The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-06-07

they can find e sewnere and nne railroads
leading TO the Vest and North /; to say no.
thing of canal packets and stages equal TO
any in the cOuntry.-1roy Whig.
Mr.. WEBSTER AND HIS FRIENDS.
/ We do not see how it is. that while Mr..
Webster, both in his letter TO his Boston
friends, and his Speech at Baltimore. takes
sach strong grounds in favor Of the Protec-
ton Of Home Industry, the Free Traders
arc enabled 10 extract so much matter OF
consolation and cxuItarioa from those docu-
mems. His Baltimore Speech sets forth
both the utility and the necessity of Protec-
lion so cogenlly that we would cheerfuy
take our stand 90 that alone in opposition 10
any thing of equal length which has been
published on the o,her side. And yet. while
its facts are so forcible, lis doctrines in the
main SO sound, its recommendations are
stroi ely al variance with these and lis IDEA
Of settling the Tariff question by making
Commercial Treaty with England is unac-
countahly at war with the practical good
sense of the whole Speech beside. Justly
deriving change in our public policy as
the great source of National and individual
disasters, he proposes very great and wild
chlnge-a change f ON prosperity AID safe
ty 10 experiment and doubt change fom
the policy most approved by experience 10
one o. The rashest innovation. Nav: he
shows US that all our attempts 10 promote
our own welfare by driving bargains with
other Nations have resulted badly for US, and
then urges US TO Try that very exploded ex>
pertinent over again We cannot consent
lott.
But the Boston Courier, which has ever
professed 10 favor Protective Tariff, en-
dorses all that Mr.. Webster has at anv lime
said-his last utierunces being of course the
best. Ii cannot be con:en; with this, but
must make an opportunity in the eonnexion
TO throw a stone at The Tribune for ventur-
ing TO concur in Mr.. Webster's facts and
arguments rather Than in his recommended
lions. In introducing the CORES poudcnce
between twcnly>three respectable Bostoni-
ans and Mr.. " cbster, which We gave yes.
terday. the Courier "can think of no way
more feasible, 10 lei The Tribune and the
'ciass Of papers with which il is associated
know what New England people think Of
such matters, than to publish this correspon-
'dcnce." !! talks largely and with charac-
'erisiic courtesy Of our Ignorance and as
surance in assuming that the policy indi-
Gated by Mr.. Webster al Baltimore would
be injurious 10 the interests of New Eng
land, and thinks that after this The Tribune
may understand New. England interests
BETTER" Thus pleasantly schooed, we have
read and reread the correspondence bu;,
so far from having learned from it what the
Courier would have US. We cannot quite un-
dcrs,and how the writers of d compliments |
~ letter 10 Mr.. Webster on The 2Sth o. A |
pril can be held as endorsing the sentiments
of speech made BY Mr.. w. on the 18Th
Of May-twcnty. one days afterward. We
can very well see why the caitalists of Bos.
Ton. hearing that project of Commercial
Treaty with England is on foot, should pre-
fer that that Treaty should be negotiated BY
Mr.. Webster, an able advocate of Prot-c-
lion and special champion of New Eng.
land in eresis, than. by some Free Trade
Locofoco from another quarter ofihe Union.
All this is sound and sensible, and we can
quite agree with Messrs. Sears, Otis & Co.
But if they commit themselves farther than
this. our Ignorance is so dense that We can.
not perceive il.
A word new TO the Boston Courier. The !
Editor of that journal is one whom We de
light 10 have for an opponent. for e fact Of
MS hostility ever gives US lively assurance
of success. His aristocrnric spirit and
bearing, his gross contempt of public opin-
ion, did very much toward thu overthrow of
the old Federal Party. His de,raction and
abuse Of Gen. Harrison in 1886 dill much
10 give that veteran the hold upon the pub.
lie feeling which secured his nomination in
80 and his election in 1910. At the time
of the Harrisburg Convention. the Courier
did Gen. Ii. the favor OF decrying him very
zealouSly. declaring that, if Mr.. Clay was
moi nominated, Massachusetts would surely
go for Van Buren,. Bu Gen. Harrison icas
nominated. Massachusetts taking the lead
therein, and Massachusetts gave him 10000
majority. That year, the Courier tried bard
10 prevent Il e nomination of John Davis for
Governor /; he was dominated. of course, bv
exclamation, and received some l9, 900 ma.
joriiv. Since then, the Courier has dislin
guishcd itself by sustaining The cause of Az
archy and Arson in Rhode Island, BY laud
ug Mr.. Webster whcreverh he has acted un.
like hts former self, and BY trying hard 10
foice MIR. Gushing upon constituency
whereof 10 party would lake him. Now
thai the Wing party is unite on Mr.. Clay
for next President, the Courier dscards hum,
puts Ills nose To the wind again, and insists
on running Mr.. Webster! So ways this
crooked world.-N Y. Tribune.
iST. LOUIS-COL. r. NJ. JOHNSON.