New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-10

SOuth and then all the promises OF hr' "Akef, anu
all the hopes Of Mr. Golden, would have been fully re-
atzed. Had. however, that Tariff been maintained,
the people Of Illinois would have made their wn roads,
and the country weud have been spared the disgrace
of having Cabinet Ministers engaged ia the effort 70
persuade English bankers TO lend the money required
for their construction. They would have been spared,
too successon Of financial crises, bringing ruin to
Themselves, while enabling their Briti"h hee-trade
friends 10 denounce them, in common with all their
counrymen as little better than thieves and vaga-
bonds.
TIE ess our domestic commerce, the greater 10 our
dependence upon Liverpool and Manchester, and the
ess cur power to construct any road that oes not lead
In that Objectionable general rule being, that north
and south roads can never be made TO pay. Look TO
your own State, crossed by two railroads, leading
through your city to Liverpool while your people are
being heavily taxed for an enlargement of your canals,
which bas for ts only object an increase OF competition
on the part of Western farmers that increase, too es
tabshed at the very moment when your railroad own
ers ans compelling your farmers to pay all tue iosSes
they incur in carrying Western produce at less than
the mere cost of transportation. Passing south, you
find PENNSYLVANIA road, running east and west, 10
compete with yours Maryland and Virginia roads to
compete with all and South Carolina and Georgia
roads pterd ed 10 do the same but of local roads you
find almott none whatever. Why is this Because
Iverpoo il becoming more and the center Of our
system. with New-York for its place OF distribution.
Because we are fest reapsing into state OF COLOMBIA
ton even more complete than that which existed before
the Revolution.
For the moment, your city profits by this British
freerade policy the prices Of lots rising as the taxa
ton Of farming lands augments but ia quite cert I'm
that her services will always be required as distributor
of the produce Of Brtth loomsl May it not be, and
that too at no distant period, that Manchester and
Cincinnati will find it better to dispense with SERVICES
that require the payment of such enormous sums us are
now required for the maintenance of so many thousands
of extensive families the OF 80 many costly ware
houtep and the payment of such enormous rates OF In
terest The Grand Trunk Road has already as we are
/ told by The ~ Y. Times, OUT.
and Portland and Boston By ne cay 0G"dS Ss
ana on p,psyIvsnis and SewYor They delivering
Snf and srAn In and both domestic and foreign
Dr. taby spoed Philadelphia New.Yek or Albany
Not with this have entered into & o wp
AngoAmercan enterprise just alluded t. the Illinois central
de- cbesrer ard with mote expedition than can be forwarded
nv Tho pppi River to New Orleans and thence BY sea to
ard BC:S SS1 ess with
Portsnd-the named point being converted int. mart Of
virtual ownership by Gram Trunk Company Of the Atlantic
and 81 LawIe inv 9uebee line Of screw steamers already
Of the most successful bet nsanS ara tn,s
fpenfv which end they issue their own esponoe
hi. ope1sen nav be seen in wan street any
sched sterling bills Of exchange made against ana
no certain hat in snohe year the Of Tennessee
North Mississippi will not be made 10 take the same extra
ordinary direction from the planting States to Manchester
| through CansdA"
Such being the case now the end Of fourteen years
of British free trade, what will it he ten or twenty
years bence7 Arrangements already on foot for
connecting Southern cities with Liverpool by means
of Portland WHILE throughout the West the managers
of the road "have not" as are further told,
"Fsiled 10 effect the needu alliances in the West to make
the at least temporarily complete The Illinois Cen
trial from Chicago is their natural ally BY reason its
E1.s @ 'tss ' aSd
this last eCn3 Wns5 .n n sy UaS ds Ee %
while the lakes closed it not impossible that one OF the
Lawrence controlling neres; purchased in les sh.es and
The ehgsn Southern hss been nsmed in hi. Con
have chsspened nominal value its stock and bonds.
former point being essential to the Cincinnati connections of
the Grand 4runk."
The more frequent and severe our financial cries,
be perfect must become the control of British
traders over all the roads, and the greater the ten
deDoy toward diminuon in the necessity for proiting
of the seryicet of New. York stores and New.York
meIcnhnts. 90, al ledet, IL seems 10 nc.
For seven years past have talked Of the eonstruc
ton of road 10 California but in the present state of
our affairs, becoming poorer and more embarrassed
from year year. it is quite impossible that should
ever enter upon such a work. The wealth and power
of Britain on the contrary, become greater from day
to day-all her colonies, ourselves included, being
compelled to add to the value of her land and labor,
while their own soils become more and more impover-
ifbed, and their own aborers less and less EN-
ployed. Let our existing commercial policy be main
tained and we sbal probably the Grand Trunk
Road EXTENDED to the Pa fc-Porand and Quebec
becoming the agents of Liverpool and Manchester and
taking the place now occupied by New-York
Looking at all these facts, is it not clear
That all our tendencies how in the direction OF
colonial dependencel
That, your city has grown at the expense Of 9TH
ers, becaufe Of its proximity to Liverpool other
Places furnishing means of communication that are
more direct, may profit thereby at its expensel
That as Liverpool has taken the place of New-York
in regard to chips, in may soon do in regard to
trade And therefore,
That the real and permanent interests of your city
to be promoted by union of all people for tue
reestablstment of that industrial independence which
grew rapidly under the protective tariffs of 1928 and
1922
Begging you TO be assured of my continued determi-
nation to give TO the answers you may make to these
questions the widest circulation among protectionist
readers,
remain, my dear Sir, yours very truly.
Philadelphia, March g. 1860.
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