New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-20

lie desires to encourage them to produce largely,
| lie sells on credit and takes their bonds bat
so soon a. they are fairly under wsy ne turns the
screw. calls in bis advances puts up interest TO
,ne or two per cent per month, and buys their
cotton, their stocks and their houses, at his own
Irices-hayins accomplished which, he pats the n
ca the head and encourages them to begin again,
that be NAV have another chance Of prohting at
tier expense.
The position occupied by this country at the
present moment is as notifying one as can
readily be conceived Owners Of California, and
thence receiving Id at the rate of million week,
our merchants are paying one and two per cent
month for money and of our manufacturers many
End it quite impossible to obtain it at any rate-and
the country is from week to week building up a
foreign debt already requiring more than twenty
millions a year for the payment OF interest," and
promising to increase from year to year until its
sball require thirty millions. With every step OF
;ts increase, our people are more and more losing
c,ntrol over their own actions, aud more and
more becoming mere shuttlecocks to be
drive, forward and backward, thrown up in the
air. or dropped to the ground, as best msy suit
the purposes Of Manchester sPinners We'ch iron
masters. or London bankers. Is this not so Is
there a nan among us that can make any calcua'
ton a. to the value of his property week,
month. ar year hence Is there man who has
labor TO sell that feels any confidence in the sta
bility of demand for his commodities lsthere any
one among us who does not look with teverlsh
anxiety at the price of consols furnished by each
successive steamer knowing that if they go up he
NAV be able to sell his goods, his stocks, or his
houses, whereas, if they go down, he may be com
pelled to keep them on his hands or sell them at
sacrifice
sucb A condition of dependence would, under
any circumstances be sufficiently notifying; but
what adds to the modification is, that the Sham
Democracy who maintain us 10 this condition OF
depepdsuce, are al ways snarling and growing at
John Bull, while knowing that they dare not at
tcmnt to bite him. At no period has this DISPOSE
ton been more manifest than at the present.
,et thanks to Sham Democratic government,
We are at this hour more dependent on England
than we ever before have been-and that Lord
palmerston and The Times well know. For nine
wears Sham Democracy has been busiy engaged in
closing mills and furnaces, that we might De
forced to use ships, and with every increase In
tbe number Of ships we have had congratulations
on the growth of foreign trade and national
mower and yet each successive ship was
hut new hostage given to the Mistress oil
tbe Seas for our peaceful submission to her
DEGREES. Sham Democracy forced upon us
the Mexican war and the purchase OF California,
upon which latter the older States have expended
an amount of capital twenty times greater than
will ever be repaid and now California which we
cannot defend, constitutes another hostage in the
hands of Lord PalmerstOn for the good conduct Of
those of his friends who now administer our gov
eminent in the British interesss Sham Democ-
racy forced upon us the necessity tor making roads
across the Isthmus, and thus to giTe another host
ace TO John Bull, in whose abuse it 20 much in
duloes. Sham Democracy however, knows its
weakness, for it reiterates from year to year the
Munroe doctrine we see it invariably knuckling
70 John Bull in any case of difference as is the
case of the recent Reciprocity treaty given to
him as sop by means of which to induce him to
sbstain from matreating and robblng our fisher
mo, Next il will be seen in the message to be
sent 70 Congress fortnight hence, offering him
reduction in the tariff by way of securing that
the cold of California shall Off with still in
creased rspidty-as sop to induce him to alb
stain from all interference with our trade with
country for the development Of which we have sup
piled all the capital while he receives all the rev.
tnue Buster and consciousness OF weakness
ALWAYS travel hand in hand with each other.
Al no reriod since the formation of the Federal
Constitution Is the country been so feeble anda
none las its weakness been operfectly understood
abroad as at the present, and this we assert with
ont the slightest fear of contradiction; at none
have we had 90 vast an amount of property on the
ocean liable in case of war to capture; at none
has it been SO entirely in the power OF foreign
nation to cripple the operations OF the government,
because at none has the country been 80 deeply TO-
vo,v, in debt; at none has il been 30 much in the
mower Of foreigners to interfere with our domes-
tic trade because the enlargement OF territory has
brought with it necessity for passing through dis
tsnt lands If we would 90 from State to State;
and vet with all these facts staring them in the
ACE. cur Sham Democracy snarls at Great Britain
and shows its teeth. point beyond which 1t dare
mot po-and this Lord PalmerstOn knows as well
as they. Under such circumstances need we Won
der tn, Times should speak Of this country in the
,neeripg ard contemptuous tones it has recently
usedi Certainly not. We have soxed rich har'
vest of contempt and will be sure TO reap the crop
We need change and it would readily be made
were it not that the country is administered alto
petber in the interests of the foreign money
90 4 ai inf IN of ma mr.