The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-09-25
ELECTION, Norember, 18th.
LOCO LIES.


tective Tariff is a gross falsehood. The man
who has always been opposed TO Protective
Tariff, and in the last canvass for Governor in
Tennessee, in more than $50 Stump Speech
es founded his whole claim of popularity up
on denunciations of the tariff; who has
been brought forward by the Free trade
Nullifers OF the South as bitterly hostile to
the American System aud TO Northernlabor,
and who is sustained by all the free trade
presses in the Union as hostile to every prin-
ciple Of Protection. How infamous TO at
tempt 10 palm such man upon the people of
New England es safe man to protect them
from British labor.
That Henry Clay is not and has not been
from his very first entrance into public life
steady friend of Protection to American In
dustry, and that he has ever uttered or writ
ten word contradictory to the most ardent
and continued attachment to Protection to
Agriculture manufactures, and every species
of homo labor, in the Field, in the Shop, or
upon the Ocean, are foul ISLANDERS upon this
iustrious Statesman and those who have
fabri Gated them can be regarded in no other
light than as base political miscreants who are
ready to make their country the victim of
their unhallowed ambition.
We defy any man to produce a scintilla Of
evidence either in the words or deeds ofHenry
Clay to prove these propositions of locofo-
coism to be true,in whole or in part.
That the present Tariff is advantageous
only to the manufactures and capitalists, or
was passed for their benefit alone are asser-
tons also as false as falsehood can make
them. We appeal to the thousands of our
population Of all ages and both sexes now
Employed in our manufacturing establishments
and in all mechanical pursuits, whether they
do not now receive fuller employment and
better pay, than before the passage of the
present Tariff, when half of the factories had
ceased operation. We appeal to the thous-
ands of operatives who have retired from
these manufacturing establishments from
which they have drawn the means of purchas-
ing good farms, and have gone into different
branches Of business on their own account.
whether manufactorieshave been no advantage
to them. We appeal to farmers whose i'm
mediate location is 10 the neighborhood of
manufac tories wheiherthere are no advan-
tages TO them, in the rise of the.r property,
and the ready market which is now afforded
foi Vegetables, fruits coarse grains SC, which
will not afford transportation to distant mar
kets.
Above all do we appeal to the great body
of agriculturalists throughout the Union, and
especially to the farmers Of Vermont, W neither
they are not vastly better off in consequence
ofthe present Tariff, increasing the demands
for the products oftheir farms, furnishing a
market for their surplus near their own doors,
and at fair prices. Mechanics Of every dis
cription, are you impoverished BY the present
tariff. And farmers what would you do de-
prived ola protective tariff which would drive
million Of manufacturers to become YOUR
competitors in raising produce for market, and
thus deprive you Of million of cus.o-
mers, who would otherwise be consumers.
And now gentle reader to satisfy YOUR
selves that we are correct in charging base
and illimitable receptions upon the Locofo
co leaders, and the party in the particulars
to which we have referred, willyou read the
letter of Mr.. Clay, and that of Mr.. Marshall
contained in this paper. The letter from
Mr. Marshall was in answer to one from Mr..
Bruen Of Perth Anboy, New Jersey, enquir-
ing whether his wealth had been made bv
manufacturing as asserted by some, and by
them adduced as evidence that manufactures
we're only beneficial to their owners. And
again will you not read the letter of Mr.. r.
c. Winthrop VI. C. of Boston, TO a citizen of
Wheeling Virginia, which wonderfully cor
roboratcs the testimony of Mr.. Marshall,
and reburs The fal<chood which the Jocos