New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-03
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discontinued-ss mills, fsctorieA farnscss, NJ
chine. shops are cioted--ss books oessc to be Ia
deuaI ., and printer, book binaers aai ps,cr.
MAKERS are dischsrgsd-end as housrs sud shin,
cease to be built. liability to sell la1or 10 pro-
ducire q STEADY dimiaa,ion OF the p,~cr
to purchase the produce Of the labor Of
others, snd trs6e is therefore, declieing WI,
pidity that is fearful white those 10 tr.ds are
everywhere mensced with ruin. because Of
, inability to collect the debts already on their
books. Stores are clos.6, and rents are falling
and owners of real estate are nov participating
in the Iuin experienced by the men whose meses
have been expended in the creation of mlls, far-
races, machine shops, and ships. Mortgages sre
beirg sold ont to crafty the cupidity OF mort
gsgees Credit is dying even whe re il isn,. dead,
and money is everywhere being boarded, while
banks and bankers are everywhere beco ming
bankrupt. We have thus all the evidences Of "a
approaching paralysis that must end in the ruia
of cur most active and energetic mea. while
building up the fortunes of graspipg money Isnd.
ers, foreign and domestic, to whose contribution
in aid of the dissemination of "a sound public
opinion in Americs. our Walls ct. Contemporary
has always been 60 largely Indebted.
Il this, however, anew state Of things ItisaoA
Ii precisely wba. has occurred coward the close
of ers,y British free trade period that hsre ever
kaorn. 1t iswhat occurred in lS2O-23-whea
unswploy ed laborers and mech anics counted By
hundreds Of Thousands. 1t is what happened
in 1902, when men, worden. aud children
starved in our streets, and WHEN houses and
stores, mills, furnaces, and mines were every
where sold out fer the benefit Of T& Journals
money lending friends. Neverth sless, while fully
possessed OF all the facts of the case. our fugitive
contemporary has steadily employed himself Ia
concoctiDg tables to prove the reverse Of all this
to be true. He knew as well as we did, that
Britsh Free trade had invariably LEFT the couatry
in = state of weakness, and the people la poverty
and wretchedDess, yet his every effort was d.
rected to prove that in that direction were to be
found prosperity for the people and strength for
the Government. He knew as well as we did,
that Protection had left sperous people and
a strong Government at tae close of the war Of
Isi2-that il had found an impoverished people
in 1924, and had delivered them backin 1884, en-
Toying degree Of prosperity such rs had never
before been known-that it bad in loi2 accepted
from Briti,h Free trade ruined people, and that
in only FIVE years AFTER when called upon to resign
It's trusts, it had handed them over in condition
even more prosperous than had been that Of
ls34-but It suited the purposes OF his employers
in Manchester aud Birmingham to have 1t proved
that the facts had been directly opposite to this.
They were excellent paymasters, and he Obeyed
their oIders-msnufacturing tables intended for
the purpose of proving that to be true which he
knew TO be false.
What is now the consequence lie has fled,
that he may no longer hear the groans of faUshed
men ard women, whose starving families cry
aloud for bread that cannot be obtained. He
has fed, that he may relieve himself from hear
ing the curses, loud nddeep ofthe ruined manu-
facturers, the bankrupt merchants, the distressed
sbip.owners, and the impoverished owners Of
Iots, lands houses, and railroad stocks, BY whom
he found himself everywhere surrounded. In
stead of taking the advice Of his conscience, which
recommends him to make a clean breast, &C.
knowled gpg bic sibs, al ehdeav oring by differ
ent course Of action in future to prove his peni-
ence, be has taken counsel Of 4" the fend," aud
has fled to parts unknown.
IL may be that in his retreat this article may
meet the eye of our fugitive contemporary. Should
it DO so, we beg him to recollect that his return
10 anxiOusly looked for, and thst our columns will
alwsys be open to him for any answer to tho
questions we have propounded TO him, or any ex.
PLANTATION Of the causes of bis pfecipitate flight.
Let him, then, hold another counsel with his con-
science, and endeavOr to throw off, once and for
ever, the counsel Of Z" the fiend" by whom he has
been so grievousIy msled. Let him BIO assured
that, in the long rum honesty is the best policy,
and that BY adopting that maxim for his motto.
be will be enabled ~ enjoy q quiet conscience
that will make large amends for any future de-
fcency that may be experienced in the contribu-
tions received from the Manchester fund for
establishing "a sound public opinion in America"
We ventured, a day or two since, to differ from
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