The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-05-31
PEOPLES PRESS
Tuesday Morning, May 81, ls42
HOW TO PLAY THE GAME

-~--' 49, e@@ai'oonihS us IluSOTy practices
the newborn zeal in favor of protection to ii.
single article of wool, which is now flashing On,
upon US in their papers and conventions, make,
an amusing subject of comment While the !
wings have. been assembling conventions in ev.
cry county in the State, to memorabilia Con.
gress in favor of protection to American indus.
try, our opponents so far from extending tn.
hand encouragement, have utterly denounced
them, and their organs have gone so far as TO
warn their ndherents to flee from'them as from
the deadly Bohan Upas, whose infected utmos.
phere would poison all their political affinities,
and PROSTATE The party. Indeed since the
commencement of the present session of Con.
gress. they have.done little else than echo and
re-echo the speeches of the deadiest enemies
of protection, from Calhoun down 10 Eastman
and Burk. and to record the outpourines of
Blair, Kendall, and Richie, against monopol.
lists, partial Legislation, and aristocratic cottSp
and wooden manufacturers.
1t is. true the wings are in favor Of protect.
ing manufactures, as the only means of pro.
viding q market for agricultural products. Ev
eryvillage built up by manufacturing establish.
menls. is worth more TO. the farmers in the vi.
cinity, than ten times their share of all the ex.
port trade of the country. But how silly it is
TO pretend tina; the same partywhose represen.
tatives- are two to enc the representatives of
tie honest cutivators of the American soil,
would LET all these proposed advantages be
rendered nugaiory, by simultaneously with.
drawing adequate protection to the wool-grow.
err. How insulting 10 the understandings of
the people of thus agricultural State, 10 tell
them that the men who look to them for politi.
cal life, in the very teeth oftheir own popular.
ty, should metamorphose themselves into the
tools of incorporate industry and arjsiOeraGc
protection leaving the mechanics and farmers
to pursue their weary way unaidcd and for.
on.
But in consequence of suggestions in let.
ter from Washington, that the wool growers
were not as powerfully represented as other
classes OF industry, as quick as thought, the
cunning iOcos perceive the game that might
be played to advantage. Finding The Pesplo
Indignantly spurning their ruinous doctrines.
they suddenly become converts TO the true
faith. Choosing TO consider the report of Mr.
Salionsa as furnishing an insufficient, prolcc
lion 10 wool growers, they ehargc,T,he wings
with Inslncerlty and gross neglcc; Of their
rights, and Instantly leap upon tie ground wo
have occupied in our contests with them, and
assume the guardianship of interests which
they havc hitherto 'puFned and deridcd.
The wings have ever been wiling 10 coop.
crate with all of every political connexiou who
will honestly step forward in defence of Amer
lean labor against foreign pauper compeii-
tor. Blu; they have very liulc confidence in
The sincerity of men, who, when they find their
position unienable. suddenly enlist under the
banner they opposed; but instead of uniting
with the original friends of projection in Tho
common cause, attempt 10 shove them oside,
and TO take exclusive possession of the ground
which they have rendered popular.
lfthese new born zealots for protection who.
during twelve years past have been acting, voting
and arguing against it, would satisfy the people
OF Vermont of their sincerity by regulating the
enemies of the tariff both in and out of Congress,
publish tariff speeches. sustain tariff mea, unsay
their accountable falSehOods and sophstries nth
erto urged in favor of Tree trade, and pledge
themselves not 10 sacrifice she interests of the
county US they have done TO the unhailowed dc
falion Of the south, they would have some reason
10 upbraid US for distressing their vague and un-
meaning professions.
But il is fact which is as certain as il is 10 be
that locofocoism is true to nothing but
self aggra1dizement. Gen. Jackson before he
'scended the Presiden ia char, again and again
professeG friendship for protection. But this he
abandoned in 1888, and suffered the COMPROMISE
bill TO be forced upon US. Martin Van Buren,,
he northern man with southern principles never
allied 10 crouch in seryile compliance tc he
"ises at the south, at the expense of the dearest
interests Of the country. The truth is that north
I'm locoiocoism will never sever the ligameuIs
which bind her TO the south. Its hopes are foun-
ed on the belief, that however the fortunes ofthe
arty may vasciiate at the north, it can find
trenSIh and safety in the solid and unhroken
halanx which The united south are ever ready 10
ring into the conflict.
CALEDONIA COUNTY TARIFF CONVENTION.
"A large and respectable tariff convention
Is been recently held in the county of Gala
'nia. Very few locofocos were present.
heir leaders and papers upbraid them for
tending tariff conventions in conncxion with