Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-09-08

us NtAtdhtiN ~ tdNks III we may
Judge from recent information. The breeze
OF popular excitement is blowing every where.
II fans the air in Alabama aud the Carolinas,
and am of opinion when il shall cross the
Potomac, and range along the norlhen .ilo-
ghanes, II will grow stronger and stronger.
until, mngling with the gales of the Empire
State, and tho mountain blasts Of New Eng
land. II will blow a periec, hurricane
There arc those again who think thcss vast
popular meetings are go, up by effort but |
say no effort can get them up, and no effort can
keep them down. There must then be some
general cause that animatcs tho whole coun-
try. What is that causel 1t is upon this
pom; propose TO give my opinion to-day.
have no design TO offend any feeling, but in
perfect plainness TO express my views to the
vas, multitude assembled here. know there
are many among them who from first to last
| supported General Jackson. / know there
are many who, if conscience and patriotism
had permitted. would support his successor
and should i'll repay the attention with which
they may honor me, by any revilng or dc.
nunciation. Again, came to play no part
OF oraiory before you. If there have been
times and occasions in my life when might
be supposed anxious TO exhibit myself in such
light, that period has passed and this is not
one OF the occasions. ! come TO dictate and
prescribe to no man. fmy experience, not
now short in the Affairs of Government, en,i-
lie my opinions TO any respect, those opinions
are at the service Of my fellow-citizens. What
! shall state as facts. shall hold myself and
my character responsible for; what | shall
state as opinions, all arc alike at liberty to
reject or to receive; asking only such fair
Interpretation ofthem as the fairness and sin
ccrity with which they are uttered may claim.
What then has excited the whole land from
Maine to Georgia, and that gives us assurance
that while we here are meeting in New York
in such vast numbers, other like meetings are
holding throughout all the States That this
! cause must be general as its effect is certain,
for 1t agitatcs the whole country and not parts
only.
When that fluid in the human system in
! dispensiblo 10 life becomes disordered, cor
rupted, or INSTRUCTED in its circulation, not
the head or the heart alone suffer, but the
whole body, head, heart, and hand, all the
members and all the extreme,es; are effected
with debility. paralysis, nulnbness and death.
The analogy between the human system and
the social and political system, is complete,
and what the life blood is to the former, cir
culation, money currency is to the latter: and
II that be disordered OF corrupted, paralysis
must fall on the system.
The orginl, leading, main cause, then, OF
all our difficulties and disasters. is the dis
ordered state of the Treasury. This is per-
haps not perfectly obvious truth, and yet
one susceptible of easy demonstration. In
order to explain this the more readily, wish
to l,ing your minds to the consideration Of
the condition and the vast affairs ctihc United
States. Our country is not a small province
or canton, but region extending over large
and diversified surface, with a population of
various conditions, products and pursuits 1t
is IN tins variety that consists its prosperity,
Tor The different parts become useful one TO
Inc Other, and no, by identity, but by difference
oil production, and thus each by interchange
contributes to the intetest olthe other. Hence
orr internal trade--ihis which carries on the
exchange Of products and industry OF the por-
lions OF the United Siates--is one ofour most
Important | had almost said, the most i'm
porIant interest. lis operations are easy AMI
silent, not always perceptible, but dlusng
health and life throughout the system by the
Intercourse thus promoted from neehborhood 1
to neishborhood, and from State to State.
Let me explain this little in detail. You
are here IN grain growing State. Your ill., /
terest, then IS to have consumers, no, growers /
OF grain. The lands that in the belt ufearth in |
which grain best succeeds, grow wheat, are /
interested TO find mouths elsewhere 10 cat what /
they raise. The manufacturers ofthe North .
and East need the grain of the middle States,
and the cotton of the South, and these in turn
buy the manufactures of the Fast. Nor is this .
solely matter of interest, but in some degree I
brought about by the regulations of foreign 4
governments. Our manufacturers find no
sale in Europe, and much of our grain is IN
der ordinary circumstances excluded from its
markets. In France it is never admitted, and I
IN England contingently and uncertainty only,
and IN manner to tantalize rather than graf
liy the American husbandman'
THIS internal trade moreover, moves as il
were in circle, and not directly the great
imports Of the country are made at New York.
whence they pass 10 the South AMI TO the
West A.; but our exports are not mainly from
New York but from the Souih-the main in,.
ports then are made at one corner OF the Union
AMI the exports from another. The same
thing Is true OF other branches of trade. The
produce OF the Chic, much Of it deccnds the
river 10 New Orleans; but Ohio is supplied 4
with foreign commodities and domestic lab.
RIGS mlinly through the New York canals, the
Lakes, and the Ohio Canal. The live stock
OF Kentucky goes to the Carolinas, but Ken
lucky buys nothing there, but transmits the
money TO Baltimore orPhladelphia, and there
pTocuTes what she waa;s, TO be sent TO her
across the Alleghanies |,
The circuit Of trade in country Of such ,
great extent as ours, demands moro than IN
any country under heaven, a uniform curren-
~ for the whole people. that what is money
u Carolina should be 50 elsewhere, hat what 1
&c heuincky dTorer receives, what ihe plan- A.,
cF OF Alabama sells ior, what the laJoreI in +
New York gets IN nav for his work and carries a