The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-08-25
THE TARIFF-DESlGNS OF VAN buren, &
Ills PARTY

lie must indeed be but careless observer oflie
signs of the times, who has not perceived grow.
ing and settled hostility, on the part of the admin
isiraion, to the protective system. This hostility
first manifested in lypoci zeal professions for ju
dciens tariff. They were in favor of tariff;
but it must be "equal is mere revenue
tariff, which, from the very nature of things,
afford no adequate protection The sub treasury
was next proposed as substitute; and with this
tub TO amuse the whale, the whole administration
battery ls opened upon "that most unequal and in
iqutous system, high tariff" MIR Van Buren,
congratulates his partizans that 'the young Samp.
son of Democracy has scattered the high proleo-
tive tariff system IN the four aoi ndS Of heGUcn Mr.
calhoun rejolces shat tho of protccius tar
ifs, pre-ennont in mischief isl bout to orrirc
and gnspIng its last breah"--the Globe proclaims
a "Seuied opposition to the tarif'-he Burlington
Sentinel !auds the sub.treasury, "becauSe il will
lay the axe nj the root of that most unequal aud
iniquitoHs system of high tariff and Mr. Van
Ness in his It'll of July speech proclaimed unequv
ocal opposition to all legislative protection to A
merican industry. The sub treasury, lie contend
ed, by destroying commerce, and reducing prices,
would afford incidental protection enough to man
ufacturers! This language you now find in the
mouth OF every office older in the country = and
those Of the Administration leaders who cannot ap
prove, are yet TO far committed party to raise e.
ven protest against this pal pable attempt sacr
flee the interests Of the north. To show tho read,
err that we do not speak without the book we give
our authorities, which, il seems to US, must be
elusive, TO every candid mind.
HEAR WHAT VAN BUREN, SAYS.
In reply to an invitation to attend barbecue in
Kenluck Y, on tho llth inst. he informs ;he com
mitee that he had just signed the subreasury bill
and after clarifying that measure in suitable strain
he alludes to the tariff in the following brief bn,
significant paragraph.
''The Sampson Of Democracy burst the cords
which were already bound around its limbs, and in
the election Of Mr.. Jefferson vindicatug lis prime j.
pies, Its lrinness and Its power. web more 6rS-
tufig contrved, composed Of "a iltGll PROTEC-
TIVE TARIFF, "a systcmofnreruai improvements,
and a National Bank, was then twinod around the
sleeping giant, in the hope OF subj ecting him
forever to the dominion and will of the ambitious
and grasping few, and you have seen bow he has
SCATTERED THE WHOLE TO THE WINDS
when reused by the warning voice ofth honest
and intrepid Observation-Disclosures pan Buren,, J"iy A,
MIR Calhoun was also invited To attend festival
at White SuIpher Springs, on the 10th, and in his
letter of the 9Th of June, published in tho Globe
he comes out in Il still louder strain orexuitaton
t:But this is not all that has beer done. Much
still remains he INDEED; among them. | rejoice to
state, that the system of PROTECTIVE TAR
IFS, pre-. eminent in mischief, is ABOUT TO
EXPIRE; yes, that system which has done so
much to divide and distract the country, is GASP
ING, TRUST, IFS LAST BREATH.
Revive the productive tariff, and rear up anew
the miscaed ,American system, with all its waste
ia and unconstitutional expenditures, dscord rev
oution and the loss Of t6sry aoM certainty foIo0.
There is no escape for us but by reversing our
course, going completely through with the work of
reform, and then taking fresh start, such the
patriots of '9S would take We're they now alive and
at the helm. j. c. Cdihoun, June 27.
And now in humble imitation of its illusrious
loader, hear the Burlington Sentinel. That paper
of the 24th July, in an article devoted TO the Sub
| treasury enumerates the following among other
blessings that TO flow from IT. t .
1t will overthrow the whole splendid but most
corrupt system of exuavagant expenditures by the
General Government for unconstitutional obi ects,
known as the "lnternal improvement system
BECAUSE IL soiH lay the a1c at the root Of that
most unequal and iniquitous system of a "lilGH
TARIFF ....... ed .
The Van Buren, papers denounce Gen, Harrison
fo, his we'll known opinions in favor ofa Tariff.