Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-09-27

Dor is much cheaper than here, and the aburer de.
graded being, and not elevated to the rank of free
man. tie has no participation in the government
der winch he lves-ho Is mere nbOier; he Laws mp
nothing beyond Tho mere support of his ftmy for til
! day; lie has no means of educating hi children; he
lives o0E and dies poor, and his chdfen come after
! Inn with the same biography. -tgrca laughter. l.
TINS Is European al or, and To erstani it rcqlics
no Investigation Of history, no theory OF capital or
property This Is the fact. Go to any part of Eu.
! fope-look at any outdoor labor, and there is no
! question that our people cannot live on it, They can
not feed and cloihe themselves and families and edu-
! Gale then children upon It, They do not mean TO
submit to It ana will not The wages of many Jinds
OF labor in England and it is worse on the continent
are one shilling sterling [2i cents per day, for the
able oded laborer boarding himself One shilling
and six pence per day[about 30 cents is liberal price
III harvest time, when labor is in demand through the
greater part of England and of all Europe. Now the
question is this whether we the working peope of the
! United States are willing to put Yourselves in COMPETE
lion with labor at this rae? [cties Of no! no :! say
! no! myself.
And we ask nothing unreasonable Every man
says to hs nelghhor, if you furnish inc with what
want Will furnish You with the productions of my
! labor, and both and all establish the maxim of live and
let live | believe we are competent to provide for
! ourselves, by the interchange of commodities with
most of the essentials and Injuries of life.
II is the universal cry and outest where the facts
are least known that this system is useful corpora
tons only builds great fortunes and depresses In
hor. On this ground, even in this community, there
are those evil spirits abroad whose business it is to
excite war among Inc cnSScS; VINO are iu OF haired,
envy, malice and all wnchaiablcness For do saw,
on my conscience, that since the time when the ser.
pcn entered paradise to beaue and destroy our first
parents. more wicked spirit has not manifested itself
in the shape of man or serpent than insgaies those
demagocue> who preach that ono class mus, be hos
ule 10 another aud foster enmies between the near
est aud dearest relatives. (thpers) If YOU find such
n man mark hlm!-stgmallze him the law stigma.
ties pirates, "a enemies to the human race Turn
him out Of doors the comes TO insgaie evil and is
worthy of no society but that Of his early plotovpe
(Grca cheers and laurhier)
No, gentlemen it is false to take this ground arains,
corporations. What are they in effect? ANY five
men may have corpo alton ifthey chooses it is on
~ form to unite capitals where there are no great
capitals, as there are in Europe Men may in
Europe, where capital, are larger many manufnc.
lures. With us, where there is not this ability, they
unite in SOFT of eship and nothing else. say.
therefore, that whatsoever raises the price of labor
expressly for the benefit Of The lahorng and to
the injury OF capitalists 50 far MS II goes, for so much
is taken from capital and addc TO the wages Of labor
And OF every thing that which tends most 10 dis-
courage the arslocra'ic accumulation of propelv and
diminish poverty is The ample reward of Labor. Where
there is reward sufficient 10 feed and clothe the In
borci aud his family 10 support public schools and
the public worship of the deity, there never was nor
can be overgrown fortunes on the one hand, or po,
ettv and begaarv on the other
The distinguished gentleman who represents this
District IN ConGr' SO has written letter friend in
the South, describing the persons who own stock in
some of these Corporations We sec from this for
instance, that in the Mcrrmac Printing Works there
ARE $50 pr ,prieors, Of whom
4: are merchants;
68 rm1cs. (Wllnws &">;
81 nli'1u1s retired from business;
80 administrators. sc;
% lawyers. Il did not know SO many OF my own
profession were 50 Fortunately;
Is physicians;
Il farmers:
10 CLERKS aud secretaries; AND
45 mechanics and manu- acurers, including 4 num-
her Of individuals actually enlpnred ~ the mills.
COuld anvlhinr be more dl,fribuiiye Than this y
Here only convenient mode of nvcsimrn, of arue
and Of small oi1ntos of nancy There i, M i'm.
dencv to accumulate here; and our frame Of govern
meat entirely oboIishcs the whole system of entails
and pr!mogeniure. And he who cries out Ar~tncra-
cv here mint as well crv ont scarecrow 10 friuhlen
men out of their senses.
when the question If adopting the Clnstitran was
debated in the Old South by the rrrnl mon nr tIlt
time one of the prominent arguments in its favor
was that it would protect the mechanic arts Tbs
was the argument of Paul Revere and nfjudae Dawes
This wa the sum and Substance of the rtslui rs
/ adopted by the Mech lnics' Society ut the Green
Drauon Tavern which Won m -pd 10. d,v at a meet
ing where. as Paul Revere told Samuel A,lams there
were more mechanics than there are stars in Hcay-
en-. This power va, then enaraftei in the Cons'i,u-
ton ia favor of he artisan who works without ana
/ chinorv and without c,sita
! Our opponents confne their illustrations to the
great establishments of |. Dwell and Amosheac They
say nothing Of the shlemakers of Lynn and the hat
tiers of Boston nor of those thousands other than hos,
who live hy the exercise of the mechanic arts in their
own shops The farmer is said 10 he the dupe the
sacrifce the VIC I'M They say he would be better of
free trade should be estahli he'd. This is sal fire.
quentv But the farmo knows that that safe Of things
IS the best for him which gives him the best market
fer his prod ,ce which gives him the greatest number
OF consumers of his p,olucts.
MIR. Stewart, member o Congress from Pennsyl-
wanna has said llat in the British broadclo imported
here the wool and the breadsuf1 consumed y those
who have made il, has taken the place Of the prodrcs
Of agriculture of the American farmer. He has sad
too that he is an iron MASTER and that he has learned
from his own cxnclience that for every ten dollars
nad for manufactured IRON eight dollars has been paid
for produce and labor to his neighbors about him
And in every ton ofimported IRON 50 much Of foreign
labor and ch lion of the products Of foreign
agriculture is paid for Il any farmer quite certain
Tim, without the protection of his wheat and rye those
articles would not be imported from the Baltic, from
polani and from other parts of Europe Ii is a fact
Tint rye has already been imported in cargars from
the Black Sen; and but for the duty Of quarter Of a
dollar bushel who can say how much larger nlpor-
tailons miuht be made Does nny one suppose that
we could cover our heads with our own hats hut Tor
protection enough to work exclusion of hats from
Englanl? Take away the Tariff an all fills to the
, rrounJ. The numerous dclogation sent here from