The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-26

!; SATURDAY. ........,.....JANUARY Is. 1857
e Protection TO New England. X
= Anew England wool-growers' Conyen
ton has just closed its session in the State
house Of Maine, at Augusta. The mair
part of their business Is contained IN one
resolution, which we find Is telegraphed tt
the New York papers: ~ i /.
sayg "a resolution was unanimously adopted
= expressing the opinion that . tariff moi
less than that proposed by the late Cleve
land Convention Is necessary to the int
rests OF the New England wool-growers
! They also resolved that the manufacturer
and wool-srowers' interests were Id MAJ
mony, and required protection"
High protection is Unnecessary 10 the Al.
I, terests Of the Nec Eagsdnd wool-sro"erS'
II /. not expressly stated that the couven-
.st,or demands discriminating legislation Of
c.nv kind for New England wool alone and
~. we may assume that if high, protection be
given them, it will apply to wool-growers
I in Virginia and North Carolina also. Blu,
E'of this we cannot be too sure. If they
think It would be useful to treat these
States as foreign countries until properly
reconstructed" no doubt Congress would
impose the Same duty upon Virginia a'
upon English or Saxon wool, and find law
for It too, or make law (Which is now the
same thing, so that Virginia would find
herself in the anomalous position Of being
for some purposes, State of the Union
for other purposes, q territory; for Others
an ninsurrectionary district; and Tor
,othersatin, foreign country; and all py
law. ~
But supposing, for the present, that the
great New England, and New York and
Pennsylvania interests, which are now
cIamoring for more and more protection,
contemplate q general law for that pur-
pose, then comes another question How
will the great multitude of wearers OF
wooden cloth who are crying out on their
. mart to reduce taxation-especially how
will the great West, which grows but lit
tie wool, and uses a great deal of cloth
view the brazen pretension put forward by
the growers, the spinners, and the weavers
Of wool, that high protection is demanded,
not in the interests Of the country, but in
the interest Of them, the wool-growers and
manufacturers; and, above all, those Of
New England 7 Their proposal is, first,
that the manufacturer shall pay more for
his wool, for otherwise there would be no
need of protection, and no sense in it:
then they affirm that the manufacturer,
paving more for his wool, cannot compete
with foreign cloth-weavers unless he has
protection too. So they declare their in
terests are in harmony; that is to say,
their lobby forces may combine to get the
needful protection decreed by Congress.
Nor is this all the iron-master of Penn
sylvania calls for more protection also, in
order that he may charge that same WOODEN
manufacturer more for the material
Of his machinery; his interests are
sin harmony" too: they are all three in q
tale: their lobby may be very strong in
deed. And then, when the western man
buys coat, which is the combined pro-
ducts of all those harmonious creatures
labors, he pays all the difference which the
duty gi7es Maine wool-grower over
foreign one, and all the difference which
the duty gives to New England manufac-
turer over Yorkshire one, and all the
difference which the duty gives to Penn
. sylvania iron-master over Scotch one.
He, the buyer of the new coat, pays all
these differences in one-a combined differ
ence, like their combined lobby,-and, be-
sides, he pays, in the same coat, the ex-
penses of their lobbying too. 1t is known
we'll enough that the people of the great
western valley have been already thinking
earnestly over these matters, calculating
how much they are every day paying to
New England as it is; how many days
they are working for themselves, and how
many to make up their tribute to New
England; and also calculating how long
they can stand it. We should like to aid
their calculations and quicken their per-
ceptions upon these points.
As for US at the South. We are nobody !;
we could not venture even to demonstrate
against paying all the combined profits the
North can contrive to heap upon us, and
must be very thankful if they allow US
coat at any price. The power to mulct US
would NO doubt be considered one of the
legitimate /" fruits of the war;" and to the
yictors belong the spoils. But it cannot be
said--not just yet--that Massachusetts, has
como uered Illinois or Indiana; those States
are not yet sinsurrectionary districts-they
have still representatives on the floor Of
Congress, and an official mode of express,
: ing their sentiments. They might perhaps
/. make bold to inquire why New England
:. charges them 50 dear for a coat.
'o1 Humors of Revolution.
Honorable gentlemen in the Washington