Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-03-09
THE TARiFF-HuMBuaGERY IN YER.
MONT


MONT.
At a convention, purporng to be composed Of
he young federal locofocos of Chuenden coun.
ty, holden at Willis,on recently, we find pream.
be and resolutions, in which the strongest ground
is taken in favor of the Tariff The following IL
the language used:
"THE TARIFF.
As citizens of the United States, we hold that
Congress is bound to enact such laws as shall Sc
cure equally the protection Of The industry aud
productions Of every State, and thnt it is a wise
policy which dictates a course calculated to enable
us, ms nation, to exist in peace a0d war within
ana OF ourselves. as nearly as inay be- independent
Of other nations"
"Resotued, That the claim now being made by
the wings, that they are the exclusive friends OF
domestic industry and tariff is false and bypo-
critical, and like the other hollow expedients of
that party, will be properly appreciated by the
people,
This is the ground assumed by the locos of
Chiitenden county, led on by Haswe, Lowry,
and others Of the arstocrac clique of federal Of
ice-holders but 10 what end? There is but one
answer: the people of Chuenden county are
themselves in favor ofthe American System-and
this profession of favor to that system, on the part
of the retaners Of the coalition, is but n most
contemplate imposition upon the intelligence of
the freemen Of that county. These new fedged
tariff politicians laud TO the skies the Infamous
sub-treasury and hard money schemes of the
Southern antitarff League, and at the same
breath coolly beg the people to sustain them, and
their masters os turiff men! We really should
like 10 know whether such men as WHY'S Lyman
are utterly ignorant of the position of the admin
israon on the subject of the tariff? If SO very
Ignorant it is time they were enlightened if not
Ignorant it is high time that the disreputable game
they ure playing should be exposed. We there
foie beg to inform them, that their candidate for
the Presidency Martin Van Buren, is himself
the leader of the anti-tnrf party. He is, indeed,
tile chief of the unholy league, composed of Mar
tin Van Buren,, John C. Calhoun, and Thomas
Hart Benton, who have long Opposed the tariff,
and are now aiming at an entire social and COM
nercial revolution of the country Have they,
since 1924 given voluntary and hearty support
to the American System7 Not one of them -
The frs, did vote for the Tariff of 1923, but he
was forced to it by instructions ofihe N. Y.Iegisa-
,ure he avowed hmsef-while the other two
have long been known unrelenting opponents
Of protection 10 free Northern labor. And what
is the design of the coalition now; Is il pro-
lection and encouragement 10 commerce, manu-.
features and industry? Or is it rather to reduce
the price of produce and abor-to crush the pro-
ducing classes-and cast them, bound hand and
foot at the feet of the Southern arstocracy of in.
dolence and wealth-of wealth, wrenched by the
force of chains and stripes, from the involuntary
labor of their millions of slaves Let the admit
sons of Calhoun aud Walker answer.
No intelligent man can doubt, that the admins
traiion aims the entire destruction of the Amer
lean System. The last message shows it for, be
it noted, that while the condition of the treasury
absolutely requires tariff for revenue,-and a
tariff for that purpose is admitted, even at the
South TO be constitutional the President did not
recommend an increase of duties even for tits
necessary purpose. All the measures of the ad-
n,inistration show il they claim the proceeds oil
the public lands, in defiance of the title of the
states they urge ruinous reduction of wages
and produce ; and they do this to avoid, il posi-.
BILE, revival OF the Tariff. But we will not pro
tract these remarks. The following extracts from
administration papers will show distinctly where
Van Buren, and Harrison stand on the subject Of
the Tariff.
The first is from the Charleston rs. C.) Courier
and the last from the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer
both organs of the administration in their respec.
tive states:
From the Charlesion Courier.
" hat if Mr. Vna Buren, did vote against the re.
peal of the duty on salt what if he did, under in
!. strucons frnm his State Legislature vote for the
tariff of 1923 he IS noD The leader Of the anti-tart
re- and anti-internal improvement party ofthe Union
and Gen. Harrison no,o The leader of the party
'e which avors both ofihose measures surely ther
y, requires but little logic to decide from thu pre-
re misses which of the two should be the NOR, accep,
4 table to the South.
n. The TARIFr.-The Richmond Enquirer, O.
!, Dec. 18th, 1889, leading Van Buren, paper in Va
y alleges as great and objectionable sin Of Gen
eli Harrison, that he IS the au',osd supporter ofh
he Tariff policy and declared to the agricultural Soei
of ely 9 Ohio, that he ,oou neuer vote lis aband
ment.'