Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-06-01

implanted In our natures, exefts itself With Nh |
alarming Influence, to subvert jub and patriotic
policy
On tho one hand, is the folly Of those who
maintain that the union is founded on Earring IT,
reconciable interests and that cotton, wheat aud
wool cannot grow together, and find market I'M
der the same protecting laws; such, are either
deluded theorists, or weary of the Federal Union
On the other hand is the enthusiastic ardor of
those who would premaurely press into new
branches of industry, and those who would expe
foreign commerce in such articles us are produced
by us. II Congress will curb down these selfish
schemes, which, by their extravaganza, give birth
to irreconcable claims, and pursue just inter-
mediate course, there can be no difficulty in bur-
monzing all intetests.
10 legislate so MS 10 put an end TO the mporta-
ton Of foreign goods, would be great folly but
to legslatc so as to suppress domestic productions
would be greater--for it would prove more ru-
nous.
1t is our plain duty to meet these great questions
in the spirit of Cancellation, and TO examine them
with the cnndOr due 10 matters OF great public
moment. We should not look at this or that in
terest as isolated. or as capable of standing by it.
SELF but upon all as bound firmly together by
thousand les which never he severed with.
out nn injury for which there can he no equiva.
lent. If any one inagnes that the trade aud b,I-
siuess OF any of the geographical divisions of the
United States can he cut down without irreparabe
injury to the whole, he may also reconcile to his
understanding the belief, that an arm or leg mnl
he Topped from his system without future incon-
venience.
The manufacture of wool, iron, cotton, and
like articles Of daily necessity, must and will 20
on. Their magnitude--the necessity for q division
of labor their inseparabe connection with us, as
free, Independent people the manner in which
they arc interviewer with our social and political
structure, imparting TO il its great and growing
strength their union with agriculture, fostering
and warming il into prosperity all prove TO u.s.
that we may well tear from the tender vine its
support under the deusion that il will rise up hy
its own vigor, and luxurate in the air and light
rs to divorce tile manufacturing and mechanical
branches of industry from the agricultural, or 10
thrust down our laborers OH the scale to level
with the llndoo or the Saxon. When we assent
TO this we abandon all that has been gained to the
popular cause, and shall then merit the remark
often made by those who have an imperfect con-
cepion of the character of an enlightened free
laborer, that his condition is less envable than
that of the slave.
We must look for success through the use and
invention of labor saving machinery. Water
works no cheaper at The wheel for Others than for
us and nowhere is it more widely aud generous.
ly diffused than in the United States The lhroste-
frame the mule, and The power loom, are as faith
tul digent, inexpensive servants to us, as to the
Europeans. 1t is by the help of such allies, that
England wrestles with the Continents and with
the blessing of God, through their means, and q
iust system Of revenue, we will save ourselves from
degradation. Her contest is us nrduous as ours
for there is bi oad space between her wages and
those of the continent; while we have in our fa i
~or, cheaper living, and the raw material produced
here. As proof of the great and efficient power
OF working machinery, it is computed that one
person may make as much yarn upon the frames
now an use, as sixty, by the old manual process
This is comparatively close approximation tC
equality, and opens field for successful exerlion
while our interest will teach to leave the fabric:
made by manual labor, 10 those who are conten
with the lowest wages The process of labor in
the most necessary and useful branches of manu-
featuring, is now greatly abridged, and there car
bc n0 doubt that human ingenuity will continue
To supplant the manual process with machinery
Our country teens viii, the richest gifts of ma
ture, producing enough of the bounles of Provi
dence for us all so that none who have lealil
and are industrious, need suffer for The necessarie
of life.
The appeal, then, must be made to the patriotic
TO those who love the whole country-regart
aud cherish all its interests, and nre devoted to il
noble form Of government, and popular insitu
tons. We need only the Cancellation with whcl
expanded views fill the mind. to harpnonze gu
sentiments and give an impulse TO our prosperity
such as no people ever felt These sentlmeht
must enter Congress, when it comes to deliberate
upon the destiny of the laborer. The jarring ele
ments of sectional sefshness must be bnnishe'l
aud all other feeling be swallowed up in enthusi-
ngtic devotion TO the common good. Ihat ia.
must not be characterised by bitter strife, but b.
Cancellation, and harmony will follow. No sent
ment is more fase and dangerous, than that il i
politically expedient sacrifice any portion, of tn
public; Tor il such triumph should he achieved
il will leave resentments, that will sooner or late
visit the aggressor with retrlbution.
There is room and material enough for ioreig
and domestic trade both may move a seal
sufficiently broad to satisfy the discreet il not I'll
ambitious. Both are essential to our prosperity
and must be cherished and protected. This is tn
result TO which liberal, enlightened policy vii
conduct us, and whatever disastrous experiment
we may he destined To pass through by the pei
verse influence of timid or corrupt councils,
any such we shall have, to this we shall come ia
nothing short of this measure of justice and sell
preservation will satisfy the public mind.