New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-22

,s,n b. ,g-- ths IA. ,,aose pF,s1rt 1T C~itf'f''s
:, !. h,ouoAt a rev .,rnsnt ineo rop~ef:'. snf
,.,,e uay sauire thst tts' Psri"H 'h"ui' Nv c''
.d,,,S .. rurr.r,,S exceptional IN th's conprs-
rye ,,s,l, view ts.ugn the "snts ct Free 'e''r
A.,.rer. in Ia57 sre fbe cane ~ those os'''' VIZ
d,.aury of our mr.s. pre- dioe te2S and 'S'E
III. ,,.;r ,tere fore thst the fr'o, OF Mo I-$
r,rc- vss simply IN upd~r "-t "'''"r we 'ec''"''
iss force cf ts~ TsrH ~ ~" 'sb"~u N TOE
,sports OF 1896, practically Protective tsrH
year.
Neither did Mr. Lawrroce really e'r as regards
the trade n experts Of bresdstuf'. lrelsnd In
Is47. was visited by famine such as Europe mas
hardly known .ince the Middle Ages. Suddenly
ard Unexpectedly, We were called upon " 'uopY
million, of bushels durirg successive YEAR,. No"
70 one could predict the potato rot, nor VIII any
n, liticsl economist maintain that our farmers are
10 rely on ,rch rots in Europe to create reliable
market, for their products. little humanity on
the contrary could teach US that the exhaustion OF
q country by .uch sitstion is great caanity
fcra,eople trading with it; for such famine de
.iro,. many customers ard ir'pcve'ishes msuy ia
ture years.
Aean: Whether the expectations OF breadstuf'
have proved advantageous TO us during later years
under the Fre.Trade Tariff, let the present
upsf OF of matters determine. A profitable trade
does not create hundreds Of millions Of debt, bank
,upt merchants and ma masufscturers, and Parayze
the business of nation. With all the boasted
brtadstuf trade, we exported during the last fiscal
Ill; in 1olt-tha blond
Of our growing busiuess-the currency which, nus
bsIdtd is never excessive, never expanded ou'
truly economical and genial.
Next TIL. Times informs US that the exports to
Euro pc, exclusive Of Caifornia gold e1ceeded tue
imports in the same proportion as those OF 1916.
But we RI pl, that it is impossible to separate the
newly.disccye1ed gold from the impulse it gave to
in portstion,. That gold, the discovery OF which
was accidental, and which Mr. lawrence could not
entertain in bis argument, gave an immense impulse
70 trade and to operations Of all kinds. 1t 10 lilo
eical ard unfair, accordingly, to speak of exports
as though they were disconnected from 1t. but
with all tbs.god, We were cOnvu,ed witfa crisis in
1851, which threatened bankruptcy. A new
Furopean war re demanded our breadstufs in great
quantities; but, that over, the collapse, postponed
by accidental csu,es. finally came; and where are
we DOW Let the British Free Traders answer.
We believe that no truth Of mathematicsis is more
clearly demonstrabe than that the ruin about as is
fpda mentally attributable to the destruction of the
Protective Tariff Of 1s42-a convulsion which
would have come upon US sooner but for the extra
ordinary demand in Europe for brea1stuffs growing
cut of huge fsmines and big wars, and but for the
dazzling ard magnificent discovery Of gold mines
in California, by which hard money sufficient to
buy an empire has been called into existence and
exported to Europe. When the ignorant thousands
now shouting Democracy and Free Trade-wheh
mean Southern Oligarchical rule aud Northern pau
p,rism-shall have been sufficiently scourged BY
long days and nights Of desolation and idene's the
first of which have only come, they may perhaps
be melted to elect honest and intelligent representa-
tiyes, who will enact Protective Tariff which will
permanently restore confidence, credit, employ.
ment and prosperity.