New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-20

or in the fact that they need stability and regularity
giving of labor and ss products And
increasing their ability to add the machinery required
for their operations. That having been obtained they
arc enabled In each successive year 20 profit hy ,he
experience of the past. and 10 give 20 the farmer
constantly increasing quantity of cloth IN sxchcres
for constantly diminishing quantity o. food aud wool
the prices Of the two tending steay and regularly
IN approsch each other. That stability and that reg
MARTY OF circulation have however, been to thu
people of the United States, things entirely unknown.
At tines a. in the two periods ending in isS and
s47 il has been approached but, In every case y has
proved but lure, for inducing men 81 SKIN and
enterprise to waste their fortunes and their tns 10 tho
effort to advance the interests OF the community Win
ruin 10 themselves.
From 1910 TO 1915, mills and furnaces were built.
but with the return Of peace their ownsr-enbrscing
large and small capitalists, working-men aud oihers,
NE most useful portions Of the community-were
everywhere ruined and the people who had been en-
niovsd were turned adrift, to seek in the West the
SUPPORT they could longer lind at bone. Land
sai.s then as we have seen, became large and next
the farmer suffered the manufacturer had done be-
fore. From lS2Sto 1884, such estsoIshments were
again erected and the metallic treasures OF the earth
were being everywhere developed but, as before the
protective system again abandoned with ruin To-
the manufacturer, accompanied by enormous sales OF
isi2 TO lsi7 mills furnaces were again constructed
and then from 1913 To 1850, they were sgsiu
closed; the effect being seen, IN ioc q, IN
the fall of -four to price lower than nad ever vewao
been known The perfect harmony Of al true inter
este and the absolute necessity Of protection 20 ,ho
farmer in his Efforts to bring the artisan TO hs sds,
and thus relieve himself from the heavy TAXATION ~
which he is subjected, here exhibited IN 'no
strongest light No one who studies the regular se-
quence ofthese facts can hesitate as 10 tu osne,
hat portion of the doctrine of The Wealth OF va
ions which teaches that the English system, based AZ
is upon the idea of cheapening all the raw materAs
Of manufacture, lis manifest VIOLATION oi the mos'
Il" sacred rights Of mankind
In the last ten years mills furnaces have been
a. aoff hos in
IN general so far below the cost of production as 20
have afforded no reason tor making any addition 10
heir number. 50. -
Le world presents such scene of destruction a. -
ound in the manufacturing, mining AMI rshoah oPe-
atons of the Union. OF all the persons concerned :"
making those great Improvements required ioI u", M
ishng the distance between the consumer ana sno
producer-ior enabling the producers OF WOOL M.
and food readily To exchange for cloth and ifonana
for reduC 80 the prices of manufactured commout,
while raising those of the raw products OF the ear
larre majority have been ruined; and the result ~
seen in the facts that the various metals are rslns III
price as compared with -four aud cotton.that our
farmers a. a rule. are pOor-that, with ea'h sucss-
sive wear the land il being rapidly exhausted
and that the country exhibits SO many other evil
dences of declining civilization. =, nj, -,
Careful study of these facts ny PRESIDENT, wa
enable Won readily to understand the causes OF tho
decentralization now making such rapid progress. Inc
policy of the country being wholly adverse TO ths
gr,wth of manufactures, agriculture remains, ANN
w.,
for men of any cultivation. Seeking . pursuit, our
Young men shrink from that involves So large an
amount of labor and is so badly paid. Looking next
10 the production of iron the manufacture Of cloth,
they see that most of the men who have been 50
engaged have reaped but ruin a. the result. thus
limited in their choice Of empoyments, they hnd
themselves driven Ia becoming clerks, traders law
yers or doctors and the consequences erc seen IN tho
fact that we have five times more traders, lawyers
and doctors than can obtain living by any honest
means. All, however, must hve-hones,ly II they
cam but dishonesty they must and hence Il Is tha
the race Of sharpers and ba, kegs, spectators amt
swnders slave.traders and lbusters, counterfeters
and peculators, increases with such rapidity IL -
safe, Mr.. President to say, that with the present
policy of the Central Government is nsepaably con-
nected greater development Of the merely appro..
priative powers, and n greater tendency toward
decline in the security Of person and property, than
can be found in any country Of the world claiming To
be held ~ civilized
This is a sad picture, Mr.. President but that Il IL
true one you have abundant evidence in the proceed
ngs Of the world around you.
Yours very respectfully. HENRY T. AAhBf
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IS, 1859.