Litchfield enquirer., 1844-10-03

Thus far, the pro-slavery power, by the coucen.
traed interest Of having 81 200 600 of so called
property represented, has tTiumphed over the pow,
er OF liberty and free labor. Our Offices Of honor
and profit have been monopolised almost by slave
holders, foreign policy has been subsidiary to
the fostering of SiGUe labor, at the expense of free
labor. The system of internal improvements, as
carried on by the General GOvernment-the land
bill-a national currency, and above all, the Tariff
have all been Frustrated at the feet of the slave
power And now, when the people of the North
seem to be opening their eyes to the real sacrifices
which they have made in the desecrated name of
the Democracy, to the rule Of slavery, by the ruin
Gus results OF the reduction of the Tariff from 1882
to '42, John c. Calhoun and his Southern clique,
seek once more an accession Of sIaue territory to
strengthen their power and assist them in OVER
ruling the Tariff Of Protection, and to reduce us
once more to free trade and perpetual slavery
They are determined to rule ruin-to WELD the
whole power of the Union, or else dissolve the Un-
ion. and establish slave despotism in the South,
Hence the democratic party, in lS44, although
they went up to Baltimore instructed to vote for
MIR. Van Buren,, threw him overboard-so they re-
jected Cass. and Buchanan, and Stewart, and took
the unheard OF name of James X. Polk, of Tennes.
see-Mr. Calhoun's and Andrew Jackson's most
supple tool; imposed upon them by the same multi.
hcation power which had Frustrated all the interest
OF free labor at the feet of the free trade and per,
petual slavery party of the South. And Mr.. Polk
was suited to their purposes, not only because he
was for Texas and free trade-but because he was,
from his position in slave State necessarily iden-
tilted with the great scheme of ultimate disunion,
Do state untruth? What say the Convention D.
They are for immediate annexation! What saws
Mr.: Calhoun? He is for Texas, to prevent the
ultimate overthrow of slavery, What says R. M.
Johnson: We want Texas to form new slave
States, to balance the coming in of the free States
OF Wisconsin and Iowa. What say Messrs. Holmes
and Rhett? They will have Texas with the I'm
ion, or if necessary, without the Union. What
says the ex-nullifcation Governor James Hamil,
ton! He will resort to arms for Texas and disco
luton! And last, not least, what says Thomas H,
Benton, the leader of the democratic party for the
last quarter of a century, up to May, Is4ir-a man
OF more sense than all the notification party con-
solidated into one? He tells us in his Boonvile
speech, that "0issoIptipn Of the Onion" is the end
proposed by these Texas anpexationists. Jackson
tells us, Texas is the question; the Richmond En-.
quirer, the leader of the Southern democratic wing.
says that "free trade and Texas are the questions"
II then these be the issues, and am compelled to
choose between Polk and free trade and Texas, ON
me on, one hand, and Henry Clay. home labor. and
the Union, on the other-then, by all that is sacred
among men, 60 for Clay and the Wing party, aud
against Polk and the Democratic party Free trade
with other nations is impossible-they do not, and
will not allow it-and they ought not if thew
would. lay down the broad ground, that has
been practised on for centuries by intelligent ma
tons, repeated once more by Thomas Jefferson, and
engratted into our SYSTEM bthe first law ever made
by our government, the end of which was to per-
feet its extension-that 81 the farmers and mechan.
les should be set down alongside Of each other"
II raise bushel Of wheat, and carry il to Eng,
land and there exchange it for hat, have to pay
the entire cost of the Transportation or If II il al
vided between me and the halter equally. I lose
half the cost of carriage. If sell my bushel of
wheat to the halter living along side of me- lose
nothing in carriage. neither the halter Again
if carry my bushel Of wheat to England. or send
it, and sell it, l get ITO cents bushel, but it
costs me GO cents to get it there, leaving me but
| fifty cents at last bushel for my wheat: but
If can by volition, or by legislation, move
the halter from England, and place him by me, he
gives me l 10 cents for my wheat, aud more than
double the products Of my farm. l say that the
whole navy OF the world, not engaged in fishing,
and similar pursuits. but in carrying on exchanges
between countries, which might each for itself
make the same things within themselves, ia dead
loss to the wor!d. The ships must be built and
manned, and the men fed al the common expense
OF the grain grower, and the manufacturer, and
they produce nothing in return. England was
wise enough long ago TO find out this thing and by
her tariff OF protection, whereby the farmer found
market at home, and the manufacturer a market i'm
the agrculturalis, she has elevated herself 10 the
first position among nations. Nor can her starving
millions be urged as an argument against her pro-
tective policy. II human life be blessing and II
be the will OF Deity that the earth, should support
the greatest amount OF animal nature possible, in
comfort and luxury then has England done as much
or more than any other European nation. in the f1I
ilment OF her true destiny. Suppose that the
lower strata OF society embraces 5000 900 Of peo-
pie, subject to famine, disease and death: then vo,,
have remaining 20.O00000 out Of the $4,000. 100
comfortable, and enjoying, some of them, MANY
Injuries; reduce the highest living of the court.
clergy and aristocraey, and you bling comfort to
many millions more. Poverty, disease and the
sword, are, by the stern laws of nature the checks
upon population; destroy Englands tariff. and ma,
chinery, and reduce her population ten millions.
still there would stand these same inexorable laws
destroying human life, and limiting population.--
All animal and vegetable nature are prolific in seed
out perish ior want OF sustenance; thousand fish
are spawned, where ten live to maturity; 90 with
man he Is Limited by the pressure of misery under
strata; take the thin, sparse tribes of American.
savages, there Is no class enjoying comfort and Sc
curity; but the chief and commoner ,the souaw and
paPoose are all subject to fear the swOvd cold hnn
ger and death. Then let not the tariff system he
sacrificed to the dictation OF the slave power but
| let here IN our own republic many centuries inter.
vene, before we shall be subject 10 the stern laws
which press upon the laboring poor of Europe And
cursed be the statesman forever who would degrade
the !aborers OF this unhappy coaatsy to the level Of
foreign labor aad precipitate them into premature
and unnecessary decay, and uniimely and utter ruin
in order to accomplish the overthrow Of the free
labor OF the country, north and south, then Texas
| must be taken into the confederacy. II was for
this that the naked project ID nom presented to this
people-whether they will now, in the nineteenth:
century, in the face Of Christendom, without any
outward pressure, such 10 times past was urged,
that England forced slaves upon Us, without salvo
to awakening conscience, 80 often potently an.
piled" what are we to do with the slayes when
free" in direct violation Of the constitution,