The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-06-07
FREE TRADE.

| M n Error wish, through your paper TO ad
Itl dress myself 10 your citizens and, | am
stranger 10 your City and to your Laws and hay
come for the purpose Of trade, should be glad TO b.
IN your market, iIillmans hone and slrop for knve
and razars. | have with me some help fer that pur
pose. The article is reputed, in New York and Phil
adelpha, 10 be equal at least 10 any In use; and
your authorities have minated that have not tn
right 70 sell them, except al wholesale, The enee
must be TO debar me from privilege which l.think
can claim as an American manufacturer and agent
Now, if | was witty, and il had time,
would write you ditty, and put il in rhyme;
am but Yankee, and will not denyit
'ut I've got coed Strop, ard want you 10 try it.
Although Pm Yankee, know what is just
But, submit to your laws, you say that must
IL your statutes were lust, why would not complain
Although should suffer IN purse or by pain.
Now laws, to be just must be equal to all,
The high and the low, and the great and the small
Aud now, then, suppose that you send to New York
For market for bacon, for ham, or for pork
Or if sir, by chance il should be some tool
such as axes, or hoes, else a milk STOOL
Now what should you say, sir, If we were TO nab
The product OF labour by the hands OF free grab,
And take all the profits that ever you made
by labor or skill and the laws of free trade
II would not be Just, sir, and can1ot be right,
AithougA you should say that they have the might.
And now then, once more, sir, permit me to tell
My object is this am wishing to sell
Hone and Strop for your razors, that's all
Which think can't be beat-though the price is but
small
have brought them some distance on purpose TO sell
And II you'll permit me- III try to do well,
by being industrious TO spread them about,
SO that all may shave clean before they go out.
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And sweethearts and asses who dearer than life
IN sure you can't do il with per ect delight,
Without you've my strap by day or by night.
And if you allow it I'll not shave you much
For the price that you'll pay you'll never b,grutch,
Or II you should do so, why all | can say,
Is give me the ,trop and I'll return you your pay
Your mel chants all grumble and say it's not fair
To ALLOW Yankee dealers to sell out their ware,
For they clam the right to shave you by law,
Although they have done SO until you raw.
Why not then, allow me the right Of free trade
To sell you my self the goods have made,
Right then in the centre OF Columbia fair,
Without begging or buying from Council or Mayor.
Oh may we be wise in this land Of the Free
And protect each other wherever we be-
Then say TO each State, from the East to the West
From the North 10 the South, you with freedom
are blest.
To sci when you can wherever you find
The cash in the pocket and willing mind,
Unless you perchance should be buying 10 sell,
Which all men do know is peddng full well.
Aud now I'll appeal TO the sons of the free,
TO ask for their verdict wherever they be
And hope they will say, as fancy they will,
" You've the right, sir 10 vend your labor and skill.
And now, sir, III sum up and wind up my yarn
My object is this, SIR Pm wishing TO learn
Without paying school bill Of at least score,
Which with cost and yexation would make it much
moe.
June 6-lt' A. II.