Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-08-25

dependents as are maintained by poor laws
foreign countries. Nor will the delusiye do
trnes OF Free Trade help us. That demand
: the exchange OF Labor for Iabor--an eve {.
am eye, and tooth for tooth, whatever h
their character. II is only by iudcious Pro
lection to our own Skill and Industry that on
Working Classes can be secured il, their pri
vieges.EThe half-starved, hall-cIothed an,
ignorant foreign scrfcan and must work cbeap
er than we do. and of course the purchasers o
ms labor will, in an open market, have an adj
vantage. IT is worse than idle to be. blind tc
this conclusion The rates of Labor form the
standard OF value whereby to estimate the NOR
al and mental improvements of Nation in
comparison with others. Skill, TALENT indus
Wy, ort'er and enterprise create capital. God
government protects these and lust i'm q
same way that superior workman obtains
hSher wages than poor one, so does Ma
uoh possessed OF the above advantages take
'he iead oil other Nations, and as long as il
can MAINTAIN nigh rate of wages by the above
means IL VIII be prominently prosperous.
But the representative ofthis value of Labor
being Money, it should be measured nv q mi
form standard, and not by iluc,uatiny currcn-
cy, which, !, is said, is the cause of the present
distress. Now, what is the exis,inp state or
our money value as the representative of 9th
er values We have no National Bank. The
business o! the Government is done upon
specie basis. The Currency of those Sintes
w"'ch nave any Paper issues is nearly equal to
specie. 81 the wages of Labor therefore de-
ciiie' IL VIII not be owing TO Banking in any
! way. or the future, if we behold orr Labor
ers without employ, Trade paralyzcd. and tho
wages of all our Working Classes going down.
we must impute these evils TO some other cousc
| man that arising from Paper Currency. A
real want oil work at home in consequence of
| employing operatives abroad TO work for rs
Paid by our Specie or the products of section.
al ana not general Labor, is the true cnusc
LOON where we may, we witness this result
ne uismah'ied state of our American Ship
t'"S' uie monopoly by foreigners of what lit
NC odrrying-lrade there is, the suspension of
our i'io'iuiac'urlng enterprise to give employ
ment to needy Operatives abroad. tho restrict
ca traue and non-in,ercourse between all por,s
Oh our once flourishing Country. the plethora
attributed TO over-production and diminished
consumption in our Agricultural and NIecbon-
lcai pursuits-the downward tendency of all
values save that of money, whereby Cant
"iists alone arc benefited, and they but tram
s'entiy, the exposure of the destitute to crime
anu suHering-thc destruction of principle so
prone 10 follow that Of propertv.--these are
actual miserles, which for the want of pro
'ectvc system, the American Labornr classes
are doomed 10 see and feel. !
Country is not compefieu ld stipmIt long to
this degraded condition. There is no need
that our young and puissant nation should be
overhaul or over-reached in the throGs OF dis
tress winch now convulse the starving Millions
IN the Old World nor however deeply we
may commiserate their suflerings is ii neces-
sary that we should throw ourselves into their
wreiched condition. That policy which seeks
to level The wages of Free American Labor TO
a SerVile or Pauper Standard, cannot oe tolerat-
Ell by our Industrious and better Educated cit-
zehs: Inc high character assumed by us is
capable OF being sustained. The bounties of
providence now everywhere smile upon our
fields-Ski, Enterprise, the Will and Strength
10 work, the advantages of Education and
Freedom which, with proper encouragement,
arc odus III our favor against the World. a
cheap Soil, and every variety of Climate, Sc
cure to us success five only have the wisdom
10 embraceIt. Some concessions and altera-
tions may nave 10 be made by us to the chang
ing STATE oil circumstances, but it is by pro-
tecilng and fostering care over our Home In
terests that we shall be enabled surely and
permanently to regain our prosperity. A Ma
tlohat commerce among ourselves must be
encouraged motlve-power from our own
government must come Ill the shape of a Pro-
| tective larii, equal In its countervailing DOW
er TO all the emergencies we may he thrown
INTO by foreign interference Tariff securing
Home Industry and Home Competition, not
Tor the benefit of Nonopolists nor of the Gov
eminent merely, but for Tie uho1e Couniru,
rc~drdlag Labor, remmnerdting CapitaI end
e,q"dfi7ing Prices. This, as we believe, is
the necessary result of the system we advocate.
the League and the only league we ore bound
! TO.
The statistical reports emanating from our
last Convention have already done much to
convince the public of the ability Of our coun.
! trymen, with proper protection, to sustain
! themselves as a free Manufacturing, Agricul-
tural and Commercial People We now in
vite the various branches of our Association
to continue to furnish such reports and to cor
rect any errors which may have appeared in
those already published Let the employed
operatives meet i'll their respective districts to
consult together, and devise the means to give
new impulse to the hand Of labor; let them
appoint Delegates to express their wishes and
views at the Convention, and cooperate with
us to restore to the country its former pros
perity. Let the Farmers of the interior look at
; the state of the Republic, and having a regard
10 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 Il market for the produce
: tons Of the soil and prevent them frou being
dependent on foreign workshops for fabrics OF
) the first necessity. A due preparation OF mea-