New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-10
REpUBLEcAyJSM-FREE TRADE.

stroy the Republican party was made to suceumb TO
its discovered want Of power:
"The Pepubican leader, managed their affairs unwey
for while that they ha2rded the loss OF the couuis sup
port but their opponents showed so nad ana
spirit that rs we long ago predicted the country having
choose between extremists like stevens and Others Ike the
Woods Valandighams and S'!mours took the former
This is most inaccurate and mistaken. "The coun-
try" was never brought nor required "to choose be-
tween extremists like Stevens and others" IL has al
WAYS followed its own unbiased convictions In Con-
gress during last session. Mr.. SteYenswa very often
beaten and OVERCOME the very grayeSt issoeSi and
he submitted to the Judgment Of his peers more frankly
and graciouSly than The Post has done. The coun-
try" has kept straight on when Tn, Post would have
halted and turned il back; and had Mr.. Stevens, or
any one else, made like attempt, he would have been
treated in the same fashion. The false notion that
"leaders" can carry the country otherwise than IN
accordance with its own intelligent, independent
Judgment, is delusOn whereof The Post is living
refutation.
Tie Post thinks The Republican party may long re-
tain the ascendcncy by adapting its creed to the die
tum OF that journal which lately declared its ez-
pulsion FROM power essential 10 the public veal. II
condescendngly adds:
We hope the required wisdom viii e found IN The lepubi
party II so il will inevitably quickly rally 10 Itself oil the
who su cling To the opposite party and who now begin
At last to see that vain TO hops 10 turn the ocacd Dem
ocrac party back 10 It's old and houorcd principles Of equal aud
universal liberty and dcnOcmc those principles have been
adopted by the Republican party, but ha. unfortunately toll
Grated among rs leaders some Who imagine that hbcfH
party show that When DO liberty means liberty not
only 10 labor bat tf1doa1 ouy 10 grow What wc please"
but 10 sci here We pea,e-ey o speech and ac'onFrcc
Speech Free soil free SCHOOL,, Free Labor Free Trudr
Then II will b. The real aud ACKNOWLEDGED party ~ puges'
the tue Democratic party OF DE county
The Post, il will be seen. halt. at Free Trade;
while the holder master thinkers olts school, with more
consistent and vigorous logic include Free Love
among their requirements They plausiby insist that
what they term the Freedom Of the Affections is even
more essential to human progress and we-being than
the Freedom Of Trade. That the law should assume
to constrain any one to buy As products when he
could but for the law suit himself better by buying
those of b. Is, in their view gross tyranny; but yet
not so fragrant a. ITS debating that should ceave
10 and cherish G. as bis most intimate aud cherished
COMPANION when be- would ever 50 much prefer to
maintain that relation with u. No other tyranny s
in their eyes, 20 Gagant and baleiul as this. And
indeed. If the Free Trade axiom that The best gov
eminent is that which governs least be sound, the
legal requirement that marriage must stand though
husband and wife coucur in wishing 10 aunulled D.
utterly indeiensibe.
But the great majority OF Republicans are neither
Free Love, nor Free Traders. Even those OF them
who are unable papably to reiute The .pecious sophs
tries OF either school regard them as John Marshall
did those Of Judge Parsons, Of Massachusetts,, which
be once overrued in 3 Judgment. Why did you
not deliver an opinion ID that case" asked Judge
Story long alterward. " Because replied the great
III fnf a.l
Justice Parsons logic, bHf I'm that IL tnoHd'm do.'
Free Schools supported by the compulsory
taxation OF some to educate the children OF others
whom they, perhaps, never saw The principle
wherein Free Schools are supported and justified is
the exact opposite Of that commended Free Trade.
Accordingly, Gerrit Smith, when be became Free
Trader took ground against Free Schools supportedby
taxation, insisting that Government should conine
itsefto its legitimate iunc-On, and leave the children
Of the drunkard the paupe and the prodiga 20 such
chance OF education as their parents or some casual
charity, might accord them. Protection 10 Home In
dustry and legal provision for the Education Of All,
rest in common the sound assumption that indi-
viduals NAV always choose do what is required
by the common good, and even by their own
What Tie Post calls Free Trade was cherished
dogma of the late slayehoding arstocracy Calhoun,
McDuffe, Rhett Sdell and De Bow were among its
honored apostles. South Carolina has not for the
last forty years given q single vote in Congress for
the principle Of Protection. Now. that Slavery is no
more and labor 10 that State has become or is becom
ing something more than a marketable commodity,
we look with confidence for change. We trust not
many years will elapse ere her mountains will be
dotted with sheep and her streams be thicky studded
with factories, and when her laboring masses, edu.
Gated in free ohoos, will sustain BY their voices and
votes the benefcent policy which assures stability,
thrift and expansion AZ 70 growing and to
manufacturing alike in the South, the East, and the
West
We hold that Government wisely and benefcently
afirms aud upholdS Indissouble Maniage-tbat the
cases of individual hardship involved therein are i'm
mensely overbalanced by The general stability and
purity thereby guaranteed 10 the family relation, and
by the superior training and development secured TO
children That IN particular case--in considers
Die number Of caseS-a blameless, deserving man is
tied for life TO vrago, slattern. an utterly unfit,
unworthy wOman-hat an angelic wife is often the
slave and the victim of a drunken debauched brute
Of husbands notoriously, sadly true; yet on The
whole the legal sanction and enforcement OF lnds-
soluble Marriage Is an immense benefit and blessing
10 mankind. ST. Free Schools sometimes tar one
man unduly to educate the children OF another who
Il abuudsnty able TO educate them himself; but,
gsrding the subject comprehensively, We hold
common school education at the common
charge an institution Of incalculablo bene6cence.
Aud So Protection TO Home Industry, though
-, eoaciaI inst anca. work Anomalies and saaTn.
ing hardshps does yet in its general scope and re-
suits, immensely increase the product and accelerate
the development of our National Industry, while en-
Lanoing tbc actual, substantial wcomPeose OF Labor