Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-01-28
NORTHERN LABOR AGAINST SOUTHERN
CAPITAL,

We ask the attention Of the Laboring
men of the State to the following extract
from the speech of Mr.. HUDsoN of Massa-
chusetts on the subject Of protective Tariff,
This speech is the clcarest, most conclusive
and sta,esman-like production which has
been delivered in the House of Representa-
tives for years. 1t is a cool, calm, dispas-
sionate argument, perspicuous in its style
and irresistible in It's differences. Mr..
HUDsoN is said to be plain, unprctending
farmer-perfectly courteous in his inter-
course with his brother members of the
House, and republican in his manners and
associations. But however civil he may be,
personally, to his political opponents, he is
severe enough,in all conscience, in his treat
Inent Of their arguments. Sometimes he
riddles them, without mercy, at others, lie
cuts them into powder and scatters them
like saw-dust around him. He has made
perfect jelly of Mr.. Rhett's speech, and if
his constituents have any bowels Of COM
passion they will allow him TO remain at
home in future on his lordly plantation in
South Carolina, and not expose him TO such
another ilayelation, by returning him TO
Congress again-for truly, unless he possess
SEES the hide of rhinoceros, his back must
smart most kecny under the severity of his
casligaton. We regret that our limits will
not allow US to copy more literally from Mr..
HuDsoN's speech this week but we assure
our readers we shall give them copous ex-
tracts from it very soon, and will treat them
10 the whole speech if our columns are not
too much crowded. Meantime we GEM
mend the following extract TO the careful
perusal of all our readers. 1t shows con-
cusively mho are the parties to the Tariff
controversy -
We have been told upon this floor tina, dscrm-
mating tariff was tax upon Southern labor, TO in
tell u.s. is between Northern capital and Southern
labor! Mr.. Speakct, wish to assa no part of the
country; but, sir, am compelled to say that the
truth is the very OF this. 1t is southern CAPT
tai agans, Northern labor. The North has frequent
ly been tainted as being rich and graspng. Gentle
men have pointed 10 our mnnufac uring villages as
evidence that are iatcnlng upon the labor OF what
they denominate the great producing States, But
why do gentlemen point TO DIR manufacturing villa
ges Let hem LOOK 10 our soil rough and rugged as
it is, and compare our cultivated field with their ex-
hausled soil and half cultivated pllnta ions, and ask
themselves leher they cannot account for this DIFF
ference by habits If industry, and the character
Of the labor we employ.
Nor isl trae that our manufactures are carried on
owned by the wealthy, 10 the extent that gentle
men would represent. Many Of our cotton and WOO.
len mills are owned and operated by men OF sina
capitalize laborers IN the mills owning portion o
the property. Many species of manufacture prose
cuied in Massachusetts land l speak of my owr
State only because can speak Of her more un err
standngly than OF any oiher) require but very N,i'
capital. We manufacture man boots and shoes to th'
to great extent the product Of labor. The CONVEX
toll. The mnnufac'uro of furniture and chair.
amounts to $500 600 annually, and labor l. l
principal ingredient in this product. The same it
tr e of hats, which are man iactured to the amour
Of about 900 per year. The annual product o
, straw bonnets and pan-eal hat is 81 coo eco; ant
this begins and ends in labor, and labor, too, mostly
Performed ywomen and children. BY the official sta
ilscs Of Massachusetts it will he seen that there arr
hold manufactures as straw and palmleat hat
and bonnets-a very large amount In some towns
where such articles are manufactured, the amount II
dollars is ten times the amount OF the population o
the town and in some few cases twice that amour
that is town of 1000 Inhabitants will produce o
of straw pam-eaf and articles of this character
latter case portion Of the article partly manufac
turcl, was obtaine in the adjacent towns 1hes
ARTICLES are, to erea degree, the product OF labor
and produced principally by women and child
rem. And it is by unremittng toll, by patient AM
continual application, that these products brough
forth. By means such as these, hun reds Of poor ia
? miles of lone widows and destitute orphans ar
supported.
And would gladly ask nv friend from South Ca
rona whether he present picture Ike this from
his own State; whether the femal.s or the male
there will submit toll like this He knows that the
will not And still he speaks OF our manufacturers a
- thouph they were all men of Overgrown capital, ro
= ling Il. luxury aud in wealth will give the gentle
. man specimen of Yankee manufactures. There ar
II gentlemen with Is 20 miles of my residence VIII
A manufacture woo EN- And what, Mr.. Speake
do You suppose they produce? will tell you. The
/, manufacture pals and rash boa ris and mop handle
J.. and clothes pins! And where do you suppose the
find market for these staple commodities will e
o vou They send them into the Western wilderness
They have actually an agency in Missouri, 10 whic
= these articles are sent Tor sale
# We have another class of manufactures, OF di
lerent chararte o r cotton, woollen, glass, lro
II and paper manufactures turn out annual produ
abort equal to the capital invested, Take a our M
nufncture together, and the annual product at ea
II one third more than the capital invested, Not TIT
the annual product is mrch clear gain; far othe
= wise The interest and insurance on the capital an
~ fabric the cost of the raw material the cost OF Il
labor and other incidental charges are all to be d
l. Quoted. In fact, company may turn oil an nnnu
-, product greater than the capital invested and st
C prosecute their business at a loss.
From this view of our manufactures, It will he zee
that our fabrics in great degree the product
al ahor and not of capital But how is il with Il
!; products of the South Tafe their great staple, co
ton of what is that the product of labor or OF C
to pitnl Of capital almost exclusively. Their LAM
3 are capital and their slaves capital, made 50
VI their own laws In strtness of speech, they ha
as no labor in the sense in which that word is used,
dist ngu SHE'D from capital, in the production OF the
y, cotton crop, if except the overseers and the e
i, white men who employed BY the nsutu ioi
-" and laws of the South their slaves are property
ic capita in the same that our machinery is al
when they talk Of protecting their labor, they mea
10 if they mean any thing protecting their property.
H. In this view of the subject | clam no originate,
- Mr.. Woodbury., that Northern man with Southe
20 principles-Mr Woodbury. the late Secretary, who
IN authority will not be disputed by my friend fro
>" South Carolina, presents the the same view, IN !
Ut report upon cotton in 1886 He estimates the who
\ amount of capital employed in the cotton culture
III follows: .
n Capital in lands, s3l20000
>" Capital in slaves 100000
n CAPITAL N horses, cattle &c. 10000
-. Floating capital, for taxes, tools,
US overseers, &c. 100000