Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-05-31

der. AT prices which Indicate tolerable degree
of prosperity at the North the South consumes fif
ty millions of dollars worth of our products annu-
ally. Under the operations of the liberty partys
commercial reciprocity or Free-Trade system, we
should be compelled to furnish them the same
amount of products for half that sum- making a
clear tax upon the free States, for the benefit of
the South, besides loading us with other incalculn-
BILE losses, of twenty five millions of dollars annu-
ally Now as the non saveholding portion of the
South have not the facilities for producing the mar
ketabe staples they produce something for their
own consumption, and leave the great slavcocracy
to reap the benefit of that enormous tax upon nor
thern industry. Surely, shareholders tremble in
view of the Liberty party especially when they
reflect that they constitute the political majority in
their several State Governments, and can conse-
quently hold their slaves MS long as they can make
it profitable; but this trembling is more ailectaton
than reality. They may indeed affect pous dread
at seeing the liberty loving North injected with
religious pllrenzy, which dscoucelts the plans Of
an Adams, IA Giddings and thousand other Of the
best men in the nation; but their dread must sure
lily be like that Of the Turtle in the tdbe-of being
drowned
If Seeming events" as the adage says, cast
their shadows before them" surely every American
in whose bosom is cherished the name and political
principles of our Revolutionary sies,-or in other
words every one who is true Whig-wi rejoice
TO learn that the little ambitious auxlliaries to the
Calhoun and McDuffie democracy have at length
cast off the mask, and concluded, like Capt Tyler,
to appeal to the people upon their own merits. Do
publish some of the productions of the Freemans
correspondent 3d., and especially an article signed
" An Old Man." which appeared i'll Oct. last, that
the people may see wherein their merits consist
The great law of lore which B" depends upon to
advance the cause of Free Trade is Of course a
Bible iaC, and repugnant, as he thinks, TO the pro
teCtye policy; hence according TO the scale Of
ethics adopted by the Liberty party, a protective
Tariff law would be void, and the allegiance which
the Christian owes to his Maker would cons,rain
! him to .NtiiDl
For myself, have no fears that the majority of
the people will ever become sufficiently desperate,
to follow those relormerS of the Freeman; let us
hear them, and be warned against them.
H. d. lIERRlCK
Remarks We would very cheerfully aid in
showing that the so called Liberty party leaders
arc uniting Free Trade doctrines to the Nuliica-
ton dogma of their National Convention, did we
deem it necessary. We do not think it necessary,
however, first, because are cannot open the eyes OF
the third party, if they blind to the revelations
of their own oracle; and second, because the tes-
tmony of responsible man like our correspondent
| (who has abandoned the third party because OF
these absurd and dangerous doctrines, is sufficient
for those who are not bound, soul and body, to the
third party leaders Gerrit Smith, Of n. Y, let us
add, is the chief leader of the Free Trade aboli-
tonists; and "an old man" IA venerable clergy
man of our acquaintance, whom we have heard ad
vocatug the doctrine is one Of the principal third
party writer's in this state. AS we understand them
they base the free trade doctrine upon the com
mand to love our neighbors as ourselves--forget
ting, conceive that true charity begins at home
and that as he who provides not for his household
so the nation which guards not its own people, il
recreant to one Of the first Of duties.