Washington telegraph., 1853-06-01

demonstrated chat without protection man.
ufactures must perish" and Anti-tariff had,
with equal clearness, shown that the differ
ence between duty of twenty and twenty
five per cent. if levied for the purpose of
protection, must cover the paving stones of
Southern cities with crab grass, and ''build
up an arrogant plutocracy, meaning money
power, beneath whose heartless exactions
the honest tiller of the toil-worn soil must
abandon the graves of his ancestors for the
terrors of an bowling wilderness" some
acute benefactor of his species, who prefers
employing gravity of galphinism to slave
labor, or his own, patents some fortuitous
wheel or magical spring. or, as MIR. SKIM
pole would say, somebody discovers some
thing, which reduces the cost of production
and thus preserves some sinking interest
which had been matured at the breast of
protection, and could not, it was supposed,
subsist upon any other aliment or some pa
triotic philosopher publishes an essay upon
calcareous manures, together with series
of successful experiments, whereupon the
grass begins to grow upon the fields, and, as
a natural consequence, quits growing in the
streets; and it begins to be known that lime
and live Yankees are sovereign cure for
that terrible ailment, the tariff and the peo-
pie providentially discover that the old
homestead, from which they were so near
being haunted by an hobgoblin, is an inval
liable property, and swear that they will nev-
er abandon it and indeed there is no need
that they should
Perhaps some enterprising mechanic, feel
ing the spirit of life too strong within him
to say die, in mere Difference to the logic of
Philo Tariff, observes that provisions are
abundant, and material cheap in the South
SO he boldly marches into the heart of cot
tondom, and throttlcs some vagabond water
fall that has been leaping in Gods sunshine
in immemorial idleness. He sows crop of
sawdust, and up springs village with active
men, and busy matrons ard chubby chill
dren, and neat little kiss-me- quickly bonnets
and silk dresses, and savings banks, and
newspapers, and schools; or certain crack
Drained enthusiasts that were boring every
body about railroads, when the "great inter-
ests of the country depended upon raising
or depressing the revenue duties, succeeded
according to their folly in creating such
demand for iron as all the furnaces cannot
supply; and the ''swarthy hammersman"
cannot attend "a discussion between Philo
and Anti, because he would lose his days
wages of two dollars, which he naturally
thinks a high price Of admission.
So, when these profound calcuiators, who
keep the accounts of nations, and balance
the trade of the world perhaps upon the
back of an overdue bank notice, have prov
en- that in paying for foreign manufactures
we must export all our specie, and the basis
of our banks having been thus taken away.
our whole financial system viii tumble into
destruction, the perverse accident of for
eign famine, or the inopportune discovery
of gold in California, comes athwart the
theory, and postpones its triumphant demon
stration, much to the chagrin of the caIcu-
lator who had stakeG his reputation upon
tae result
In one word, this great nation expresses
its wants. and manifests its ability to main
tain a manufacturing interest, and it is at
once placed upon a permanent footing
But the American system has honored the
sagacious patriotism of its founders. 1t has
succeeded. 1t fostered the infancy of man
ufactures, and the nation will sustain it by
generous and unbought patronage.
In the same spirit Of party discord the
practicals and purists fought over Distri5u-
ton The Southern Democrats were forced
to receive millions of surplus revenue under
protest, and with ferocious af1irmations of
their right to return the money-whenever
they chose to do so; they sometimes main
tanned that, though the appropriation of pub
lie lands to State improvement was, in their
opinion, iniquitous, Congress ought, in JUS
hce, to force upon the malcontont States an
equal share of the public plunder.
Even this question of distribution seems
in fair way of settlement. The lands
wisely given away to railroads and soldiers
absorb the current demand. The Govern
ment is undersold in market This reduces
the public revenue from that source. The
proposed graduations, the grant of lands to
the landless and to the land States, renders
it too probable that by the time we shall
have enhanced the value of one-half the ma
tonal domain by giving away the other, the
balance will be relinquished. There is.
therefore, very little prospect that there will
be any thing to distribute, and still less
prospect of an equal distribution if there
was
Such is the position Of all the measures
which have for some years past divided par
ties The people. seeming to anticipate the
administrative sagacity Of Mr.. PIERCE, have
waited for the adjustment of party squabbles
until their patience being exhausted, they
have decided them sometimes to the dissat-
isfaction of both parties. We often, it is
true, see political champions who have in
time past won great renown, with rubicund
faces, rotund persons nankin tights, and Pc
rifocal glasses, poise the ball of controversy