Daily American Telegraph

The Tariff.

"With regard to the tariff," said Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, in a recent speech, "I must be permitted to say that I regard it of more consequence to my constituents than any other bill which has been during the session, or is now, pending before Congress. The tariff-ay, the tariff-the mere mention of which startles gentlemen from their propriety, and drives them headlong into the question of the dissolution of the Union. I have to tell such gentlemen, let them come from where they will, or represent whom they may, that there are two sides to the question of the tariff; and, Democrat as I am, I intend that, on all occasions, my voice shall be raised in the Senate, and out of the Senate, in behalf of the poor laborer of the North; and he who represents the slave labor of the South may raise his voice as vehemently as he sees fit; he will not alarm, but find me prepared, to the best of my poor ability, to defend the interest of the free laborer of the North. But, sir, do not misunderstand me. I repudiate the doctrine of a tariff for the purpose of protecting one interest more than another interest, one section more than another section. We are not to consider the interests of fragments, but of the whole people-not of States, but the nation. Sir, we must seek for some sound, well-settled principle upon which to rebuild this theory of a tariff."

Such principle has been already discovered, or we greatly err. Democrat as he is, Commodore Stockton's aid will be thankfully received by his Whig friends. The labor of the people of the whole country should be protected, and the means are simple.