The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-10-18

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gagged i'll those pursuits. Far from it
AsI have said, the capital of Massachu-
sets can go to commerce, or can 90 to farm
ing. But what can he do, whose farm is
his sole estate, but till it, Can he trans
port it or go into other pursuits The fact
is, protection to this class of society is,next
to the bene6cence of Heaven, whose sun
shines and whose rains fall upon us, the
highest object, the most absolute necessi-
ty to those who cultivate the land, and
raise from it more than suffices for the
wants of themselves and their families
(Cheers)
Now, gentlemen, we are Americans
We have vast country,a variety of climate
and various pursuits. We have agricul-
tural States; and we have plantation States.
We have manufacturing interests and COM
mercial interests. And our business is not
to array our various interests into a bellig-
erent and hostile state, not to infiame our
own passions or the passions of others con-
corning the measures of government for
, the protection of our particular interests;
but let us make the whole great national,
l may say, family concern. We should
aid not to produce the impression that one
interest is set against another, but that we
all 90 for those laws and measures which
will be most conducive to the general good.
We should remember that we are citizens
OF the United States; that as such we are
interested in the United States and in eve
~ State,-that we are interested in the
concerns of all classes and of every class;
and do firmly believe that moderation
and wisdom and perseverance and truth and
reason will ultimately prevail over all the III
fiuences which seem 20 separate the inter-
ests of one class from those of another
Why, what | have said in relation to the
necessities or wants of Agriculture Is strict
ly true with regard TO our brethren of the
South engaged in tie Plantation interest,"
The first market for their cotton, and the
best market, is with the Northern aud New
England manufacturers of that article and
it is absolutely astonishing that this is not!
perceived. The North takes one third Of
their cotton, and that the first third, and
fixes the price; it is sold with small charge
for freight and still brings high price
/ And say it is absolutely astonishing that
those whose living depends on the produc-
ton and sale of this article should not sec
to what an extent 1t depends upon the con-
sumption and manufacture of the article in
our own country.
| These truths-these elements of political
economy are as true OH the James River and
in Alabama as here; and let popular preju
dice become informed and kind feeling mark
/ II. a.. .,.,1 hall
come TO see how much our happiness and
honor depend upon u free aud just and lib
eral intercourse among ourselves. CHEERS }
! Gentlemen, | an too long in troubling
you with these remarks. (Cries of go on.
| believe that they are founded in truth ]
wish for every thing which will promote the
union of the American family. | wish for
the prevalence of everything which shall
make every man from Naine to Georgia feel
that his interests are clearly bound up with
those of every other man from Maine TO
Georgia. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, may say, Sir turning to the
Presi,lent) five words about myself? (ckrer>
and shouts of yes, fifty or five hundred y =
1t was under the full conviction of these
truths, that, meeting n few months ago some
intelligent friends from Baltimore, alluded
to our commercial relations-a subject to
i
anxious aud painful labOrs of my whole life.
(Some one cried out Three cheers for the
Treaty. and they were accordingly given
with great entbusiasn.) ] assure you, gen.
tlemen, that although friendly to all treaties
of peace, nothing was farther from my mind
at this moment than the treaty recently con
cluded with Great Britain. | mean our COM
merciaI relations; and if the time shall ever
come when we can for a litile while forget
our parties. and attend to things instead of
naines-if the time shall ever arrive when
there shall be business party in the country
which have faint hope may sometime
happen-God knOws-(cheers and laughter)
we shall find that the subject of our com
mercial relations, as they have for several
wears past existed, and as they now exist, IS
highly interesting and Of the utmost import
ance TO every citizen of the country.
But propose only 10 say now, that hav-
ing occasion, spoke at Baltimore of the
effect Of an arrangement entered into very
unfortunately many years ago, to the great
detriment of our navigation interests, as
is now fully shown by the great progress
which foreign shipping is making upon the
shipping of the United States. 1t is most
true that under existing acts the shipping
oil some Oh ANOithcih VI
Europe are ihrusting themselves into
branches of our trade to which they have
no natural right and would be encroaching
upon our coasting trade were they not pre- /
vented BY the absolute prohibition of law.
| will only say to illustrate the matter,that
between the great markets of the United
States and the Empire Of Brazil, where our
commercial intercourse was most extern
sive, the nations of the North OF Europe.
Hamburg, Bremen, &c. under Reciprocity I
Treaties, as they are called, though there
is anything but reciprocity in them, carry
on the trade to the exclusion of our own
vessels. In this way, under treaty siipula~
tons. our trade is drawn from us, and we
submit-and ! have found it quite impos-
sible to raise the country up TO sense OF
this great injury. said at Baltimore that
the time was coming, and perhaps now IS.
when with regard TO the great matter OF
commercial stipulalions. some advisable ar.
r,noement might be made between us and