The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-01

the agricultural interest But manufacturers
stand in need of the raw material. Such
being the case, the productions of the
manufacturing interest require protection, in order
TO encourage the manufacturer and enable him to
live. This protection Is required to be extended to
manufactures, not by merely shutting out all like
productions of the manufacturers of other countries,
by means of high duties, but furthermore by giving
to the home manufacturer monopoly of the raw
material which the foreign manufacturer would wish
to have exported for his own use abroad. Here we
behold the next and second phase in which the Unit
ed States of North America are now situated. This
situation will continue and will last until the United
States manufacturer will be able to compete on
equal terms with the foreign manufacturer especial
ly with the English, and to produce wares as good
and as cheap as the Others.
follows, that the United States may be considered
as approaching every day nearer and nearer to the
general and common condition of being of the old
States of the Old world No doubt also that the day
will arrive when this vast collection of separate indie
pendent States must unavOidably, in order to sus
tain itself, approach in the same manner, nearer
and nearer to the governmental forms and condi-
tons under which the old European States sustain
their nationality and preserve their political ex-
stence.
FRENCH JUSTICE AND YANKEE CAPTAIN.
Translated from the Courier du Hayre OF jan 49, Tor the
New York Herald
We announced yesterday the audacious act by
means Of which Captain Durham, commander of the
American ship Adratc, has deied the verdict Of a
supreme court, and has succeeded least tempo
rarily-in evading the heavy consequences which
would otherwise result from it to him. A private
correspondence from Marseles of the 10th instant,
furnishes us with some information concerning the
bold manner in which the escape took place.
Here follows the letterwhich we published in our
issue of Saturday morning.l
p. S.-Halfpast nine o'clock in the evening. The
Adriac has escaped from the old port and not from
that of toilette.
Captain Durham had been sentenced to pay | 800.
IIVDnnalS.
Court of Cessations had, three days ago, confirmed
the verdict.
The Adriatic has, it is said, crew of thirty men,
and according to Others the crew numbers forty.
recruited from the scum of the maritime population
The crew Of the Chaca commanded by our country
man GaZiele, numbers between sixty and seventy
men.
If we had only to appreciate the act of the Cap.
tains Durham and Smith in the aspect of their bold
ness and audacity could but praise the spirit of
combination which prepared it, and the frmness
with which it was perpetrated; If we were to read S
the history of that escape in the "Hstoire des Fill
busters" by OXmelin, we would applaud with both
hands the success of the two thieves, (arrOns) But
in the year 1853, in one of the principal ports Of
civilized Europe an act of flibusteris is not at all
proper and if the Chacal does not succeed in sez-
ing the Adriatic and its bold commander, it seems
impossible to that a formal claim should not
be made on the American government to insure re-
spcct TO our laws and the invoabiity Of the decision
of our courts. We don't know if ever similar cir
cumstance has occurred in the judiciary annals or in
international relations: but know well that, in one
way or another, such defiance thrown in the face
of justce-the only institution which is yet unani-
mously respected in France-cannot remain with
out answer.
If the Yankees have taken for a model the old
Achilles, of whom Horatius said. J,Ua negdt sibi
nafa. and if for them right does not exist We do
not therein sufficient reason for the other civil
lied nations, for whom right does exist to consent
foolishy 10 tolerate all their pranks.