Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-07-22
PROTECTION.

The INSCRIPTIONS readiness of the radical
party to change their ground, in order to
shield themselves from political humiliation,
was never more manifest than in their recent
attempts TO pass for the exclusive friends of
protection after waging twelve years war,
side and side with the great enemies of tar
ia, the slave holders of the south. Week
after week aud year after year have their
papers, high and low, teemed with arguments
intended to convince the Farmers OF YER
mont, that protection was after all humbug.
That it was sought, not TO benefit them, but
to augment the fortunes Of rich capitalists,
and second their Efforts TO make "serfs" of
the laboring men of Vermont. These con-
slstent politicians have wrought with COM
mendable industry TO convince the WOOL
grower and mechanics that protection to the
kinds of labor in which they are engaged
would never rebound to their beneft-bu,
would faten Charles Paine and other man
ufaclurers, whom the party always referred
to as "proud arstocra,s" seeking to live on
the unpaid labor of others. They were told
that FREQ trade was nearer the true doctrine,
and that that, will, hard money, and Loco
foco supremacy would bring about high pri-
ces, plenty Of work, and markets abundan,
for all our productions. These safe doc.
trines we're constantly kept before the PEG.
pie in their true light BY the wings, and the
consequence was that the people went stead
lily to the polls year after year, and voted
down these southern "allics" with their fire.,
trade doctrines. Now when the time for
rc-adjus,ment of duties has arrived and the
long cherished wishes Of the people begin tt
manifest themselves in a unanmily for pro
lection which throws grievous shadow owe
the Locofoco fiiurity in this State, it cost
the party which learned its unprinciple,
} tactics in the school of Martin Van Buren,, n
! effort whatever, nor even a twinge Of consci
cnce to come out with the coolest e(irontery
, and proclaim itself the only true church G
protection.
We are told, in effect. that the old argu
) ments with which they sought to drug TN
people, were nothing but "gammon," use
: merely to answer present purpose, and b
no means tended to swear by in future
The effort is graveIy made to induce tn
people 10 abandon the steady and unIforr
t friends of protection who have maintaine
its policy throu Oh veal and woe, and jun
I. into the arms Of these half hedgcd ,arlftie
after listening with disgust to their free trad
slang for dozen years. Whether the pee
pie of Vermont are ready to hug this wipe
TO their bosoms, remains to be shown in ScT
: TENDER. Meanwhile let them bear in min
= how much more dependable old friends ar
generally conceded to be, and how little dc
> pendance can be safely placed in those wi
suddenly abandon long and ohs,inately de
Tended principle, with an open and obvio'
. interest in the change.
The disguise is too thin-the object &c
: clear. This protection cry Of Locofocois
is all moonshine, mere trick tvote-catchn
: or rather a shift to escape the overwhelmlr
@ rcbuke which will ever be the fate Of II
party which goes to the people of Vernon
o upon the principle Of free trade.