The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16
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the movement in favor of Protection. Nor are
we sure that il is desirable that it should do 50,
even lift were practicable. We suspect that
in times past the interests of the country may
have suffered from mixing up the question OF
Protection with party politics; and the South
ern Free Trade party may have carried the day
when they could not have done so but for such
mixture. But, however that may be, ii seems
to US that as a national party, the Republicans
cannot take ground either in favor of Protec-
tion or against it. In the States, and in Con-
gressional Districts, on the other hand, they
may act on the subject as the majority Of the
party NAV find to be advisable. Thus in Maine
we see that the Republican State Convention
has just adopted amoraAiS. resolutions one look
ing tow ard ProtecioHys9n Philadelphia. the
other day, Protectionist meeting was held,
in which many leading Republicans took part.
On the other hand, among the resolutions OF the
recent Convention Of the Free Democracy Of
ST. Louis was one decidedly in favor of Free
Trade and we may yet see prominent Rcpubli
cans taking part in Free-Trade meetings, and
we may see State Conventions declaring them
selves on that side. Among the Republican
| journals, too, there is and has been the same
discrepancy on this question, but it has never
yet interiered with their hearty cooperation
with each other as regards the great objects OF
! the party. To be sure, we have sometimes
complained of the tone with which our Free
! Trade friends IN the Republican ranks have
spoken OF the ideas we have now and then
thought proper to present but after all II was
only question of manners. Perfect tolerance
and freedom OF discussion and opinion are all
| that are necessary. For our part, as Protection
| 4 we IN frrct fo IN bp
! logic of events. Nor do we despair ofsecIng a
Congress elected in which even Democratic
members shall be brought By these potent advo-
Gates OF the truth TO support substantially what
we regard as the proper system. Then the
question will be settled so that all the doctrnar4s
and all the Pro-Slayery men in the country
will not be allowed again to arrest the bene6-
cent influence of Protection, which, after all,
is the only sure means of finally arriving at
true and perfect Freedom of fTrade.-.NeW York
Tribune, Jelly 9th, 1858.
We admire the bare-faced atrocty OF
the above extract. The article from which it
is taken, commenced.with The prognostication
| that "It is impossible not TO ioresee that the
| question of Protection to American Industry is
| TO play an important part in our politics for
some time TO come" Mr.. Greedy favors what
he calls ''proper SYSTEM of Projections one
| "which even Democratic members shall be
brought 10 support" ore which W. may there
fore fairly infer would be spit upon by the high
tarif-tes OF Pennsylvania. Bot New York
| has more interest in commerce than in manu-
! iactures, more interest in importalons from
Manchester and Sheffield than in transporta-
| tons from Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and Mr..
Greely and the New York Republicans can al-
| ford to be liberal. II was the intention Of the
above extract TO eyince liberal spirit; but it
and even in exceptional Congressional districts,
where, owing TO the presence of large manufac-
turing interests. high tariff will be popular
the Republicans are advised 10 make it plank
in their local platform; but in other States, and
congressional districts, where a high tariff will
be unpopular and here Mr. Greedy had all
the western States IN his eye, but did not choose
! to mention them-in such States Republicans
must not be expected 10 favor Protection. And
what would be the result ifa campaign thus
| planned should prove successful What would
be the action OF Black Republican Congress
thus constituted? And even if the ''proper svs-
| tenn" OF Mr.. Greedy, "whch even Democratic
members shall be brought to support, should be
adopted by Congress, with the aid OF Democrat
ic votes, where is the assurance that it will not
be vetoed by Black Republican Free Trade
| President, if God 10 his wisdom, should nlict
so great an evil upon Us? But we shall, doubt
! less, be spared the trial. With New England in
the lobby with brides for "free iron, ;" with New
! fork's proponderaing Interests in favor of for
eign impohatons, with the Great Vest in favor
Of free trade, and with the thousand millions of
Railroad capital all over The country, what, we
ask the Iron Manufacturers of Pennsylvania,
have we to expect from protective tariff in the
future? leaving out Of view the whole South,
whose interests are in favor of free trade If the
manufacturers and artizans Of Pennsylvania W Ill
study their real condition and relations, they
cannot fail to discover that their dire misfor-
tunes always proceed out Of the arrangements
of the currency and the evils of the credit svs-
tenn, and that their real protective system is to
be found in a currency whose nominal and in
trinsic value, either directly or representatives
ly) are the same.
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