The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-01-04
PEOPLES PRESS.
Tuesday Morning, Jan. d, lS4I.

The MORTAL SIN OF LocoFocoIsM.-Among
all the political sins OF locofocosm, none is
more heinous or unden;able, than lis opposition
to protection. TIE Globe, Evening Post.
Journal Of Commerce, Hills Patriot and most
of the loco prints IN the Union, are waging an
open and unrelenting warfare against it. In
Congress, this cloven foot of the party has been
displayed ever since Gen. jackson proved
himself an apostate TO the principles Of pro,cc.
ton 10 domestic industry, which he eagerly
pruff ssed before he came into power, & which
he then discarded for The benefits of an unholy
alliance with the South, which his followers in
every part of the Union, have ever since held
sacred.
In the face ofthe honest and intelligent pco-
pie Of Vermont, who well understand their true
Interests, the organs Of the party have seldom
dared openly TO denounce the tariff. But their
disguised hostility has frequently unmarked it.
self, evcn here, in their SCOTS and sneers at IL
high pressure tariff, and in affecting an anna
bic sympathy for The South, for whose insolence
they are the standing apologists, and whose lii
tcrcsis, they feign would make US believe, will
be ouiweiehed by those of three fouf:hs of the
Union.
We earnestly appeal, then. to the intelligent
and patriotic portion Of the opposition in Yer
mont, whether they can any longer hold COM
munion with party, who are warning against
tn. dearest interests Of the country. and whose
desertion of that saluIary policy, under which
VIC were enjoying unexampled prosperity, has
reduced US 10 our present embarrassed andim
povcrished condition. Can ve prosper with
out properly regulated tariff, which shall pro
tect domestic industry and enterprise against
foreign rivalry! Can we ;amely submit to
those prohibitcry acts OF foreign nations, which
exclude three fontths Of our produce from
their markets, while our own are yielded Up 10
their nnrcstrainad speculations and merciess
avarice Can We have currency, while every
British steamship which departs from our
shores, conveys millions of the precious metals,
taken from the crippled monied institutions Of
the country? Under the restrictive system OF
foreign nations, cen The farmer obtain a fair
price without the home market furnished BY
the manufacturer Can Tim manufacturer Ear
n s.. this home market unless he is himself pro-
tected in it Can the workingman find full
employment and full pay while agriculture and
manufactures are in a responding condition
Would every honest opPosiionisl calmly re-
fleet upon these things, ha would no longer
sustain party whose denunciaiions against
protection are daily tc eming fom hundred
presses, and whose hatred TO it has become so
intense in Congress, as 10 demand The abolition
of The committee on manufactures, and even
deny TO them The incidental advantage Of dis
elimination in ip'posts for revenue.
lfany proof is wanting Of The truth Of the as
scrilon that lccofocoism is opposed 10 pro:cc
tion, let them read the following srcech of IA
recreant son Of New England who has mcanly
submitted 10 DC the drudge Of the South, ly
moving 10 take from tho committee on manu-.
factures, that part o. tie Presidents message
which relates 10 the tariff, and 10 echo tie raw
ings Of the advocates Of flee trade which Mr..
Robinson, British statesman, declared in par
Lament, 10 mean in England, " nothing mere
nor less than 10 get monopoly Of all other
markets for British manufactures, and prevent
other nations, one and all, from ever becoming
manufacturers themselves" Mr.. A.bcr,on
said {:
But io-comc more Immediately 10 tie subject
before the House.
1t seemed 20 him that II any thing was want
ing 10 prove the truth Of the suggestion he had
made in Introducing his amendment referring
this part of the message 10 The committee of
ways and means-(which suggestion was. that
II was question between laying tariff for
protection and a tariff for revenue THAT proof
had been furnished by the course which this
Debate had taken. For, what had they hcard9
The old arguments in favor Of a protective
tariff. And although some gentlemen profess
ed 10 wish only n tariff for revenue, still the
whole course and tenor of their argument went
to show that they were DESTROYS 10 nuke the
incident greater than The principle.
The question, Mr.. A. contcnded, in replying
TO the arguments of some gentlemen, was. not
whether the committee on manufactures ought
TO be abolished. although there had been an
attempt to make that the issue,) nor whether
incidental protection might or might not, in any
instance, be afforded. But the sole question
was, as he conceived, should the object Of tar
i'll be 10 raise revenue or to afford protection
That, he considered, was the only question
involved in the issue before the House. And