New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-04

tions which may be taken as fair specimen OF the
sort of reasoning employed by those journals which
at one and the same moment teach monopoly and Tree
dom Of trade.
The country forget the excitement eouaasnced BY
TyT NIw YORK the tar jib became
law This during the administrator Of NJ Polk ard the
cn hs js The tesa Dearse states
could The ruin that WIS to Sw h Pss on me o
Of prophecy end profanity lie drew Ia,e. 0, .nos
socyIhaI sIsiesI IoIs a. yaonry n5 t @
i,es n. ooyennen without public order, without
Happiness; and make ne cot Of dependent upon
sTb The sn. hot Greeley iecred PROVE a. d' The
sserifce verythinf the friends OF Nrssks
he 'sece eIy thing 70 Ss rn b r
tam snd What was The RESULT That while Greeley
S he coulir prosper end has not ceased Popeins
fiom that dey to this"
Areeably TO the doctrines of probably nnc-tenths
ofthe British free trade journals in the country, man
is rehtfully ensaved if be have any portion of black
blood mixed with the white that crculates through
hisveins and al nterierences of the Government for
the extension of the system OF negro slavery through
out Kansas, Nebraska, st. Domingo, OF Mexico, are
lust and righteous; and all expenditure consequent
upon such interference properly payable in large
proportion by the people of the free States. When
however, the Government undertakes to interfere in
any manner tending to enable the white laborer to
have choice to the parties to whom he will sell
lis only commodity labor-wlen it seeks to produce
liberalization in TIE demand for abOr-then all inter-
ference is denounced as injurious, uni ,st, and I'M
democratic The true Democracy of our day, accord
ing to the Sham Democratic journals consists in &C.
curing the master, asiar possible, ownership #
the persons ofthe who labor and in giving him the
master OF slaves the largest power over las fruits of
that labor. Inconsistency lies therefore, al the root
of the system they undertake to teach and is matter
Of email surprise that find it in all the branches
We are here told that the country began to prosper
from the date of the passing of the act of 1916 AMI
that it has not ceased to prosper from that day to
"tLis' In opposition to this, have the fact that
from the day when the famine in Europe, and cOnse-
qucnt large diminuton in the stock OF breadstuas,
ceased to be felt in the grain markets of'the world
that is say, from lols-there was remarkable de-
cline in the prosperity of the people of this country
manifested by a large dimnution in the consumption
of cotton and wooden goods, iron coal, and thou
sand other commodities; and this diminntiOn was in
the actual quantity, notwithstanding vast increase
of population At that time, however, the gold mines
of California had yet been brought light. This
discovery was a godsend to our British frce.trade
and pro.savery friends it tended largely to stave
By producing fleets directly NE rcrcrse Of those for the
production Of schich they had Joad'y 'oo.ed. Neverthe
less they uniformly claimed by the advocates of
that tariff as being the necessary result Of their great
work.
At the date OF the passage of that act the avorte
docrire of the pro-savery free traders that the
difficulty of competition with foreign manufacturers
was to he found in the currency and that i; was in
that direction we were to look for the remedy. Gen.
jackson had said that all WHO were poor enough to
use borrowed capital "onght to break, and his sue.
cessor, Mr. Van Buren,, had, by aid Of specie circu
lars and sub treasures, eecualy succeeded in bre i'd
ing them down, and in enching the already rich, by
enabling tkem TO purchase at low prices the lands
that had first been improved, and the mills and fur
naces that had first been built by the poor demo-
Gratis who had been obliged TO borrow the money
with which to do the work. and then found
themselves, under the pro-slavery rule, sold out
by the sheriff, to the great advantage of the rich
who had lent IT, At that moment Mr.. Calhoun
the pro-savery advocate par egecence, Of the Union
in the habit of assuring his friends that it was
mere currency Question-that money was TOO abun-
dsnt and that wages were too highland that if gold
were only substituted for bank notes. wages would
fall 10 their natural level and then protection would
cease 10 be required Mr.. Buchanan another pro-
slavery flee trader of opinion that the perfec-
ton Of our system would be attained when wages
should he reduced TO twenty-five cents day. as We
should then be able to compete, unprotected not only
with the half paid workman OF Britain, but with the
quarter paid men of Germany aud perhaps with those
Of India whose numbers are being steadily diminished
by aid of constantly recurring fsmines and pesti-
enees. Free trade required cheap labor and the
nearer the white abcrer could be brought the con-
dlton Of the black slave, the greater would be the
chance for the weworkiDg Of the tariff of 1S46,
passed into law by the votes of the same
men who now hold in such utter contempt the hire
ling aborers' of the North and who now look TO
the extension Of the area Of Slavery the only means
Of preserving republican form Of government
Since then, however, California has been discovered
money has become more abundant and the priee
OF labor las risen being directly the reverse of all
that was hoped for by the pro-slavery advocates of
British free trade. The difficulty of maintaining
competition with foreign manufacturers should have
increased, whereas it has diminished Instead of
closing up the remaining furnaces and factories new
ones have been built and the quantity OF cotton and
woolen cloths and of Ion produced ut home has large
grown; whereas, according to the free trade ;ouru
ais, it should as largely have declned-snd vet the
change il BY all Of them proclaimed as triumph of
the principles of the tariff Of 1876!
Precisely similar has been the course Of things in
England with the doctors ofthat school to which belong
The Union, Tie Journal Of Commerce aud other pro- sla