The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-01-25

interests, bv .rerzss-sg .. them the Home Market
tree iion al disturbance from -,,-->,I, sound
system % Finance can exist. BY thIs p-ocs-' nf
Improbable exchanges, which for the last too
years, have by unVise legislation encouraged,
Europe has already obtained from US not only Vie
Gold aud 5ilvcr our Commerce. could accumuig1ys
but Two Hundred Millions Of Public and Corlor
ute Credit has passed in:o The hands Of Foreign
Capitalists in exchange Tor Ourselves thereby
ting drain upon Industry FAR more burden
some than a tax Of ten millions annually. The
State are thus tempted commit peciniary
fraud; our Currency is without basis; Credit
az home, rs vc,l as abruHd, is rapidly Psiisliag;
Labor divorced from Capital, - without objects
upon which exer, itself and Capital di,znriuted
from Labor Is unProducuve. Our great Home Lt-
trrssts, the amount ~ whch exceed Tyso Thous
and Millions annually are thrown into disorder;
individual energies defe-ied, and TOR estates
wasted, that a Fo.oign Comncrce Of One Hundred
and Twenty FIVE Millions may proct,sd upon a
system Of transccnJentnlstn, which bis no aduptd
ton 90 humanity
We respectfully protest against the continuance
Of this iuiuous system of National Policy and aban
doniug all minor divisions, will unla upon the
broad basis OF ''Proiec,ion American Industry,
confidently expecting that. ,ke the f rst Congress
ct Ihe United states Of America, whose first act
the "ProIectiou OF Manufacture" tho TWEEN
~ seveneth viii sustain oar view, nd ruitcve The
Country from i.s present embarrUiaa-His.
DR.. FHAyKLIys roAsr. Long after Gen Wash
pgtou's victories over the French and English had
made las uame familiar over all Europe, DR.. Fran
Kiln chansed 10 dine with tie f.rglish and French
ambassadors, when as nearly q, can recolIect the
words the following oasis drank
Nv the British Ambassador. IS En- giaHd-Tie sun,
whose beams enlighen aud ft4ctfy the remotest
CORNERS of the earth"
The French Ambassador, glow in 2 ,sIil, national
pride drank Franee- The moon whose mild, -iea
DIV, aud cheering rays no delight of all naons;
eonsoIing Them IN cnrancs, making the drearrness
beautiful"
DR.. Franklin then rose, and with his usual dign
fed simplicity said % George Washington Josh
VA, who commanded the aud moos TO stand
still, aad they ubeved him
BEAurIrrL ExTRAcr. The following extract, as
true il Is beautiful, is from The New England
Review.
'4Wur naY stride owes the land with the crushing
step OF the giant PcsIieuce steal it like
an 'SvIsiBLE CURsE--roach'ng its victims silently
aud unsoen--unPeopGug here vilIage-there u
city, until ever dwelling is a epuIchre-inmine
may brood over IL vrth l9ng and weary visitation,
until the sky itse IS brazen, and the beautiful
greenish gives place 10 a parched dcsert--a wide
waste Of unProdue,ivo dasolaton. But these are
only physical ey i.s The wild flowers will bloom
IN peace the Held of battle and the crushed
Skeleton. The destroying angel Ofpnslence will
retire when the sork Is done, aud The nation will
again breathe iFsciy, and the baroness Of famine
will cease I-E-ihe cloud will be prodiga of its
boarded raiH--and the wilderness will bosom.
But Cor moral lesoizUn there is nreviving spring.
Let the moral and republican principles -four conn
Try 6e ahandendGd our representatives bow in un
conditional al-s quiousness individual IIctation-
lei imPudeses, intrigue and corruption triumph
over honesty aud Intellect, and our liberty and
strength viii depart flrovsr. OF these there can
lie resuoi iatlon. The" abomlnat nfdesoation"
will be fxsS and perpetual-and the mighty fab
rie Of glory ioSters into ruins the nations of the
earth sli mock AZ overthrow like the powers
Of darkness when the throned one of Babylon be-
came evsn themsel yes-and the" glory Of the
Chnldee,i had gone Down forever.
INDUSTRY AND PERSEVERANCE.
We glve below an extract from Burnaps lee