New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-08
without interference on our part; why should
they not leave our legislation to oursslves'

they not leave our legislation to ourselves'
The N. Y. Times boldly and squarey demands
q reduction of our duties on French products il
order to reward France for her friendship to Our
Government and Union in their present struggle
with armed treason Here are it's very words:
From Congress- at its approaching eIs session we have
reason to anticipate decisive scion expressive Of hs feeling OF
resentment lsur England universal among the people The
form this action should take H. conceive payable The
he,vy restrictions placed by the Mon Tariff upon imports
from Sia' phicA hdre oered ia their generous Gdns
90 IN hn period Of trial. should be s modified t.. the
apparent unendness Of tf legislation may longer
continue to qualify inperoeptby the ancsbs relations
those Governments have penevored In maintaining
War Ia his country must in Gny circumstance iufict
serious blow upou the material interests Of France Is indus.
tries mu be- TO very serious sItont suspended and curtsed
monetary convu'On oveake England hardly f.
In consequence the destruction OF her American
the effect must reach France and bee hardly e injurious
y. Tier, is longer motire vhy zee shoald en-
defsor 20 arot he Storm from Great Britain. All
oblga.iozs In that quarter may be regarded can.
celed But II any interposi,ion OF moderate the
weigh, Of the stroke upon tho prosperity Of France there should
be no hesitation in eIerDs and the only In power
enlarge by liberal scale Of duties the market
products and msnufcure which the tariff OF t session aids
s.ey reducing II need be, aud emphatic evil
dence Of reciprocal good WILL those duties properly DO
aordns thu, important strength to French producers In
their encounter with the financial tempest cannot hope
divert from their heads So long France refuses initiate
England In cosrs the doors tho eyportson of a1d
munitions needed the defense Of tho Upion ssins the
shameless rebellion tho osTes history she has the stronge.
claim upon cur Lberaiy and fully release from the
ce.'e and i1judicou' impOsts Of our commercial Jrsn"
| Surely, there can be no question among en-
lghtened, rejecting men, whether PrOtectionsts
or Free-Tradors, as to the shallowness, the mis-.
chief, of the policy here recommended. We are
grayely urged to adopt new Sliding Scale Of
dutie', aud 10 retain imposts which are in the
same breath pronounced Excessive and njudi-
"cious" because they bear hardly on nation
whose Government ympathzes with our traitors,
while We reduce TO the lowest revenue point
those which affect the industry of another nation
whose Government eyinces a good will for the
| triumph OF our own We protest against
any such dispensation of sugar-plums and stingng-
nettles. If We have imposed any duty that is
- excessive and injudcious," let us abolish or
modify it because such is its character, and be-
cause ts practical effect must be injurious to
ourselves. Great Britain or France has nothing
to say in the premises aud we do not propose TO
| bribe the one to favor us in domestic strug
| gle nor punish the other for casting sleeps eyes
at tho JEFF. Davis failure. So long as they keep
| hands of, let them bestow their sympathies
where they shall seyerally see 6t. 1t is our bu-
| sine. to thrash the rebels into good behavior;
and if we can't do it without foreign help-do it
thoroughly and with reasonable e1pedition-it
ought not to be done. A great deal too much
Importance has already been given to foreign
sympathies in this business, and it is high time
We stopped looking nn1iously to London OF Paris
for encouragement in the premises and paid
stricter attention to our own matters.
| With One Hundred thousand vel armed, well
equipped, well provided patriot soldiers oD the Po-
iomac under q commander who would lead them 70
Richmond in fortnight and To Raleigh by the lst Of
August. We should prefer 10 postpone any consider
alton Of European opinions or sympathes in the
premises to next December or January. When the
Army Of the North shall be encampod at Charleston
and that Of tho West at New Orleans, we may have
leisure TO crafty our curiosity by ipquring what
Europe thinks Of our intestine troubles. At present,
there 10 business pressing and more important.
of course, no one should be deceived by the
eidque Of interested decrers of our Tariff. Does any
one pretend 10 show that our people paying more
for any article Of consequence because of that Tariff
None II not, why change III II il holps-and it
certainly doos-our own artisans and operatives TO
some work that would otherwise be done in Europe
| ii does them service which in these hard times
could i'll be- spared.
Doubtless, wo are buying somewhat less Of
FrsIce than We would have been under our late
TariF; but if she snpposes that, under any Tariff,
We should be buying considerably Of her, she is
deceived. These are not times in which coun-
try SO tried as ours lays in stocks Of Wines and
Brsndes or arrays itself extensively in the fresh
est aud costlIcst Silks aud Lnces. We east our
own bullets i'll the main We spend our loose
change for rifles and revOyers, and We have
little money or taste for frppery aud "artices
:" de Paris" With peace and plenty. old habits
and fances will return, and then We shall buy
French fabrics freely whether under one Tariff
or another. Just now, We cant afford IL; and if
lie Morrill, Tariff keeps down our purchases Of
gewgaws and enables us to draw coin from Eu
rope, why so much the better for US. and so
much the moro credit to that TarIG.
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