The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-02
Two fields of Labor.

most attractive attire, and smiles being nant-
" upon her admirers. The earth teens
with the most generous returns to the tolls
of those who draw sustainance from her
broad green bosom. The farmers are labo-
riously engaged in garnering up the most
abundant product of grass which the soil for
years has yielded in this region. Other crops
promise rich return to the tolls of the hus-
bandman, and soon we trust all will be ex-
exulting in the hopes of comfort and relief
which plenty may rightly inspire. But
Brother farmers are there no sad presages of
insecurity coming over you. Notwithstand-
ing the bounties which providence has been
prodigaIly bestowing upon you, while the
protection of your government has been
gradually Withdrawing from your industry
COR years past, have you not been sinking
into poverty and embarrassment. By the eff
forts Of the wings, another protective tariff
has been established whose salutary ope-
rations are again beginning to be felt. But
its enemies are numerous and exasperated-
They are the locofoco party throughout the
Union. They are savage and memorable IN
their purpose. They are raising unlver-
sal shout of repeal to the tariff, do,cn tc'th the
tariff from Maine to Georgia. Not one of
their half dozen candidates for the presiden-
CIV has declared himself for genuine pro-
tective Tariff II is a revenue tariff, inciden-
tai protection. indeed anything but just such
a tariff as tie industrial pursuits ofthe coun-
try need, just such an one as the free-trade
southrons whose thralls they are will
permit them to avow.
Are you then secure in the full rewards of
your industry. 1t is not so much the plenty
of your produce, as the price which counts
up your means, and in this respect you may
be Knocked at last. Let loccfocoism do its
perfect work, sweep away our manufacture
ing consumers, and glut our markets with
the fabrics of the pauper laborers of Europe
who ale not permitted to eat our bread stuffs,
and who is there to pay remunerating prices
for the products Of the soil' Here then is
another field of labor just as important as
your haying and harvesting. Who would
not leave the plough in the furrow 10 repel
a robber from his storehouse, and with the
same alacrty should you resort to the ballot
box, and labor with zeal and perseverance
to bring all your neighbors to aid in prevent
ing the advocates of policy which plumbers
you of half the price of your products, from
getting into power. The man who neglects
to work in the political field, is just as cul-
on the ground for want Of care. In this you
must raise up guardians TO protect what is
reared in the other. Freeze and thaw, deny
yours elves, work off your fingers 10 the last
joint, and without protection your fate will be
like poor Sysiphus, who kept constantly roll
ing up stone which as constantly rolled back
upon him, and at last ground him to powder.
A few days faithfully spent in the political
field in preserving the tariff, may be worth
hundred of toiling husbandry in raising pro-
ducts for market, glutted, surfeited and
ruined by tie free admission of foreign pro-
ducts coming in competition with our own.
10Y thO II iOutC VI OhC udI at iCdSt
at the polls is demanded. The more active
and intelligent, should not grudge weeks of
persevering effort IN canvassng every town
and school district in the country. They
should not neglect to labor even with honest
opponents, and if possible dispossess them
of the monstrous error which has been Jug
gled into them, that the tariff is safe in the
hands of locofoco leaders. So would the
lamb be safe in the jaws of a ravenous
wolf.
Vermont, unconquered Vermont, a high
minded, virtuous and gallant little state, for
twenty years part GROWING every political
contest with wing victory, and at this mo-
mentous crisis, with the great field of battle
of 1874 in full view before us, and the whole
union gazing steadfastly at the star that new
err sets, full of the hopes ofits perpetual bril-
liancy and shrinking with fearful forebodings
at its least declension in the political horizon
may she now rear another memorial of her |
and persevering attachment to
those great principles of national policy !
which distinguished the best days of the |
republic. Who will grudge tything of |
time to struggle for such noble obiec, |
with an enemy who may triumph by our ap-
athy, but must certainly sink under our con- !
force. Go ahead then wings of |
Vermont Stretch out the browny arms of
of your strength. Strike down the traitors
who would purchase southern strength by
from you the hard earnings of your
industry. Never could you labor in a cause
which comes so near TO your homes and your
firesides. The question is whether you shall
enjoy the means of living in ease and afflu-
ence, of paying your debts, of advancing
your fortunes and educating your children,
or whether you are to exc out an uncumfort. |
able existence in pen urious dependence, no
better than that of the pauper laborers of !