Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-03-23
ENCOURAGEMENT OF DOMESTIC IN
DUSTRY

AS an evidence Of the indispostion of the gov
eminent of Mr.. Van Buren, to encourage home
production, we were shown a few days since
letter just received from the War Department,
which vas pritten on fine En- tish paper How can
any government hope TO prosper, whose very gov
errors disconruges lis mechanics ? Phil. Stan
ddrd.
English paper! English quilts! English pen
knives! English every thing Our government is
thoroughly angicised as it is possible for parve.
nu monarchy to be. If Mr., Van Buren, wants
couch, instead of going 10 Baltimore, or Troy,
New York. he sends to London! If he wants u
ackey he s nds to the purcus Of St Giles and
in this does righl-for no American having drop
Of Yankee in his blood would stoop to become his
outrlder. IL he wants coat, it must he of Eng
llsh cloth, cot by an English tailor, aud trimmed
with buttons and tacings ON Manchester or Leeds.
An American tailor he could not stoop t, patron
r. and beside, it would be compromising his
credit with the South, TO puIonize American man
uflciures.
We'll does the Standard ask how a nation can
prosper, whose government discourages lis me-
chancs? For the last e0 years, the whole power
o! the Federal Government has been exered to
crush the mechanics and break down the manu-
ractnrers, for the double purpose of concating
the favor Of Great Britain, and the South. Great
Britain has deep interest in crushing American
manufacturers. She says TO the politicians of the
South you can supply us with cotton, and we will
take your crops, if you will crush The Inanuiac-
lures of the North. We will fill Your slorehouses
with our fabrics, and furnish You market for
your cotton, if you will open TO free trnde, and
let the "Pauper Labor of Manchester, Birnng
ham, Leeds and Sheffield, come in competition
with the free labor Of ennsyvania, New York,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont and Nlassa-
chuses. The Northern States of tine Union, where
the operative can earn his ticefUe shilings a day,
cannot compete with the manufactures of England,
who pay their operatives only tiVeire ShiHings a
,0sek Great Britain has thus the power to paral
we aud ultimately TO destroy the industry of the
Morrill, If the fostering care of our own Govern
nent shall he Withdrawn from its support. Nor
thcrn labor can never compete with English Pau
perism, or Southern SlaVery. And. however 9th.
ers may regard it, we can see nothing but RUIN for
Northern interests, resulting from the union OF
Southern and British interests.
We had hoped, that the "Norhern man with
Southern feelings" would al least, have shown
some slight fal regard for the interests of his
native land II that for the sake of power he would
have been content to yield up the right ofpetition,
and the just share of the North in the National
Domain !hou0dding to those, the other impor.
tant sacrifice of The Northern mechanics and North
ern manufacturers. But we are mistaken The
settled purpose of the administration is to prostitute
tie North. 1t is evinced in almost every act, Off
cia and unofficial, during the last two years. When
Calhoun was brought into the support of The Sub
Treasury. the sacrifice of the North was the
bribe, and he openly avowed il as his object
When the South again hesllates and holds up its
notification votes 10 the highest bid, Van Buren,
again puts in the only bid and the price lie pays
is the right of petition There is now but one
sacrifice 10 make on the altar Of his ambition
and that is the sacrifice of Northern industry That
work is already begun.