New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-29
VOLUME XII.
Nem 0rlsans 4ailp Gr.stsnt.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1859
REVIVAL OF AN OLD ISSUE.


The prospect is that there will be no lack Of abund
ance of questions to agree and disagree on -vexed
questions which will render the next Presidential
canvass remarkably lively. There are symptoms that
one and possibly not the least of these will be tariff
issue, for those who cling to the old and much
mooted policy of Protection threatening to put
their forces in drill in the manufacturing States and
raise the banner and battle cry Of protection to
home manufactures" Hon. James Cooper, politl-
clan of note and ability, has just written letter to
a number of gentlemen Of Philadelphia, in which he
urges, in Government refuses longer to protect
domestic manufactures, especially the iron lnteres1,
the formation Of league" Of all the suffering IN
terests in question: and which he thinks will be pow
erful enough to give victory to either side In oeha
of which it exerts itself 10 the Presidential contest
The iron interest alone, according TO Mir. cooper,
holds the balance of power between Tue poiitlcai
parties both in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, ano'
in certain contingencies, in several other States as
in number Of Congressional Districts in various
parts of the Union.
There is something plausible in this talk for, as
politics now are, very small Independent body right
in that very same Keystone " latitude PennsylVa-
mia and New Jersey, would be able to turn the scale
in whatever direction it might throw its weight, and
one side or the other could afford to bid for such aid
by promising any sort Of tariff which might be pre-
scribed as the price, 1t would certainly be noticea-
BILE feature of the next election if it controlled
by iron instead Of god Of late years has been the
case-iron, an honest metal which should not be put
to so base an use as to secure the triumph of Black
Republicansm If the "league" should really be
organized-and there's the rub-it might not neces-
sarily prove so important and formidable an electoral
interest after all for viewing the necessity of concl
iating it, both sides would probably bid for it, pledge
themselves and so scatter its adherents each acting
as be might choose satisfied of the protection point
being achieved whichever side should be victorious
Mr. Cooper also touched upon post.ofice matters in
this Philadelphia letter, warmly opposing the in
crease of the rates of postage, and advocating still
further reduction He very sensbly denied that the
post.office has right to be made a sefsustaining
institution any more than the judiciary department
arguing that the duty Of Government to afford a
remedy for the deprivation of rights and the redress
of wrongs is not necessary to the welfare and
| happiness Of people than the duty OF providing
them with sufficient mail facilities and cheap postage
Competent mail facilities should be sustained at any
| COST and Mr.. Coopers plan for compensating to ths
revenue the deficit which would be occasioned b,
such policy is to make it up by increased duties upo1
the import of foreign manufactures Mr.. Cooper il
very evidently rank old Protectionst, and as Their
are very many voters iof that particular stripe up ii
the iron regions of Pennsylvania and elsewhere, the.
may possibly fix things up so as to make their i'm
portance sensiby felt in the next Federal canvass.