Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-08-24
THE TARIFF.
Coalition beiIOeen Vdu Buren, and Calhoun agdinS
The Tariff. The Proof!

COuttttOn UettOeen az UurcN ana Calhoun ngutNSl |
The Tariff The Proof!
JOHN G. CALHOUN ON THE STAND.
Do YOU remember John G. Calhoun? lie was
the NULLlFlEIl, ten times the traitor of a Hart
ford Conventionst the great enemy OF the Tariff
and until Mr. Van Buren, joined hand in hand
with him in 1878 he was also the enemy Of
Jackson and Van Burcn. But now he is n loco
foco leader aud the controller of The admin tra-
ton. Let us hear him. In letter 10 the loco
focos of N. city, dated June 4, 1910, after de-
nouncing the Tariff policy, which Jefferson him.
self to considerable extent to say the least, sus-
tanned, land so did Van Buren, and Calhoun them
selvesD and which was fully sustained by Mon
roe, with the unanimous consent Of the Ameri.
can people from 1916 to ls24-we say after
denouncing this policy as part and parcel Of Ham.
iltonian federal doctrines, he says:
"a reaction has not only commenced, but
made great progress towards freeing the country
from the last remnants of policy so dangerous
and pernicious. How or by whom, so happy
change has been brought about it is not material
TO state. 1t is sufficient to say that the Govern
ment is already free from funded debt, and
National Bank, 10Th a fair prospect IN short time
10 be liberated from all connection tcM The banks mud
PROTECTYVE TARIFF, AMERICAN SYS.
| ITgUC, anu tHer IeBltltllht0 OHSprnp, surplus
revenue, profuslOD, eXtrvugance, corruption, dc
rangemen Of the currency and the business of
the country, which has brought us To Our present
condition. Yes assert with confidence, that
, few years ofeXertion and perseverance, in the same
: direction, will complete the reaction 81 overthrow
f the whole system or policy, originating in the
Federal consolidation school of politics when the
Government may take a fresh departure, after
more than half Il century, in the direction which
Jefferson and his associates would give it, if they
, were alive and at the helm.
I" 1t is this remarkable combination OF circum-
' Stances that constitutes the existing crisis and
imparts TO it that deep importance which causes
the agitation now felt throughout the wide limits
> ofths Union. The issue is made mp, and is betare
The People for trial. THE question is, shall the re-
; action he completed and the consolidation FEEDER
: al system of politics he overthrown, and the oppo-
= site substituted for the future? In n word which
Il shall prevail the school Of Jefferson or Hamilton
n Shall we after the great progress made and with
D. the sad lesson Of experience before U.S. turn back
0 to the Hamilton policy, reunite the Government
Is with the Banks create anew National Bank,
:. build up another Funding System, reenact pro-
= tectire Tariff restore The hLSyV.4lfED .4.NERL
= CAV SYSTEM, with all its corrupting and dan
J. gerous consequences; or, shall we, admonished
= by the past, adopt the opposite system of policy
: restrict the Government rigidly to the few great
If objects assigned to it defence against da"gei
from abroad; preservation of peace and ira, iAIl-
ity at home, and free and open coo'mcrcal in
tercourse within and without? 81 J., the red
question al issue, stripped of the thousand nnol
and collateral ones, which are mere appendages
and serve but to influence the lighter material,
,r revolving around the two parties"
o About the same time, Mr. Calhoun wrote a let
S ter to the locofocos of Fayette, Woodford and
!, Scott counties of Kentucky, containing the same
sentiments. 1t so happened that Mr. Van Burer
4 wrote letter to the same gentlemen and We
c will put
g MIR. VAN BUREN, ON THE STAND.
Extract from his letter to the Kentucky locofocos
:. dated July A, 1910, which will be found in thu
:, North Star of Aug Is.
:. "The Sampson of Democracy burst the cord
:. which were already bound around its limbs AM
u in the election of Mr.. Jefferson indicated it
y principles its frmness and its power. wei
more artfully con,rivcd, COMPOSED OF.
r. HIGH PROTECTIVE Ty1RIFF, system o
~ internal Improvements, and National Bank, W a
&c then twined around the sleeping giant in the val
70 hope ofsub ecting him forever to the dominic
and will of the ambitious and grasping few; an
you have seen how he has scattered the Whole (
y the winds when reused by the warning voc
Ut of the honest and intrepid Jackson. "
r. Mark the identity Of the principles of Calhoun
g. and Van Buren, both struggling to cover the
OF political sins with the mantle of Jefferson bot
VI ANTI TARIFF up to the hub.