Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-04-04
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Jore supported our great system Of en-
couraeement and protection, and who
no~ support this measure, so Mied Tor the
destruction of that system, will, ! do not
say with what feelings, hereafter meet
some OF our urworking men, who, driven
out from they present life of Toll and
contentment, may migrate from the East
to purchase and people their lands in
Kentucky and Ohio. The rich capital
lists OF the Fast, who have advised, if
any OF them have advise this measure,
will employ those who cannot migrate. -
They must, at last, by the progress of
this measure, be compelled to work for
iwenfy per cent. on y OF their present wa
ges; because that measure will finally
take away all but twenty per cent, from
the protection Of the manuiac;uIer. He
who now earns dollar day, must then
work for fmcnty cents; he who now gets
sereniy, fire, will then be clad to obtain
fifteen; and he who now makes ont to feed
his family for fifty cents a day, must then
toll hard, and struggle to keep them from
starving with len.
Southern men, for whs, especial graf
ilication this arrangement has been made,
will be enabled by it to sec what they
have long desired, but never expected to
see-what they have long demanded of
us to give to thcm-thc delightful vision:
they will see free mhiie rorhing men in
the free States laboring for as iow, or IL
lo'rer rate Of wages, than the daily "a
mount earned by their own slaves.
Besides all those men now employed
in agricultural, mechanic, and manulac-
turing labor, there are also in those
States many thousands engaged in build
ing ships and various craft for water trans
portation, or in building workshops, mills,
stores, warehouses, and mansions for hu-
man residence. Others are engaged in
the labors Of the forests; others, in the
fisheries; others, in transportation by
land, or in navigation, on canals, rivers
lakes, or coastwise, from port to port, III
moving all the commerce among the
several States; or in that navigation
which carries out to other countries, and
brings h "ne the foreign commerce Of
this whole nation. The labors of those
men are more directly efficiently encoura-
ged and protected, by ihat great system
of laws and policy, which was begun
with our present form of Government,
and has been continued up to this very
moment; but is now, in principle, aban-
doncd in relation to all american free la
Dor, though, ia fact, the provisions of this
bill co, at this time, surrender cncour-
agement and protection in respect only
to the free farming, mechanic, and man
ufactrying labor Of those States which,
until yesterday, would, in this Hall, have
stood against rord IN defence of that
encoura cement and protection. Not
withstanding this, sir, the same .leeble and
submissive souls, which shall to-day sW'-
render to the menace Of the South, all
protection Of the free people who fo,t IN
yom feHs, yom workshops, and yo"r fac
tories; those souls ,eih, ifthey should be
here, themselves, at any time hereafter,
they will be ready, if a fe'c o'cners of
slares should look large, and Jlusier, and
speak long, loud words at them, they will
be ready to earn their o,cn safety by
surrender of all that protection now Civ
en- by your laws to those 6rare and hGr-
dy men who labor in your fisheries, your
Internal, your coasting, and foreign mart
CATION. Nay, sir, whenever the owners
of slaves in iuo States shah threaten the
Union, as those of one now do, the spir-
it, should such spirit notc live here, IN
this Hall, which shall, to-day, at the
threat of that one only, gire mp the pro-
lection of million and a half free men,
working on the land, will abandon all
protection of those gallant men who work
your navy on the Ocean. They will, at
the crack of the same whip, pull do,rn
your stars and stripes, haul up and DIS
mantle your ships; and rs they have sur
rendered the protection Of your labor on
the land, for the benefit of free trade N,h
foreign nations, they will surrender the
protection of your labor on The Ocean, Tor
that degrading security to your com
mcrcc, which may be begged or bought
or Lorrored, or oite,1cisc obtained, un-
der the flag of those nations.
Sir, have said, at the menace oi inc
owners of slaves. Is It not so' NOT
more than four thousand five hundred
men, owning slaves, in seven Southern
States, and which arc employed IN grow
ing cotton, rice, and tobacco, no'c caH
for the provisions of this bill, and de-
mond the surrender Of that part OF your
system which now encourages and pro-
tccts the labor Of one million seven hun
drcd and fifteen thousand men, working