The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-07-05
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Put theh you Try 10 irlghten us IN anoth-
er way. The panperism of Great Britain!
Her people crushed down; her mobiles revel-
ling in pomp and pride. All as you would
have If, the result of her protective system.
Here you make another grand flourish and
another grand mistake. You know, or ought
to know, that these ranks and distinctions in
that country have existed, time out ofmind.
There never has been a time, when the no..
bility and gentry did not tyrannize over the
laboring millions. You have alluded to the
times of feudal oppression, when the laborer
was a serf, a slave, and you admit he then
needed protection. The policy of protection
was then utterly unknown. Free labor there,
is indebted for its existence, TO the introduce
tion of commerce, manufactures, the arts
and sciences, which receiving some coun-
t%enance, but not SO much as they were en-
titled 10, from government, have been ena-
bled TO march onward, and onward until now
the face of the earth, compared with form
er ages, may be said 10 be changed and reno
waited.
Down trodden as may be the English la
borer at this day ,he is not SO bad off,as when
some centuries ago, he was compelled TO
reap in harvest, for two pence day to work
and make hay, for a penny a day; and when
a plough driver got seven shillings a year,
with food, but no clothing, and a years
wages would buy only seven yards of coarse
cloth, the material he had 10 wear. And
when he preferred black bread TO white, be-
cause of its "aPidiag longer in the stomach
and not s~o.easily digcsted."
If you were not anxious 10 attribute all
the ills that have happened, or that are like
" TO happen, in this wide world, to the pro-
tective policy, it appears to me-, you would
come to the more rational conclusion, tina
it was not p~rotection-but the want of it
that produced a large share, if not the larges
ofthese evils. And in regard 10 Great BIZ.
tain, you could account for the disparity il
rank and fortune, by looking into the nature
and history of that government, Amonarch
with IFS APPENDICES of Noblenen and Ger
try. The lands ofthe country centuries age
parcelled out by William the Conq,serer t
himself aud Mobiles. Fhe people slaves
And that state ofthings, with some allevi;
tons and notifications, continued eve
since. FIVE we're proposing TO abolish OF
free Institutions, the legacy of our Father
which they tore from the unwilling hant
Of that same King and Mobiles; if we wei
courting His embraces and manilesting
willingness TO yield Him our birthright, yc
might then warn US, with some sort of rel
son, ofthe danger of British systems; yc
might tell US, with great propriety, that Br
ish c~alicoes, were not as bad as BIRTHS
King, with his Lords Spiritual and Lor,
Temporal, and all their complicated machin
ry of oppression.
But all these warnings, are just about
appropriate as most of your argument, al
especially your tobacco illustration. t
British duty on Tobacco, you know, is moi
protective duty-it forms no part of her p
%tective policy-it is not imposed with a
view to encourage its production, or &C
sumption. Not aPound Of tobacco is IA
ed there, and it is not ranked among t
necessaries of life. 1t is taxed as a luxu
and those who choose TO enjoy the lux
oftaking snuff, chewing or smoking, pay
tax. If it were desirable TO extend its C
sumption the duty would be modified acco
ingly. Protection is neither the object,
the effect of the duty, and hence it pro
nothing, against that policy.
But now, sir, lest I weary you, I
bring this epistle, which is longer than
tended, to a close. Indeed | do not KIN
but that | ought to suppress its publicati
The papers inform US that the bill,
great bill, which was to increase the reyer
by reducing duties, and rid the country
that %prohibitary tariff Of 1912, which
destroying commerce, the revenue, cons
ers and all,-has actually breathed its
dead and buried, and that too in a Democ
ic House; and you one Of its many nur
fathers, and all this, done and suffered,
fore you had an opportunity of making
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