The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-04-16

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cords of Loco-foco-ism in the Province
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From the National Inteligenccr.
Messrs. GALES. & SEAToN: May |
ask the use of a column or two of
your paper forthe publication Of some
remarks on subject which has now
become matter of, intense interest.
The People of this country, and espe-
Icially Of Pennsylvania, are eaectual-
| y reused, by doctrines lately promul-
gated in high quarters, respecting
ihard-money currency and the recuc-
ton OF the price of labor. And it is
well they are reused. Labor is tile
very toundatIon-stone Of our prospect
lty; and | can venture to say that
Pennsylvania will estimate every
man who is found on the right or
wrong side of this question. In the
year 1888 Mr. WEBSTER, then and
now of the Senate, visited usin Penn
sylvania. He addressed crowd of
many thousand people, in the open
air, at Pittsburg, and happened to be
IN that city at that time, and witness
ed the enthusiastic appreciation which
| the vast multitude testified of his SEN
Itlments on the subject Of labor. His
speech was afterwards published. and
| now send you an extract from it
which | pray You to publish for the
good of those ,chom 1t may concern.
wish our friends at Pittsburg would
republlsh the whole of this speech.
! 1t suits these times remarkably we'll.
An IRoNMAsTER.
'iGENTLEMES: Those Of you who
may have turned your attention to
the subject know that, in the quar-
ter of the country with which | am
more Immediately connected, the
people We're not early or eager to
urge the Government to carry the
protecting policy to the height which
I it has reached. Candor obliges me to
remind you that, when the act of 824
was passed, neither he who now adj
dresses you, nor those with whom
he usually acted on such subjects,
were ready or willing to take the step
which that act proposed. They
doubted It's erpediency. 1t passed,
however, by the great and over
whelming influence of the central
Estates. New York, Pennsylvania, and
and Ohio. New England acquiesced
lin it. She conformed to it, as the
settled policy Of the country, and
gave to her capital and her labor a
corresponding direction. She has
now become vitality interested in the
preservation Of the system. Her
prosperity is identified, not perhaps
with any particular degree of protec-
ton, but with the preservation Of the
principle, and sheis not likely to con
sent to yield the principle under
any circumstances whatever. And
who would dare to yield it VIZ
standing here, and looking round on
this community and Its interests,
would be bold enough to touch the
spring which moves So much indus
try, and produces SO much happiness!
Who would shut up the mouths Of
these vast coal-pits? Who stay the
cargoes Of manufactured goods now
floating down a river, one of the no
blest in the world, and stretching
through territories almost boundless
in extent, and unequalled in fertility
Who would quench the fires of SC
many steam-englnes, or stay the ope.
rations Of SO much Well-employed
labor? Gentlemen, cannot conceive
how any subversion of that policy
which has hitherto been pursued, car
take place without great public EN-
barrassment, and great private dis
tress.
81 have said that I am in favor o
protecting American manual labor
and after the best reflection | car
give the subject, and from the light;
which, can derive from the expert
iience of ourselves and others, I have
come to the conclusion that sucllspro
lection is just and proper; and tina
to have American labor to sustain ;
competition with that OF the overpeo
pied countries of Europe would leae
to state of things to which the PEG
pie could never submit. This is til,
great reason why am for maintain
} ing what has been established. / Sc,
i lat home, / see here, | see Whereve
III go, that the stimulus which has ex
,1cited the existing activity, and j
producing the existing prosperity 9
: the country, is nothing else than til
stimulus held out to labor by compen
sating prices. | think this effect