The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-01-11

tlcmen would consider il sound reasoning t5ep
why was it not equally sound nowe
! Now their cry was, "Let US alope-let Is buy
where We can buy cheapest-you force US 10
buy from home market, when we prefer mar.
ket abroad-you violate free trade--you lax us
for the benefit of Yankee manufacturers Tha.
was now the Southern doctrine and the South.
ern policy. And Mr.. M. said he thought he
had gone good way to say that, admitting
their position TO be correct, he was willing to
'go The whole hog" aud compel New England
10 protect their cotton. But such was not the
true doctrine of protection. The Yankees.
owing 10 their peculiar national character and
condition. were as well calculated to become a
manufacturing people as any in the world, and
they could furnish TO the South whatever the
South needed on better terms than any body
else; and protection private and domestic CAP.
! ita against the hostile policy of foreign Gov.
ernments. Manufactures, if they were 10 flour.
ish. must al first be nourished, guarded. couried,
! fondled during their childhood. Mr.. Nj. would
here assert that there never had been nation
on earth which had succeeded in establishing
manufactures among its people without making
their protection the business OF their legislation,
and part of their national policy.
Mr.. NJ. said he was no enemy to Southern
labor when advocating the protection of the
labor of the North. He never for his part, had
been able 10 look upon the people of the North
as the natural enemies ofthe people of the COT
ton-growing regions of the South. lie knew
that Southern men called Them 'Y ankees -
but they were Americans, our brethren and fel.
low citizens. With some Southern people the
term "Y ankees" was but another name for zen.
emy." But who had shed the first blood in our
struggle foi freedoml The first trigger that
ever had been drawn in this land in resistance
of British tyranny had been drawn by Yam
kee finger; and they had followed out tic feel
ing and acted on the same principle from that
time TO this. The policy of the country had
repeatedly shifted, but the New England man
had conformcd himselfto IFS several changes,
and had thriven under them all. He had wor-
ked so hard and lived so economically, land con-
Quoted his business so prudently, that the Gov.
eminent could rot crush him, do what ii would;
and lis course had sometimes looked very much
as If IL was intended 10 accomplish that very
end. New England had at one time possessed
great and flourishiEg commerce. Our neu-
trality during the convulsions of Europe threw
the carrying trade into her hands, and il pro-
we'd rich harvest 10 her. But at last this
Government had itself gone to war. and all this
trade of the enterprising Yankee was at once
Frustrated his profits ceased, and his ships
were left 10 rot at the wharves. Well, what
did he do! Despair! No; you did not catch
the New England man despairing. The ceun-
try had at that day no manufactures. He con-
ceived the idea of attempting to supply the
anil fro., l.
nings the system of New England manufactures
grew up and proposed under war 10 which the
New Highlander had been utterly opposed. At
length peace came. and it found the Yankee
growing fat on his manufactures. (But here,
said Mr.. NJ, let il not be understood agreed |
with him about the war: oh no /; was war
man the Lord forbid that any body should
think me otherwise ?) A laugh. But peace
came. and there was system of manufactures.
The jealousy of Great Britain at once awoke
she saw rising rival, and prepared 10 destroy
it. The manufactures asked tie protection of
Government. But then was instantly heard
the same cry now so loudly raised. Our own
labor must be crushed it must be abandoned
10 its fate /; it would be the very essence ofty
ranny 10 protect the infant agans. The attack of
The full-grown and powerful rval for it is part
of the Sta;e-rights doctrine 10 Withhold the pro.
:ectIng aid of Government in any shape, under !
any circumstances.
Oh exclaimed Mr.. NJ, if should live 10 see |
the day when all things that are needed for hu-
man use and comfort shall he produced, and
bought, and sold within these United States
when all our mines shall have been opened, all |
our rich mountains explored and covered with
sheep walks for the use of our own manufac- !
turing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. every American
citizen, let him eat, and wear, and consume,
and use whatever he desires 10 make him hap. |
Ply, shall find it all here-here upon our own
soil within our own boundary Then, though |
the wrath of God should be let loose upon the |
nations of the old world-though Europe should |
reel and tremble beneath his blows.and Britain's
fast anchored isle should 90 down, and sink in
The mighty deep, and We remain so unmoved, |
so seIf-supplied, as not to feel the loss this,
would be, 10 me, The very realization Of Ameri-
can independence and prosperity. But this
country is not and never can be truly indepen.
dent, so long as our own labor and our own
capital are left unprotected. Never SO long
as 1t is the darling object of our own Govern
ment 10 crush the industry and dash down all
he enterprise of those it should protect and fos-
Ter.
lfto hold that, is advocating protective tar.
fl can't help 1t: mol can't help it. If
Inn sinner, am at least bold sinner. If to
eel the glow of one common nation in my b.
hold that the man who resides at the
extreme North is as much my brother as the
cotton planter of Georgia-if this is hostility to
he South, then am her enemy.
But, as to Southern rights, let no man lay
lis hands upon them. My observation in life
las taught me to believe that in all domestic
luarrels there are usually faults on both Sides
Ard will say to my Northern friends, Why