New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-05
TIE EITI RE.

The American System lies cold in the
grave at Ashland of its chief author and advo.
cute, and the Virginia School of Giles aud
Macon ond T. p. Barbour bears henceforth I'M
questioned sway. Ii has been deemed expe-
dent, by certain magnates Of other days, in
order to kill Seward, that the Wing party
should be crushed, and they have done the Job
most eflcctually. Whether they have surely
effected their own particular end by the pro-
cess, doth not yet clearly appear; but we will
for the present presume that they have done
SO. 1t would be a pity to have so much labor
and expense wasted, as though man should
burn down his own house in order 70 rid il of
haunting ghost, which should prove after all
but phantom projected bya guilty conscience
on his own perturbed imagination. And unless
the Death and Burial of John Barleycorn' are
to be paralleled in this destruction of Seward,
We may hope that the bugbesr of The Union
in Danger will now be permitted to slumber
for little while, until the politicians who have
just secured the Spoils' have reason to fear
thRN nv. uAN III ~ Ah va iOSulE NHtlus NutU INC
old stalking horse will be dragged out again to
frighten fools into the desired subserviency,
and then be restored 10 the theatrical lumber
room whence it was drawn.
Well; the yctors can take nothing from u.s.
We never kGd anything, and probably never
shall have anything for them TO take Gen
Diarca canpot noss;llv 10 I.,s g.. - .ho,, o,,,-
and every Wing President has done, and each
of them gave us all we ever asked of him. We
shall write him the Identical number Of letters
We wrote TO them; so that there is nothing
lost on that tack and the most unwelcome
labor of writing letters 10 heads of Depart.
ments or Bureaux, begging places for persons
who would De far better employed growing
potatoes, is one which every Wing presumed
TO have any influence at Court will very gladly
be spared. So, you see, on the personal score,
there are a good many of us who have gained
rather than lost by our recent discontinue.
But its public issues are far more momen-
tOus.
Commercially, the United States are rean-
nexed TO the British Empire. London has be-
come the metropolis of our Trade, the con-
troller of our Industry A vote in the Board
room Of the Bank of England may precipitate
Commercial crisis here at any moment
Successive meetings of the British Iron
masters will determine whether Ameri-
can Iron-lnakcrs shall thenceforth be
permitted TO labor in their chosen vo-
cation or shall be driven of, BY an mex
orable necessity above their reach, TO build
caolhs aud commence clearings in the far west
efn "ids-avo vocation in which they are Who'll.
anskiiled, to which they are utterly disin.
elned' And if permitted, BY the current priee
=" Iron established in England. 70 continue
working at their own calling, they mpst ,dont
the wages virtually fixed by the Br;,ish ~.
tiers of their destiny. HAS
For whatever there may be ,mfor,,,,,. :
this state of things, or discouraginc = :, :"
prospect, ire are not responsible. Tbsh,,,io
for vital American Independence has been
iut uhCueh noiacA Q. zeal nJ. oi industry -,