New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-10
RIGLRR IN A FOG.

10 Do d lcUOCIdt, Pai'. sCusC VI tHt sci"i
that is, a champion of aggressive and eternsl
Slavery. rot an easy task for a man of decent
intelligence ard any sort of conscence-but to be
q Pennsylvania Democrat is TO achieve the acme of
unreason and suicidal inconsequence. An intelli-
gent Southron who calls himself Democrat knows
that no one whose opinion he values will mistake
him for an apostle of human equality, disciple of
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Anacharsls Clootz, Tom
Paine, or any oLe else who really meant something
by the term. He readily di:pels all that sort of
bumbug by merely setting up one or two of his
niggers at auction, or buying one or two OF those
set up by one of bis ghbors. Southern Democra-
cy means simpy alliance with Northern office seek.
ing erogeery. keeping and blindy besotted worship
Of a party name, to extend the area and swell the
profits Of slave-breedng. Northern and Western
Democracy is the exact counterpart of this-the
other blade Of the scissors BY which the Samson OF
American Liberty is shorn of its strength giving
locks ard kept grinding IN the prlson-house OF
Old-World cespOtism. Hence it is that American
Sham Democracy with its Slave auctions, Fill
buster raids and O,tend circulars is this day the
standing and most effective bugbear of European
autocr.cy and priestcraft-the readest AID most
seryicesble weapon of the chronic, unsleeping,
head coDsprators against the Rights of Man.
In Penrsylyanis the case is even worse. For
though that State has no more real, abiding In
terest than Virginia or Illinois in the policy OF Pro-
tectipg those departments of our National Industry
most exposed to temporary paralysis and pro'tra-
ton from foreign competition, her interest is more
imminent and palpable. She has already built the
furnaces and forges, opened the mines and started
the factories which most Of her sister States still
lack and must have; she has an immense fixed cap
itsl which is nullfed by the transfer, even tempo
rarily, of our workshops to Europe; she has tens
of thousands Of skilled labOrers in those furnaces
mines ard factories, whom year OF paralysls ike
the last throws out Of work aud bread, and
what her Gemsgogues most dread) out OF
the habit of voting bindly whatever is
put into their hands labeled Regular Democratic
ticket" To be a Pennsylvania Democrat of any
Of the tsx-consuming grades is therefore, to have
two masters, two creeds, two facss-One Of them
looking northward at the workmen in the furnaces
while the other turns its eyes wishful)y southwark
and fixes loving, longing gaze oa the Federal
feshpots at Washington. We challenge the world
to produce another such organized inconsistency,
such a chronic self contradiction, as an average
Pernsylvania Democrat above the rank of the mere
blind passive voting mschine
Dir. Senator Bisler has succeeded Mr. Buchanan
in Congress as tie leader and mouth-plece OF the
politicians whose generic character aud aims We
have so rapidly outlined. Ills speech Of Tuesday,
IL. E l. ~ in ba
House ten to twenty years ago, Is remarkable for
It's studied avoidance and careful negatiOn Of any
principle as underlying the Tariff controversy. He
is eminently anxious that Congress, IN its treat
ment of this subject, should "do good bJ stealth
and blush TO find it fame" If he were to speak
out what he msnifes.y feels, and say TO the Senate
8" Give us an adequate Tarif-free US, 50 far ssmsy
"te from frauds and ruinous fluctuations, BY ren-
dering the duties, so far ss possible Specdc-and
"you will have an ample, ard a staple Revenue,
"while the Country will enjoy steady
property with ready employ melt and
fair recoupense for its Labor" hi, consttu-
ents would inevitably ask, "Then how comes it,
Mr.. Bgler, that sOu aud your clique are always
!svound acting aud voting with the ihveterate enc
" mics Of the policy you rightly deem so benefcentl
"If for instance yeu don't want Hunter Tariff,
why did you powerfully aid TO place Hunter
"wLere he csuli block the wheels and defeat any
"eflort for such Tariff as you deem necessary"
Thus headed Of from the way he would and should
60, what could the Senator do, even were he
much cleverer man than be is, but to talk
in tie most muddltd and melancholy way
Of all Tariffs having disappointed their trainers
of excessive importations having taken
place under relatively high Tarif.-of conflicts
Of interest between dver.e sections and class
es-of all Tariffs being Objectionable in one
respect or another-of bis lack Of ,yup,thy with
eItrtme Pro.ectioniste-of men who talk Tariff
while they mean Party-ard any amount Of such
dreary balderdashi How can Mr. Bislsr forget
that his own National De mocritic party has Free
Trade plank in its Cincinnati Platform "a plank
expected to catch votes or it would never have
been put there. Did the Ben Halets who
dressed that plank mean Tariff or Party BY
so shsping it And if those whose very sub
sisterce depends on having the Tariff properly
adjusted are properly exposed to Mr.. Bslers
sneer whenever they choose to vote with the
friends rather than the sdversares Of Protection
why does not he keep siencel he m,y res. as
Al. .of h. r.. III