The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-07-20

LoCO's ANTf-TARIFF.-lt IS well known
that Gen. Jackson came into the administra.
ton with high professions in favor of protec-
ton to domestic industry. But he had scarce
y been warm in his seat, before the willy SER
pcnt who crept around the executive mansion
whispered in his ear, that dominion always re-
sided on the south of Mason's and Dixon's line,
where the tariff was insufferable. II is true,
in 1882, out of hatred to John C. Calhoun, he
issued his famous proclamation against the
tariff nullifers of South Carolina. But, to al
lure to his standard the great southern inter-
est, at the very moment he was issuing that
proclamation, he was penning the message,
which, in a few days afterwards he delivered
to congress, in which he declares that the tar
if must be reduced to the standard of revenue,
and the whole scheme of protection be limited
to those articles Of domestic manufacture,
which are indispensable to our safety in time
of war. In the same spirit of hostility to pro-
lection, the Secretary of the Treasury recon-
mends reduction of the tariff on woolens, to
the amount of six millions; and following in
the same line of policy, Mr.. Verplank, a lea
ding partisan of the administration, introduced
bill into the house reducing the duties on
such goods to fifteen per cent, which Mr.. Niles,
and every sensible statesman declared, would
dismantle the manufactures in the country,
and sink one hundred millions of capital inves-
! ted in them, to nothing. All this would
have been whelmed under the wave, by this
remorseess combination of the government
with the south, had not Mr.. Clay interposed
his compromise bill to obtain, as he asserts,
lease of 4 few years of existence for the expir-
ing manufactures Of the country.
At the time to which we have alluded,
there was scarce an anti-tariff man in Yer
mont. All felt that the American system lay
at the foundation of our growing prosperity,
and our deep conviction of its salutary opera
tons, was loudly expressed upon all public &C.
casions. With such settled state of public
sentiment, the Jackson party in Vermont dar-
ed not openly contend.
Soon, however, following the lead of the par-
ty, the adhcrents of Gen. Jackson in this state,
began to talk insidiously about judicious tar
if; and the unconstitutionality of tariff de-
signed for protection; then to denounce high
pressure tariff, and from that time to this, in
conversation and through the press, echoing
the war cry of the south against protection,
they have most thoroughly poisoned the
minds of their followers and fixed in them
settled and deadly hostility to a system, which,
alone can ensurethe prosperity of the country.
This long, smothered hatred to the tariff
with brazen effrontery, they have at length
avowed. At the last state convention, compo-
sed of the leading men of the party, the fol-
lowing resolution was passed.
RESOLVED, That the true principle of the
federal government is to confine its action to
the objects specifically enumerated IN the con-
stitution, leaving industry to regulate itself.
We rejoice that this demented party have
thus unn1asked themselves, and openly defined
the position which for years they have secret
" occupied, and that the broad banner of Cd.
position to protection, is fully displayed to the
people Of Vermont with this motto inscribed,
"Industry must regulate ITSELF" Thus one
great object of our revolutionary struggle, and
of the adoption of our glorious constitution, to
free ourselves from British monopolists, is at
once relinquished. by denying to the govern.
ment the power of protecting domestic indus