New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-21

cslled Democrat; though when he ceased to be o
Federslist and became Democrat, no one pretends
to say. 1t certainly was not when he became q
Jscksonian; for he twice ran for Congress and was
chosen on the Federal as opposed to the Demo
cratic ticket, after he had become prominent and
jealous supporter of Gen. Jackson for the Presi-
dtncy. But all this IL matter of very little re.
naming consequence, save as it illustrates the
fimfiness Of the pretenses by which Thousands are
led to support whatever is for the time duly Ia
beled Democracy.
The charge that Mr.. Buchanan has advocated
reduction Of labOriDg mems wages to ten cents
per day, has but very partial support in fact
De certainly never made any such proposition
directly, nor al ything which be understood to have
that effect What he did say was substantially
this: The true way to encourage American Manu-.
facures is to diminish their money cost by restrict
ing our currency. Suppose piece of cloth can
be made in Gernsny for fifty dollars which cannot
be made here for less than seventy five, let us con-
tract our currency fifty per cent, and we can
make that same cloth here cheaper than it can be
impOrted.-TO this theorem Mr.. Davis of Mass.
replied with crushing effect: "When you say the
"true way to protect American Manufactures is
"by such contraction of our currency as will re-
"duce the money cost Of producing q piece Of
"cOth in ths country below that of its production
Sin Germany, you imply that the American artisan
"Or abOrer shall work for the average wages Of
his brother in Germany. defy you to show
how the cost of this roll of cloth is to be reduced
"thirty or fifty per cent by restricting the Currency,
"Oiherwise than by reducing the cost of the eie
"ments Of cloth production, which are mainly Wool
and Labor. If you will have, through currency
90 restriction, for fifty dollars the piece of cloth
which now costs seventy five or hundred, you
Unjust get your Labor as cheap as the German
manufacturer does" We think Gov. Davis
was substantially right in this view, though Mr..
Buchanan doubtless believed that il misrepresented
his position. We think Mr. B. had not well con-
sidered bis ground aud that his gradual con.
version from The Economic doctrines of Pennsyl-
vsbia to those of South Carolina had been the re-
suit rather of partisan necessity than OF unbiased
conviction. Hence, when he saw the results OF
bis own doctrines 80 wildly portrayed BY Gov.
Davis, he denied that they were Legitimate
LET the dead bury their dead The question
Of the day concerns Slavery E1tension, and has no
relation to by-gone issues. "Shall the Free-st'te
men be crushed out of Kansas Shall the gigantic
frauds of her territorial elections be permitted to
fasten Slavery upon her. in defiance Of the rem'n-
srances and struggles of at least wo-thirds Of her
actuSl settlers Shall the affiliated Ruians of the
Missouri border, and the brigands collected from
the more Southern Slave States, be allowed to
drive out the free-hearted pioneers who went
thither to work rather than fight And shall
Slavery, thus perfdiously fastened upon Kansas,
be enabled to pour itself out without restraint,
and find no limit but the Pacific Ocean p" We be-
lieve the People are preparing to answer these
questions in manner worthy of their Revolutionary
sires-wortby Of the humane and generous spirit OF
the Nineteenth Century.