Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-04-04

all The seven States south of the Poto-
mac. Nay more, sir; II the gentleman
from Kentucky, Mr. LETcBER, who
introduced this measure into this House,
will undertake the examination of our
taxes, and the payment Of them both now
and hereafter, under his measure, ! will
add that State to those south Of that riv-
or, since he has new united il 10 them,ln
their hostility to our great and glorious
system Of encouragement and protection.
Sir, this measure, as a scheme oi tax
alton, will ultimately be, Of all others,
the most unequal and oppressive, In Its
cxactions on the people of the navlga-
ting, commercial, and manufacturing
States; and those men of those States
who have, if any Of them have, united
with the West and the South, in carry
ing il into law, for the next ten years,
will, hope in God, see their error, and
that they will, before the provisions Of
this law shall have enabled a few men Of
enormous capital in our country, to ruin
all manufacturers Of midding interest,
and to reduce the wages of free labor to
their proposed minimum of twenty per
cent of the present amount; they will,
/ hope, unite with those who this day,
at every hazard, and at every sacrifice,
oppose this measure; so that all together,
they may, with as, oppose mound to.
the current Of that ruin which otherwise
must overwhelm and sweep away the in
tercsts, the prosperity, and the glory of
our country.
Trust not, my countrymen, in the re-
ienhngs of your adversaries. Hope not,
as by those, who were once your friends,
you arc told to hope, that, If this day you
will PROSTATE yourselves before the proud
and angry foes Of your prosperity and
permit them to set their feet upon your
necks, the gratifying submission will op-
poase their wrath, and they will, in some
six or seven years, permit you, in some
of their moments Of good feeling, should
such moments ever come, and you beg
submissively, they will permit you to
slip your heads out, to get up, shake off
the dirt of your humiliation, stand on
your own legs, and go about your work
again. Hope not for his. These men
have not toiled seven years against you;
set the whole South, from The Potomac 10
The GuB Of JMerico, in blaze of animos-
ity against your system; arraycd one State
in all the preparations Of battle; called
every other State to join their league,
and to send their Spartan warriors to the
field, with each his due number of He
lots; they have not done all this to win
the victory of this day; to secure their
triumph, and your defeat and vassalage,
that they might, when they had thus re-
duced you to ruin, raise you up again
and replace you in your former prosper
ity. If you now disregard your own
great interests, the preservation Of your
labor, your fields, your factories, your.
workshops, your homes, your firesides,
your wives and your children; if you sur
render all these, and without blow
given or blow received, throw down
your arms, PROSTATE yourselves at the
foot of the foe, and give up all to his
mercy; remember, if tho brave love the
brave, he will despise the coward; that
foe will spurn you with contempt when
you fall in the dust before him, and look
ing on you as less worthy of the rights
of FREE MEN than the slaves which
brush his boois or d,ire his horses, he will
forever hold you 'down to the PROSTATE
condition, where you have, by your own
submission, placed yourselves.
DO not, my deluded countrymen, hope
from your adversary, if you make this
submission; do not, l implore of you,
hope from him what his contempt for you,
his regard for his own interest, and his
uncomfortable attachment to his own hon
or, must forever compel him to refuse.
If you surrender to-day, you will ne
yer bo brought back from your inglori-
GUS captivity, until redeemed by those
whom, II you submit, you now desert
those who, in this hour of peril for the
prosperity and glory of our country, dare
TO stand up in this Hall, and before this
nation, in defence of the rights Of those
men Of industry and perseverance, the
great ,rorking community Of our nation,
the mhole free family Of toll and diligence,
in every State in this Union; ay, sir, men
whose labors, in peace, have earned for
us that prosperity, and whose brarery, in
war, both by flood and field, has achier-
ed and secured that glory.
Sir, indulge to me few words, con-
cerning the cause which has brought,
this measure into this House, and which,
with kind of conrulsre hurry, is now
rushing on with it through all the forms
OF legislation. will then be silent, and
as Socrates did, drink the hemlock ; first
Of all, imploring God to turn away from
our country the evils and miseries pre-
pared for it by this measure. If, for this
act Of Outrage against our own prosperi-
ty, this trampling under foot the muni-