The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-08-22

OF free rdue. SlOuIu I'No w ""'" ~"
give your views of Free Trade in the next
Age. In the first place | should like TO
know whether by free trade yon hold to
throwing open our ports aud admitting
goods free OF duiy-or whether you call 1t
! free trade to protect against foreign COM
petition all of the interests Of the whole
Union alike, and by so doing put them ala
on level with each other, and in sllua
ton to compete with the world.
My object in proposing the above ques-'
tons is to stop the mouths of the coons that
are yeIpng free trade, and charging the
democrats of Advocating hat they call free
trade-lhat is, opening our ports aud adj
hitting goods free ofduty, and by so doing,
putting our mechanics on level with the
paupcr labor of Europe.
BY giving your views on the above ques-
tions Won will obige your friend and a
friend of Polk and Dallas.
In the Age, April 81, l843, our cores
pendent will find the following;
Free TRADE.-We find the coon pa
pers full of Misrepresentation OF the doc,
,rines of Free Trade. The Albany coon
Journal says ofseveral Democratic papers
"Four Of them 60 the whole OF free
I'rade in our ports, though Foreign Ma
| ions should shut onr products out OF theirs"
This Is downright misrepresentation
Not single democratic paper has ever
advocated such nonsense The assertion
of the journal bears ialsehood upon It's
face And yet, silly as it IS, it is what one
hal! of the people OF goodly Vermont sup
pose is meant by Free Trade, How can
Trade be free with Great Britain by the
laws of which she is allowed to sell her
goods in our ports free of duty, while we
are not allowed the same privilege IN hers
How can that be called Free Trddc! Yet
according to the Journal, it would be Free
Trade, as the democrats understand it,
| We repeat, no such absurd and ridiculous
doctrines have ever been thought OF by the
democrats. If Great Britain is allowed tree
access to our ports we are to be allowed
the same to hers that is the doctrine and
nothing so foolish as that asserted by the
journal as being advocated by the Demo-
Gratis.
The people of this state have been made
/ to believe that the Democrats wish tothrow
open our ports to Great Britain, whether
she will rcclproca,e or not NO such 'hihg
have the democrats ever thought OF.
The celebrated NlKay's bill, OF which
the coons so loudly complain, contains the
following definition OF Free Trade;
"Thc terms "frce trade" in their broad
sense, the committee understand to he e.
Qually Inconsistent with the idea of Il reve-
nue. from imports, because they suppose
tha, trade which is perfectly free, cannot
be burlhcned with any duties not imposed
to furnish facilities to itself, In this sense,
they are assured the phrase is understood
in some portions OF the country, when used
in connection with legislation of this de-
scrption; and the advocates of a system q
free hade are supposed to be also advocates
of change of one system OF rerenHe from
duties on imports to Internal faraiion, direct
and ndircct The committee believe that Il
any hold these views, much the largest
class of those who call themselves friends
of free trade do not attach 10 he terms any
Sucb extent. and only intended TO be under
stood by The free irodc trey adrocoie so m"ch
frecdOm Of hadc as may be enjoyed under
system ofduiies arranged wiM sole reference
to suppiy crhe pUbGc treasury, and The
rates established as iow as the economical
rants Of that treasury uW Gllow."
Our Springfield correspondent will see
tina, these extracts covert the whole ground.
The Free 1'rode system is antagonist
to the Restrictive system. The latter inn
poses duties for the especial benltlt of
q norton of The Union, and is founded
upon Henry Clay's federal doctrine, GAG
| RICULTURE needs little or no protec-
ton from the regulations of foreign pow
ers," or in other words one or two partlcu-
lar interests shall be protected and the rest
may take care OF themselves the best way
they can. The former system imposes dn
ties for the protection Of the ~hoIc Union,
and is founded upon Gov. Folks democrat
c doctrine Of "lair and just protection to
all the great interests of the whole union,
embracing AGRICULTURE, the ME-.
CHANIC ARTS, Commerce aud Nayiga-
ton"
For ourselves, and we DEFY coon malice
or Misrepresentation to show the contrary,
we have always advocated the doctrine of
"Tarlf for Revenue with determinations
for protection" We have always sustain
cd the following Resolution passed by the
Vermont coon Legislature Oct 1871;
RESOLVED. That our Senators in Congress be
nslru cied, and our Representatives requested 10
use all honorable means in their power to procure
the passage of laws, which, while they shall guard
agains, the numerous hauds and evasons now
praciced upon by foreigners and foreign agents
and while they shall raise rereDue sufficient on !
H. for The necessary expense, Of The government, |
aud shall have due regard 10 the particular inte
rest Of every section of our country; may give, by