Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-14

Foco It is the only State where the judiciary null.
lined the Federal Fugitive slave law.
From the Philadelphia News.
Hoduct1on OF Wages.-Is Mr.. Bucbannn
In favor Of IL Here is the Proof.
Tho great mass meeting of the friends of FIJI.
moro and Donelson, held In Independence SQUARE
on Wednesday evening last, having declared.
among other things, that those there assembled
could have no sympathy with the principles Of
James Buchanan-his doctrine OF low wages for
American mechanics, and his opposition to the war
OF 1919, that fact seems to have aroused the in
dignant ire Of our otherwise Jolly and amable
contemporary Of the Pennsylvania to so high a
degree, that he could not contain himself without
letting of his bile, as follows:
BASE AND DIsHoNoRABLE.-We have made no
secret OF the high personal respect we have ever
entertained for ex-President Fillmore. We have
avowed this upon all occasions as well as our pain
ful feelings Of modification and regret that he
should have lowered himself in our estimation and
that OF the public generally, by his indiscreet ail-
iation with the proscriptive and intoerant party.
called the Know-Notbings. Entertaining such feel.
ings, we felt disposed to treat the public meeting
held last evening with all becoming respect, until
the resolutions to be offered were placed in our
hands. One Of these resolutions is base and dis
honorable libel upon truth and common decency
1t is q glaring, premeditatcd fasehood, known to
be such by those who framed it. The stale SANDER
about low wages in connexion with the name of
Mr. Buchanan, is unworthy Of men claiming the
name of American citizens. To repeat a falsehood
told by another when it has been proved to be
such over and over again, equals in moral turpi-
tude the vilany that originally concocted IT, The
lie that has been nailed to the counter as base COIN
is endorsed by public meeting composed of (so-
called) respectable men. II is evidence of a weak
cause or bad heart, when such weapons are relied
upon for success"
Thus accused of all sort Of bad things, and the
charge that Mr.. Buchanan stands recorded in the
Congressional history Of the country. as in favor
Of low wages being denounced as a base lie, we
feel called upon to produce the record, and make
good the charge. We refer, therefore, our excited
contemporary to the record. Let him look at page
l29 OF the Appendix to the Congressional Globe
for 1839-40, where the obnoxious speech NAV be
found; and II 1t should be more convenient, he
may also find 1t in vols 81 and SO of Niles Regis
ter. On pages 1856 of the Appendix referred
70, occurs the following language, the meaning Of
which we leave each reader to construe for him
self:
In Germany, where the currency is purely
metallic, and the cost Of Everything is REDUCED to
a hard money standard, piece Of broadcoth can
be manufactured for fifty dollars the manufacture
of which, in our country from the expansion of
paper currency would cost one hundred doars.--
What Is the consequence? The foreign French
and German manufacturer imports this cloth into
our country and sells it for hundred. Does not
every person perceive that the redundancy of our
currency is equal to q premium of one hundred
per cent. In favor of the manufacturer?
No tariff OF protection, unless il amounted to
prohibition, could counteract these advan .ages in
favor of foreign manufactures. would to heaven
that could arouse the attention of every manu-
hcturer OF the nation to this important subject.
What 10 the reason that, with all these advan-
tages, and with the protective duties which our
laws afford to the domestic manufacture of cotton,
we cannot obtain exclusive possession of the home
market, and successfully contend for the MARKETS
OF the world? 1t is simply becsuse we manufac-
ture at the nominal prices of our own inflated cur
rency, and are compelled to sell at the real prices
of other nations REDUCE OUR NOMINAL
lPRICES OF LABOR) TO THE REAL STAN
DARD OFPRICES THROUGHOUT the WORLD,
and you cover our country with blessings and ben
"The comparative Low PRICES of France and
Germany, have afforded such stimulus to their
manufactures that they are now rapidly extending
themselves, and would obtain possession, in no
small degree, even Of the English home market, if
1T WERE NOT FOR THEIR PROTECTING
DUTIES. Whilst British manufacturers are now
lAnguishing, those of the continent are springing
into healthy and vigorous existence"
Now here Is our proof Dare the Pennsylvania
deny that Mr. Buchanan made the speech from
which the foregoing extracts are taken? Can it
say that by the words-"real standard of prices
throughout the world"-Mr. Buchanan meant, and
was understood to mean, and was replied to as
meaning. the starvation pages of labor in Europe?
Let 1t publish, if it dare, the speech we have point
ed ont, not different or subsequent one, but the
one containing the paragraphs quoted above--that
his readers may judge for themselves This il all
we ask. Let It furnish the document, and the pub
lie will then see whether injustice has been done
Mr.. Buchanan. Dare it do so, and thus do justice
to its favorite, or is he like Pat, who when ar
raigned before court, was told that he need not be
afraid, but rest assured justice would be done him,
replied quantity, "and faith, that is just what I'm
afraid Off"