From fhe R0cheSler UcnOcr1E. A PROTECTIVE TARIFF AND PLENTY OF WORK AGAINST FREE TRADE

 AND STRATA TION!
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 Next to the great champion of Whig prin- ciples himself, the principle of Protective Tariff, excites the greatest enthusiasm among the people. It is SO clearly indis- pensable to the welfare of the country, that but very few, not politicians, are opposed to it. Its enemies are found among the leaders, and not among the rank and .fle, of the Loco-Foco party. Were the vote of the electors of the Northern States to be taken upon the question tomorrow, with out the interference of demagogues upon ei- ther side, FoUR-FIFTHs WOULD BE FOUND vo- TING IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. A Protective Tariff is question Of cornn1oll sense. lis national utility is so palpable as to be seen at once, by any one not totally blin- ded by the fog of party. It appears to the pockets of every man amongst us. The Laborer knows that it will bless him with cm- ployment. The Mechanic is well aware that it will furnish him with work. The Farmer knows very we'll that it will increase the demand for his products; and every particular interest knows that it will aid all other interests, and so aid each. Indeed. the impression had become universal that something was necessary to revive the dropping energies of Trade and Commerce. Both parties conceded this but they differ ed as to what the remedy should be.

 The leaders of the Loco Foco party urged FREE TRADE as the great remedy. They proposed no other. In their opinion, the great difficulty in the way of general pros perity, was the HIGH PRICE OF LABOR. If the Laborer and Mechanic could be made to work for taoo shilIings q day, their opinion was. that business would revive without the assistance of tariff. They urge high Ua. ges as the only obstacle in the way of suc- cessful competition of America VI ith English manufactures. They therefore advocated. as long as they dared, the doctrine of FREE TRADE and LOW WAGES. To this the Whigs object. They never had been and never will be. we trust, the advocates of SO unholy and unjust a proposition. The present standard of wages in this country is low enough-too low. They have been gradu- ally declining for two or three years, on nc. count, among other things, of the early pe- riod at which the old tariff would cease,- thus demonstrating what can be proven to