Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-16

900, 600 Of this over $45 900 000c consisted Of the
wheat, flour, pot and pearl ashes, lumber, beef,
pork, hams, cheese, and other products of the free
states In 1919, and so on till now, when the pop
uIatlon OF the free states had risen from four to
ten millions, the entire exports of the North,
amounted to barely ten or twelve millions, while
the south had risen from fifteen to eigty mil
lions. The little Northern produce exported,
went chiefly to South America, or countries more
remote, being shut out from all the great markets
of Europe, where we bought our imported goods;
while the products of staUe labor found free ac-
cess to all these markets, and were alone used in
naytng for them. How die 1t happen? reply, !
the entire potUer of our government by which soever
party 1t has been welded, has been constantly en-
ptoyed TO bring II about from 1916 to this hour
Four out of five of our Presidents, Cabinet Minis
tiers, Ambassadors, and other public officers, who
have shaped our laws and treaties, have been
slave holders, and have shaped them to make slave
labor as profitable US they could; and then to en-
able it to plumber enough of the earnings of free
men to make up the deficit. BY favoring some
one interest of the North at the expense of the
rest, and by the bride of office, the slave power
has made northern Federalists and Republicans,
Democrats and Whigs-all parties that numbered
shareholders among their members-consent to
such shameless subserviency to the interests of
| despotism. Look at a few facts. In 1923, there
were 1925 northern vessels employed i'll the trade
with the British West Indies, (Which were the
enterports of vast commerce with other natlons.)
The goods sent by them were chiefly the products
of New England, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. The shareholders, led on by CAL
houn, complained that their sugar, rice, molasSes
and rum, Tor slavery were not protected and by
changes in the tariff from 1923 to 1926, the north
was almost wholly cut off from those markets for
its goods; the number of vessels employed in the
trade reduced from 1925 down to less than $50;
and we obliged to pay for our West India goods
hv kills IF aYchonrn dra S01IthPrn cOL-
ton, sent to Europe! Again. In 1920 over $50
sail ofAmerican vessels were employed in trade
with Ireland, carrying the products of the free
States Chiefly provisions) to her people & bring
ing back Irish linens, kerseys, and other goods
By similar changes in tariff, directed by the
South, the trade tcGs destroyed. Daniel O'COn-
nell stated at repeal meeting at Belfast, in 194l,
that it turned 900 Irishmen ont of employment,
. and covered the most fourshing parts of the
4 "Green Isle" with desolation. We know that for
| years after, not an American vessel entered an
Irish port, and not a dollars worth of our provis-
+ ions or other goods entered an lrshman's home.
What say you, sons of Ireland, to the Amer
lean slavery has brought to your native and?-
Since 1916, there have been about 1863 treaties
G made by our government to regulate our trade
G and intercourse with foreign nations. Thirteen
e out of every seventeen of the ambassadors and
: others who have made them have been slavehold-
G ers, and they have shaped them to their liking.
UOI UnG VI luCIll Va any
J. has had any reference to the interests OF the north
Il or free labor. They have all, or nearly all, had
h for their object the enlargement of free markets. IN
N, all the world tor cotton, rce sugar, tobacco, the
IS products of slave labor, and the exclusion of
thern products from those markets land the destruc
ton of northern commerce, so as to bring the price
is of the wages of free labor down to the level oil
l. slave labor. For this our government has strain
" ed every nerve. For this it has "a diplomatic
e agents in Europe, while not line has beer
Is written not an ambassador sent out since 1906 OIL
b. O7 to any country to get market for an article
IN raised by northern farmer or made in northern
20 work shop or factory. The last treaty ever made
" for the benefit of free labor, negotiated by thu
ee Hon Mr. Hill, of Buffalo, with Don Juan of Por
tuga at which time that monarch held his cour
III at Brazil, in 1906 or 1905
tn Under that treaty vast and very profitable trad
lis grew up between Brazil and the free States. W.
- sent nearly $10,000,000 Of grain, flour, pot AM
H. pearl ashes, lumber and manufactures, to Brazil
It's in exchange for her sugar. rice, coffee nc. Eth
s er party could terminate the treaty by years
at tice. Who gave it? The United States. A
or whose bidding? John c. Calhoun What for
lis The result shows. The market for norther
N. goods was Immediately destroyed by dscrimlna
- ting duties The price of grain, flour, lumber
vo pot and pearl ashes, land and labor was Lowered
nd 90 per cent. One manufacturer of pot aud peal
M ashes at Lockport, told me it destroyed his buS
Ie Massachusetts and New York ruined an
,at their losses thrown back upon the farmers an
| mechanics who had trusted them. Who cared
e, Slavery got its ends. Henceforward we must pa
Of for our Brazil sugar, Coffee and hides with coo
ZEN sent to Europe, and exchanged for English an
he French goods, sent to Brazil in British and Frenc
m vessels The American farmer, mechanic, an
nv ship owner might complain of the loss of brea
he But slavery wilIed it! Shall the "white slave
gn dare to assai his master!
W. Take one more example. long series of tre
srs ties has secured the admission of slave labor co
he ton into England and France, s. through Franc
ry. into nearly all Continental markets. The last WI
IN that of 1841 with France the real object of whic
for was covered up by the patry indemnify of fl,
,ur millions, which gave it name. What were /
her terms? We agreed take off our duties on FrenC
ar, Wines brandies and silks Qntemperance can
ole in upon us like flood, and the country was dral
ra ed of its resources pay for silks and other lux
. res.) France in return took oft her duties
ven slave labor cotton The cotton sent to France,
ia creased nine fold in 8 years! The news of Il
of treaty raised the price of cotton cents pouIl
the in one hour raised the price of slaves III the ore
ave ding States from 5000 to 400 apiece; stopped t.
of abolition debate in the Virginia and Kentucky
uel pslaures; revived the internal slave trade; led
the the export of 100, 900 victims from Maryland a
By Virginia, (of which at least 10000 passed throu
the the National Slave Markets at Washington to t
With cotton growing States, between 1882 and 1888,
,try companed by the horrors of sundered tamiit
of broken hearts, and bodily suffering that mark Il
was internal traffic everywhere on earth. 10 mt