The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-10-31

IL appears by an article IN the Tribune
taken from the London Atlas that the Lon.
don Editor has pretty correct view of the
Federal party in the United States. The
British Editor says, "The cause of the
wings has always been identified with that
of the N, England manufacturers, who aim
at acquiring monopoly of the home mar
ket by the aid Of prohibitory duties" Dan
lei Webster in IS20, when political parties
were very quiet in the United States, said
'that he was unable to see the benefits to
agriculure-to the farming interest, Of a
high tarif-lor then the farmer must give
more for what he buys, and get less for
what he sells" "Behold thou art wiser
than Daniel" The political whig tells us
with his eyes wide open to The low prices
of Hay, Corn, Flour, Oats, and the gener-
al production of the Windsor Co. farmer,
that high tariff leads to prosperity that
the farmer is better of than when, under a
careful and judiciOHS tariff his produce
commanded higher price When the
farmer prefers so cents a bushel, for corn,
to dollar and % cents for oats, to so, he
will set his wisdom before thai of Daniel,
and yield to wing arguments. He will give
up his experience that he gets less Tor what,
he sells and gices more for what he buys
John Quincy Adams says that "the duty
constitutes part of the price of the whole
mass of the article in the market as well
upon the domestic as upon the foreign ar
ticlc," The English manufacturer sees,
upon the passage ola high tarillact by the
United States Congress, taxing foreign
goods, the rise of our domestic goods and
learns that his cloth will bring him more
in the United States than in Canada, after
all duties are 1aid-lhorelore, he floods our
market with his goods, The New Eng
land manufacturer and the British have
been equally benefited in swelling the
price Of the domestic aud foreign goods,
and the merchant who takes his commits
sion on the duties as well as the goods has
shared with them in the profits, These
goods are now being paid for by sending
specie to England. 1t takes Just SO II any
goods to cothe our people, and by a high
tax which has raised the price on the
home as well as foreign goods the purchas-
ing par, Of our land, the consumers have
to pay SO millions of dollars more for the
cloth used in consequence Of high tariff
the other different interests are thus taxed
for the benefit of manufactures.
The dictates of common scnse-fac,s
compel us TO admit the position Of Adams
and Webster. The manufacturer who
can make large requests from his over
flowing Golfers can have no object in tax
ing by high duties the farmer who uses his
goods if such TAX operates cqually-the
rich man would never call on Congress to
distribute the sales of the public lands a.
mong the people, if all the people were to
he benefited alike-he would never call on
Congress to create a so million Bank
were it not that the Banker was to be sup
ported by the mass of society, the people;
Il high tariil-a great Bank may be called
a protection to the people-it is such a
protection as the Vulturc gives to the
Lambs. The farmer consents that his
government should tax him for the support
Of that government, but he wants no cSac-
tons for the support Of aris'ocraic cor
porations. The democracy require equal
Iaws-a tariff for revenue that shall protect
all the interests ofthc country, small and
great. The wool-arower, if he would
cease his dependence upon the pleasure OF
the manufacturers Nho reside at distance,
paying him %, and sometimes
80 cents the pound, would soon learn to
his wool upon our small
streams in Windsor county and send the
surplus cloth TO the west and exchange his
cloth for -four, and in supplying his neigh
Dors with flour his wool would neat hun GO
cents per pound. Windsor County Farm
ers are beginning to do this. They are
tired of manufacturing ireaks-and some
ofthe wings begin to see that Judge Col
amer is correct when he says from the
stump protection to all equally, is no pro-
.crtion I'm the u, gUvCJciu,.5r