Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-08-02

cy and it raised by an increase ct the farm, IT
requires no argument to prove that the tax VIII
be paid in unequal proportions by the people OF
the different sections of the Union-thc Southern
and planting States bearing much the greater
part of the burden. To avoid this objection, aud
to conceal from the tax paying portion of the
Union, the fact that the ultimate effect, If not
the main object of the measure, will be to afford
Il plausible prctcxt for an increased PROTEC-
TIVE TARIFF, it is said tina, the increased tax
may be levied on Wines, Silks, and other luxu.
rics. Still 10 will be tax upon labor, and will
naturally affect the value ofour products given in
exchange for them. Must it not strike the advo-
Gates of distribution too, that the power OF this
argument is lost, when they reflect, that if luxu-
rics are not sufficiently taxed, that the better
plan would be to leave the monies arising from
lands in the Treasury, TO defray the public ex-
pcnscs, far as they will go, and then to tighten
the duties on neccssaries and increase them on
lluxurcs.
In another view, the proposed distribution is
tariff measure. If it prevail, Massachusetts,,
VERMONT and other States, containing with.
in their borders no portion of the public lands,
will be Immediately vested with local PECU.
4 MARY INTEREST IN THEM. The public
lands, will, in effect, be mortgaged to the seve.
raj States, in proportion equal TO their Federal
representation in Congress, and they will have
an interest in having them sold at the highest
possible rates. They will have an interest in
and in opposing the grant of presumption at low
rates to that hardy and cnterprisng race OF pio-
nccr occupants who have gone with their faml-
lies to the West, built their log cabins, opened
their little farms and settled upon them, because
they would apprehend that the amount of their
respective dividends in the distribution would be
thereby diminished.
The MANUFACTURING States would have
peculiar interest in resisting the reduction of
price or the grant of presumption to settlers at
, low rate, because to keep up the price of the
lands, and withhold grants of presumption would
be to check emigration, retain the laboring popu-
lation at home, and thus reduce the wages of Ia
Dor, and increase the profits ofthc capitalists en-
gagged in manufactures. The manufacturing in
tcrests would be advanced by ii for another rea-
SON They would receive their federal proper
ton of the distribution, and would not contribute
in the same ratio in the payment of the tax TO
supply the deficiency. They would, in addition
to this, receive the bountics to their manufac-
lures, which increased tariff would afford,
! whilst these bounties would be paid by the
South in EVERY VIEW OF THE MEAS.
URE, it is an auxiliary to the PROTECTIVE
policy. 1t is presented, it is true in the seduc-
tive, but at the same time, deceptive and dis
gused form, of giving money to the States out of
the Federal Treasury, when lis, in truth, laying
new burdens on the people. The MANUFAC-
TURING States understand it, and hence the
Legislature of V ERMONT, Rhode Island, Con-
: necticut, Ncw.York, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
and some other States, have, during the past and
present year, passed Legislative resolves insruc-
ting their Senators and requesting their Repre-
sentativcs in Congress to advocate the measure.
The State of Connecticut publicly declares that
such is her object by passing Resolves, at the
/ same time instructing her Senators and Repre-
sentatives III Congress to " resist by all consttu.
tional means every attempt to destroy or impair
the protective policy, and to use their exertiofs
to procure the passage ofsuch laws as will ctlcc-
tualy protect the labor ofthis country, the man
D uiacturing labor, of course, is meant. The
Legislature of Pennsylvania, in the month Of
= January last, avowed in direct terms that an in
: crease of the tariff was their object They pass.
t ed Resolve instructing their Senators and Rep
resentatives to advocate and vote for the distrbu-
/ ton, and passed second Resolve in the follow
iny words, viz
i Rcsoircd, That our Senators be further instruc.
ted, and our Representatives requested to vote
for such modification or adjustment of the tariff
as may increase the revenue derived from i'm.
a ports equal to the wants of the National Govern.
mcnt, SO that at no time hereafter, under any
= pretext whatever, shall any money, arising from
the sales of the public lands, be used by the
General Government"
can the Resolves referred to were passed by
Legislatures, majority of whose members were
the political friends and supporters of the pres
! ent National Administration. They have all
- been officially communicated TO the Executive
, of this State, Gas suppose they have been to
the Executives of all the States,) with request
that the same may be laid before the next Gene
g raj Assembly of Tennessee. The states of Ala
\ bama and Mississippi have passed resolves re
/. sponsive to the Resolves of Connecticut, IN
. which they maintain the OLD GROUND of tn,
South AGAINST the PROTECTIVE POLL
!. CY." That this State will maintain SIMILAR
. ground with her southern sister States, when tho
Resolves of Connecticut come to be considered
>. by her Legislature, | CANNOT DOUBT; il
+, the face of this evidence before us, none can bt
. so BLIND as not to see that the measure to dis
:. tribute the proceeds otthe sales ofthc public land
e among the States, is but the pioneer step to thu
revival Of the "protective tariff
:, JAMES X. POLK.
II GAS good tariff man Mr. Clay " " Goo
q enough, Morgan, till after election " Reader
$ we imagine that you understand by this time
d why the Locofocos refuse to publish Mr. Polk
@ tariff speeches. DO you not If not, apply t.
James o llalloran for the reason, and ask him
publish, in the True Democrat, Mr.. Folks YER
best speech in faeor of protection; or, as for tina
matter, any speech or essay that even squint
that way. See what he will say to you.
"Polticans sometimes speak one way, an
IT vote another said Ben. Hardin. Mr.. Van Blu
= rem always spoke against the tariff, but general
= voted for it. But not with Mr. Polk. lie ha
!, been in deed, as well as word, on all occasions
$ the enemy of protection. Search the records G
n Congress, and you will find that in every in
d stance, where the protecting system was attack
. ed he was its ASSAILANT, its constant an
b Incorporating FOE. At home, at the hus
Is tings, and in the executive chair it has Away
1t been the same.
ID OF the light in which his leading supporter
Sc regard him. the following from late No. of tn
1t Nashville Union, is conclusive:
y, awe wish it borne in mind, that the oppres
y sve Tariff of lS42 has been condemned by ever
:, true Democrat, and by none more decidedly tina
:. Mr.. Van Buren,. THAT ITS PROVISION
=, ARE PIEVED WITH .iBHORRENCE b
~ GOVERNOR POLK AND all HIS FRIEND
:, We NEED NOT REPEAT"
ig The New York Plebeian goes still further, an
OF says
as "The opinions of Gov. Polk do not require I
v be changed to meet contingencies. Whethe
the present Tariff brings $l0,000,0OO or 800
u mo