Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1841-11-09
FREE TRADE.

None of the consequences of free trade have more
strongly impressed minds than relations the
moral ameliOaiion of society. We do believe that
free trade could at make the world wha, should be
but 1t would give 1t the opportunity to become and
put II the way Ii would md diverse interests into
solemn league Of goodwill. Men 10 have tax
for granted that the diversity which prevails the eli
mates and soils of the earth should be for dI-
versy of interests among its inhabitants. Becaue there
is different governments, they infer that they should be
hostile governments. But such not the intention Il
The differences and diversitie of which we have
spoken designed enlarge the number of enjoy
ments. The products which contribute to human COM
fort aud improvement multiplied by Of 1t. The
luxuran fruits OF the south, useful Of the NORTH the
agriculture of REGION and the manufacture of another
thus made aainabe to the whole This is an
advantage, however, which only be appropriated
through free trade. Restraints and prohibitions confne
all people to their narrow confines.
Free trade makes the wealth of each the pro-
perry of ALL 1t spreads everywhere whatever the Deity
has made for the fruon of his creatures. II leads to per-
petua interchange. To unceasIng barter of thing
for another to general and overgrowing feeling Of aity
1t through the ramiicatIons Of society many
ties of trade binds the mutual dependence OF nations
firmly II connects with another 10y many ga-
lures brings them such neghborhood that disrup
ton and rendered morally impossible. Those
rancorous feuds in which millions of property and mil
loEs of precious lives lost, could They
would be instant destruction all parties and should
any disagreement at any time occur, more safe and
rational mode of arbitration than would be the uni
versaI Why is it. that the tweay-sx sovereign
and Independent nations known the United States,
maintain themselves ia harmony They are many
respects distinct people they have their peculiar man
ners their local interests, their domestic Institutions yet
there banded police their frontiers, standing
armies at their ciades Diverse their
one sense Free Trade has made them harm0nize. Re-
ciprociy and intercourse have given then strong
tachmcnt. They feel themselves be fellows they
know themselves lie one. Well. then, let the same
relations be instituted among the nations OF the earth let
them be placed upon equal footing let the ports of
the world be open the world the world offered the
enjoyment of the world, and there would be tie same
prosperity and peace.
10 rhs end. think, all things tending. Free
DOM goodwill, universally, the goals OF the modern
movement. We IL ia science ia literature, in social
elort,-why should II not be in politics aud
Human action IN ali the departments of intellectual and
physical labor l. working itself loose from restraints. \
fierce onset i making against excusyeness, privilege aud
monopoly. Classes sinking, but the multitude are
rising. Literature has of the cloSter, and is
making its appeal the crowd Science has lets the
Sorbonne she no longer walks with the Swans alone
she Is making her way into the cottage she takes the
artzan hand she watts her the winds
Religion filings aside the cowl and surpce, and takes up
her residence with the poor and de pissed she leaving
the g3e and vauited church, raise her anthems ana
breathe her prayers under the free canopy of heaven.
How then, ask, how this ns hty
onward rash Of tendencies l-DemocrIfic Rerirtr.