Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-10-05
VOL. 10---NUMRER 40

the, turn their capital into other channels in,o q
thousand other pursuits Tomorrow Are they shut
Oh, from all other ways Of living DO YOU suppose
that the Protection OF thus interest Is important
hcs as Il Is 10 You L. u az essential, a. absolute.
" accessory IN Thea Interests a. rorns Not by
ten thousand times You want e marke, FOR your
productions. You wan, customers. You wan,
open mouths ard uncad bodies To and drink and
wear tho surplus productions you have provided for
them
I You want home market a steady demand FOR
4 your agricultural products And this is, and
must be, furnished by tho commercial Glasses tho
sea-farIng classes and all other classes Of nonpfo.
ldueers. Nov, gsncmen, certainly Admit that
those who have invested their capital IN manufse.
tures have n grca, Interest nj stake and Il is Just
TINT they should have secured by law reason
able protection to tina, interest, Blu, do also in.
,n in spite Of all the sophsry and all the folly
/ las must call ~ OF tins ago..~and thus age
full Of sophls,ry and folly this subject, tina, tho
great thing to be looked for, is lha, wo have ut
home demand for the surplus, produce Of our
Agriculture, and, on the other SIDE, home de-
mand for tho product, Of Manufacturing industry.
TCheersl This ncighborly exchange it is, this
. nelghborly intercourse among ourselves. this sup
plying own wants from city to city, from vii.
lage to village from house to house this, thus
9 is which is calculated to make MS n happy and
strong people. Enthusiastic applause,
Now. there is on th. subject especially among
" our brethren at the South strange iufauation.
II They respectable mon--reasonable mcn--can-
did men in some rcspcc,s--in most respects and
n yet see how they reason upon this subject Gen.
g tlemen belong to Massachusetts, Applause.
II Cries of Good and three deafenng cheers for
ii Massachusetts have taken the pains to en-.
n qnire wha, sums Of money Massachusetts pays to
IF Virginia and Carolina, 10 say nothing OF New
Al York, every year for their agricultural products
1 and It amounts to several millions IL take
the Eastern par, of Virginia and the Eastern part
/. of North Carolina what have they for sale but
= agricultural products purchased by the manutnc.
- turing and commercial classes of New ngand
=, Nothing on the face of the ea-th--and we pay
:" them many millions We are their only custom
=" er Docs England take their grain Certainly
- not; and yet, owing to causes which II would be
~ easy 10 explain II were proper owing TO preIu'
no dice, owing TO their peculiar no,ons--ior notions
~ are quite common there in New England
p- though New England is the land OF notions J
10 Laughter and cheers) there is perfect repro.
on baton Of any idea Of protection giving them any
n sale for their agricultural products although they
an find, day by day, that we buy and pay them for
30 their products by manufacture. OF the Nor,hand
ew it is the only thing they get dollar for and are
i've ready 10 drive us into raising Corn and all agr-
ge cultural products for ourselvcs-they being agrl-
,p- cultural and finding the article continually bccom-
ea, ing cheaper and person except TO buy them
his (Cheers) Now that's strong case-though
perfectly true OF Eastern Virginia aud Of North
ich Carolina Why gentlemen, live on the sandy
es, shore Of Massachusetts and get along u. well
.ap as | can ! am very poor farmer upon great
;,t quantity of very poor land But my neghbofs
, If and l. by very great care--l hardly know how
Gil continue to live on. We pay for VIVA, wo pur.
h;s chase-though for my life | could hardly tell
-. II
w. some way And yet these complain that wa
~ do no, raise what want ourselves but buy OF
@" them There seems TO much truth in an old say.
''e' ing, that Maxms which have a seeming sense
take frmcr hold, and endure longer in the mind
aih than those which are founded nature and eIpe-
''se renee Men like dogmas they like theory. II
nee they can pick up or scrape together string Of
not apophtbegms or enigmas-the fact md truth anc
stn all the human talent IN the world argu,
on- them out Of them. Equal decisions prevail II
pol other parts Of the country, as for instance the no
ndi- ton that Protection manufactures is thing pc
..cb cullarly beneficial 10 those engaged IN those pur
and suits Far from it, As have said, the capita
.ina OF Massachusetts 20 TO commerceor can 90
add farming But wha, can he do, whose farm IS IN
i IN sole estate but iii ~ Can he transport it "
Tina ioto other pursuits The fact s Protection 10 TIN
hail class Of society u.s. next 10 toe benhceace OF Hea
an ven, whose shines and whose rains ial upol
, MS the highest object, the most absolute necessity
those who cultivate the land, and raise from NOR
81 than sufices for the wants ofihemselyes aud the
- families lCbeers
49,. Now gentlemen we are Americans. We bav
a vast county, a variety Of climate, and yariou
- " pursuits We have agricultural States, and W
Wv have plantation States. We have manulacIurln
'''" Interests and commercial Interests And our bus
- ~ IS not 10 array our various interests into be
may ligeren, and hostile state DOT 10 intame our ow
H. passions the passions Of others concerning Il
nef measures Of government for the protection Of OF
1Pon particular Interests but let US make the who
ruth, a great national may say, Jamay concern
Alter We should ann 10 produce the impression III
mean We all go FOR those laws and measures which WI
INKS b. most conducive to the general good.
is 40 should remember that citizens Of the Un
GOV. ted States that as such we interested M Il
thai United Stl,es and ia every Siate,--thai we a
.c Interested IA the concerns Of all classes and Of
r NO. cry class aud do hmly believe that moder
o,ee. ton aud wisdom and perseverance, and truth al
new reason will ultimately prevail over all the inf
,od ences which seem 10 sepemie the Interests oil o.
80, class from those Of another Why, what ] ba'
sad 10 relation 10 the necsssairs wants Of aga
49, culture srekly true wnh regard TO our bfahn
~, ofthe South engaged IN the Plantation inefes,