The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-02-14

system of monopoly and plunder,and to be
thoroughly Republican and federal in
its character. | also hold, that so long as
the duties are so laid assto be in fact boun
ties TO one portion of the community.
while they operate as oppressive taxes on
the other. there can be no hope that the
Government can be reformed, or its ex-
penditures will be reduced to the proper
standard.
Where I. with the evidence before me,
to say otherwise of my course, il would be,
practically, TO declare that regard the
protective policy 10 be an open question.
so far as the party is concerned; which
would consider, on my part, a virtual aban>
dCnment of the cause of Free Trade. That
can never be. have done and suffered
to much for it. when its friends were few
and feeble, TO abandon it now-now,when
the auspices every where. on this and the
other side of the Atlantic, proclaim the
approaching downfall of protection, and
this permanent triumph of Free Trade. j,
who upheld it against monopoly and plum
der, in the worst of times, and braved the
menaces Of Administration, and Oppo-
sition, when backed up by single State
will not L cannot abandon the glorious
cause now, when its banner waves in
proud triumph over the metropolis of the
commercial world. No, shall maintain
immoyeably the ground have so long &C.
cupied, until | have witnessed IFS great
and final victory, if it shall please the Dis.
poser of events to spare my life so long
1t Will be indeed, vICToRY-the hardin.
ger of new and brighter and higher civ.
ilization.
Much less. still, can | give my support
to any candidate who shall give his aid oil
countenance to the agitation of abolition
IN Congress or elsewhere or whose prom
inent and influential friends and supper
tiers shall. | doubt the sincerity of any
man, who declares he is no sbolitionist
whilst, at the same time, he aids or coun
tenances the agitation of the question, be
his preiext what it may. If we have a
right TO our slaves, we have the right tc
hold them in peace and quiet. If the
Constitution garantees the one, it garan.
tees the other; and fit forbids the one
from being attacked, it equally forbids the
| other. Indeed, the one stands to the 9th.
er as means 10 an end, and is so avowed
by the abolitionis,s and on the plainest
principles OF morals, if the end be pro
hibited, tho means OF elTecting it also are
OF the two. regarded the deluded fanat
ic far less guilty and dangerous than he
who, for party or political purposes, aid:
or countenances him, in what he knows i.
intended to do that which he acknowled
ges TO be forbidden by the constituon.
1t is time that an end should be put to
this system of plumber and agitation
They have been borne long enough. They
are kindred measures, and hostile as fair
at least, as enc portion Of the Union is con
ccrned. While the tariff takes from u:
the proceeds of our labor, abolition strikes
at the labor ITSELF The one robs us Of
our income, while the other aims at des'
troying the source from which that in
come is derived. 1t is impossible for us to
stand patiently much longer, under their
double operation, without being impover'
ished and ruined.
JOHN C. CALHOUN.