New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-28
MISS mARTrNEAU on OUR TARIFF.


Siarery Standard savage attack on our new
Tariff, which we print in another part Of this
sheet, and commend to general attention. 1t
sums up, rather tersely, all that has been said
on the wrong side of this question, and is very
fair exhibition of the Pharisac and dogmatic
spirit in which the British Free Traders are accus-
toned to canvass it. 1t is refreshing to meet On
antagonist who begins and ends with telling you
that your positions ore absurd, your arguments
ridiculous, and your measures such as none but q
downright fool or selfish, INSCRIPTIONS knave
could possibly support Whether such is or is not
the spirit in which we American Protectionists are
disciplined by our British Free-Trade friends let
the readers of Miss Martineau judge. We pro.
coed to deal patiently and calmly with few Of
her more prominent misapprehenslons.
!. Miss Martineau and her school habitualy
assume that Protection is device Of American
manufacturers intent on securing higher prices
for their wares--that it is in effect conspiracy
of the fabricating class to enrich themselves at
the expense of the growers Of raw staples
refutation of this assumption is found in the bis
torc fact that, in the order Of time, Protection
PRECEDED Manufactures The very first Tariff
ever enacted Gin 1897 by Federal Congress in
its preamble declares that it was required and
intended to provide revenue for the Government
and "to project domestic mangfadHres," The
authors and founders of the Protective Policy
among us--IIenry Clay, John G. Calhoun, Heze-
kiah Niles, Rollin G.. Mallary, &C., &c.-were
representatives and champions of the Agricul.
taral interest, and acted in its behalf in adyocat
ing Protection. lie. us make o single citation H.
Illustrative of their view Of the matter, as sum
med up BY Gen. Jackson in his letter Of 1924
TO DR.. Coleman of NJ c.
will ASK What IL the real situation Of rhe agricutursst
Where has the American farmer market for his surplus prod
nee Except for cotton he has neither foreign hons
pke. Does not this clearly prove when there 10 no nstet
either home abroad that there too much labor employed
ia agriculture and that the channels Of labor should be multi
pdl Common points out at once the remedy. Draw
from agriculture tie sgpeIabundAnt LABOR employ IL In nechan
Ism AID anulsctures thereby creating home market iot
your bre.dua and distributing labor to most profitable 90
count and benefits the country will result TAKE from dg
culture ia As Uaied States sir hundred 0uand ~en ro~es
and ehren and you gir home mdker more breed
sfg han oil Europe Ju'nishe In sEo, ST. we have
been 700 loug subject to tho policy Of tie British merchants
Is tine should become little more Amehcsnhed" sc
of course, we do not cite this to prove tho
correctness of the view it presents, though we do
most feryently believe in it. If anybody chooses
to assert that Clay, Niles, MalIary, with Jackson
and Calhoun in their better days, were natural
fools, We do not care to reply. But that they
could not have been intent on knayishly BAN
boozling our farmers for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
our manufacturers, is pretty conclusivey estab-
lished by the fact that our manufacturers were
created, not merely upheld, By their policy.
Abbott Lawrence was ship-owner and free
trader-Daniel Webster, as the representative
in Congress Of Boston capital, was among the
ublest and most thorough Of our Free-Trade
adyocates-when Clay. Calhoun, jackson, and
Tammany Hall, were laundering in behalf Of
Protection as a means Of securing markets and
fair prices TO the products of our Agriculture.
H. Miss Martineau courteOusly apprises us that
our Tariff (Which she probably had never seen
when she wrote) is fraught with tyranny and
=" injustice" that it is grounded in "selfsh
"greed and blind cruelty" that its enactment
was conceived "in spirit Of cupdity," that Ii
is unworthy Of "the most stupid and ignorant
" Governments Of Europe" with much more
equally convincing and complimentary. OF course,
since she knows it all, it will be saperhuous to
attempt to teach her anything. Yet we must
make one endeavor to pierce the armor Of self
concet and dogmatsm in which she has 10.
trenched herself:
There exists in Great Britain wealthy and
powerful company, mainly Of Cotton Manufactur-
ers, known as "The Cotton Supply Association"
This company are engaged in opening new and
charging old fields of Cotton culture outside OF
the United States, and are spending large sums
to this end. In other words, they are in .6ecs
paying larger prices for Cotton from asia, Africa,
South america, and The Hes, Indies to-day. in tho
hope Of thereby obtaining 1t at lorer prices here
after. The wisdom of their projects, their efforts,
we will not here discuss; our great Cotton
growers are well known to regard their whole
scheme as preposterous, and only kept alive by
crafty few who make money out Of it by defud-
ing the wealthy and credulous many. Orr Free
Traders regard it as foolish attempt to circum-
vent the order Of Nature, like that Of GuIlver's
saces who devoted themselves to the extraction
of sunbeams from cucumbers. They very con.
sstently hold that cotton.spiuners should buy
their raw material of whomsoeyer will sell it
cheapest to-day, and let the laws of trade.
the action aud reaction of supply and
demand, regulate the volume OF production
in America, Asia and Afric, respectively.
Whether Miss Martneau sides with our planters
or with the Cotton Supply Association, we do not
know; we presume, however, that she adheres
10 her Frec.Trade principles and agrees with our
l.ra In traafinr the Cotton Supply AssOcia.