, 1870-05-19
(paoa ouR SPECIAL coRREseoxDxsr.]


smaller and se1ecter body, and, II you will re
member, even On that occasion the propoHi
ton waa to mike stones into bread.
A Committee Of Conference is in general a,
abuse OF the duality Of the two houses ss the
were intended to work, and an Institution o
compromise and chicanery for open and indie
pendent legislation. The other day they ha
such q committee upon Indian treaties, an
| one of the SenAtors-l think it WAS Itumhu1
promptly 1oso and denounced it.
Tho Vrginia disagreement broke up th
weak resolution Of both houses; the Goorgi
disagreement quite demor1ized both; the,
for duty. At this juncture the lobby rustes
in, and ever Fince. the two arenas Of legisla
ton have tcsemb1ed d couple Of Cheap Johi
auction houses, wlere franchises, lands, boun
ties, and endorsements have been put up AMI
bid OF. Tho first good act, showing repent
ance and new resolution, was the act Of tht
House. yeHter1aJ, striking down the mortgage
and additional grant clauses OF the Northern
Pacific Railroad bill, and for this We are in
debted to Dlessrs. Ortt, FaEnsworth, Clarke
Garfield, Lawrence, Durchard, md o,hera.
| But the tariff is the great Hwindle Of tht
| session, the CHEF obstacle to public business
and the main element Of anarchy. The North
ern Pacific, the Southern Pacific, or any othe,
| specific bill, comes single-handed to submit tc
| challenge, but tho Tariff il the ubiquitous
| thief. It is by turns, or altogether, whining,
terrifying. audacious, seducing, purchasing,
bllnd-folding. touching our prejudices OF M
tionality, appealing to our selfish and our pa
triotic instincts together and when it falls, as
| fall the mighty falsehooa will, il the sun con-
tinues TO slime. we shall have put by the most
| inBidious error we have known.
NEW ENGLAND AND TIE TARIFF
Tho new South, and some Of the projects in;
| to which il sought to drag to drag tho Federal
Government. made the subject OF one Of my
letters the other day. The extreme East may
servo for a topic to u second letter. New
England has just accomplished What she may
properly consider her victory over slavery,
and the domination of tho South. Massacltu.
setts and her progeny agninst Virginia and her
progeny, made tsln parties to her war, an1 tile
victory Of the former in its completeness and
desirability resembles the triumph Ut Virginia
oyer New England Federalism in the year 1900.
In either case it was the triumph OF ngricul-
gentlemen and their ftnkeys; Of Jefferson
mud Clinton, the farmers, over Adams, and
Hamilton, the lawycrs and professional states
mon; Of interior New York, Illinois, Iowa, and
Kansas, the Stntea Of small farmers, over tho
States OF the large planters; in brief, the trial
OF general over special interests, and Of the
many over the few. What French Republican
ism WIS to the old Republican party in
1890, the fiery instinct OF equality, elsctrify-
ing aud fanatici1ng it, and quoting the Rights
Of Man,-anti-a1ayery freedom was to be the
new Republican party in 1860, azming it with =
gospel. In this, as in every case where there
was q righteous se1f-interest. there was moral
mission.
TIE NEW TIME CONE.
To-day the moral slate OF the country has
been wiped clean, and We cipher upon the
stratum Of interests again New England has
There nra mcre iisfsanehisod people in Now
England, relatively, than In tho South, for
nowhere else arc there fixed moral aud intel
1ectua1 disqunliicatioas- ANY further at
New Testament and tho Life OF josiah Quincy
in Congress, viii be provincialisms, based upon
an old mau's fondneaa 10 rchearse his}adven-
tures, and an old politicians dialike to discuss
new questions about which he knows nothing.
The whole country has become the old moral
New England, and tho new economical New
England is reduced to section agnin-. The
time has come for the intellectual and business
manhood of New England to say whether they
wnnt to keep up their alliance with the West,
To wed tho whole whole world Of pig iron and
lose bis own soul. Or to proceed in the line OF
County and dull their intellect, and influence
the next age by phlegm and pelf, like Holland,
or 10 walk b. the lakes and On the prairies
sowing seed for all time in the truths Which
are already the property Of all those enlight-
ened men abroad who gave America sympathy
in our contest Tor union and liberty.
yAnIK1zEs or NEW ENGLAND CHARACTER.
There arc two groups of States in the East:
tho three northern ones, which arc mainly
tie manufacturing interests predominant. In
all. the commerciM interest is now fecble.
