Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-06-13
AMERICAN INDUSTRY Us. BRITISH
LABOR.

LABOR.
We this week enter upon our abors in earnest,
and shall relax no fair and honorable efforts from
now until the close ofthe polls on the 9TH of No
vember to carry forward the great and all impor-
rant principles for which the Wings contending
We feel it our duty in the outset to warn the
Wings against supineness and inactivity. We have
great battle to fight and the untiring and vgiant
exertious of every man is needed Let no man
plant himself upon the great superiority Of the
Wing candidates-the eminent necessity and i'm
Porlanoe of the establishment of Wing principles
the prosperity OF the country, and the permanent
cy Of our Republican institutions, and think that
they of themselves are going to accomplish the
ends for which we have so long commended. IL we
are to succeed we must be industrious, we must
pin our faith upon our sleeves where the world
it. and with stout and resolute hearts 90 into
the fight and there in the heat and burden Of the
day labor with Ill might and strength not only
to win the battle but ourselves, and crown
our Efforts with decisive and glorious victory
We have a ygiani, industrious and maddened
foe to contend against and though torn by dissen-
and desperate onslaught. We have met them Gin
fair field and open fight" upon the great princi-
pies which have hitherto divided the parties of the
country, and Notwithstanding in large
minority in Congress we put them to flight and
stood proudly in possession Of the field. Shot af-
nenis stood undismayed before the broad blaze of
ordnance, until at last the 0 FOUNDER from
Virginia came and settled tie matter for a time.
But notwithstanding she heavy firing which we
have poured upon them, they are yet alive and
seeking new recruits under Disguise Flag
Watch that Flag, be not decoysd by it, but prepare
new for the fight, follow with earnestness and
determination the old enemy and give them
battle until you find British Labor" under your
feet and "American Labor" above your heads
This is the true and important issue before the
country American Industry against British La
Dor. The Loco Focos will know il is the issue,
but they know they dare not meet tho Wings in
open fight upon that issue before the people. They
still maintain their hatred to it, and if they can
ever succeed in grasping the rens Of power under
any circumstances whatever, the fr.t blow will be
to strike down American Industry, and raise upon
its ruins the pifatical flag of Free Trade. Look
at the matter and see if this is not the end and
aim of the Loco Foco party. Who is their candi-
date for the Presidency, James X. Polk of Ten
nessee notorious Free Trade advocate and who
no longer ago than the Sd of April IS43, while can
wasting Tennessee as Candidate for Governor, in
public speech proclaimed, distribution and
Protective Tariff measures which | consider
,uinoas to the interests of the country, and espe
cially to the interests of the planting States-l
haze steadily and at all times opposed both."-
Here then we have it in broad terms from the
mouth of Mr. Polk himself, that he considers it
"ruinous to the interests of the country to protect
American labor. What else then can expect
from his administration should he be elected, than
that we must be Frustrated at the foostool OF Great
Brtaia,--our mechanics and workingmen thrown
out of employment. and our whole country thrown
wide open as Plumber garden for the rapacity
and avarice of all the crowned heads of the wordl
Are American freeman ready for this state of
things, and are American Wings prepared to stand
by idle and see their Industry thus Frustrated, and
the tax gatherer coming with his remorseless
grasp TO snatch the very bread from their mouths2
No, we feel too much confidence in that noble
band of patr who have stood shoulder TO shout
der for years amid the dark hours Of adversely
tyranny and misrule, not to believe that they will
not now make one more generous and noble effort
to rescue their country aud her dearest interests,
ard cover with dismay and confusion that party
which in their anxiety after the spols. are willing
TO humble the industry aud labor of their own
country beneath the feet of the paupers of Europe
This is the self styled Democracy of the United
States-the men who preach much about their
love for the dear people-these, the guardians of
the workingmen Aye says Mr.. Polk it is ''inju-
rous to the interests of the country to protect
American labor. How and where, prayf Well
we will see--the American laborer will remember
the sentiment when the day of reckoning comes,
The American farmer will to the matter before
the home market is destroyed and direct taxation
is fastened upon him. The American mechanic
will ponder well and act promptly before he sees
the blessings OF ten cents a day and bean soup
spread upon has table to make him equal TO the
pauper laborers of Europe, and his children cast
out into hopeless ignorance for the want of means
to educate them. The people, aye the freeman of
the United States will rise, and with one mighty
effort cast Free Trade and its advocates into re-
trement where they and their exploded and use.
less systems may dwell in harmony together
The question must now be settled definitiyely and
we therefore give opponents fair warning that
the people of Virginia mean to hold them to the
text. Clay and American Industry as. Polk and
British Labor That is one of the principal issues,
and we mean to hold you to IT,