New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-19
A sUaJECr RESUMED.


not the principal topic in the controversy.
and as we desire to let our readers see
what The Era has 70 say on the man SUBJECT.
We now reprint the article entire; It viii DC
found iu another part of this paper. IL VIII DO
seen by those who refer to it that Ihe Era mas
backed out from a discussion com nenced by
itself of the comparative advantages of the sys-
re n which looks to protecting the farmer III MS
efforts to bring the consumer OF food to his side,
and that other one known as British Free trade,
which looks to compelling him to make all MS
exchanges with men that are thousands OF miles
distant from him. We had not, We must c'n-
fess. Anticipated such a re suit. That our neigh
bor. of The Journal Of Commerce, so soon as 1t
had been proved beyond the possibility OF qqes-
lion that man was becoming more free Ia all the
countries that resisted the British "chstp
"lsbor" system, md less free in all that sub
mitted to it, should fly from such discussion
could not be regarded as at all extraordinary
The Journal being an admitted Pro-Siaeery adj
yocate. and therefore decidedly opposed to all
measures tending TO promote the freedom OF
man. whether black or white. To prove to 1t
that Freedom was ever growing In protected
Germany, Tuscany, Belgium and Denmark, aud
that it has always grown here in periods OF eifi-
Gent protection-or that 1t declined in India,
Portugal, Turkey and Ireland for the same reason
that it has always declined here under British
Free trade-could be productive of no Other
effect than that of inducing 1t to con nue stead
ily onward in the course in which IL so long has
travelled. Trade is the divinity at whose shrine
il worships, and the trader in negro muscles,
sinews and bones is just as much entitled to its
consideration as his Manchester compeer, who
accumulates fortune BY help of the unreqaited
labor of the poor people of India, Ireland or
Britain 1t is the natural ally of the save.trader,
and is therefore always laborng in its vocation
when advocating measures adverse to the en-
fianchisement of man.
From The Era, however, we had right to
expect something widely different. The pro-
fessed obie t of that journal is to promote the
extirpation Of Slsvery, and we are ce -taln'y at
a lose to understand how it can cOnscientiously
avoid the examination Of the question, whether
the policy it advocates tends in the direction Of
u
and with the best intentions they may do IN ,st So
rious mischief to the cause they desire to pro-
mote; and therefore are they bound to study care
fully before they undertake to teach la default OF
such study our contemporary must always be ex-
posed to the danger of becoming real advocate
of Slavery; and yet when invited to it, he
qrayely tells us of "the superior claims of the
"cause of Freedom" AS WELL we think,
mil hit our neighbor of The Independent refuse TO
discuss the moral influence of temperance on
the ground of "the superior claims Of the
cause of morality. Freedom has alw,ys grown
where men were mos. enabled to coubne their
efforts with those of their neighbor men. The
object OF Protection is that of facilitating such
combination, and therefore it Is that under it
men every where become more free. Tue objsct
of British Free Trade is to prevent such CON-
binaton, and therefore usder it do men every
where become less free. These are great facts
that cannot be denied, and yet one of the leading
Anti-Slavefy journals of the country flies from
en- examination of them because Of "the super
"or claims Of the Cause of Freedom"
While thus retreating from the field, TIE
Era assures it's readers that il could easily
" strengthen its tables" by adding new ones; aud
we must confess our regret that it should not
have made the attempt, for they were greatly in
need of strength, and-may we add-of fairGe g
too. That, however, its own readers are little
likely to know, as our contemporary neither far-
ni.hes them with our reply nor explains to them
the mode in which its tables we're prepared aud
which we were required TO expose. He does
not say to them as he might; "When We have
desired to prove the disastrous working of the
american system We have always selec led the
moment when British Free-trade had ceased
'to work, and when consequently the country
"had been brought to stop, and required
" therefore the largest power to get it again in
Emotion, as in l824-25 and l942-i3-but when
"we have desired to exhibit the beautiful
"working of British Free.trade we have Sc
elected the moment when it had replaced the
American system and when the motion was
therefore great, and when the smallest effort
"was required to produce the largest effect, as
ain 1888 and 1861, keeping carefully
"out of view the fact that with the American .ys-
Item the motion increased from hour to hour,
'while with the British system it as steadily
- decreased until at length motion was almost
"lOst."
Were our coterpsrary to furnish such expla-
nations, bis readers would not only understand
how the tables already furnished have been pre-
pared, but might perhaps appreciate the value
of those others that, as they are told, are yet
held in reserve-and they might, too, under
stand why it is that so staunch an advocate of