IT The Washington GloJe protests against
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u The Washington Glode protests against
the employment OF Mr. WEBSTER to negotiate
Commercial Treaty with England and insists
that since our Protective Tariff Is to be crushed,
a Free Trade Loco.Foco should be selected and
not one who has been all his life a Wing advocate
Of Psotection.-Our sentiments. exactly. Il the
Tan7 Is to be sacrificed. 1t does not become NJ.
Webster to D. It's cxecutioner.


The Globe is mistaken however. about the
s,cadfzstness of Mr. Webster's position. He was
a strong Free Trade man down TO 1920 at least
we think till l524. he voted against the highest
Protective Tariff ever passed-that Of l72S-while
Van Buren, Johnson, silas Wright, Benton & Co
supported it. But Mr. Webster, though not an
carly, has been a strong advocate Of the Protec-
tive Policy, and we can hardly yet believe that
he vii take sny course intended to overthrow
that Policy. HIS letter to his Boston friends Is
very decided On that point.