time they will be in possession Of
the monopoly, and can demand and obtain their
own prices for the articles sold to US. The same
argument that applies to the manufacture of iron,
applies also to the manufacture Of the fabrics and
other articles SO necessary to our independence
and welfare as a nation
If the coaitionists carry out their design,
il will all work well for John Bull, but unless
Jonathan is more verdant than we take him to
be, they will find that they have reckoned with
out their host, and that the American people are
not vet willing to surrender the choice of an
Americant President to the good and loyal sub.
iects of Queen Victoria.