Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1841-10-26

among The state, Vermont ~ii be snnusily cattle
under shis law 10 large Of money, and Il wili be
s.essr, ths, YOU sh.uld make provs'oa Cor It's rs
cciga and safe disposal. How Il shah no Ultimately
applied, far scfd the creates, boneh, to out
Constituents will be matter Of grave elaboration az
ter II shall have been received.
Vermont has no, followed the example Of many Of
her sister State. in .mbakng IN expensive works Of
internal improvements. Recent events have abundant
ly proved the wisdom and ptodcnce Of this COURSE
Vast benefits TO The community doubtless 10 be de-
rved from such undertakings They arc perverted,
very clearly, when They end IN prostraiion Of public
credit When there ~ any uncertsn'y as TO tho adc-
9uscy Uf income TO be derived from them, they should
be engaged ia with the greatest caution Sill their adj
vsnases should never DO lost sight Of They are
peoisllv important, TO country situated like ours, re-
mote from market, and where The nature of pro-
duce does not admit OF expensive transportation. In
proportion. too, az other parts OF the couutry enjoy
greater facilities Of communication With the markets
the board the value Of our lands and Of their
produce diminished II is not 10 be Faced that the Wig
liant sseaoy Of people Will overlook considera-
tiens like these and at no distant period may ex-
peci that public attention Will be actively directed tow
ards subject Of so much interest When the enter
prize OF other States shall have brought they soon
will bring, their railroads to our borders, the means,
am satisfied, will not be wanting, Of continuing them
through our own State. Foreign and domestic CAPT
tai and individual enterprise will unite accomplish
the object, and the State, by outstanding its resources
with reference 10 such event may undoubtedly has
ten its arrival.
There are other subjects of legislation, which are
not less interesting and important the inhabitants of
this State, but which you can have no immediate
control refer to those powers which have bsen del
ssa'ed TO the government of the Union, for national
purposes, and to be exercised for the general benefit
Blu, although thus delegated, they ought be lest
sight OF by the Legislatures ofthe States. On the con-
ary, so vastly important is their exercise to pros
perl'y, that 1t is our imperative duty to satisfy
selves that they permitted lie dormant in the
hands OF those to whom they delegated, and that
they are exercised in such a manner as will promote
the public welfare. This duty is tho more incumbent
on us, because it is also right, if it should appear
that the powers of the general government have been
lnsuiilcen,ly or unwsely granted, 10 apply remedy
by uniting with the other States in an amendment of
the federal constitution.
The exercise Of none OF these powers is OF such vi
tai importance 10 the agricultural interest of this State
as that which enables Congress to afford protection TO
domestic industry by imposing duties on the impora-
tons of foreign products.
An entire prosration and s,agnaon OF business
arising principally from the absence of any effective
protection 10 domestic industry, while the States re-
manned separate, led, more Immediately than any 9TH
er cause, to their union. To remedy the evil steps
were taken. at the earliest period after the adoption of
the Federal Constitution, to establish dscrmnative
system of revenue from duties on imports; and the
country, under lis operation, emerged with unexam-
Piled rapldiy, from embarrassment 10 wealth, power
and national greatness. For more than thirty years,
the constitutional power oc Congress to impose duties
for the purpose of protection remained unouesoned
E'var
out the suggestion Of doubt to it. constitutional
ty; and if the constitution itself had not boen as it is
perfectly Clear on the subject, yet time usage constant
legislation and universal acquescencc have fully e,
'aoished its possession by the general government
Alter all this, however, after a generation had passed
away and when the pursuits and business Of the coun
Try mad been built up upon the basis of protection, it
suited sectional and party purposes to object it on
inc ground that II was unconstitutional; and strange
and unjust as 1t may seem, long established system
OF laws, designed encourage and protect domestic
industry, has been for the present. least abandon
ed-not because the people of the country willed it,
Out pecause single Southern State, denying the con-
of such legislation threatened violently
to resist the execution of these laws And this ha.
been termed a compromise "a compromise which
yields all that is demanded to violence and bre ach of
iaith and quietly consents TO the ruin Of vast por-
lion OF tho country for the exclusive benefit of COM
paratvcly small section
Is needless TO say mnch OF the causes which have
thus led to dscontnuancs of protection to domestic
industry. remedy for such an evil can be found
only IN the intelligence and spirit of that portion of our
countrymen, to whose existence such protection will
be found to be almost Indispensable. / am not aware
mat you, as legislators of this State can directly par
ucipate IN applying remedy; but you can at least
urge upon our delegation in Congress your deep and
ABIDING conviction ofths strong necessity of shielding
by an adequate tariff, the domestic industry Of tho
country, against competition with the pauper labor and
solid capitalists Of Europe.
II The constitution Of the United States does no, al
ready authorize Congress afford such necessary pro-
tscuon to domestic industry language would fail to
accomplish the object and any amendment Of the con-.
su'uuoa would be fruess. The States have surren-
dered to the General Government all power over the
SUBJECT When they gave to Congress. e1clusivel, the
power to Law duties, they deprived ,hemseve. frever
oil all power 10 protect domestic industry They sur.
rendeied Tins power to Congress, TO tho extent 10
which they possessed 1t themselves and for the same
purposes for which they themselves might have used
H. not only for the purpose Of revenue but of protect
ing Inc Industry ofout citizens against ruinous forejgn
Competition II Congssss DO not possess this power.