The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-10-05
D. S. MURRAY, PRINTER.


fourth of the Northern Representa-
tives into supporting their measures.
:. What was the result? In 1917, the
total exports of the United States
were over $6O,00O,00O. OF this,
over $45,000,000 consisted of the
wheat, -four, pot and pearl ashes,
lurnber' beef, pork, hams, cheese,
and other products of the flee States.
I'm 1632-and so on, till now-when
the population of the free States had
risen from 4 to 10 millions, the en-
! tire exports Of the North amounted
to barely 10 or IL millions, while
those of the South had risen from Is
to over so millions. The little North
ern produce exported went chiefly
to South America, or countries more
remote, being shut out from all the
great markets of Europe, where we
bought our imported goods; while
the products Of slaUe labor found free
access to all these markets, and were
alone used i'll paying for them
How did it happene 1 reply, the
entire poacer Of our Government, by
whichever party it has been welded,
has been constantly employed IN bringing
II about, from 1916 to this hour. Four
out of five Of the Presidents, Cabin
ct Ministers, Ambassadors, and 9TH
er public officers, who have shaped
our laws and treaties, have been
shareholders, and they have shaped
them TO make slave labor as prohta-
bic as they could and then, to en-.
able it toplunder enough ofthe earn
ings of freedom to make up the de-
6cit. BY tfavoring some one inter
est Of the North, at the expense of
all the rest, and by the bride of Of
flee, the slave power has made
Northern Federalists and Republic
cans, Democrats and Whigs-aU
parties that numbered shareholders
among their members-consent to-
such a shameless subserviency to
the interest Of despotism. look at
a few facts. In 1923, there were
1925 Northern vessels employed i'm
trade with the British West Indies,
(Which were the enterpoIts of a VAST
commerce with other nations.) The
goods sent by them. were chiefly
the products of New England, New
York, New Jersey, and Pennsylva-
MIA. The shareholders, led on by
Calhoun, complained that their SUI
gar, rice, molasses, and rum, Tor
slavery were not protected, and by
changes in the tariff from 1923 to
1896, the North was almost wholly
cut off from those markets for its
goods the number oc vessels en-
ployed in the trade reduced from
1925 down to less than $50; and
we obliged to pay for our West In
dia goods by bills Of exchange drawn
against Southern cotton, sent to Eu-
rope! Again. In 1920, over $50
sail Of American vessels were en-
ployed in trade with Ireland, carry
ing the products of the free States
Chiefly provisons} to her people,
and bringing back Irish linens, kerr
seys, and other goods. Bv similar
changes in our tariff, directed by the
South, the wh1te trade vas destroved!
DANIEL OCoNNELL stated, at Re-
peal meeting at Belfast, in lS41,
that it turned 100000 Itishmen out
Of employment, and covered the
most tlourishing parts of the Green
Isle with desolalion. We know
that for years after not an American
vessel entered an Irish port, and not
dollars worth Of our provisions or
other goods entered an Irishman's
home. What say you, sons of lie,
land, to the curses American slave
ry has brought on your native land /?
Since 1916, there have been about
1G3 treaties made by our Govern
ment to regulate our trade and in
tercourse with foreign nations.-
Thirteen out Of every II of the am
bassadors and others who made them
have been shareholders, and they
have shaped them to their liking
Consequently, not one of them, of
any importance, has had any refer
ence to the interests of the North, or
free labor. They have all, or near
ly all, had for their sole object the
enlargement of fecmarhets, in all the
world, for cotton, rice, sugar and to-.
bacco, the products of slave labor,
and the exclusion of Northern pro-
ducts from those markets, and the
i destination &C NJ. 4Lnrr, 4.nro.,.e rA..