New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-24

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House. you will And that voted dgdn's inc one.o w
on its final passage. l stand RECORDED IN INC "o "
voting for it: but this Is mistake the record Id 'no
Journal OF the House is the correct one
tits that during the war lsustained ana ueiouou
on the stump High Tariff. precisely as sustained drai'
laws military arrests eonfscation bills and other meas
urea which were deemed essential to the preservation Oh
tho National life No sacrifice was too great u the nauon
demanded II at our hands We are no" IN an era Oh pro-
found peace the necessity which then existed mas ceaSeu
to exist and the financial. commercial ana INDUSTRIAL
condition OF the country rises into the first consequence
Ia IT fair Ia denouuce a man as 'slnuons ana SHINY
demagogue for refusing to sustain as peace measure
that which he sustained under the pressure OF necessary
az q War neasuref Is IL fair TO hold that wbenevera
public man changes his mind. he must necessarily DO
scoupdreli fear but few editors could stand such
test ...
"Our Western country Is passing through perlod Oh
gloom and greater than that OF 1851
Our produce OF all kinds scarcely the cost OF produe
ton bile every thing We purchase is inOrdnately high
We feel that while We pay largo taxes TO tho support tho
Government (which do not grudge), we are also pay
ing still larger for the support OF part OF our
fellow citizens who enjoy greater prosperity IMAM VIC uo
ont OF our poverty we made 20 contribute to their
abundance AS a Republican, feel that the Republican
party must either set its against the High Tariff Pro
tecve doctrines advocated by your paper or lose Tot
ever this great Northwest Whatever L have SAID
therefore upon this subject have said through an non
est and sincere conviction duty not only TO tho people
but TO the party Believe very truly and respectfully
yours, lGSAEluS DoNNhbhi'
Having thus given Mr.. Dohnelly's own
version of this matter, we propose to compare
it with the facts
Feb. 20. 1867 [Dearly two years after the
close of the Warl Mr. Stevens of Pa. moved
to suspend the rules of the House, and take
up the bill increasing the Duties on Imports
IA it came back amended from the Senate.
The motion to suspend the rules was defeated
by 60 Nays to 1O3 Yeas mot the two-thlrds
required to suspend the rulesl, but among the
102 Yeas we find the name of Donnelty re-
corded. Ia that also mistake of the Official
organ
Mr. Morrill, of Vermont now asked leave to
introduce joint resolve increasing temper
early the duties on Imports"-said joint re-
solve providing without limit of timeJ for an
increase of twenty per cent Tor One-ilfth the
former ratel on every article imported after
ten days, except Sugar, Tea, Coffee, Salt, and
Coal. To which he afterward added Railroad
Iron.
Objection being made he moved a suspension
of the rules. which did not prevail: Nays II;
Yeas %, mot two-thirds.l Again we find the
name Of DonneIIy among the Yeas in TIE Globe
(page 1851 Is that another error of the
official Organf
Two days before, Mr. Morrill, of VI. had
moved to close the debate on the general Tariff
bill aforesaid in order to bring the House to
vote upon its passage Gas the Congress
would expire within a week. This was n
test question, and the friends and foes Of Pro-
lection tood the mark accordingly: Yeas 70;
Nays 49-DonnelIy among the Yeas. Is this all
wrong in The GiobeY [page 1921
All this, mind you, was long since the close
of the War; showing that his pretense that
he voted for high duties only rs Var meas
ure is false-an afterthought. His votes show
what he meant then: his speech last Fall shows
what he means nOW
We do not care to track this man farther.
He has not seen fit 90 deny our former state
ment that he recently held n debate on Pellti-
cal Economy, wherein he took the side of Pro-
lection against q Democrat who advocated
Free Trade. We found this statement in a
Minnesota paper: Do they blunder ont that
way like The Gt0bef f.|..'
But Mr.. ID. asks If man may not honestly
change his mind. Certainly he may--nnd his
party too. 1t is not the fact that Mr. Donnelly
has changed, but that he resorts to subter-
fuges. lodges, and misstatements, to conceal or
misrepresent that change, that stamps his
course as "sinuous and Shiny Let him say
frankly " | was PlotectiOnist; | am now a
Free-Trader: IA was Republican am
"henceforth Democrat aud we shall not
trouble him. We object only to his making Il
4 81. l., L.. :.
". But there is gloon and embarrass-
"mcnt' in the West says Mr.. Donnely /;
hence he is a Free-Tmder. Indeed
The Northwest Is suffering because of the
remOteness Of her markets. She il largely
grain growing Minnesota especially so; and
grain is now selling very low. We are buying
heavily of Hardware, Steel, Railroad Iron,
Textile Fabrics, Wines, &C., &c. of the Old
World we want to pay for these partly in
Grain but Europe has had good harvests this
year, and wants little Grain from us, and
that little at low prices Were we making
at home the goods we tiIIs buy from Europe,
we should have an ample market for our
Grain at good prices but they who
make so much of our Cloth don't want our
Bread hence the West is embarrassed and
distressed. Gen. Jackson, under similar
circumstances, fOrty-fve years ago, said
that the cOmmon-sense remedy for such
state of things as Mr.. Donnely com
plains of was to divert six hundred thou
sand of our people from Agriculture to Manu-
features and thus create market for our
Agricultural staples greater than is afforded by
all Europe. We believe that is the common
sense view of the matter-that the West will
yet realize it. We only ask an open field and
fair play, and with these We shall carry the