The Arkansas banner., 1843-11-18
TIE I.ARNRING MAN


 By perusal it will be found completely to up- mask the hyPocrltIealpre'ensions ofwhiggery:
 Protection Co ",4merican hadustrg.''-It is iact, notorious as any other in existence. that the chief item in the inventory of whig capital, Is habitual deception of the mechanic and Workinglnan. To practice imposition upon him who earns his living e.by the sweat of his brow," and gull him into the belief. that It IS fTs tAterest to elevate whigs to office, seems the Alpha and Omega of wbio labors Ill all our recent political campaigns. The cunning coons are well aware that nine teen-twenteths of the laboring classes are s9qoerats by nature, and fall into the support oi republican measures as irresistibly as wa ter finds ifs level. They hence appreciate the necessity of exercising the most extraor- dinary efforts to seduce the laboring man from his sphere of duty, and no possible pains are spared to make him believe, that 1t is the wings alone who are capable and willing to protect him in his industrial pursuits. Let us briefly investigate the lustness and legiti- macy ot thls claim so arrogantly put form by Whig presses and orators.
 Who are these tender-hearted whigs. for sooth, that Aey should be regarded as the sole and exclusive patrons of .sAmerican in dustfy," and upon whose gracious efforts rest the prosperity and comfort of the .stoiling mllllons!" Where do you find them. and at what are they engaged3 With but compara- lively few exceptions, they are men who have never performed day of manual labor in their liyes-have never handled any other implement of trade than ssBlackstone2s Com mentarles, or Coke upon Littleton, ''-and who know little, and care still less. for the roal interests of the democratic workingman. They mostly congregate in the infected at mtosPhere of your densely populated cities, winch the great and sagacious Jefferson cha ractefized as ''uleefs upon the body politic.n Inquire into the private manners of tlsesa e.. traordinary sticklers for.s. American industry,o and you will discover that, in nineteen cases out of y, the simple fact that an article IS of domestic manufacture is sufficient to de- ter them forever from its use or purchase. No article that does not bear the evidence ol .1orelga manufacture, is considered worthy then admiration, or admitted into the service ol their royal palaces. All that they wear and tear, and more than one-half of what they eat and drink, has been procured from the prolific fields of other lands, and even moral and intellectual merit are measured by this memorable standard. No sooner does a foreign moantebank land upon our shores, Whether 1t De writer or iravels or fashion able danSeusc, than he or she is literally an- initiated by the nauseous adulaton of these exclusive American whigs-these guardians e ! ss s= sessstsy and merit, As im taes case oi boz, and others, the only reward for thls tulsomeness is mostly shower of vim dlctfye vituperation, and the most disgusting carlcatures of American customs and manners
 But there is yet another evidence to prove tles fallacy of the whig claim to exclusive respect for the interest of the American work ingman. To the poor laborer nothing can be of such incalculabe value as the possess sion of political independence. It is the boon upon which, above all others, he places the highest estimate. Now, what has the whig party ever done to protect and strength- en him in the enjoyment of this most noble and exalted privilege' Nothing-absolutely nothing. On the contrary, the whigs as a party, have ever been opposed to the eyten- sion of the right of suffrage. They have most generally been the advocates of an odlous property qualification. When the la borer has venturned to differ in political opin- ion, from his employer, the proud and domi- neering whig has uniformly been the first to take advantage of his necessities, and force him into support of federal measures, contrary to his own convictions and protestations. The dismissal of laborers from employment, for political opinions sake, was few years since openly and unblushingly followed by the whig merchants and capitalists of Philadel- phia. During the memorable ''panic sea- sons," not single democratic laborer was spared, and colored tickets were generally printed that the employer might be able to detect the employed in case he should se- crety venture to vote democratic ticket In the gubernatorial campaign of 1885, the whig Canal Board of our State dismissed hundreds of WHITE laborers from our pub lie works, because they were democrats; and employed NEGROES in their stead-thus adding insult to injury. What protection to .American industryn was not thisl To deprive the hard-fsted laborer of the privi- lege of earning his daily bread, merely be- cause he would not part with that great po- litleal right entrusted to him by the wise and patriotic framers of our government-that which alone distinguishes him from the slave and the serf--the right of participating in the choice of his own rulers!
 This is the kind ofs.protection" the pseudo whigs are in the habit of extending to aAme- rican industry" and the mechanic and work ingman. "lt is such protection as the wolf gives to tiie lamb, or the valture to the dove, covering and devouring them'' Heaven pro tect the people from it
 The New York Commercial states that the amount of specie exported from that city to Europe, this fall, is comparatively small. No silver has been shipped to England, and that taken to France will not far exceed SS00,000, of which S100,000 will go by the next packet. The premium on silver has therefore declined considerably.