Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-08-25


currency of those states which have any
paper issues is nearly equal to specie. If
the wages of labor therefore decline, II will
not be owing to banking in any way. For
the future, if we behold our laborers with
out employ, trade paralyzed, and the wages
of all our working classes going down, we
must minute these evils to some other cause
than that arising from paper currency
A real want of work at home in consequences
of employing operatives abroad to WORK TOR
u.s. paid by our specie or the products OF
sectional and not general labor, is the true
cause. Look where we may, we witness the
result The dismantled state of our Ame-
rican shipping, the monopoly by foreigners
Of what little carrying-trade there is, the
suspension OF our manufacturing enterprise
! to give employment to needy operatives
| abro I'd, the restricted trade and non-inter-
course between all parts of our once flourish
ing country, the plethora attributed to over
production and diminished consuuntjon i'm
our agricultural and mechanical pursuits
the downward tendency of all values save
that of money, whereby capitalists alone
are benefited, and they but transiently, tho
exposure of tho destitute to crime and suf-
fering-the destruction Of principle, so
prone to follow that Of property,-these arc
actual miseries, which for the want of a
Protective System, the American classes are
doomed TO see and feel.
But the committee fully believe that the
| country is not compelled to submit long to
| this degraded condition. There is no need
that our young and puissant nation should
be OVERHEAD or Over-reached in the throeS
OF distress which now cOnvulse the starving
millions in the old world: nc. however
"ccH"!y w" may commiserate their suffer-
| ings, is 1t necessary that we should throw
ourselves into their wretched condition t..
That policy which seeks to level the wa.
ges Of free American labor to q seryile or
pauper standard, cannot be tolerated bv otrr
industrious and better educated citizens
The high character assumed by US is capa-
BILE OF being sustained. The bounties Of
Providence now everywhere smile upon our
fields. Skill, enterprise, the will and
strength to work, the advantages of educa-
ton and freedom which, with proper encou-
ragemcnt. are odds in our favor against the
world, a cheap soil and every variety of eli
mate, secure to MS success if we ONLY have
the wisdom to embrace it. Some Gonces-
sions and alterations may have to be made
by us to the changing state of circumstan-
ces, but it Is by protecting and fostering
care over our home interests that we shall
be enabled surely and permanently to re-.
gain our prosperity. A National commerce
among ourselves must be encouraged. A
motlve-power from our own government
must come in the shape of a protective tariff,
equal in its countervailing power to all the
emergencies we may be thrown into by To-
| reign lnterfcrence--a tariff securing home
industry and home competition, not for the
benefit Of monopolists nor Of the Govern
mcnt merely, but for the whole countrY re,sdr-
ding labor. re'na.merGting capital and e9uslixiag
prices. This, as we believe, is the necessary
result OF the system we advocate, the league
and the only league we are bound to.
The statistical reports cmanating from
: our last convention have already done much
to convince tho public of the ability of our
countrynen, with proper protection, to sus.
tain themselves as q free manufacturing.
agricultural and commercial people. We
now invite the various branches Of our As
ISOLATION TO continue to furnish such reports
and to correct any errors which may have
appeared in those already published. Let
the employed operatives meet in their res
Pectlve districts, to consult together, and
devise the means to give new impulse to
the hand OF labor; let them appoint dele
gates to express their wishes and views nc
the convention, and cooperate with US to
restore to the country its former prosperity.
Let the farmers of the interior look ut the
state of the republic, and have regard to
the whole country, let them meet US through
their delegates to represent their feelings in
behalf of American industry, and Of those
classes who furnish market for the pro-
ductions Of the soil and prevent them from
being dependent on foreign workshops for
fabrics OF the first necessity. A due prepa.
ration OF measures to be acted upon at our
next meeting, will essentially facilitate the
execution OF what will there have to be
adopted, and as every interest in the coan-
try is deeply connected with the protection
OF labor and the prosecution of reciprocal
commerce, we trust our citizens generally
Will unite IN our patriotic labOrs
The committee, in conclusion, will only
repeat that in whatever section of the coun-
try these sentiments may be promulgated,
whatever party or whatever trade may es-
pouse them, it is hoped implicit faith may
be placed in their sincerity, and If delegates
are appointed 10 meet us, that they will
bring with them determination and the
means to carry out their views. We again as.
SORT what was contained in our former adj
dress that "to promote domestic intereas~
the Home League was cStahIs..ae: ,v;.ho,,.
reference " p"' distinctions, and to i'm
o'"'- upon our public representative the
ProPr'ety OF guarding and promoting those
interests our efforts will be directed. The
occasion is propitiOus and the necessity ur.
gent and we call upon all those who love
their own country above all others, who
prefer domestic to foreign interests, TO unite
their exertions to ours, until the concentra.
ted efforts of the friends Of American inte-
rest shall be crowned with complete sue
cess, and policy truly American and ma
f'onal DC found to prevail in every depart
ment of our Government.
JOSEPH BLUNT, NY.
! T.. e. HAVEN. N.