Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-02-05
we Stand; Divided, we Fall"

sS-Ihe Bradford Reporter-probably
the nearest approach to an "organ" that
Judge Wilmot has, but in truth an inde-
pendent paper-refers with considerable
feeling to the last Tariff alteration, (where-
by some Wool importers were favored to
the detriment of the Coal aud Iron Of
Pennsylvania and states that if the Con-
gressmen from Pennsylvania had all aban-
doned New England in 1916, Pennsylva-
MIA might have obtained the necessary
protection for her staple productions. The
Exporter seems to think that course of
policy by which we should strike hands
with the Free Traders and the Slave Power
and sacrifice New England, would have
secured our peculiar interests. We think
far otherwise. To protect one interest and
not another, was loudly declaimed against
by leading Democrats, from ls44 to 1916,
and would be unjust in principle. The
different interests must combine, in order
to thrive. The Free Traders only need to
have the friends of an AMERICAN SYSTEM
divided, and they can whecdlc, cajole, and
finally sacrifice them all, one after another.
What could Pennsylvania do for Protec-
tion, without the aid of New England ?
The game indicated by the Reporter, is
one that "two can play at" The folly of
Pennsylvania in being cheated by the false
cry of "Polk and the Tariff of 49," has
reacted powerfully against Pennsylvania.
Had Judge Wilmot and few other Dem
ocrats then stood by New England as New
England did by Pennsylvania, the manu-
featuring interests, throughout the North.
would now have been nn a fal better foot
ing-thousands of our free laborers las
we'll as those of New EDgland) would not
have been starviDg-and the favorite Of
Bradford might now have been Governor
of Pennsylvania.
To call one great interest "national,"
and another sectional" sounds too much
like doughfaced arguments or the slave
holders whip cracks. Cotton and wool
are as "nationaP' as coal and iron, and in
reality have more needed the fostering
care Of government in former days,if they
do not still. New England saw herself
sacrificed BY the stupidity of Pennsylvania
in 1874 and '46, and some Of those who
would have been faithful to us to the last
if We had been faithful to ourselves, have
acted on the Reporters principle, and gone
for themselves regardless of our State.
This course, whether pursued by one or
another State or States, is fatal to Protec-
tion. There must be union of all the
friends of Free american Labor against
the advocates of ksS Foreign or Slave La
Dor, or the former will be at the mercy of
the latter. The present adversely of the
Manufacturing interests should make its
adherents tractablc, yielding, far sighted,
and liberal, and not lead to the narrow
and selfish and silly and cowardly and
treacherous notion that each interest can
secure itself by the sacrifice Of all others
The idea Of Pennsylvania fighting both
the Free Traders and the New Englanders
is simply ridiculous. "In union is our
only strength"
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I@-Some of our exchanges are publish
ing the cards Of certain New Yorkers-vcry
keen but astonishingly benevolent gentle
offer an exceedingly good lot
Of gold pencils and chains for very little
money. As bait, they send some editors
good jewelry, but it seems they put some
Of the bogus upon the Editor of the Car
bon Gazette, who exposes the imposition
practiced upon all who arc green enough
to send their money to New York for
gifts" and "prizes," thus:
"The pencils, advertised as worth five
lollars, are worth about two dollars. The
two dollar" gold pens are worth, possibly,
,ne dollar. The gold chains, "worth sl5,"
ire worth about cts each, retail-whole.
'ale, 2 cts. We presume their other jew
,lry is worth in proportion. Should any
If our readers desire to be diddled out of
i've dollars, they can be accommodated by
sending to T. f. Todd & Co. for pencil
md drawing, according to their very fair
md tempting advertisements"
KANsAs.-The Kansas questions are
Vhitsled to a point. Mr.. BUCHANAN on
me eide and Senator DOUGLAS and Gov
WALKER on the other, seem to have had
sort Of sham fight for the amusement Of
heir mutual Southern friends, amid the
ust and confusion of which the Free
oilers have run off with Kansas, and the
outh swindled as usual.-American papcr
q Georgia.
p9- The Democracy think it horrid
hing that there should be Bank among
1eir Democratic brethren in Utah. No.
hing strange-we have a 81 note issued
= Smith and Rigdon when they lived in
hio. ,
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