Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-01-14
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FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY IA, 1912.
THE GREAT TRIUMPH.

1t gives us great pleasure to inform our
readers that that portion of the Presidents
Message which relates to IA Tariff has been
referred to the Committee on Manufactures.
The Northern "Dough- faccs" and Southern
aniitarll men declared that this would be a
test question. The opponents OF the pro-
tective policy, led on by the Wustrious
Charles Gag Atherton of New Hampshire,
and Rhelt and Pickens of South Carolina
took the ground that, as revenue was the
only object to be regarded in the readiust-
mcnt of the Tariff question, the committee
Of Ways and Means was the proper COM
m'tee to be charged with the whole subject
These champions of Slavery and advocates
of the infamous Gag Resolution, leagued
together as they have been for years, in an
unholy alliance against Northern free labor,
boldly denounced the committee on Manu-
features as unconstitutional, and proposed IA
resolution to abolisl, it entirely. But we arc
proud to say the Northern Wings opposed
the molly crew with an undivided front and,
shield to shield, ha,lcd for their rights with
a spirit and resolution which will convince
Southern bragadocios that, though they may
delude such inveleratc dough-faces as Ath-
erton and Eastman and Burke of New
Hampshire, into an infamous abandonment
Of the true interests of their constituents, yet
il will require something more on their part
than buster and denunciation to explode the
protective system. With the exception of
the Pennsylvania Tories, Parmenter of Mas
sachusetts, Partridge of New York, and Will
Jams of Maryland, the Tory Members pre-
sented an unbroken front against the refer
ence to the committee on Manufactures, or
in other words, against such an adjustment
of the Tariff as should recognize the right
of protection or discrimination. On the
other hand, the Wing members from the
states of Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan and Kentucky voted unanimously
in favor Of protection. We ask our readers
to mark this division of parties on the Tariff
question-and remember it till the next cleo
ton day comes round. We call upon Nor
thern Laborers, upon the farmers and work
ing men of every class and of all parties, to
mark weH who they are and to what party
they belong who thus dare to vote against
their interests and do all they can to betray
them to the slave power of the South. We
hope our Abolition friends will remember
this vote also before they do any thing more
to destroy the Wing party and elevate the
Tories to power. In such an event what
nave they to expect! They will perceive,
10y comparing the votes in the two cases,
that the division of parties on this question
is essentially the same as that on the aboli-
! ton of the 2lst rule, denying the right OF
petition. In both cases they will see Nor
thern Torics-ihe Dough-faces of New
Hampshire and New York-leagued togeth.
err with the Siave-hoiding Democracy O.
Virginia aud South Carolina, in an infamou,
crusade against the rights and interests, the
Liberty and Labor Of the North. IL thi.
does not satisfy our abolition brethren that
their success in this country is identified with
the ascendoncy Of the Wing party, then no