New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-07

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o, If ir limo OF drmalcaton between We ana N'A'''
.,,s,l ON b, tho CommisAioncra OF tho Two ha''oH'
:, i ,ot Mexico aono that takcs different vie" o.
81. tlc suheci" from that SET forth BY Gen Fierce
the civilized world can take M other view thAn 'na'
of Mexico and the fact that the President In appeal
In, f,om the official act of our own Commissioner IN
dcntcs no other tribunal by whose peaceful arbitration
he IL willing TO abide proves that he has no confidence
in the assumption whereby he has deranged the settled
boundary and disturbed the amcable relations of the
two countries.
The President doats on d" the new league Of amity
nd Of mutual confidence and support into which the
people Of this republic have entered: such Ian
quaee has generally proved the precursor Of new
agitation conyulson, arrangement. Diedrich hnck-
erbocker has some ssgacOus remarks on the am.ty
which usually prevails during negotiations and the eud'
which are sure to follow the conclusion of treaty,
which may be read with profit by modern statesmen
Mr. Pierce is too easily inundated r. mistaken
view of the immense responsibility which the present
magnitude Of the republic" &c. &c. cevoyes upon
enc" II doesno such thing even after the bad gram
mer of the sentence is corrected Many poor man
works harder to earn FIVE dollars per week for the sup
mort Of bis family than Mr.. Pierce need exert himself
to fulfill all the responsibility properly do7olved upon
him by his Office If he will take care TO do nothing
else than his duty lie can do that easily, even though
the wisdom and patriotism of the two Houses of Con
I flov lie In
The President ia mistaken in supposiBg that there
sis general acquiescence in the wisdom OF the pres
cent system" of raising, keeping and disbursng the
Federal Revenue Every intelligent and earnest Free
Trader Except Gen Pierce if he chooses) is perfectly
aware that either Free Trade is faacous doctrine or
the raising of Revenue by Duties on Imports at all IS
fundamentally wrong and practically oppressive II
the certain and only effect Of The imposition Of Duties
TO enhance the price to the consumer OF the article
taxed then it is most unjust to uphold system whch
taxes Il poor laborer with house-fu OF children far
more than rich mser with children at all. Either
Free Trade is decisive theory or our present Tariff
with its duties ranging from one hundred per cent to
nothing at all is most neqitabe and pernicOus de-
vice for the support of Government, So If It be OF
SIGNAL utility to relieve the Money Markedly getting
tie Public Money out Of the SubTreasuries, It would
seem inevitably TO follow that said Money Market is
niuriously restricted and Business absurjly crippled
by putting said Public Money INTO those repositories.
is itnot so
The Presidents suggestion 10 the proper mode OF
reducing the Federal Revenue-by extending the Free
List especially by adding it such articles asare not
produced in scouuty anu yet are largely required as
tie bases of our Manufactures, is about right Ii the
agcn,s OF foreign manufacturers will keep away from
Washington and let Congress readjust the Tariff &C.
corduq TO it's own unbiased view of the public inter-
ests all will go well.
We dissent entirely from the proposed policy OF en-
largirg the Navy and increasing the Army. BY prop
er modc1on of our Military system reducing the reg
iueuts of the line to skeletons end looking 20
well drilled and well paid volunteers to Gil the ranks in
time Of need the efficiency OF our Army might DC ma
teraly increased while its cost would be sensby re-
duced Ii we cannot have such reform, let the Army
remain as it ia.
The deficiency in the Revenue of the POsi-Oftce De-
rartmeut is serious, and calls loudly for action The
Message does not say whether the cost of Mail Steam-
slip rervce is included in the aggregate OF E1pendi'
lures (neray Eight Millions of Dollars againstless than
Sb Millions of Receipts therein set forth but in any
case the disparity is entirely too great We apprehend
the Railroads which are in good part laid with Iron
admitted free Of duty for the purpose, are bleeding
Uncle Sam more prolusely than even their own true
interests would prompt viii they not pause and con-
slider
OF our Public Lands the National PatrimOny has
been diminished by no less than T9eayfre Millions Of
Acrtsequa TO the area of four States like Connect
cut-durng the past year OF this aggregate, Land
Warrants absorbed over Six Millions State Railroads
took over One Million and Half; (their great grab
was made two three years ago) the New States
located" took for nothing over Sixteen Millions on
the pretext hat they swamp lands when prcba-
bly, not oneourh of them of that character Thus
while we are Boosting Of surplus revenue and pay
meut Of the Public Debt we are squandering the
Iobest estate every inherited by prodgaiy aud the
President entirely unconscious that any bluuder
has been committed Nay, he expressly eulogzes the
wisdom and justice OF the present system with re-
gard to the Public Domain, points with admiration
TO the Fifty Millions it has put into the Treasury,
urges its extension to the New Territories, talks OF
notifications in favor OF the actual settler, and " an
extension Of the Presumption System, but besrs with
Lis whole weight against the beneicenty wise policy
Of proferpg TO each landless person patch Of our
uioceupcd Public Lands whereon to make to himself
free and enduring Home We trust the President
will live to afix bis name to Free Land bill, and to
zee tho system which he so cautiously but clearly
approves Of parceng out these lands TO scrambling
Rbiiioad projectors. entirely superseded
Ibcraly 70 the District Of Columbia-which near