New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-09

enterprises, and the prospect DOW before u, Of
wn;er Of une1ampIed poverty and suffering, after
most bouutifa hsrye,t sld amid excessive cheap
ness Of the pecssssris Of life, all this must OF ne
cessiy turn the minds of N 10 the recollection Of
former epochs of similar though hardly Of equal
disaster, ard TO the means by which the country
has before been e1iricA'ed and restored to healthy
condition. That neans, On such former occasons'
has been the Protection Of American In1usty; and
it is OILY nstural thst the poverystrcsen farmers,
uauufaeturers merchsnts and lsborers. should now
rfcuI 70 the same means as the Only efficient rsms-
dy vhch can be employed. This is al the mfre GER
tain be case from the factthathe present dreaT
and dangerous state of thirgs i, but VIVA! We who
s,pd for Prote ct n have constantly tcretod even II
the mdtt Of ihe seeming prosperity yesr',n
tie uece,sary consequence Of our Free Trace sys-
ttm, and as sure to come upon US; AID the people
will well remember that We were then net By the
same presumptaous and ipso'ent sreers, instead OF
facts snd arguments, with which the apostles OF
Free Trade, though in q miller aud somswha.
clustered tone, receive our suggestions now.
There can, we suppose, be no doub! th,t now,
as 10 1912, the enactment Of just and really Pro-
tectiye Tariff woald instantly revive the dropping
energies of the country set the stagnant life OF the
n.tion into hopeful activity restore the circulasionto
the members the body polite, ret in movement the
energies Of enterprise, give employment everywhere
TO mechanics, miners and manufacturing workmen,
open sure and renuneratve markets to the farm
ers enable tie merchants to begin paying their
debts again, csll in new emigrants and new capital
with them from the Old World, aud revive once
more that marvellous spectacle Of American pro-
eress, Gu whose sudden and almost total interrup-
ton al friends Of liberal institutions cannot but
look with alarm. We say this would without
doubt be the effect of restoring Protective
Tariff; and in sayirg this we leave asde the ques
ton of the abstract Wiadom and logical scundness
Of Protection as theory; and We simply say that
such was the result no longer ago than 15i2, and
thst the popular instisct is assured, right or
wrong, that such would be the result now. This
assurance may be erroneous, if you please, though
We believe it to be true and wise; at any rate it ex
lists. Act upon if, and a. least ycu restore conf.
deuce, the loss of which syear since, in the opin
ion of some eminent free TRADERS, brought death
/" into the world ard oil our Woe
Now, in this state Of things, and with this tend
ency Of public epni,p, it is impossible but that the
question of Protection should be discussed aud
made the basis of political action. And this brings
Us to very grave inquiry, namely: What will be
the position of the great Republican party with re-
gard to this question TIE Republican party, as
our readers are well aware, was called into being
solely 10 resist the encroachments Of Slavery upon
the Free Territory of the Union and upon the Free
States. It was a combination of men Of varying
vviito.i eutoccdents some bad been wings,
some Democrats, some Americans, some Abolition
ists, some had always kept aloof from politics.
They were brought together in the extreme danger
of the country and they waived all their previous
differences to devote tbemtelves untedly to the re.
moyal of that danger. They were guided BY no.
BILE impulse, and they fought gallant fight. Never,
in our observation of politics, do we remember
more genuine patriotism, more wholesome
eDtbusiasm, more sincere devotion 70
vital political principles, or more pertinacious
and manly effort, than were exhibited by the sup
porters of Fremont in 1856 Although they were
beaten, they yet achieved a substantial triumph;
for the contest on the Kansas question, which has
Just taken place in Congress, was but the echo and
the prolongat of that great struggle; AID the
same may be said Of that noble movement IN be
half Of Free Labor now going for ward 10 Missouri.
The supreme question of Freedom or Slavery s,
however still far from settled. Kansas has yet to
be admitted a, Free State; the remaining terri
tories of the Union have yet to be protected
against the wrongs ard crimes of which Kansas
has been the scene and her pioneers the victims;
the untensble judicial dicta flung out by the Su-
preme Court, along with the decision in the Dred
Scott case, mWt be annulled aud the Government
must be rescued from that extravaganza, cOrrup
ton AID degradation in which the Slavery extend
ing Democracy have involved it. All this fall.
within the original purpOse of the Republican
party, aud can only be accomplished BY its continued
existence ard activity.
Now it is not to be supposed that the Republican
party a, party will identify itself with the move
ment in favor OF Protection. Nor sure that tits
desirable that it should do so, even if it were practi
cable. We suspect that in times past the interests
of the country may have suffered from mixing up
tie question of Protection with party politics; AID
that the Southern Free-Trsde party Insy have car
ried tie day when they could not have done SO but
for such mixture. Bat, however that msy bs, i!
seems to us that, as National party the RePubli-
cans cannot take ground either in favor Of Prosec-
ton or against it. In the States, and IN Congressloa-
al Districts, on the other hind they may set on t,e
subject SIS the msOrity of the party may find to be
advisable. Thus in Maine We see that the Repuo-
Ican State Convention has just adopted among its
revolutions ore lookrg toward Protect on. In