New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-11

OF the old North State. He thought manniactu.tes
necessary lead them before they could ven
ture to stand alone He enforced their necessity IN "s
commerce their Importance IN furnishing nome nome
necessity to make US truly independent Of Europe; the
fatal effects on the price OF cotton OF Diottng gu. tn
quantity into The RI markets Of Europe the favorable in
huonce OF cessation OF agitation ana turnon Oh .
home demand lie Knew il Mas said that it was of
consequence whether our produce be manuiactuIed In
citizen whether the profit realized by an American or
Englishmani No consequence whether weath DC az
fused In an alien, ana perhaps III
imical soi Bnt il ia not true that much would be
consumed The ability to purchase S AMI a%o emnoVment
afforded England does not purchase our DreadstuHs,
but the manufacturer at home does. ,,onn MI.
erly deny it, said Mr. Clay The revenue. say S2OCOoSo
must be raised Is 1t Of the slightest @ S @ the
coat aonei II tho amount be the same ne must 10
OF the feelings which the breast OF an American
IL he object what is the doctrine Of Free Tradet Free
Trade exists nowhere M never dia e fond at the
extremes any than the temperate CHIMES ao =" 10
"But 10 whom would the concessions OF Free TRADE 90
mAde2 To fOreigners-tO foreigners without leeng vi
sympathy with yonr without Americana m
North Caronans. that are asked to make
to rather nah 70 Of SRer
which he makes TO you, In some mode or other
ut the true test OF the wisdom OF measures Is expert
ence What Is our experienced Our opponents say that
Protection would augment prices Dry up sources vi
enue Haye prices risenf NO. Iney nave cohs'a am
fallen. He here mentioned an aneedOte when uIow
forth loud laughter, OF Alabama demagogue who was
denouncng the Tariff for taxing the ssTt worn ~ tno
turn by the man that he did not how that c0d DO
slnce the shirt only cost 81 cents yard"
The Wing National Convention which as
sembled in Baltimore on the list of May follow
ing unanimously nominated DIr. Clay for Pres-
dent. and as unanimously adopted platform
IN which they proclaimed, as one OF their car
dinal principles
"a Tariff for Revenue deray the necessary expenses
OF the Government discriminating with special reference
to tho Protection OF the Domestic Labor Of the country
Mr.. Clay proudly accepted the nomination
and the platform, and stood upon the latter
throughout the ensuing canvass.
On the 10th of that May, the House being
strongly Democratic, Gen. Mckay of n. G.,
from its Committee of Ways and Means, having
reported bill to upset the Tariff of AZ, substi-
tuting one moro acceptable to the importers
and their organ, The Post, Mr. Elmer OF N. j.
moved that il do lie on The table, which was
carried Yeas 1O5 Nays 90. Every Wing in the
House but Chappell of Ga, voted to lay on the
! table, with 90 Democrats; and thus the bill
was killed, with the hearty concurrence of MIR.
Clay and by tho votes of all his friends.
The Erening Post thereupon exultngly pro-
claimed, through its Washington correspondent,
that
"Mr Chappel one OF the Georgia Wings in the House,
has. undestnnd prepared Tor publication Ta5 n c de-
cumstanees can ho obtain tho vote OF the party III
Georgia"
SO it proved. The old State Rights Free
Traders who had been acting with the Wings
for some years, now turned against them be-
cause of tho Tariff, giving the vote of Georgia
to Polk
Mr.. Clay (May ~ addressed TO the Wings of
Pennsylvania letter, declining to visit them
at Harrisburg, saying:
al congratulate you tho bright and cheering pros
poets Of the establishment Of that Wing policy so essen
ua believe TO the prosperity only Of Pennsylvania
but OF the whole Union happened TO be IN the House
signally triumphed The Tariff Of si3 has been bitterly
denounced aud gross epthets applied 70 ~ us repeal
onnoen They have majority Of nifty or sixty in the
House bin TO repeal that Tariff has boon pending
great part OF me eSSr V Of s House
against the repeating bill leaving the Tariff Of st3 In fun
concession by political opponents Of the wisdom aud
benencence OF WING policy produced by the returning
OF the ana peo pS Of the ao
from the St John TO the Sabine who have been so long
ment Of Domestic Industry, about to sette doT in
union and harmony on the basis OF raising IL. IN
to an economical administration of tho Government;
exclusively Com Foreign Imports by Tarn so aoJnsied
rs that by proper determinations, Just ana reasonable
encoura cement shall DO extended to American indus
try"
We might continue these quotations indefi-
nitely; but need WEI Is there an intelligent
man living who does not know that Henry
Clay lived aud died Protectionist, and that
the counter claim of The Euening Post is so
palpably at war with facts as to be not merely
groundless, but impudent2