Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-07-12
VOL. XXxvIu, NO. 45.--wHoLE NO. 1869.


abun liant revenue Then thew s1iffod Iii ro,,,I /.
The Treasury. said they. is oyertlo,v;na tha Torr
is the cause, and the system must be oh ,nI,uoJ
If they had taken the trouble to enuuire ,In, n,~b,
have ascertained that, although England Is ,be
greatest manufacturing nation in .tiie vrnrld ~
amount extent and variety she peycrtheless dr,,g
vast revenue from customs .
Allow me to present YOU. fellow-citizens with
another view of this interesting subject The Gov.
eminent wishes to derive a certain amount of rev.
enue from foreign Imports Let us suppose the 10.
tai annual amount Of imports to be SiOOOOO COO
and the total annual amount of revenue to he rails
ed from it, to be s0OOCOOOO Is il at all material
whether that s2OOO0,O00 be spread. in the form Of
duties equally over the whole ICC coo Geo. or that
it be drawn from some 5OOC0COO or more of the
imports leaving the rest free of dury: In point of
fact such has been the case for several years. Is
not a compensation found, for the duty paid upon
one article, by the exemption ffom duty of another
article? Take the wearing appdrel of IA single in
dividual, and suppose you have duty of So To-
raise upon it; is It of any consequence to him
whether you levy the whole 81 upon all parts of
his wearing apparel equally, or levy il exclusively
upon his coat and his shirt, leaving the other arii
cles free! And If by such determinations as /
have described without prejudice TO the consumer,
you can raise up, cherish, and sustain domestic
manufactures increasing tie wealth and prosperity,
and encouraging the labor Of the nation ought it
not TO be done!
! W Z uie ihNled, ny tHe pHItIH1HS Oh une~uOctrlne
! OF Free Trade, to initiate the liberal example of
some OF the Great European powers. England, we
are told, Is abandoning her restrictive policy, and
adopting that Of Free Trade. England adot ting
| the principles OF Free Trade. Why, where are
her corn Laws? Those laws Which exclude an
article OF prime necessity-the very bread which
sustalns human e-ln order to afford projection
to English agriculture. And, on the single auice
OF American Tobacco, England levies annually
an amount Of Revenue equal to the whole amount
oil duties, levied annually by the United States
upon all the articles OF import from all the Foreign
Nations OF the world. including England. This is
her Free Trade! And as tor France, we have
! lately seen state paper from one of her high
/ functionaries, complaining in bitter terms of the
American Tariff of IS42, and ending withorm1l-
! ly announcing to the world that France steadily
adhered to the system of protecting French indus.
try!
But, fellow citizens, have already detained you
too long on this interesting topic, and vet have
scarcely touched it. For near thirty wears it has
agitated the Nation. The subject has been argued
and debated thousand times, in eve,y conceivable
FORM 1t is time that the policy of the country
should become settled and fixed ANY stable adj
iustment of it, whatever it may be, will be far pre-
fnrabe to perpetual vasclllation. When once de-
termined, labor enterprise and commerce can ac-
commodate themselves accordingly. But in finally
settling 1t, the interests of the whole Union, as
well rs all its parts should be duly weighed and
consists Of 26 States besides territories, embracing
every variety of pursuit everv branch of human In
dustry There may be an apparent, there is
al conflict between these diversified interests. No
one State, no section can reasonably expect OF
desire that the common governmemt-ot the whole
should be administered, exclusively according 10
its own peculiar opinion, to advance only
its own peculiar interests, without regard 10 the o.
pinion the interests of all other parts. In respect
to the Tariff there two schools holding opposite
& extreme doctrines According to one, perfect free.
dom in our foreign trade with no. or very low duties
ought to prevail According to the other the restric-
tive policy ought, on many articles, to be pushed,
by high and exorbant Tariff. to the point of abb
soute prohibition. Neither party can hold itself
up as an unerring standard of right and WISDOM
Falbllity is the lot ota men, and the wsest do not
know how little they do know. The doc rine Of free
Trade is concession TO Foreign powers, without
an equivalent, to the pr udice Of native Industry
Not only without equivalent, but in the face of he
high duties, restrictions and prohibitions appii.
e to American products, by Foreign Powers, our
rivals jealous of our growth and anxious to impede
our onward progress Encouragement of domestic
Industry Is concession to our fellow citizens, to
those, whose ancestors shared in common with orr
ancestors, in the tolls ofhe revolutions to those who
nave shared with us in the tolls and sufierings of
J our day to those whose poserily ars destined to
share with our posteity in the trials, in the lr.-
umphs and the gories that await them 1t is a con-
cesslon TO those who are bone Of our bone and flesh
Of our tesh and who in some other beneficial form
i do make and ready 10 make equivalent conces-
slons to Ii is still more it is concession by the
whole to the whole; for every part OF the country
possesses capacity to manufacture, and every part
of the country more or less does manufacture
Some parts have advanced farther than others, but
the progress of all is forward and onward
Again ask, what to be done in this nfct
Of opinion between the two extremes which have
stated? Each believes with quite ich conf
dence as the other. that the policy VIII CHI lie es-
pouses is the best for the country. Neither las a
right to demand that his judgement shall ex H.
9NeS prevail N"ae uganG, ask! 's 10 pe oone
this glorious Union to be broken up and dissolved
and the hopes OF tile world, which are concentrated
in its fate, to be blasted and destroyed forever? p
No. fellow citizens, no The Union must be pre-