New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-30

Southern planters from taking casn advances oil
Northern hucksters, and thus mortgaging the
sweat Of their nggers' Or, how be csutankerous
with the Convention that voted out TRIBUNE Re-
porter from seat, because we laugh at Amazonis
and the doctrine that Slavery is the cornerstone
{" of Freedom" No; we can't be hard upon South
ern Conventions. They are so cOmical and witha so
cbild.like. Innocent of radical idea; incapable
of sober system deliciously discursive and
eaborately nonsensical, we may laugh at them, but
be angry, never.
The Richmond Enquirer, on the score of the
Convention to come is magnificent. 1t informs US
THAT no country in the world Possesses such
abundant elements Of national independence as
"the South; and yet none so advanced in ciyiiza-
"ton ever relied so much on foreign skill and
"foreipn production for the ordinary necessaries
"and comforts of life" True; but we ask The
En0uirer what has it done within the memory Of
the living generation but destroy every effort made
conformity by the States irrespective Of geographic
cal position-Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky,
North Carolina, being once linked with Massachu-
setts-yhat has it done but level its local shafts
against every such attempt TO render the South
duly independent Of Old and New-England Did
il ever utter any but Freetrade fallacies Did it
ever recognize the truth that there must be COM
pensatons introduced to qualify the inferiority of
ayoung country starting in the manufacturing race
with an old one Did it ever name Protection,
after the example of Andrew Jackson, as
means Of occupying the waste labor of the
country and preventing mendicity Did it
ever seek to enlighten its readers on the relative
home consumption and expectation of Southern
staples under the different periods of Protective
tariff and Free-trade revenue tariff Did itever
inquire which of these periods has proved itself as
really tending to the contamination of that mer-
camille independence which it now inyokes!
If The Enquirer be inspired by love of
truth, it will spread before its readers, es-
pecinlly the members of the Convention, the hg-
ures showing that there is no opposition between
the Protective or Domestic manufacturing in
terest and the foreign trade, but on the contrary
the years of protection favor our foreign commerce
in the proportion of seven to fiye-and mind that
too with the chronic incertitude which attends all
our policy; for we can show but eight years OF de-
cided protection in our whole history OF seventy
years. and these eight years in two periods OF four
each. without assurance at either time OF their
continued duration. What might have been the
huge motive power of our undivided industry
North, South East and West - an increasing
foreign commerce included, growing out OF
our ability to exchange surplus products Is
difficult TO estimate But if so much were
achieved with a few years Of uncertainty, it is
reasonable to suppose immeasurably greater re-
suits would have followed, had it been understood
that our protective policy would have remained
inyariable for quarter of century. SO much for
that point; we must now refresh the discussion
with another quotation from The Enquirer:
"But the time has arrived when we should people
and improve what We have wisely aud prudenty ac-
9uired. To do so, we must diversity lndustfei Pf
suits We should not cease to be an agricutura
peope: for our SOIL climate, and the character OF our
labor point to that as our pnncipal employment we
Al ould not seek TO become an extensively commercial
people, because the over pursuit OF trade Always h
troduces wealth with the few, pauperism with the
mapy luxury and effeminacy with the nch ana spirit
less dependence among the poor Such Is the present
condition of English society, induced by too much
trade"
These are frightfully vapid congratulations, and
mean nothing. How are you going to diversity
YOUR Industrial pursuits in Virginia Who
respects mechanical industry there3 is it not
bought and sold as the labor of dumb beasts
And allowing that there is too much trade in En-
gland, does it result in the spritless dependence of
the poor Take the vital descriptions by the old
novests of the last century-before steam was
known-and we learn thence that the poor were
much more spiritless then than now; and few
centuries back, when England had no foreign trade
beyond her tin Mines the people were serfs. Why
will all the Southern journals utter such fummery
about trade! Who have always taken the lead in
liberty but the industrial trading towns Look at
the overwhelming courage displayed at Dinant;
look at the weayers of Client; look at Venice; look
at Paris, which has supplied the republican armies
with 10000 Een, and the cleverest daredevlls In
the Crimea There is too much trade In England
smply because the land is held in immense estates,
and people unable to compete with the great land
holders. emigrate, or enter cities and make money
at the expense of this cruntry because of such lights
as The Enquirer.
One more extract from that organ which is so
jealous to befog the gathering Convention.
"Beside. all commercial nations are feeble in war,
dependent upon mecenaIy troops, and become short
lived The exclusive pursuit of trade is more TO be
avoided than the exclusive pursuit OF agriculture; the
former demoralizes and eDeebes nation. the latter
r, nders il ignorant, but strong healthy and patriotic.
In one sense we have now too much commerce-for
we are supplied by it from abroad with what we
should produce at home The diminishing that sort OF
commerce would build up various mechanic and man
ufacturng interests, and beget large internal home,
trade and larger home consumption OF agricultural
products If we manufactured the materials
prc duced by agriculture, at home, We should beget
rent ncreasa of nrofts Of capital Of population OF