The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-11-16

Charles Hammond, Esq, the shrewd and able
conductor Of the Cincinnati Daily Gazette in his
paper Of the 22d ul:., has the following article:
THE HOLDING BACK SYSTEM.
This system has become the lever of all the
country's operations especially of those which
have some unpleasant points about them. The
Wings hold back nominating their candidate for
the presidency. And their leading papers hold
back all discussion Of the preferences that should
5e given between the candidates Almighty effort
is made to hold back all inquiry respecting the
effect of slavery uponthe institutions and business
of the nation. Its progress, its expansion, the
opinions, feelings and doctrines which originate
and strengthen it are held back. Congress, poiit-
ical party, the press, the pulpit all hold back.
Those who refuse 10 hold back are reviled and
reprobated.
The tariff must not be discussed excep: to con-
demn it. Any thing Ike the truth respecting it
must be held back. Cotton must be held back,
and the why and the wherefore must also be held
back. Bacon is held back, and the owners ex-
pect the public press to hold back all exposlons
of the object and consequence. Money is held
back, and why it is so, must be held back too
All this holding back is insisted upon to aid the
success of humbug And humbug is a great
nursing mother, Of many things, besides Morus
Multicaulis.
The country is wiltering and whitening under
all the hold backs fastened upon it. In nothing
is this more prevalent than in relation to the lead
ing measures of the South. Her politicians make
no secret Of their sectional feelings and purposes
rule or ruin is her motto. The tariff was ta-
ken off to prevent open Instruction from rpening
into treason. And the absence of the tariff is now
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permits the English manufacturer, after the pur-
chases ofthe season are made, to glut our markets
with merchandise of the same character, and sell
it at prices so low as to drive our own merchants
from the trade most instructive article upon
this subject is copied into our columns to-day,
from the Baltimore American, which should be
carefully read. The subject is taboOded, or under
the order Of hold back; and this makes sensible
view of it, the more valuable. But the reviewer
holds back the great truth, that sectional power
broke up the protective SYSTEM
That same power which is now involving all
the business of the Union in prostraing disaster,
by hold back Of her cotton. She bullied Con-
gress TO give up the tara-she bribed the Banks
to become cotton dealers, to force raise of prices
The Pennsylvania Monster has sunk under her
efforts 10 sustain the cotton market. The Bank
of England has shivered in her strongest har-
ness. The price of Cotton consolidaies, and the
people of the United States rejoice. But one
great truth is held back When the English
manufacturer pays a high price for cotton, he
charges it on his fabric. Those who wear Eng
fish manufacturers pay for the staple. When
holding back the cotton secures an advanced price
for the planter, it operate as tax on all other
employments who have, at least, to pay that
price. The farmer and the artizan, the lahorer
and the manufacturer of the West, and the
North, and the East, all their employments are
deranged that price may be raised upon them for
the great staple! And the mass of sufferers hum
plugged to deem itsall for the public good And
the press must hold all this back. The wide ex-
tent of the cotton humbug, its ramifcations of in
terest and their influence wherever they are felt,
must not be explained. The South-Ho rea-
son there All about the South must be held
back, except that she produces the great staple,
and in consideration whereof she is to be receiv-
ed as the great regulator of the land
Extract Of letter ecemtlyrcceiued from Lo't-
Slavery as it is is not only well
received, but is doing good; for there are still