New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-21
twill be found thst the advocates OF cheap labor went
almost soldy sesinsi protection.
Tie taril ofS2s followed and here the vote vas IS
tollows


The period which followed tie passage OF this tariff
was Of grea'sr property than this county had
then ever Known. TIE revenue was so abundant that
tbecaIne necessary 20 abolish the duties upon coffee
tea and various other commodities Consumed BY the
aborers Of the North and yet Notwithstanding this
reduction The public debt which, at the opening Of
l29 had STOOD at nearly sixty millions, fa,ly paid
of in l>:i
The advocates OF cheap labor had bee0 we see,
almost VI anmous against the passage OF this snd
almost equsly unaninous did the prove IN ienouncng
il after its operation had commenced II the tsrf
Of sbon ibatious for them for il tended to improve
the condition of the aborer, and they desired to put
chase bone muscle aud srew in the form of laborers.
Mr McDuffie undertook TO prove, by hs forty bale
theory that the South paid all the expenses OF goy
er1ment and he and Mr. Calhoun finally sscceeded in
persusdir the people of South Carolina that protec
ton was unconstitutional AID that they had right 10
uuy and st d. defiance the law by virtue of which
The revenue was then collected-ani ye, Mr. Calhoun
Lsd been himself one OF the strongest alvo:ies for
protecting the cotton Of Souh CarOlns in markets
from oil Interference BY the cotton Of India
Then for the fret time. dill the people of the Union
commit IL serious error Of recognizing the right of
tie minority 70 dictate lsT to the majority. South
CrolI a. tie State hat of all others recognises the
existence OF the smallest smouut of rights among her
OWL free white mcn--the Safe that Of all others eI
bibiis in its wCrst form TIE evils of aristOcrscy
dictated 70 tue UoOn that it should fail back from tho
grouUo il Lad occupied and return ~ strictly hori-
zontal tariff of twenty per cent, abandoning at once
ani forever all idea of protecting the free cultvaors
Of tie North in their efforts to 20 themselves
home market FOX tie products Of their labor aud their
land Tie Compromise Tariff of 1888 was passed, and
thus the en that had been bull, up at the cos. OF
80 much effort almost at once prostrited Slave
labor bad carried the Gay against freelabor The men
vito wished to buy labOrers chenply. had achieved
victor, over the men who wished to sell their own
labor, snd TO sell it dearly.
II was great mistake. and tie consequences soon
became apparent Mills and fornsces were no
longer built importation were large aud within four
years tie banks throughout the Uni0n stopped pay
ment The ensuing four years we're years of loss and
ruin The power TO purchase foreign goods declined,
and he revenue fell of greatly that in less than
nire Years fr0m the date Of the fnal discharge OF
public debt upon which had been paying an inter
est Of three per cent the agents of the Government
were seen knocking at the DOORS Of all the banking
houses Of London and Paris, Hamburg aud Amster-
dam ard asking for loan at sir per cent, and asking
il in ao What were the losses OF the people in those
awful dbys We need scarcely state for they yet
fresh in tie recollection of most Of our readers. It
was then for the first time was heard in the streets OF
our cities" the cry of sober industrious, orderly
.snen: Give re work only give me WORK MAKE
YOUR OWN TERMs-MYsELF AND FAMILY HAVE
NOTHING TO EAT" Thousands and tens Of thou
sands of such cases then occurred, aud those who
can low recall to mind the state of affairs that then
existed, will not deem it extraordinary that We
should state our belief that the cost TO the people
of Il e Free States of such year as 1912, was
more than the value Of the trade with the slave States
for which we dependent the Union, in half
century This state Of things had brought
with IT, however, a remedy in the change of
public opinion that il produced Mr.. Van Buren,,
the northern man with southern principles -
tie advocate of the policy which looks to the extension
of Slayery-had been defeated. and the people called
for q change of measures. Then however, for the
first time was the slave labor policy advocated as a
PARTY measure, and in the division that then was hal
10 Congress- tie votes OF both North and South were
less unapmous than they previously had been, as here
shown: