Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-02-16
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FRrDaY, FEBRuaRY ie, 1914.
sIcNIFlCANT CONCESSIONS.

SIGNIFICANT CONCESSIONS.
Mr. Calhoun, in the close of letter, a part oil
which we published last week, makes the follow.
ing very significant declarations. He says, ut Is
time that an end should be put TO this system Of
plumber and agitation. TThe Tariff and Abolition
They have been borne long enough. They are
kindred measures and hostile far at least as one
portion of the Union is concerned. While the tar
i'll takes from the proceeds Of our labor, abolition
strikes at the labor itself The robs us OF our
income, while the other aims at destroying the
source from which that income is derived. II is
impossible for Us TO stand patiently much longer
under their double operation, without being impov
crushed and ruined" Coming from so high au
thority these concessions certainly entitled "a
consideration. And what seems TO us most remar-
kable, is, that a man Of Mr. Cahouns deep and far
reaching vision cannot see the real cause Of the
poverty and ruin which threaten the South
Whence did the tariff originator Who we're its
founders and first advocatesi Was il not in the
beginning Southern measure; Do not its ia
Tiers live south Of the line dividing free from slave
labor! Was il not first opposed by great portion
of New England' But the tariff was at kngth es-
iablished. New England and other portions Of the
North turned their attention TO maLufactures.-
Flourishng villages sprung up as by enchantment.
afordng home market for the farmer, Increased
business for The merchant, and profitable employ
ment for the free and intelligent sons and daugh-
tiers Of free district of country. Under the opera
rion of a tariff which its founders supposed would
be peculiarly favorable TO Southern interests, the
North prospcrcd and the South languishei The
South attributed this not to the true cause the free
labor OF the free States, and the slave labor of the
slave holding States, but 10 the tariff; thus ack-
nowl-dging their want of foresight in begeuing the
tariff and showing their ignorance Of the real cause
of their own miseries. The tariff was undoubtedly
great stimulus to the industry and enterprise Of
the free citizens OF the North but what could a
tariff, what could any laws Of protection, do for
those whose laborers were driven to their tolls by
the lash 2 While slavery exists at the South that
country cannot flourish II is impossible in the ma
iure of things. That institution is a violation oil
law, order, justice, humanity and true religion. II
is opposed TO those eternal principles Of right by
which the universe is governed, and must necessa.
rily involve both oPPressor and oppressed in ult.
mate poverty and ruin. Human devices may post
pone the dreadful catastrophe, but cannot evade it,
But why this complaint Of sgita,iOn' Who is
responsible for IL What is its real cause Is not
all this agitation to be referred to slavery itself
the source' Dad that evil not exist would the
South be troubled by peoples talking about il ?
Abolish slavery, Mr. Calhoun, and then with a
great many other evils you will rid yourself Of this
odious agitation. Bot do you think that while this
enormous wrong is inflicted on man, while he
wears the chains and bleeds under the stripes Of
this cruel oppression, do you think that human
hearts will not feel, and human. tongues will not
speak, for the down trodden children Of the Univer-
sal Father, Before this agitation shall cease ei-
ther slavery must be abolished all the better feel
ings and noble sentiments OF the human heart mus,
be annihilated The whole civilized world is set
ting its face against this fragrant wrong done To
man. All the moral forces Of the age are srrayed
against IT. The voices that condemn il are multi
plying on every hand, both IN the old world and
the new. The dictates Of mans moral nature, the
native instincts Of the SOUL the voice Of reason, Of
justice, Of religion, OF humanity are all uni
ting their invincibe legons against this odious in
stituton, and no human power arrest or with
stand their onward march. And the sooner our
Southern brethren turn their attention to the real
cause Of The poverty and ruin that impend them,
and take measures to avert them by removing that
cause the better il will be for them and their chill
dren.