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which he naturally thinks high price Of adj
mission.
So, when these profound calculators, who
keep the accounts of nations, and balance the
trade of the world perhaps upon the back of an
overdue bank notice, have proven that in pay
ing for foreign manufactures we must export
all our specie, and the basis Of our banks hay.
ing been thus taken away, our whole financial
system will tumble into destruction, the per-
/ verse accident of foreign famine, or the mop
perfume discovery of gold in California, comes
athwart the theory, and postpones its triumph
ant demonstration, much to the chagrin of the
| calculator who had staked his-reputation up
on the result.
In one word, this great nation expresses
its wants, and manifests its ability to maintain
a manufacturing interest," and it is at once placed
upon permanent footing. But the American
system has honored the sagacious patriotism of
its founders. 1t has succeeded. 1t fostered
the infancy of manufactures, and the nation
will sustain it by generous and unbought pa
tronage.
In the same spirit of party discord the prac-
ticals and purists fought over Distribution
The Southern Democrats were forced to re-
ceive millions of surplus revenue under protest.
and with ferocous afirmations Of their right to
return the money-whenever they chose to
40 so; they sometimes maintained that, though
the appropriation of public lands to State i'm
provement was, in their opinion, iniquitous,
Congress ought, in justice, to force upon the
malcontent States an equal share of the public
punder.
Even this question of distribution seems in
fair way of settlement. The lands wisely
given away to railroads and soldiers absorb the
sold in market. This reduces the public rev.
enue from that source. The proposed gradua-
tons, the grantof lands TO the andless and to the
land States, renders it too probable that by the
time we shall have enhanced the value of one
half the national 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 pros
Pect of an equal distribution if there was.
Such is the position of all the measures
which have for some years past divided parties
The people, seeming to anticipate the admin
istrative sagacity of Mr.. PIERCE, have waited
for the adjustment ofparty squabbles until, their
patience being exhausted, they have decided
them sometimes to the dissatisfaction of both
parties. We often, it is true, see political
champions who have in time past won great
renown, with rubicund faces, rotund persons,
na nj inhf nd cla H.
ball-of controversy with matured skill. They
then bowl away amongst the .'dead wood"
marked u. S. B., Prot. Tar. Viii. Proviso,
Distribution, Sc. But it is very dull looking
In upon that dim bowling-alley, albeit the old
gentlemen are very expert, and consider it
most exciting sport. We had rather step out
and see the Sons of Temperance pass, or the
Sunday school procession, or the train rush by
with the shrill scream of its imprisoned spirit,
with Its passengers from every land, and its
morning. papers coming two hundred miles to
confirm the advance in flour that we knew by
telegraph many hours before. And if our op-
ponenis insist that We have no right to do any
thing except to keep that game of nine-pins,
we cannot entertain the least respect for their
opinions. -.
Indeed, it has seemed TO US the mission of
this Republic TO cover the political theorist
and the believer in historical analogies with
confusion of face.
But IN the life of nation every day has its
issue. New questions must arise. They have
arisen. Shall we be excluded from their con-
sideration2
Should the United States consent to recipro-
cal trade with Canada Have we right to
participate in the British fisheries?
Should the navigation of the ST. Lawrence,
like that of the Mississippi, be free to the pro-
ducers who inhablt its head waters?
Ought we to take the tripartite pledge never
to acquire another foot of land upon this con-
tinent2 Ought the Monroe doctrine to be
maintained?
Ought we to unite on co-protectorate or CO.
partnership upon Isthmian America2
Should the great railroad to the Pacific be
constructed with the common means for the
common benefit2
Such questions these must be met 1t is
the duty of all men to form and express opin-
ions in regard to them
But we can not abandon Wing principles,
for they are the same which have inspired the
patriot of every age to resist power and to
expose wrong, to promote such moral and
physical improvements as will bring all men
to high standard of intelligent and virtuous
equality.
To give protection to the weak, employment
to the poor, knowledge to the ignorant
| To hail increasing numbers and expanding
territory as the fruits of prosperity, unless the
numbers be the menials of bigotry, or the ter
ritory shall be bought with the sacrifice of our
own honor or the rights of others. Subject to
these limitations, we have duty to perform in
discussing such questions as may arise, and we
shall fearlessly and impartially do SO, compar-
atively careless of the associates or opponents
whom we may encounter.
| The Royal Family Of England.
We are sorry that that pleasant and in
structive journal, the Albion, of New York
does not like our familiar way of talking about