New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-16
Mr.. NOTIFY AND THE MORRILL,
TARlRR.

general rule our countrynen are born ful-iledged
economists, the science of society being that one in
regard to which nearly every member OF the CON-
muny thinks himself qualified to act in the capacity
of teacher, without having given to its study any
previous attention whatsoever. Ask one OF them 10
| make you hat or coat, or to examine diseased
limb, and he win probably reply that his studies had
not fitted him for acting either as halter, tailor, or
physician; but ask him to prescribe for social dis
as exhibited in vitiated currency, or In egs-
latye or judicial corruption, and he Will be likely
of once TO answer that, if that is all you need he
will set to the work at once, nature having specially
fitted him for acting in the capacity of regulator OF
the SECRETARY movement AS consequence OF
this it is, that no country of the world so much
abounds in economical quackery as does our own
our journals furnishing from day to day articles
on currency and banking free trade and protection,
| emanatng from "heayen.born " economists, whose
knowledge whether Of facts or theory, is limited to
that which may have been obtained from articles
prepared for American consumption by The London
| Ti,aes, The Manchester Guardian, The Nen- York
Journal Of Commses, and other British journals;
aud whose writings furnish conclusive evidence that
nature had really intended them to fill the respecta-
bic places of talors or shoemakers sellers of sugars
or silks rather than that of teachers in reference TO
those great questions upon whose proper solution
depends the progress Of nations toward poverty and
slavery on the one hand, or wealth and freedom on
the other.
Occasionally, however. We find men OF far
higher stamp making the came mistake, % Is
shown in the generally most excellent letter BY
Mr. Motley, the distinguished historian, re-
Gently published in London. In it he speaks Of
:" the enlightened system Of free-trade '-Ineaning
thereby that British system, under which Ireland,
India, Turkey. and our own country, have been
reduced TO their present distressed condition
while denouncing as suicidal and /" absurd"
and as likely to receive important notifications
"a ut the special session." that tariff which but
a few weeks since became the law OF the land,
| by aid Of n vote more nearly unanimous than
had ever before been given TO any revenue meas
ure whatsoever. In another breath, however, he
! assures the "adyo: Gates Of the enlightened sys-
% TEN" that that ii they permit the establish
ment of q Southern Confederacy, none but "a
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that 80 soon as its members shall have come to
see manufactures of cottons and woolens'
,pringing up "on every mountain stream and TO
appreciate the Importance of developing &" the
",ast mineral wealth Of their territories" there
viii arise "a cry for protection to native indus
try IN one quarter, that will as surely be
q" Needed as will that other cry from the Gulf Of
! A, for ifrioan 81 troda bu
it should 20 certainly be 4" needed is not ex-
planned by Mr.. NJ. nor is it probable that he had
even asked himself the question. Had he done
so, he would probably have arrived ct the conclu.
sisn that with the growth of manufactures there
would come change in the relative positions Of
| the various portions Of Southern socety-the
men who had labor to sell, now known at
the South as "tho mudsills," gradually
obtaining power, while those who had been
accustomed TO buy and sell tho labores
they employed would as gradually lose it,
as has been the, case in every country OF
the world in which empoyments have become
more and more diversified. That done, he might
perhaps have been led to ask himself the further
queston-W Slavery would not, long be-
! IOrt tnlb tiJif, HdHf HUIhUh III loNtI liu ltc
policy of the country tended toward the develop
ment Of "the vast mineral wealth" of Last Ten
nessee, Of North Alabama, OF Northern Georgia
of Western Virginia and Carolina, and toward
the filling up Of the country about the Southern
"mountain streams with free and hardy pop.
ulation ike that with which the Free States
have 70 recently supplied he Western and North.
Nik.s.. ~ q.
further examination, he must, long before this
time, have arrived at the conclusion, that had
the tariff of 1912 been maintained in existence,
the "mountan streams OF the South would
even now DO occupied-that the "yast mineral
" wealth Of the Southern States would at this
time be in course Of rapid deyelopment--that the
hill country, the UniOn-ioring portion Of The South
would A. this moment have a population thrice
more numerous than that it now possesses-that
there would even now be found great, free
people, possessed of schools and libraries and all
other means of mental development-end that
there, end not among the rice snamPs Of Carolina
and Georgia, rouG noS Be found The center Of
Southern posecr.
We beg Mr.. Motley to take q map and ex.
anime for himself the great mineral region which
bams, having the Blue Ridge on its east and the
Cumberland Range on its west, and then satisfy
himself whether IL would or would not be now
possible to sever the Union, had our commercial
policy for the last fifteen years been directed
toward developing the mineral resources Of the
Qouth and fllin~ ~ now "a stronglv ITnou. loving