New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-05
PARTY NAMES AND PUBLIC GOOD.

If those who anxious to differ with us respect
ing the alleged decddence and downfall of the Wing
party would condescend TO employ words 10 express
ideas rather than conceal them il would easily be seen
that there is little or no difference between u.s. We
have never intended have we been understood TO
assert that the Fundamental ideas on which the Wing
Party was founded the principles it upheld the ends
for which it struggled rejected and condemned by
the People; for against this deduction we have sedu
lousy guarded So far is it from true, that we doubt
net the complete oberation and oblivion of the Wing
Party would be speedily followed by the triumph OfmOs
of the principles embraced in its creed For instance
during the late Session of Congress, it moved ia
the House that Flax Machinery imported be hencefcrth
admitted free of duty aud this proposition adopted
in Committee of the Whole without opposition, al
though il fully embodied aud affirmed the principle Of
Protection. And now, n it were clearly shown that the
payment Of liberal bounty the growth of Tea in
this country, or what amounts TO the same thing the
imposition Of stringent duty on its Importation would,
by naturaizng the Tea Culture among us, secure US,
from and after 1860, better Tea OF Home growth for
twenty-five cents per pound than the Chinese article
we are now drinking at average cost of fty cents
per pound who doubts that the American People would
consent TO aud decree the temporary Inconvenience or
burden for the sake Of the permanent advantage thence
accIungi Yet this lie just what have done by means
of Protective Duties in respect cheap Cotton aud
Wooler Fabrics, many descriptions of Hardware, &c.
/ &c, and which, if the Protective Policy had been
lypsrseyered in should have long since ac
complicated with respect TO Iron steel Silks, Wines,
aud many other articles which still importing in
great prosicn Nothing but the bigOt the blindness,
the madness OF party-the interested craft of party
leaders and the stod doey Of the great mass of fol-
have long prevented this benehcen con-
summation. Let the Wing Party be forgotten tOmoT-
row. aud we shall within ive!ears have, not such Tar
in as the Country needed 6teen twenty yeae ago. for
much lower rates Of duty With regard articles
which have meantime been fabricated among US viii now
snsver but such one as is ly adequate to the needs
/ of cur own time. n
So with regard co Internal Improvement. The de.
feat of successive River and Harbor bills, whether by
arbitrary yetoes Congressional tactics. would never
have been so easily overlooked forgiven by the great
masses Of the People, IL the Wings had been the
prominent advocates Of those Improvements, that
those masses could be made to believe (fOT the fools
not all dead yeti that support of River and Har-
Dor Improvements was, somehow or other, Anthem
ocrstic
SO to day, the great want of country and the age
b the Pacific RAILROAD. Let the subject DC discussed
On its merits snd let vote be taken throughout the
bland, without reference TO party organizations the
I.naked question" Shall the Federal Government ex-
pend Thirty Millions, if necessary, 10 secure the con-
structon early practicable, of Railroad from the
Mississippi 10 the Pacific i"- and the 'Ays would
have il BY at least Million majority; and yet that
measure is likely to be beaten bafl Il for years, be-
cause the Wings being nearly all for q Sndthe yrginia
AbsraetOuists naturally against il latter viii manage
to cOutro the machinery of the democratic party and
make its organs grind out just such music suits their
purposes
What we desire then, is to go behind party orgsni.
nations If possible and get at the real unbiased udg
ment Of the People. We confidently believe they are
for the Pacific Railroad and agaissf the Rum Traffic,
and these the points which desire their next
verdicts to be rendered The chief obstacles thereto
we find in the east iron organization Of parties
But in asserting the proper dissolution Of the old
parties. We simply state fact we do not invent ID
The late Presidential Election demonstrated that
thousands Of Wings preferred lifelong adversary, in
whose pro Slavery instincts and associations they had
implicit confidence to unwavering whig veteran,
himself an original frsod Of the Compromise, bgs not