The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-12-07
PEOPLES PRESS.
tuesday, Morning, Dec. 7, 1871.
HOME LEAGUE.

N No
city of New York convention was held i
which twelve States were represented, which
passed resolutions in favor of RECIPROCITY of trade.
and protection to American industry. The meet
ing denominated itself the Home League, and
adopted Constitution, one Of The provisions of
which was, that in each State the League should
form central association TO promote its objects,
with auxiliary branches in The principal towns
and counties, IN which delegates are to be appoint
ed to attend the annual meeting of the parent
society. These proceedings are fast awakening
the friends OF the true American policy through
out the country, without regard to sectional pre-
JUDGES or party trammels. Efforts are making in
New York to form State League, having its
ramfcauons in every county and town in the
state.
1t appears TO us that these movements are
among the encouraging signs of the times, and
commenced at an suspicious moment, when an
arrangement of the Tariff is about TO engage tho
earnest attention of Congress. No intellipen,
man can look upon the downward course Of thi,
nation for few years past, without shuddering
at The rapid plunge we are making into the mael-
strom Of poverty, national b; n'lrupcy, and ini-
becility. Nothing is clearer than that the sole
cause of this decadencei in our affairs is chargea-
bic to the free rade pra, tice of admitting foreign
manufactures with slender duties, while other
nations insist upon Leavy and almost prohibory
imposs upon American productions. The Ian
guage on their part is away with your Flour
Tobacco, &C.; all we want is your specie" And
shall we longer tamely submit 10 the exactiops of
apolicy which absorbs every thing, and yields up
nothing, and makes US as complete vassals To-
Britain, when in colonial state, she forbid our
making hob mail, for fear she should not have
the proit of mauufac uring ii for US? A balance
of trade of $4,000 900, to be transferred 10 the
silk MERGERS of France, or the capitalists of Man.
chest.'r, Birmingham or Yo. ksbire, will as surely
cloihe US in rags, a n.'tioD, similar excess
OF expenditure over income, would an individual.
To pay this enormous balance, tie North and
" est have nothing which they ran freely remit
10 Europe, but their specie, which is aJwing in
copous streams across the Atlantic by every
steamer which departs from our shores. But let
the scene be reversed. Let this $40 100000 10
retained, by fair protection, in the pockets of
the manufacturers. to be sgain raid out TO the
farmer for the material, and OTTER pru ducts of
Agriculture Let our American merchants trans
port the surplus of our looms and farms In for
eign markets upnn The footing of reciprocal ex-
change, and we should soon be converted fiom
the slaves TO the masters of the world in all that
contributes 10 national wealth and greatness II,
however, foreign nations continue To deny US re-
cip'orily, We must protect ourselves by the dis
eliminating duties Of which they have get us the
example. The compromise bill, in lS42, will
effect reductions greater than in ary eigh; wears
previous. Unlessa conservative policy shall be
adopted BY the coming Congress, we shall soon
arrive at he last stage OF depression.
The mon, tary affairs o: the county can never
lie successfully regulated until the immense
drain of specie, occasioned by the enormous bal
ance Of trade against u.s. ceases to flow from this
country TO Europe. Protection alone IAN rf:es
this object.
Banks can be sustained only upon Domestic
Industry: and by encouraging it, Congress can
do more 10 preserve q round currency, than by all
the Bank schemes that were ever Invented.
Banks are only subsidiary 10 the business Opera-
tiuns of the country, and are never the fountains
of wealth. Let foreign sharpers, who swarm ke
Locusts in our principal marts, filing our stores
and anciion-rooms with their golds, and boxing
up our specie, give place % American merchants
with their domestic fabrics, and Bank failures
would soon cease, and almost any scheme fortie
regulation of the currency would succeed. GIVE
America protection first, and she will soon furnish
herself with all other aids to her prosperity.
I'VE YOUNG ORAToR.-The Rev. j. L..
Blake. D. D., of New York, who is the author
Of several school books, has recently published
another under the above title. No one engag.
ed in teaching can have failed 10 remark the
proneness of children to contract an artificial
and measured tone in reading and defamation,
which in after life grows into the disgusting
so peculiarly displayed by our pull
pit orators. This fault not unfrequently arises
from the measured style Of the writings which
the reading exercises ofpuPils in the
early stages of education. We aPprehend that
The Rambler, as a school book, with its long.
artificial and pompous sentences, would be per-
fecuy fatal to an easy, natural and agreeable
of the scholar in reading and
This danger however, might be
avoided by successive variety in the structure
of the sentences which constitute the reading
exercise. There should be constant ad-
mixture of long and short sentences" a change