The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-07-23
THE AMERICAN QUESTION.

Amoufsky.
THE AMERICAN QUESTION.
The New Tarin-Engiish Opinion OF tho
Measure and Its Effects.
From tn: London Times. Julysl
The proposition is to enact now tariff Of duties COM
pared with which the Morrill, tariff b declaration Of
and Chsvaier This revised tariff 70 be in effect
prohibition OF all European goods Its effect will be-"
says tho most popular paper Of New York. "to deprive
Europe OF the American marketa result more dieas-
trous TO England and France than thousand bockadss
Of cotton ports" This II . secession movement
e;us.ao e q suiS up .Sau, more s a sole
than tAe great soali of Chino, round all ne country Oheys
ne federal fog May ~ Federal America having taken
seriously TO the vice OF tyranny, 10 stripping herself
TO the task Of gratifying her passion She is debe
raely rejecting the silks the wines, the trnkes and the
finished hardware, and the Agricultural implements Of
England and she il restrict herself for the future to
her own coarse clumsy, ana c,sty substitutes Is Is
people celebrate their discovery Of means Of ppm
ishing England and France. They are exutng In the
that by OF this tariff they will either shut
out productions OF the great industrial
European nations that they will compel them, by tho
payment OF high duties TO contribute to the expenses
their civil wars Could any folly be more pitiablss If
federal America the only market In the world for
British and French manufactures there might be some
hope that the foreign importers would have to
pay portion Of Its burdens in heightened duties
but while there hundred competing customers Tor
q independent
of any single demand At that price produce
will DO delivered at the American ports and whatever
addition is made TO It by the government must be paid
by the foreign importer but by the American con-
sumner. Are American state men and the American peo
pie such children that they require to be taught simple
like thiss On the other hand when these duties
become absolutely prohbtoy they tend 10 other pur
pose than to make it erey mans inte throughout En-
rope and throughout America that the federal flag shall fly
over as narrow portion Of earth possibly be
restricted TO. The world is happily, 80 large aud its
intercommunications increase 80 rapidly that Eng
has passed Through tAs rs,l,d q ss5srsng which
every sudden change tnuolucs In finding other
markets and other cotton fields even more profitable for
her purposes than America has proved. India and
China will soon be to us much more than America
was and II the federal States Of America could
shut themselves up completely to fade away from
ali European knowledge and DO to US only like that
Aztec city which has been sometimes suspected TO exist
but has been discovered England would still 80
in her might, and her industry and hor literature,
spreading her language and her race and occupying the
attention and lad ng The destinies Of the world
psope preparing for themselves. They not shutting
themselves cute from all mankind in order TO work ous
phiIosophic dream Of peace and innocence They
have the shortsghted wisdom OF the Chinese
the Japanese who in their happy concei feared TO be
contaminated by outside intercourse. These people
are isoatug themselves only In order that they may in
dulgs their 1erce vices uncontrolled. With this
object they reducing themselves to condition which
. warning % the world They have 81 last actually
taken upon themselves system Of taxation which II
like the cask Of Regulus. 50 full Of points that
can sit lie IN without being pricked every
OF their country to die OF pestience sword or 70
return TO them in FEW weeks broken and smacated for
life Private letters say that Mccclans army alone
and there il q carefully suppressed whisper At Wash
ngton that General Mcclellan himself is stricken with
the fever. Even the hiren0 and cut Aroats Of Europe
will not much longer be attracted by any promises 70
such fate a. this. II s evident that the levies
begin TO fail AT home no mans life, or liberty or pro-
perty secure for how LIE liberty be
country where the hAbeas corpus act suspended indie
niteT where citizens have no redress against unlaw vi
lie trial; how property be when money
no longer thing of intrinsic vaiue and when conscaton
and taxation are becoming woIes Of similar meaning
making for themselves and to which they expect that,
when is completed, all mankind viii dock. They have
all the comforts Of civilized life, and they will
have 70 negotiate fugitive slave law with their neigh
bOrs to keep their own subjects within their pale
We have used nothing but simple and notorious facts
10 describe the condition to which tho American Union Ii
either arrived or Is evidently tending But all this, hap
ply arises from natural necessity Nature has been
bountfu to this young nation she Is commonly boun.
trul all youth With strong and vicious passions,
honnd,s sreorb A. Within some tosrsbs limits
strong young may indulge IN many reckless quar-.
rel and many htful carouse, and yet with timely refor
nation grow 70 strong and sober manhood 80 IL s with
this young and wfu people who have yet
fall back upon which we ID ancient society and full
peoped country cannot call TO our aid. There Ia limit
however TO the endurance Of youthful strength
south America has already shown that it posi-
BILE for nations, as well as individuals TO die young.
pro1ching that point they must become tao reasonable
nations or 90 on to anarchy and disso alton.
The +" Horrors OF the War to English
Eyes.
from the london Times, July 81
The from America Is such Old soldier in
thirty years war might dean In nightmare Of incss-
SAINT simoss endless purposeless Ashting Everywhere
there . dead lock OF arms; everywhere
encarped In morasses or toilng through mud under
burning SUM- 10 some point, where after balance
of mutual slaughter, they will horty ind themselves
thatf~w In tFnla rhoraf
sick wounded, and condemned to many weeks OF in
action The noblest herosm wasted the attempt
gain positions which are either not w0n or only won to
the eyo wearies itself attempts pierce through
this confusion search OF the beginning Of the end
neither side there any relaxing relsnting They
have suffered hardshps familiar enough to tho soldiers
Of the popuous AMI ed regions In this Old World but
very 10 tho inhabitants Of land flowing with mix
and honey Yet they endure and do, and die, with all
the spirit worthy Of greater and more Ineligible
repa, By ding 70 etses Ums,n; and as many Germans,
cast out by their fatherand have persisted in other
men'squlrres. Yet there Is no prospect Of the ioar tagging
for men, and compelled 70 look forward
possible time when the process OF mutual destruction
may least reduce Ae SolA 10 utter droportion Of
ambition, and that, like the tyrant Of old.
they hope 70 mako . solitude and call II
a federal Untonf 1t is At best . dangerous
game, for the invaders nesher much at homo
10 the climate, nor so well under cover Is the In.
habitans OF the south, able 70 avail themselves
OF the OF the country But 10, suppose the
hideous contamination let grant that may DO pos.
sble 10 sacrifice man against man. and by dnt OF money
toprocure perpetual succession OF American or foreign
recruits 70 supply the exhaustion. What viii DO the
value OF territory from on which the men have been
destroyed VIII be conquest when the soil alone
wives wtha miserable burden Of women, children and
slaves, the sick, the aged and the maimcds If this be
what the Americans seriously contemplate then may
well which the best and ruest friends to Ameri
ca-we, who have ddvsed N and asdswto d.
ride guilty iro tco friendly fdrdoms, or the men who
advise Boston and New York not 70 draw the rein or
bate the spread OF till there remains mot 70
| mil daw tho Stri
Statesf
The intelligence swsls In its range and In lie horrors
the flows round the Whole Union, settles In the
deep inlets, fortss itself In penissuas and becomes
chronic In vast plains. Tho long weary columns Of
slaughter we give to-day only be considered a. an
the that may be expected should the
fendsrs d Rqhm9pd retreat 70 the m9putaina In their
rear and all The other armies now 1t bay fall back
their supplies and In the Interior rho mutual
charges OF nhumanity show how intense the bitterness
already implanted BY less than years. war. Only
last year Q matter Of pride and eradication 70
both sides that Fort Sumter had fallen without the loss Of
either side and IL predicted that the Amer
leans would fight boodlsss war. II Is far otherwise