The interests not classed under either head
nre greater than elsewhere in America such
as the educational, tha professional, and that
Of accumulated capital In this section, as
n1anyrhar, fTe intefterf and nnrNf fnufara Of
the communities is ready to take up the sub
ject Of abolishing protective duties rs such,
and the more observing manufacturers, hko
Sprague, Atkinson, and others, hAve become
satisfied TINT .'.,proteetion" takes out Of their
duties are rapidly being driven to tho eama
stronglolds in which slavery took
justin Mor1af, III Conservative esp
italists like Mr. Hooper and his respectable
anca like that Of the foreign laborers who lis
tened to AEr. George Francis Train LAST fall
With reverence, and whose whole philosophy
wus summed up in the amount Of tho follow
ing days wages.
directly,-admitted in his long harangue the
other day that the scholarship Of the day
was against him, saying thus:
"Tnese f1ee trade channels of instruction need
10 be Amer1can1zed, as they arc row foreign to
our sentiments hostile to onr prosperity, subret-
rendence OF thought and reasoning. Cazey's So
ca1 Science illustrates the provetb that prophet
Is rot without hoq9r save in bis OWL country and
In bis OWL house,"
It might occur to anybody who has watched
the legislation Of this country for two years
and seen the ase1sEin'8 Efforts to throttle MI.
DAVID A. Wells, that Independence Of thought
MAS at least not confined to AIr. Mouill's school
Of Eeasoning; But Mr.. Morrill, more psrtcu-
larly referred, under the name Of "coslegiate
idols, " to : man whose services to New Eng
land Will probably be remembered when III. \
Justin Morrill, Is forgotten by hinse1f,-in-
credible as the latter may appeAr,-
FRANCIS WAYLASD,
who for thirty-hve yeara Was the protector,
counsellor, and idol Of Rhode Island, aud who
could have been sent to the United StatesSeu-
ate by reclamation several times had ho con-
scented to permit the use OF his nAme. He is
the man Who impregnated the new generation
OF New England with contempt for tariff
heggars, and refer Mr. MoTi1 to this pas
saGe from his Political Economy:
aI do not believe that the direct efforts Of gov
eznment are to be numbered among tue means
for encouraging the application Of labor to capital
The Interference Of society with the concerns of
the individual, eycn when arising from the most
innocent motives, will always tend to crush the |
splEit. Of enterprise, aud cripple the productive
when the capital and the labor Of nation are
made the sport OF party politics; and when the
power over t1etn+ which government possesses,
Is abused for the base purpose Of mtlister1ng to
schemes Of political intrigue" ?" /
That little shot seems to hare been directed
at NlessrB. Schenck, Morrill,, Ct al |
Take another paragraph from Wsylaud, who |
lived in the heart Of the manufacturing region |
Of New England: |
IA discriminating falsely called prptective) |
duty postpones the period at which branch OF |
aautaet!e sa1 T. be pfotasiy esta6saed T.
st tdhr period. we diminish the producttreness
Of al other labor: The time when any mnnufac-
eno Sc or
cIded by the amount OF the cap!ta OF that country;
the amount Of animal Investment which 1t s able /
soe e n'of y Z ss asa ssp' & ea aRo q e ss ss
period In question. II the protected interests
were obliged u make good the loss which the sys.
for protection would be less unjust and tprotec-
tion' considerably less Injurious Government
possesses nothDg: All that 1t possesses Is precise
ilviduaIa. In the case Of tprotecuon,' thereto
1t really bestoTs nothing, but only causes trnnB-
Ter Of annual revenues from one party to another.
wages and pronts In lie Whole community, and to
his tcduced average manufacturers must con-
Iolm: and hsncer % a by this y Tery operation, they
reason Why, when once q duty is imposed for the
protection Of q particular branch Of manufactures
Is 1et iong as 5 an5 Is de-
It first Is followed by great Misunderstanding enter
3r1ge and success, Is so commonly, afterwards,
followed BY 70 universal depression OF mauufac.
;ur1Dg industry"
This ia the prophecy Of Francis Wayland,
md ne sec it exempllfied to-day IN Justin
Morrill,. like the Bumble Beadle, taking M
Oliver Twist Dannel Morre1ls cry OF u More!
norel."
= DAVID wuNUT.
cannot resist the temptation here. Eh;1a
sbout to refer TO the improved pnblc lie Of
Sew England, to show the decline Of mauli-
leas and character in PennsYlyania, bv quot
ng part OF . noble speech Of David Wilmot,