Washington telegraph., 1853-06-01
From the Washington ID. C) Republic.l
Obsolete Issues,

We eobserve that the Tribune continues the
avowal that the Wing party is hopelessly
PROSTATE.
We shall not transfer the argument to
prove that this result has been caused by
the Interpolation of 'pro-slavery tenets' up
on the Wing creed But the Tribune cites
the N. American Review as authority for its
assertion, and we to-day rcpublish the arti-
Gle referred to from that sterling and STAN
dard periodical
The declaration of the Republic that it
would sustain the measures of the Admin
istration 50 far as they may conform to the
inaugural message, was received by our De-
mocratic censors with suspicion and sur
prise. Some of them ever manifested fat
tering apprehension at the acquisition of
such an ally.
We take this occasion, however, to re-
lieve them by saying that we do not design
becoming a candidate for the post of organ
to the Administration, although that appears
just now to be vacant. There is no danger
on that score We have no expectation of
any reward, nor do we desire to share in
scramble where success is no compensation
for the humiliation of obtaining it.
But we can by no means admit that we
abandon the principles Of the Whig party
in giving an impartial support to the mea-
sures of Democratic Administration, if
they should deserve it. The Wing party
was founded in hostility to arbitrary pow
cr, and to political corruption. Many of its
members abandoning office and the hopes Of
office, went into the wilderness of political
prescription with no other resource than the
inspiration Of duty. From these standard
principles no Wing can ever depart, and,
whenever an issue shall be presented, the
Wing party will be found united in main
tanning them
Certain measures of fiscal and revenue
policy have at different times constituted is
sues upon which the American people lave
divided.
In the discussion of these issues, politi-
clans have sometimes. predicted results that
ought to have followed and the resources
OF the country and the energies of its peo-
pie have propelled it upon the track of pro-
gress, in spite of obstacles apparently sufi-
clent to have arrested it. The advocates of
the United States Bank were of opinion
that the Government was much perplexed
by its prostration, but employed other agents.
and the public business went on 1t was
thought that domestic and foreign exchan-
ges would be irregular, without an immense
fiscal fly wheel to steady the momentum
of the monetary movement. But it was
discovered that exchanges. like other mer-
III 10 lot ri
A patriotic school Of statesmen, headed by
Mr.. CALHOUN, Mr. Clay, Mr.. WEBSTER,
Mr.. LowNDEs, and Mr.. BUCHANAN, advo-
Gated the encouragement Of manufactures
by employing revenue protection.
During the orotracted warfare upon this
subject, the poor manufacturers were the
object of public odium or of political effect;
their ease or agony inspired the politicians
with very similar feeling to that with
which demonstrator Of anatomy pursues
his experiments upon animal endurance.
Under the prejudices engendered by this
conflict, man who drove shoe-pegs or ham,
mered rivets for living, became bloated
arstocrat, living upon the earnings of an
agricultural gentleman whose sons were at
college, and whose wine was in cool; who
rode over his extended fields or walked his
piazza to look out for his invited guests
The mechanic naturally grew tired of stalking
his bread and breeches upon every political
contest; and the great iron interest, alarm
ed at the consequences of being mode the
anvil upon which translucent distractions
were to be hammered. bcsought his friends
as the lad did Don Quixotte, not to protect
1t any more Just then @
In the mean time, manufacturers betook
themselves to the study of mechanical rath-
er than legislative combination The i'm
mense growth of the country provided an
adequate home market to the consumption
OF all their products So it happened that