New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-10

must il be with our own. The PRICES Obt,,.,
for the whole crop must continue to be regv,,.,
by what is obtained for per cent OF Il, 90 s,.
as the necessity for gong to the English m,rl-
continues TO exist. Free the farmer f,.,
SOY such necessity-ensble him 70 decide 4.
himself whe-e aud TO whom he will sell, aalA.
passes at once fom heiog the slave Of the trsA,
to the condition Of a free and independent mu.
but this is not the position in which BrsS
Free trade would place him.
VIII our contemporary now excuse Us for repeu
ing the question, ais it not for the interest,
"fsrmers everywhere that the price Of r,oia
"Epcland should be hight" And will be er
cuse us for adding to it this other ~
"long as the price Of his whole crop is depend
sent on that obtsined for the insignl6e.u
Quantity sent to Englaad, must be not hs
"himself forced to rejoice in short crops a
"Europe-in the occurrence of wars-lnd i
"every thing tending TO increase to the peoplea
ENGLAND the difficulty of obtaining food ,"
The third question addressed to our cOtenPs
rary was in the following words:
Does not every increase in the quantity seq; 4
that market tend to lower its price, ana every deea
tend TO raise II =
The plain aud simple answer TO this queshs
would have been found in the monosyllable Ys
but direct replies to simple questions are no,h
be expected from the admirers of British Fn
trade. The difficulties Of their position fol6
the ext terce of fearlessness AMI candoSM
therefore il is that we are furn he'd with
following words in lieu of the brief reply n
had hoped for:
Excess of supply over demand in every marie
ends 10 lower rs cxcess of demand over supply ts
TO raise, the price,.
A man charged with crime is always cautiOss
against saying anything that can commit hlnset
ard the more certain he feels that the charges
Justly made, the more certain viii he alwayk
10 follow the advice. An innocent maa maia
admissions, but guilty one will neyrt
so; because however innocent the question ns
sppear TO be, he is fearful of others thitRs
follow in its wake. He therefore ans Ters nOs
and such is precisely the case with our Bnus
Free traders when put upon their trial. TAs
see in every question trap and sin ever
nbush an officer" "Conscience," says sAaa
speare "makes towards of US ALL Oura
temporary is quite too well informed moth
know that in regard to food England Is the 90
erninr market of the world-that nearly all IL
exchanges of food in this country are governs
BY English prces--that the power of the firas
10 provide for his family and to pay his taxesu,
his interest is dependent on the rise antR
of prices in Eugland-that it is therefore grts7
to his interest that prices should be high there
that the price there tends to fall with incfeu
in the quantity raised, or received from sbfa
and that every measure tending To dimIna
that quantity tends to raise the price of the wAa
product of our farmers-and yet he dare
frankly and openly admit that the facts ares
Like the criminal in the dock he closeil \
mouth, for the paragraphs thus far given ass
swers TO our questions can be regarded onlfl
so many evidences of the truth of TalieynE \
proposition before referred 10, that wordsw
invented for the cOncealment of ideas.
Our contemporary is great opponeIi
Slavery. He believes it to be great TRUTH.
man should everywhere be frce-aud so dos
Can he. however, fad man anywhere beeOni
more free By the help of British Free-tradeiI
think not The ony countries in which thef
dom of man is at all advancing are thO.'
which the farmer is protected in his eaort
create market at home, and thus free hlna
from dependence on the traders of England
Turkey and Portugal the West Indies, lrsa
ana Inda-the countries of British Free trsi'
man is becoming from year to year less frees
less capable of providing for the wants OIL
self his wife and his children. Here issgr
fact that is worth all the columns of hgaril
can find in all the reports in his library 40
ought to be sufficient TO satisfy his mind ths
educating British Free trade he makes HAS
the ally and not the opponent of SlaVep
can be of small use to talk Anti Slayoyn
all the measures he advocates are proshH
ones and carried into effect BY help Oh
negro-driyers