The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-11-04
S ID f. T. & iii
OF CASSIU~S M. CLAY
At Boston, September 10, (Erracts

At Boston, September 49, (Ertr0cts)
Thus far, the pro slavery power,by the concentra-
ted interest of having $1,000 900, 900 Of called
property represented has triumphod over the po"e
Of labor. Our offices of honor and profit have been
monopolised almost by slave holders, foreign
policy has been subsidiary to the fostering of Stare Ia
Dor at the expense Of free labor. The system Of in
ternal improvements as carried on by the General
Government the la d bill--a national currency, and
above all, the Tariff, have all been Frustrated the
feet of the slnve power. An now, when the people
of the North seem to be opening their eyes to the
al sacrifices which they have made in the desecruted
of democracy, TO the rule of slavery by the
irons results of the reduction Of the Tariff from 1882
to i42~ John c. Calhoun aud his Southern clique seek
accession Of slave territory to strengthen
their power and assist them in overriding the Tariff
ofProtection and reduce to free trade
and perpetual slavery. They are determined to rule
or ruin--to WELD the whole power of the Union or
else dissolve the Union. and establish slave despo-
tism in the South Hence the democratic party in
ls44, although they up TO Baltimore instructed
to vote for MIR Van Buren, threw him overboard-so
they rejected Cass and Buchanan, and Stewart, and
took the unheard of name Of James X. Polk of Ten
nessee, Mr. Cuhoun's and Andrew Jackson's most
ton power which had Frustrated all the interest of
free labor the feet of the free trade and perpetual
slavery party Of the Souh And Mr. Folk was suited
to their purposes, not only because he was for Texas
and free tradebut because he was, from his position
in slave State, necessarily identified with the great
scheme of Ultimate dsunion Do state unruh?
What say the Convention? They for Immediate
annexation What says r. NJ. Johnson? We
want Texas to form slave States, TO balance the
coming in Of the free States Of Wisconsin and Iowa
What say MIR Holmes and Rhott They will have
Texas with the Union if necessary without the
Union What says the ex-nullifcation Gov. james
Hamilton He will resort to arms for Texas and
dissolution And last least what says T. II. Ben
ton the leader Of the democratic party for the last
quarter of century, up TO May lsi4-a man of
more sense than all the notification party consolidated
into one He tells us in his Bonneville speech, that
s'dissoluton Of The Union is the end proposed by
these Texas annexationsts Jackson tells us, Texas
is the question: the Richmond Enquirer, the lender of
the Southern democratic wing, says that "ree trade
and Texas are the questions. Ifthen these be the
issues, and am compelled to choose between Polk
and free trade and Texas, on the one hand, and
Henry Clay, homo labor, and the Union on the
oIherthcn by all that is sacred among men,l 60 for
Clay and the Wing party, and against Polk and the
Democratic patty. Free trade with other nations is
impossible-they do not and will not allow it-and
they ought not if they would. lay down the broad
ground, that has been pracsed for centuries by
intelligent nations, repeated once more by Thos jeff
erson, and engralted into system, by the first law
ever made by our government, the end Of which was
to perfect its execution-that "the farmer and me-
chanic should be set down alongside Of each other"
II raise bushel Of wheat and carry it to England
and there exhange it for hat, have to pay the en-
tire cost of transportation, or ift is divided between
me and the halter equally, lose half the cost of car
rage. If sell my bushe of wheat to the halter liv-
ing along side of me, lose nothing in currage, ne
ther nor the halter. Again, if carry my bushel o.
wheat to England, or send it, and sell it, get lie
cents bushel, but it 60 cts get it there
leaving me but fifty cents at last FOR my wheat; bu
if | can by voton, or by legislation, the hattie
from England and place him by me, he gives mc
ITO for my wheat, and more than double the pro