The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-06-21


| THE TRIBUNE AND THE Army AND NAVY.
! Mr.. Greedy of the Tribune, is sensible man,
but yet he sometimes writes ID very silly arti.
Gle. In yesterdays paper, he advocates the
reduction of the army and navy, because he
thinks "that eighteen millions per wear for
mere instruments of slaughter with nobody 10
kill, is out of all proportion" We always sup
posed that presentation was better than prep
aration.
With from one to two hundred thousand
Indians on our frontiers, we have a regular
force of tl0elpe thousand men scattered from
Houlton, Maine, to stations west of the Missis-
sippi, to keep them in check, or prevent other
difficulties on the frontier. Of this number
four regiments of artillery constitute a mere
skeleton garrison for the fortress on the sea-
board to answer the salutes Of foreign vessels
of war when they arrive in our ports. The
eight regiments of infantry and two of dragons
are the force destined to meet the 1choie Indian
force on our frontiers, in case of necessity =?
Now suppose an indian frontier war should &C.
cur, in case of bringing the army down to the
standard of 1921, what would be the conse-
quences? Why, the militia of the neighbour
ing states, or territories, would be called out,
and in sir months more money would be spent
for their sustenance and continuance in the
held than would support the number of men
and officers proposed to be reduced for three
years. Look, for one instant, at the Florida
campaigns-the great amount of money expen-
ded there was upon the militia. Six regiments
of regulars would have finished the war six
years ago, but the army was then nearly on
the war footing Of 1921.
Now, five mistake not, the Tribune has
advocated our taking possession Of the Oregon
Territory by occupying the mouth of the Colum-
bia river. Is this to be done without soldiersl
Why, our present able secretary Of war, John
c. Spencer, has recommended that we estab-
lish line of military posts from the Mississippi
to the Pacific ocean TO sustain such an occupa-
ton. Would the Tribune garrison. these points
with militia? If it does, we can tell Mr.. Gree.
ley that instead of eighteen millions of dollars,
double that sum would not meet the expenses
of one years occupancy.
The idea of reducing the army of the United
States is not founded in justice, economy or
patriotism. In fact we have badly patience to
write about the matter at all. Ask the people
of the Omitted States from Maine to Louisiana,
and so up to the base of the Rocky Mountains.
".
has borne the STAR sPANGLED BANNER triumh-
ant in every contest in which they have been
engaged?" The answer would come back in
echo upon echo, No Mr.. Greedy, YOUR article
is wrong. We are Americans, we believe you
to be the same; recant your yesterdays para
graph at once.-DoiLEr IFeeklg
GIThe Locofoco State Convention resol.
,,o1 IL. S.,lf0 Ill 4
do no; offer sufficient protection 10 wool, and
that they favor the manufacturer more than the
wool grower! And these very men who voted
for this resolve know thai there are not doz-
en- OF their party IN Congress who with vote for
more than two thirds as much protection to
wool as is proposed by either of thesa billsl-
And as to the assertion that the manufacturer
is favored above the wool grower, it is in fact
a naked un'ruth, and designed TO excite pref
udlce against manufacturers and cast odium
upon the cause Of Protection. MIR. SIS Bill is
more favorable, if any thing, 10 the producer of
wool than TO the manufacturer, and being a.
bout equal is as it should be. Would these men
suffer the factories TO be crushed BY foreign
competition and leave The produce. 10 hunt
where they might for market for their wooll
The kind oil protection, if any, which the To-
cofocos favor is, TO find fault with every thing
the wings propose, and stick TO and go with
the free trade and British party" This is
their position in Vermont.
It would have seemed quite proper in this
Convention TO have passed resolutions calling
upon their party in Congress TO. advocate and
vote for protection. instead OF opposing, inch
by inch, every effort by the wings TO secure
Protective Tariff. Why didn't they blaze a.
way at their own parry friends in Congress
| from the free States and affirm that they would
not sanction their alliance with the South in
support Of that system offree trade which G..
Britain proposes for our adoption, and which
! has been sustained by them 10 this day7 This
would look as though they meant something
as though they were in earnest, ana not aiming
to deceive those Of their party loho are honestly
the friends of protection t0ith the belief that
they are seeking to project American Indus
try.
We would not SANDER any honest man in
Vermont BY accusing him of being so thick
skued as to be imposed upon by these fault
finding and donothing, humbugging protection.
lists.
/ Last year this same Convention resolved ITO
LET INDUSTRY REGULATE IrsELF"-ihis year
they are a little more cautious, yet the manner
in which ii is done shows that they mean about
the same thing.-Caledonian
Gov. BoGGs continued. at the last accounts.
rapidly recovering from The assault upon his
life by an assassin.