Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-17

dustry. Will it not therefore be SEEM that to this
one cause to be attributed all our difficulties in
adjusting systems oftaXaton upon foreign imports.
1t has heen one ceaselesS endeavor on the part of
the slave power which has never lost its suprem-
acy in our national councils, to counterfeit the in
evitabc laws of our nature, and force up slave la
Dor to an unnatural equality with free. But in
spite of all these efforts the free States have sea-
Oily marched onward in their career of prosperity,
proving by the rapidly with which they outstrp
their slavehoding sisters, that the Southern prob
lem is never to be solved Slave-labor needs no
protection because it is the mere effort of brute
force, in the production of the raw materially while
free labor, which is the combined effort of mind
and muscle, must be applied to its elaboration in
to supply of the various wants of man.
Up to 1916, while commerce and agriculture
were the landmarks of New-England enterprise
and industry we were leaving the South far be-
hind Us. Then to cripple and curtail the advance
mcnt Of the North the willy and far-sighted Caro-
linian, now Secretary of State proposed the tariff
of that year tax commerce for the benefit ofman-
ufacturcs. This project took with the South and
West, and was followed up by the tariffs of 1924
and 1928. He yainly thought, like Napoleon, that
he could war successfully with the elements. But
great as he is he had not studied the genius of N.
England; for, as if by magic, we became manu-
featuring people, and were again Immediately adj
vancing on the high road to wealth and prosperity,
and that even beyond the palmiest days of our
commercial era But no sooner did this effect be-
lpn fba Mil
with "mscreated front athwart the way'' of our
national glory, lifts its parricda hand against the
bantling of its own creation. This is followed by
the Compromise, and the reduction of the tariff 10
90 per cent The manufacturers fail, and the gov
eminent and people are brought to the verge of
bankruptcy. Next we have the tariff of 1912,
against which, even now, the untirng efforts of
slavery are directed to undermine or overthrow it.
So that it is apparent, that stability of protection,
cessary to the prosperity of free labor, can
not reasonably be hoped for, so long as slavery
and the unceasing conflict between free and slave
labor, shall continue.
Yon inquire whether believe the leading Wings
of this State are opposed to slavery. | answer
" By their fruits shall ye know them" If they re-
ally desire its extinction, that desire is in my opin-
ion secondary and controlled by the love of office
and party supremacy. This is proved by the fact
that when Gov. Mattocks, on the floor of the
House of Representatives, commenced an attach
upon the outposts of slavery, to secure the RICH
of petition, he was not sustained by his colleagues
+ nor the leading men of his party at home.
The fact is, that the leading men of both par
ties are radically wrong in practice, if not in prn
cipe. They readily sacrifice on the altar of part,
fidelity, the best and ruest interests of the country
Principle is made subseryient to political suprema
cy; and generous and confding people are mis-
led by the shadow instead of the substance of pro
missed good
If, therefore, VIC desire that our institution
should remain uninjured, and that our children
may be free, we must arrest the downward ten
dency of things, and 60 back to the principles o
the fathers-encourag those almost obsolete Vir
tines, honest industry and true patriotism.
l have long been an anxious spectator Of TIL
E course of events, and have felt many gloomy fore
bodings for the future. 1t is than fiftee
+ years since the subject of slavery in this countr
o became one of deep interest to me, and you an
: many others of my fellow-ctizens will bear IN
witness that have not been silent on that agtatin
!, topic in years gone by.
# In March, 1s41, Ivy the concurrence of circum
If stances unforeseen and unexpected, became
e candidate for the Coectorship of this District.
= was subsequently appointed by General Harrison
If and after his death, was nominated to the Senat
r. by his successor. The Southern Senators wer
n forthwith informed, and that by Senator fror