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

trv which must "regazdte ITSELF" Thus cur
co,,ntrv is converted into a widespread theatre
Of British speculation and enterprise, over
which her merchants and manufacturers may
-os1n unrestrained, and gather golden har
- while our own, and our farmers are redu-
-. D bankruptcy and ruin. Thus our ports
s .arown open to every species of foreign fab
d. and production, while our own are either
utterly excluded from the shores Of other ma
tons, or made TO pay heavy tribute to their
governments, 10 carry out the fatal doctrine
that "industry must regulate ITSELF" Thus are
we to be compelled to toll year after year,
the prices of the great staples of the country
reduced TO 4 degree wholly ruinous to the pro-
Queer, ard at last TO lay the humble ayails OF
the sweat of our brows at the feet of British
monopo!ists, to preserve the inestimable policy
of suffering ''d0ziesic industry TO regulate Il
SELF. Thus, a nation Of eighteen millions OF
people, are forced to shut up their own work
shops, send their gold and silver across the At
lantic to pay for foreign manufactures, which
might much better be fabricated at home, and
annually contract debt of forty millions, not
to be paid in the productions Of our soil, which,
by an Interchangeable policy, Europe refuses TO
receive, but in the scanty remains Of metallic
wealth which foreign avarice may have not yet
exhausted, to carry out the principle that do
mestic industry must take care Of Itself.
But such is the whitening policy which, for
years, the loco foco party throughout the un-
ion have been secretly fostering, and now O.
penly avow. A policy which would render us
hewers of wood and drawers OF water 10 Eng
lish capitalists, to the latest generation, which
would be the deleada est Carthage to the dear
est interests of NewEngland, and against which
every intelligent Vermontcr should swear eter-
nal opposition.
The present ruinous condition of the coun-
try, is but foretastc of the whitening blight
which would come over all the best interests CT
the land, Gripping commerce and manufac-
lures, and at length crushing the farmer in
the dust, should the loco principle of free trade
be fully adopted.
The bold stand which these humble allies Of
Isaac Hill and New Hampshire loco focoism
have taken at this time, furnishes strong ad-
ditional inducement to the wings Of Vermont
to arouse themselves for the next election, and
carry the war 10 the very affairs and firesidcs
of the destructiyes. Their efforts should be
in proportion to the crisis which presents itself.
This odious doctrine which, with others, their
opponents have now promulgated, leaves moth
ing wanting but unanimity am'g wings TO give
them a finishing stroke at the next election.
Rdic1le and personal abuse are the only weap-
ons now left for their defence, but which can
not long avail them in our enlightened CON-
munity. The people arc tired of their miser-
able cant about rag barons, bank aristocrats
champaign candidate and Lord Paine, the au.
tocrat of Mortified, from the mouths of men
who for years, past experience has shown, as.
sumed the specious garb of democracy, the
more securely TO plumber the public treasury
and PROSTATE popular rights at the feet of OK
ccutivc power.