The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-10-10

opted land, and Of the American people. In
like manner | taka it the majority of my
countrymen have believed and have been
mistaken, or deceived. Ground 10 the dust
in the home of their fathers by the ariStoc-
racy of England and Ireland, the name of
democrat had a charm easily to enlist them
in the ranks of the LocoEocos;Eand there
fore il is, as | have been Informed, and from
my own knowledge believe, a vast number of
the Irish electors in America still cling to
that party because of the name, and because
of their antipathy to the aristocratic %institu-
.tiors of the Old Country. Such being my
impressions previous to landing in this coun-
try, you can scarcely credit how much have
been disappointed subsequent thereto,imme-
Ediately that | begin TO read and converse,
and understand the real nature ofthe facts;'
the momeGtI ascertained that the priniples
Eof CLAY were for the protection OF native in
dusfry, E~bethought me of my own unhappy
country and of that darling scheme ofO'Con
nell, viz: Home or Irish manufacture. Il
has ever been the object of England 10
crush all attempts On the part of Ireland to
establish manufactures in that country, their
policy always being to reserve and retain
Ireland as her granary TO supply Great Brit
ain with wheat and -four, and beef, and pork.
Every Irshman knows this plicy has kept
Ireland in the most impoverished state bles-
sed with a soil and climate as favorable as
any in the world, with a population as indus
%trious, as any to be found, yet out of that
population amounting TO 100000 o. inhab-
%itants, it has been ascertained that there are
100000 of paupefs, thai is 10 say 3,000,-
600 living on the charity of thesc scarcely
removed a degree from pauperism themselves.
lO'Connell, and all the other popular men IN
Ireland, have long since tured their attention
TO This state of things, and have repeatedly
inculcated the necessity of purchasing only
goods ofaIrish manufacture" at whatever
price; but in vain. England is too potent
and too rich, and Ireland annot enact any
PROTECTIVE laws, or in other words, establish
a tariff. Americans have the power, ], for
one, trust they have also the willto protect
their own c~ounrymen,by enacting such laws
as will enable Americans, atnasts 10 com
pete in their own country 10 the kranary
alone ofany foreign country.
/ need not, Mr.. Editor, remind you ofihe
many examples in history, ancient and mod
ern, of The evils resulting TO a nation devot.
ed 10 agricultural PURSUITS alone. Ireland is
one ins.ance-SiciIy is also another and .
memorable one. As long as the Roman
i Empire existed the latter country was the
i pranary of Rome, and alfhoHghAke IAelare
one oTtne most fruitful Islands in the world
producing inexaustible crops of wheat, &c.
the population were, aud continued TO e,the
poorest and most degraded in the then civil
lied world.
If this letter should meet the eyes Of an,
of my countrymen, now citizens of this great
Republic, and advocates for Polk and FREf
TRADE, perhaps if it does moi convince, i
may cause some of them to reflect on the
true nature OF the course they are pursuing.
AN FRESHMAN.
Romnev. va Sent 1914