Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-20
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Statee. ne l6dulDB men OF the party IN mary
land, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky ant
louisiana have announced themselves in favO
| OF free discussion of the subject, and some o
them have declared in favor of the practical res
: toration of the Missouri Compromise line Th
Is a great step towards a union and is really The
only significant sign Of the formation of an anti
2 slavery party at the South, and gives good
ground tor the opinion that the American party
will again be reunited, not pro-slaUerg basis
but as national party occupying substantially
$ the ground Of the Fremont American party IN
r the late campaign"
r The Bee is stealing Gen. Wilson's thunder
He proposes to leave the settlement of the slave
~ question to the " liberal, high-minded men
J Of the South" The Bee expects Southern Amer
leans to aid the formation Of an anti'slavery
party at the South, and kindly assures us, that
the anti-slavery action of this national American
party shall be not on proSlaGery 6aStSF and
yet, my dear Spy, this sort OF of talk, which has
cheated, for the last time, every anti-slavery
who has his eye-teoth cut, will again answer its
purpose of dividing the North, and again defeat
ing us, if, indeed we ever rally for another con-
test. And it is with just this set of men, that
the trade is now being negotiated to sell US out in
1857 and 1858.
How mysterious is the association of ideas
Why should the word 81 trade" suggest the offer
of a
PUBLIC DINNER TO Mr. BANKS.
The correspondence is very suggestive, and
very significant. Not ore word, either in invita-
ton OF reply, of the great issue upon which Mr..
Banks was elected speaker, and which alone, has
engrossed public attention for the last two years
The invitation embraces two topics, and puts the
compliment upon two grounds. First, Bankss
''rare ability" presiding officer, and second,
his {" unceasing lebors, in looking after and pro-
tecting the great interests of our ancient Common
wealth..
No man can object to compliments to Mr..
Banks as presiding officer. He has not now,
and probably never had, his equal on this cont.
nent. But these gentlemen never discovered
these rare abilities" when Mr.. Banks was
speaker of our Massachusetts, House, or Presi-
dent of our Constitutional Convention, and yet,
that rare ability" was no less remarkable then,
than now. Of the hundred signers of this invi-
tation, there are but ta0o, who have ever, pub.
licly or privately, expressed for Mr.. Banks any
other feelings than those of distrust and CON
tempt.
The other ground of the invitation is, Mr..
Bankss " labofs in looking after and protecting
the great interests of our Commonwealth
What are " the great interests of our Common
wealth, +" in the judgment of these solid men of
Boston ? = Cotton and wool-principally wool
Who are these men? Count out the two names
above referred to, and as many more as you can
number on your fingers, used as decoy ducks, and
all the rest are the men who owned Webster Ev.
erett, aud Winthrop-the {" hands that feed .
Choate, Hillard, &c. They believe chat Lowell,
Lawrence, Hadley Falls, Milk street, and Beacon
street, Massachusetts, and that their interests
are the great interests Of our ancient Common
wealth No wonder that they should be willing
to ase Mr.. Banks-they know how to stoop to
conquer if necessary; but, that Mr.. Banks
should, for moment, trust the men who despse
the "bobbin boy " too profoundly even to pay him
anything but cheap compliments, argues loss Of
his usual shrewdness.
But Banks's shrewdness has not entirely de-
serted him He declined the invitation! Here
members the wall.street speech. But he wrote
letter. Banks is great on short speeches and
short letters-but fails on long ones. The gist Of
this letter I'll it has any gist, is, in this para
graph-the rest is either rhetorical glorfcation
of 1.-The meanest Congress that ever disgraced the
country, or more vague platitudes, than even this
paragraph =
| JOIN you, cheerfully, gentlemen, in your APP
proval of the new and iudicious arrangement of
tariff duties The many advantages that viii flow
from that act cannot yet be fully appreciated,
can we measure the impending evils from which
every industrial interest has escaped by its pas.
sage. The heavy and perhaps fatal pressure that
would attend the accumulation of sixty or seven
ty million dollars in the independent treasury,
might enable us better to appreciate the merits
of such an act as this; but it would be impossi-
BILE, under such circumstances, to couple proper
protection of industrial interests with the instant
and adequate relief which would be demanded by
tax payers and government. / proud that
the merchants Of Boston, whose prosperity has
been assured by the success that attends the
twin interests Of manufactures and commerce, SO
readily acknowledge its advantages. 1t inaugu
rates new and benefcent principle in tariff leg
islation, and will yindcate itself in good time
When the grower of our manufacturing staples
shall witness the prosperity that must attend its
operations, disembarrassed by temporary evils
that may spring from other causes, and the iron
master shall properly regard our increasing COM
mercal tonnage, now the equal of any nation,
and soon to surpass that Of all nations combined,
until from necessity well as economy and safe
| ty, scarcely timber vessel will float the great
seas they will be ready to acknowledge that the
wisest adjustment ofduties is that which keeps us
all in line with the general prosperity of the coun
try
sit inaugurates new and benefcent prnei.
pie in f.legislation." Pray, Mr.. Banks what
is this new principle ? 1t is neither tariff for
protection, nor tariff for revenue; but piece
Of patchwork, got up for the benefit of particular
interests, and log.rolled through by combina-
tion of of those interests-of, perhaps, more tru-
ly, Numbered through, without any definite prin.
ciple or policy. The only thing about it that APP
proaches to principle, is, that it reduces the du-
ties on few raw materials. But this, remember
is for the benefit of certain manufacturers-cer-
tain great interests" as these merchant princes
say but it does nothing Of which a man of
Mr.. Banks's democratic anteeedents should be
"proud 1T does nothing for the toiIing masses
nothing for the millions Of consumers. II Mr..
Banks desires TO connect his name with truly
"bene6cent principle of tarif-legislation," let
him not point to his labors for the privileged in.
terests which have 200 long controlled our tariff
legislation but let him devote some of his Sin
defatigable personal labor A." to relieving the PEG.
pie from existing burdensome taxes on articles q
universal consumption. What does his pet tariff
do for the millions upon millions of consumers Of
iron, coal, molasses, and sugari Nothing ab.
solutely nothing. These are the articles which
every an,woman,a child,especialy in the fire.,
States, uses most largely-for furniture fuel, ant
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