The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-09-04

III this. (Crices of never never. And
20 my friends, say /, never, never. No J
common sense for that. (Applause.)
Bat there is another class of men whom
the Locofocos are endeayoring to make
believe that the protective policy will not
reach thrir case, viz. carpenters, masons,
eartmen and laboring men / had con-
versation with a cartman, and as 1t Will
Illustrate the manner in which some peo-
pie reason on this subject will relate
i.
Nov" said the cartman, put pro
teetive tariff and all consume will be
higher. / should pay the difference;
whatever the duty might be it would be
added TO the cost; and on the other hand
my business would not be pre- tected, and
does not need it for they cannot do the
carting for US in England l am there
fore not protected but injured" "aell,
but freplied Il do you believe that pro-
tective tariff will raise the price of those
articles as have been protected, as iron,
shifting, nails, pins, &c, and he admit
ted that these could be bought lower than
in former years Yet in spite of these
facts he would be injured rather than BEN
Gifted by protection, and that competition
would not bring down prices.
"How long have you been cartman J
! asked Fifteen or twenty years"
And don't you make as much money at
il as you did twenty years ago-if not
whyi" mo said he, because there are
90 many that will do it for less" Q.augh-
ter and cheering.) You see he reasoned
fairly, as far as he went, but stopped short
and failed to make the application of his
own facts and arguments. And SO with
many. The carpenter says that he does
not want protection. They cannot build
houses in England, and send them over
here But let him look an inch before
bis nose, and he will see that he reaps
the benefit, ofprotection as well as others.
If the blacksmith, millwright, and
others are prosperous they want shops, and
''Oh" says the carpenter chats job for
me-" Laughter.) And so with the ma
son. Protect and encourage the manu-
facturer; he prospers and wants substan-
iial buildings for his machienary. &c. and
the mason is ready to say 81 do that
work (Cheers and laughter.) As men
prosper they build, and we are an enter
prising people, being mixture of Dutch
aad Yankee. CHEERS and laughter.)
Go to the villages in Massachusetts and
Connecticut, and through all the country
In the Northern States, and you will see
there the comparatively comfortable bull
dings erected by the bard fist Of the me
chanics not splendid mansions, as in
New York but substantial houses, ham,
mered out of the anvil or drawn from the
last (Applause.) But open our ports
and our hard working industrious mechan-
&c, may go beyond the Rocky Mountains
and cut down trees and dig up the soil
Tor the remainder of their days.
This is the tendency of our opponents
doctrines. They do not pretend to deny
t. This they say is great agricultural
country let Great Britain manufacture
for US. But we don't believe in this.
Under Van Buren's Presidency there was
at one time general cry of "hard times
hard times" All vera complaining
and not one class only. The distress was
felt through every ramifcation Of life.
For this there was some cause no matter
vhat
CWhatever the cause, the effect was uni
versal, and it shows the principle, that
whenever all interest is brought to bear
upon the country, if salutary, all partake
OF the blessing, or otherwise, we feel the
curse. That's it, my friends, and if we
always bear this in mind there will not be
half so much jealously and burning hatred
Is there has been.'