Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-09-28
ALLIANCE OF THE SOUTHERN
NULLlFIERS AND NORTHERN
LOCO FOCOS.

Tho following remarks upon the new
alliance between the Nullifers and the
Loco Focos, and upon the threats of Mr..
Pckens in the House of Representatives,
to excite an instruction oil the Northern
laborers against the capitalists of the
North are contained in John @. Adams's
excellent letter to his constituents. lie is
speaking of the Sub-Trcasury bill.
At the winter session the bill was again
produced, with The hard money section as
one of its constituent parts, but after long
discussion, at the last debatable stage Of
the bill in the Senate, it was struck out.
| Thus it cane to the House of Representa-
lives, and there at its frs. reading was
treated Ike an anti'slavery petition, iaid on
The table. But towards the close OF the
session it was again obtruded on the House
in the shape of bill from the Committee
of WAYS and Means. Il was then much
and well debated. 1t was tried with the
J hard money section and without il. Mill.
| ficalion and Slavery were its most ardent
and almost only patrons. The deadly hos
tllty Of the stakeholder to oil banking
credit under The name of capital, displayed
itself IN dissertations to prove natural
| hostility between capital and labor; in
stlmuauts TO war between the capital and
J the labor Of the North, and ins,igaiions, in
the shape Of predictions, to the iabor of the
| North, to demosh by fire the marble
palace in Chesnut street, as the anti-oboIi.
tionlss had demolished the Pennsylvania
/ lnl1 hn 9 L ,ln
ia, by the laws Of nature, and OF God, a
state Of perpetual, ,ncXtlngulshabIe war
Deeply conscious Of this, the stakeholder
soothes his soul. by sophistical reasonings
into belief that this same war exists IN
free communities between the capitalist
and the Iaborer. He builds ~ theory
that confounds poverty with slavery--and
he says TO the laborer OF the North-you
are poor, your next door ncighbor is rich
YOU are compelled to hard labor to earn
your subsistence and that Of your family
you are laborer he is q capIlalsl-you
are his slave-there ia his banking house.
90 and burn it down-and ]. for the snke
of preventing my slaves from burning
down my plantation, will put in your hand
the torch 10 set fire TO his marble palace In
| SUtcHul slIccl.
The stakeholder assumes it as an ele'
nrntary principle of his system Of policy
that the democracy Of numbers in the free
States is poor. lie imagincs that cred
naturally and necessarily adheres TO TIT
: wealthy. He is not aware that one etfec
Of nggregatlng small and large sums to
ge'her to form the capital of moned o
\ industrious corporations. is 10 llnpart to TIT
| poor participation in he profits Of credit
and TO break down the wall of partition
d between the poor and the rich. Tn
d STAKEHOLDER strives to kinde the fires Q
!. mutual envy aud jealousy between tn
d different classes Of men in the communtie
il of the free; and invokes the lnb0r of til
Norh, as an auxiliary defence to tb
Slavery Of The South
D As an attempt to sow the seeds Of dis
u cord between the freemen of the Mort
J. among themselves, II was met and repeIle
u with sober argument and indignant remor
u STRANGE. Perhaps It was right to iorbeo
u oil retohed iuvec,lve and scorn, upon IA
o peculiar institutions Of the South. Their
is. Indeed, a remarkable concurrence
y represent allves from ell the free State
J. and Of a. parties to spare them the nill
rs eDce of which | have myself constant
lie felt. II was one OF the principal reason
y for my abslainng to take part in the d.
- bates on any Of the Sub, rreaSury bills.