The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-06-08


rich estate an estate which, however, re-
quires carful management. He makes
nothing, he buys every thing he is surroun-
ded by parcel Of Jews, each holding out
his hand, with packet of buttons or pins,
or some other commodity for sale. If he
asks those Jews to buy any thing which
his estate produces, they tell him no /; il is
not for our interest, it is not fer yours
Take this new book, says one of them, on
political economy, and YOU will there per-
ceive il isyour interest TO buy from us, and
let things alone in your own country"
Look at some of the articles Of trade
between this country and Europe. Linen,
for instance, gives employment to agricul-
ture and manufactures. Our soil is as sus-
ceptible of the production of flax as Ireland !;
our machinery can manufacture it; we
have the same sun TO bleach it, and as beau
tlful green-sward upon which to expose it
to the action of its rays, as are TO be found
in the Green Isle yet we cannot compete
with Ireland in this manufacture. The
reason is obvious it is subject to no exer-
else in that country, and bounty is allowed
on expectation, higher than the tariff impo-
sed upon its introduction here.
There is no country under heaven better
adapted to the production of wool than our
mountainous district and yet Britain buys
1t from the continent rather than from US,
We have the skill and machinery to weave
it, but our countrymen are whelmed
in their efforts by the deluge of foreign
importations, and are provided with no ark
of protection by our political builders.
Look az the immense cargoes of iron that
are landed at our wharges from
Sweden and Russia. This looks like bring
ing stone coal from New-Orleans to Pitts
burg; and yet it is stubborn fact, that the
serfs of the Autocrat are permitted 10 u
surp the province of American skill in the
productions of American labor. Vast bod
tains; the wood grows in profusion upon
our hills; and the coal peers out from eve
ry crevice, inviting their application to the
purposes of man; but by an insignificant
duty, we open our ports to the pauper labor
of Europe, in preference to bringing into
use the raw material by adequate protec.
ton. Scarcely railroad is projected that
is not finished with foreign MATERIAL
Those iron chains which connect together
the States of this Union, and which pass, III
their routes, over our banks and coal pits
are from foreign furnaces and rolling mills
Hemp, too, without which we can nei,
Their rig ship or hang man, and for the
production of which the soil of our West
ern States is peculiarly adapted, is met in
the market with foreign competition.
England takes our cotton, not from choice
but from necessity. 1fher factories in In
dia could furnish as much, and as cheap, as
she can procure from Louisiana and the
Caronas, her selfish policy would not die
late purchase from us. There is no A
merican staple that better exhibits the pro.
priety and necessity of a tariff of protection
than this. The acts Of 1924 and 1923 ere,
ated home market, end great demand.
Factories sprung up i'll every direction
jennies whizzed, and shuttes flew with the
rapidity oflight, until the the act of '33 put
out the fires, and stayed the operation Of
the machinery. In our own city are TO be
seen some splendid monuments of the dead
tariff-like the whited sepulchre, beautiful
without, but dead mems bones and all un-
clcanness within.