The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-06

IL Out, IL 10 not Free lraue lhrin, anu III
. retaining duty on sugar, SO as to make the
People pay taxes for the support of few thou
sand sugar growers in Louisiana, it deserves
public Reproduction.
The Tribune says that the Cause of Free
dom has never suffered more injurious blow
than from the Tariff of lS46 OF course, the
annexation of Texas, the war against Mexico,
the sacrifice of the Wilmot Proviso in 1850, the
Fugitive Slave Act, the election of Franklin
Pierce, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
and all the aggressions Of the Slave Power are
no worse than the Tariff of 1876! This needs
no answer. Error is never more harmless than
when so extravagant as to shock common sense.
We have not time to notice all the strange
inconsistencies of the Tribune. 1t holds, as all
Protectionists of its school hold, that the Slave
holders want good market to sell their cotton
in, and a cheap market to buy their goods in,
and therefore they insist upon Free Trade.
Well-that is human nature. But, because, for
certain reasons of universal application, we also
favor Free Trade, therefore we are an ally of
"the slave-traders and slave-breeders 4" The
icy-it scorns to be an ally of these respectable
classes-it goes therefore for Protection. Mark,
the assumption is, that Free Trade plays into
the hands of Shareholders, while Protection is
against them. But, what is the argument of
this class of political economists at the North
Protect your manufactures, and you ultimately
cheaper the price of the manufactured articles,
so that, without a Tariff, in the end, the foreign
articles could not enter into competition with
them. Besides, the increase of manufacturing
industry occasions an increased demand for raw
materials Oh-then the upshot of Protection
is to cheaper to the planter his machinery and
cotton and agricultural implements, in fact all
that he needs for housing, working, and cloth
ing his slaves, while it quickens the demand
for his cotton, thereby giving new impetus to
Slavery and Slavery Extension! Aye, railing
at Free Trade because it makes Cotton, King,
you would substitute Protection, which will only
aggrandize his Kingdom! &
AS to the Pro Russian sentiment of the Ttib.
ane, we must deplore it. 1t is painful to see
liberal journal denouncing in one column the
flibuster usurpation of Walker in Nicaragua,
heralding, it says, the absorption of Central
America by the United States and Slavery, and
advocating in another the absorption of unof.
Tending Turkey by slaveholding and aggressive
Russia. There is no consistency or decency
in such a course. 1t is fit that the Richmond
(Va.) Enquirer should be an advocate of Rus.
sian propagandism, for it says
"Russia with Slavery has become great, DOW
erful, and contented. Western Europe, with.
out Slavery has rapidly refrigerated, and be-
come poor, seditious, and revolutionary Taunt-
ed as we are with our institutions, we like to
appeal to the example of Russian progress and
Western European decline. No people in
Chrstendom are so happy and contented as the
Russians, except the people of our Southern
States"
Nor can we sympathize with the bitterness
with which the Tribune is accustomed to speak
Of England. We are the partisans of no for
eign Power, but the true policy of this country
is to cultivate peace and friendship with the
English People. Such infiammatory Trades
as the following, from the Psnnsylcanian, are
absolutely hateful.
Above all causes of aversion Ito England
aggravated to a feeling of absolute animosity
If not of hatred or revenge. thee is that mon.
ster pet of English birth and Craftsmanship
Negro 4bolaiOnism.
I" 1t is even possible that there was a small
catch in the arrangement that the English sue
ceeded in making with the United States, re-
speeding the joint attempt to suppress the slave
trade. Perhaps JOHN succeeded in slightly
doing JONATHAN.
"The time is about to arrive when there may
be an end to English interference generally
and especially to English Abolitionism. AS a
suitable and altogether proper finish to the
present war, England ought to lose India. 1t
is Of the deepest interest to the commerce of
the United States that she should now quietly
disgorge all her Indian conquests. Such
contamination would annihilate Aboiitionism.
That ebony woman of American politics,
whose silly but impudent face bushes not, nor
betrays emotion, though spit upon, would then
disappear forever.
"Indignities have been freely offered to the
United States by England, and especially in the
perpetual interference with the condition of
American negroes. That is as yet unatoned
for, but the time will arrive. England must
lose India. Let this be the conclusion of all
our speeches, as Delend0 est Carthage was of
the noble Cato"
1t is false that England has interfered in the
question Of Negro Slavery in this country. She
has scrupulously respected our sovereignty but
she has abolished Slavery within her own linn
its, and for this we honor her. When Russia
shall put an end to serfdom, establish constitu-
tional Government, cease to put her heel o. the
Peoples Of Europe striving Tor Liberty, give
shelter to political exiles, prescribed for their
devotion to Freedom, and institute Free Press,
it will be time enough for the Tribune to be-
come her apologist