New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-21
TIE GREAT STRUGGLE.

HE history OF lnt NOrlD
more than record OF the efforts OF tae strong VII,
bave desired to ensave the weak and Of the counter
efforts OF the lat er to obtain power - work FOR them
selyes The former have in all times bean large
uonopOlss of land bile tie latter have ever s0ugh:
TO ob,an bomestesds to be impro'ed for their Owe
benefit and that of their wives and children. The
former have always sought cheap labOre7s desiring 70
purchase a. their own prices the bone tue muscle aud
the .inew required for their purposes selling at the
6eares rate the produce of the labor of their slaves
while tie latter have always desired to fix the price OF
their own labor sGd 10 profit by their Own e1erOns
By the former LOneslsbor has been held 10 ow esteem,
because they lived at the cost OF those who lsbOfei IN
tie feel for the production Of food wool ani those
in the 10 N pho consumed the food whjle making the
cloth BY the l,tter, labor hes been esteemed as a
means of acquiring honest independence In the for
mer class, we find the saye-owners politicians AMI
tax consumers of the world. while in the latter Ne
find the laborers and tax payers Of the world ia the
one We fndthe advocates Of war, fllbusterSm armies
snd nayies aud the other the friends of pence and
cheap government Between these classes there has
from time immemorisl been a contest for power, the
ore 6esrog TO trannze over Others and tue otoe -
govern themselves and to work for their own benefit
Such is the contest in progress throughout this
country The great Isue of our dag Is. as We ere IN
formed BY Tie Charleston EeeniHg Mars The extern
sion or ucn.extensOn of the Institution slavery
ebo,e foundations are broad and solid in oar midst.
II is whether free labor shall become slave labor, or
slave labor become free labor At the south we see
body of great owners surrounded by slaves who
work for them, while they themselves live upon the
profits derived from standing between the men who
work 10 produce Gotten sugar and TOBACCO and those
other meu who require TO coDsume those commodities.
the North on the contrary, we see the whole sur
face of the country diyed among body OF email LAID
owners, III equaed 10 the world for number, all work
Jog for then selves On the one side, @e have large
BODY OF men who desre TO buy LABOR aud wish to have
it cLesply while on the other there IA vastly larger
body that desire to sell lsbor and to sell it dearly
The objects sought to be attained by the two sections
Of the country differ widely do the poles Of the
compass and 1t therefore, be matter of snail sur
prise that there is slmess great difference in the
cOuIse of policy that each desires to pursued-.he
uor:berp portion Of tie Union seeking for protection
asaI tie cheap labor ystem OF Europe, the best
mode Of advancing the labOrer aud the southern por-
ton clpging to the British free trade system as the
no Efficient means Of cheapeniLg labor and eussy
ing the laborer.
TIE men who own lsborers are few 10 number when
compared with the number OF northern men who own
Themselves and seek 10 sell their own labor but as is
the case in all arstJcrgces the slaveOwners almost
always work together, while the free people are d.
vided among themselves. The consequence of this
has been that the former have generally TIE Charles
ton COarir boastiDgly Informs its readers obtained
the mastery in Congress, and have within the last
twent! years changed its policy that ts action for
the most part and with only few exceptions has fos
tered the slave holding interest aud this it has done
at the cost OF the free men e the North, who de-
tred to be themselves the sellers of the, own labor or
products In proof that such has been the fact
propose now to review the votes OF Congress in rea
ton 70 the question of protection protection to
the An erican laborer
The close of the great war in Europe brought with
il intense agricultural distress The foreign maketior
breadstufs died away, and simultaneously herewith
tie domestic market that had been made by our manu-
featuring establishments was closed. The manuAc-
turers themselves Were ruined. The people OF the
South had then no doubts Of the constiiutionay of
protection Anxious to Themselves against the
competition of the people Of India they gladly united
with those Of the agricultural States in the establish
ment OF system of min NUNS upon cotton and wooden
goods aid the bill for that purpose passed through the
Senate with but single dissenting vote from south of
Maryland. When in isis it was proposed 10 prolOng
the duration Of the protection thus Afforded Baldwin
OF Pernsy lvania. Clay of Kentucky, aud LoSuies Of
south Carolina, found voting together in the al
frmative.
The period that followed was one o. ruin through.
our the middle and northern States Flour was sold ia
Pittsburgh st II % per barrel while iron was SO high
that il required seventy if not eighty barrels Of
four TO pay for tun OF bars. From day 10 day, the
farmers came and more to appreciate the truth
OF FraIklins doctrine, given In tue foil, wing e1-
trset from one Of his letters dated in I'LL
Every manufacturer encouraged in our country makes
part Of market for provisions within ourselves. aud
saves 80 much money t. the country otherwise be
exported 70 ray for the manufactures he supplies Here
il England il is well known and understood that where
manufacture is established which EMPLOYS nun
Der of hands it raises the vslue lands in the neigh
boring country all around IT, partly by the gre demand
near at hand for the produce of the land and partly from
The plenty of money drawn by the manufacturers that
part Of the country IL seems, therefore the interest OF
all farmers and Of LANDS 10 encourage our
yoe manufactures in preference - for n ones imported
among Us from distant countries.
From dsy TO Day became better understood that JEFF
crson had been in the right when he declared that our
true policy 10 place the manufacturer By the side
of the Ssrculturist ard thus il came that 10 s2i
effort made to protect the producer of food by
bringing the consumer to his neistborhool. The tariff
of that year passed by the following vote
,,,s For As.is,t
ss-lsiof 50 ..'.-''..'s'.-...-.. - =
TotAl......... .........................I7 10
Tie vote against il from tie free States WAS, 70
are. extent from TIE shipping States Of New C,gand