New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-11
pRNNsYLvANuA AND LOYALTY.

Various Free-Trade and Pro.Slayery journals
OF this city are urging the repeal Of the Morrill,
tariff. Among other things, they say it was
made for the advantage of single State, mean
ing Pennsylvania. This is o. incorrect as most
of their pretended facts and impoicnt conclusions.
Pennsylvania, in common with every other State
IN the Union, will reap great and lasting benefit
from this tariff But she ia to receive no exclu-
s.ye good from It, and it is an argument dis
ingenious az most Of the arguments Of the Pro-
Slavery politicians to say that measure Of this
universal importance and farreacbing influence
has but the marrow mission Of swelling the re-
sources Of single State. The manufacturing
! interests of The entire country and, by conse.
quence, every other interest, viii be promoted
by the much-abused measure. Pennsylvania will
share in this harvest, of course, but only in the
just proportion which is regulated BY the laws
of political economy, az unchougeab!e as the
great operations Of nature
Be this matter as il mey, however, PenDsyl
vania has just done an act which entities her to
give a weiehty opinion in the councils of the
nation, and affords an opportunity Of comparing
| the course of the British frce-tTaders Of New
York aud the coal and iron men Of pcnnsy lvauia
of their homes. The former threaten TO put
themselves under the lead OF the Mayor who
now disgraces this city, to tear the metropo'
liz from the Union, and set up I" free town.
under their own Government. Tho latter repre-
scented in the Legislature of their State OF Har-
risburg appropriate half a million dollars for the
projection Of the Federal authorities, ond the
maintenance of the Federal Government
The lree-trade party, represented here by for
! eign merchants and those whose interest leads
them to trucklc to such merchants, cry out
against the Morrill, tariff, saying that it will ruin
the country and break up the Union Valiant
defenders OF the Union arc they Indeed! When
/ the SKY lowers and the storm impends, they
hasten below and conspire to cast away tho sbip.
When the Legislatures Of the country agree to
submit their penal laws TO the Judgment Of a
Convention of thieves, and when they turn an
attentive and complainant ear to the suggestions
Of the forger aud pckpocket who feels aggreyed
By their enactmcnts, then it will be- the time to
nsk the opinion Of foreign nations aud foreign
traders upon system Of protection for American
labor.
The men of Pennsy lgania whom the journals
referred TO insist on treating as the representa-
tves and champions of Protection, md who are
therefore charged with attempts aglnst the sta
bility of the Uniou and spoken OF as men who
seek the destruction oi their country, are the
very men who came with alacrity and cheerful
decision forward, contributing to the aid of the
Government menaced by Southern rebels and
! Northern traitors. The comparison is unfavora
be TO the free Trade and Pro Slavery anarchist,
here, and is a proof, unnecessary but convincing
that with the passage Of this tariff act confidence
was born into the minds Of the classes on who's
aid and counienance so much depends in th'
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