New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-12


has been maintained for ages without giving any
proportional expansion to "indiyidual liberty and
civilization" Turkey cherishes and ocs on
very liberal principles OF trade rejecting all ideas
of Protection to Home Industry as absurd; yet
4" individual liberty and civilization" are not re-
markably developed under the sway of The Pa
dishah. Chua's tariff is very low one; yet her
progress in "indi'idual liberty and civilization ="
are nothing TO brag Of Ia sbOe,, our Wall-street
friends have scared OF into the regions Of poetry,
when they should. like HaIleck, have been
"bu,y n ;le Cotton .!tisde,
iEe sugar hlc'
9. TIE Association, still soaring skyward, pro-
ceed to say that
Coauoril. intercourse, through rres,si freedom o. trade
h ,he ouiy grca- agency which vt ctn iey ppon Tor
uniting The sioa ir,oosis Of nations a. ind oiu5e bolds
ti,as togethor e. peure IL promotes
Kindly oces and ccads civilization, !oson seeHce iers
tufe ald art, Throughout tie whole oaith'
1t is rather unfortunate for this view Of the
matter that the nations that trade most with
each other are noioriously most apt to get By
the ears. What European Powers, for example,
quarrel with China Are they not those that
trade most with her What is 1t that sends
hostile fleets to Vera Cruz, to Bueros Ayrts,
and even away up the La Plata 10 Paraguay
Are not these warllke expeditions the coDso.
qucuce Of commercial intercourse and TIE resulting
squabbes Nay: have not always quarreled
with the nations will which we had and have
most traffic Did we ever dream Of fighting
Japan IN we hid forced a trade with hCrg Aud
rs TO the extension Of civilization, religion
dc., by means Of Trade q good dead might be
said on either side Of that proposition. Mission.
airy enterprise is one thing; the pursuit of gain
By traffic quite another, aud not few mission
aries have reasonably complained that the knay-
isb, rapacious, lecherous conduct Of our traders
and seamCn among the sal0ges they were trying
10 CbristaLize cOunternctcd and nulliiicd their
best exeriious. Who has not beard complaint
that the missionaries IN tue cabin OF African
bound vessel were fully balanced by the rum in
her hold If within the present. century. as many
heather hive been converted through the agen.
cies Of commerce as have been hurried to shame
full graves through their contact with the crews
OF the vessels whereby that commerce was main
tanned, we are laborins under painful misep-
prehensiOn.
4. The report round'y asserts FIAT
"Ii, 10 ther commercial freedom tst Erssud Farc, and
other enshtcfsS neiionH. are eocbtef for , ciHalo
heT bcres uGd tEc posess "a 1etnce, literature anu att
What is precisely meant here by A" CONNER
cial freedom" we cannot certainly make ont-ihe
poetic eloment predomiuating so largely over tie
mathematical throughout the Committees per-
formance. But certainly if any two nations have
preGm!nctly aud emphnlicaIy built up their Home
Industry by high duties or imposts on Foreign
Product Great Britain aud France are those
two. We venture the assertion that 10 other
two nations on earth have throughout tie last
century imposed so high average duties on those
foreign products which come in competition with
their Home Industry as just these very two.
That England has recently dispensed with good
part OF these determinations, is quite true, since
by sleadiast Protection she has placed her Manu-
features beyond the need of Protection; but
France has not even yet followed her example,
save haitingly aud partially. 1t would BE- very
sophistica to claim for this country a conversion
20 Free Trade because our new Morrill, Tariff is
far lower than that Of lSI2-the reason Of such
reduction being simply that We no longer need
so high duties to sustain our exposed branches of
industry against foreign competition; yet that
would DO identical in spirit with the claim that
France and England are now eminent for their
devotion to free trade.
But is not trade good thing, and its ex-
pansOn desirable 2 We answer-Trade il neither
good nor bad aecess0riiy but is one or the other
according to circumstances. The traffic on tue
GabOOn River and thereabOut, ia which whisky
and firearms are exchanged for cargoes OF young
slaves. may be gainful TO those engaged in it,
but it is perniciOus TO mankindj aud 80 of the
whole vast Liquor traffic Of this eOuntry--Dnd of
much other traffic. On the other hand, trade |
which should ill the barbarous and savage regions
of Asia, Africa, and America with the best !
machinery, implements, seeds, &C., and send |
largely and rapidly to develop Agricultural and
Manufacturing Industry where all is now indo
ienee' squaor, aud priyatiOn, would be general |
blessing Not hoT msch trade, but vEqt ia, de-
termines the utility and beaefcence of commerce. |
And again:
In order to lay the foundations Of an expan-
si'e aud benefcent commerce, are mpst ,eiden Tie |
tase and dirsTsify the scope Of our National In
dHst'y. We, Of all nations, ought to have much |
the largest and mOsi profitable trade with Moxi- |
90, Brazil, and the rest of orr Continent: We |
miss it because we do not produce in abundance |