Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-24


BE your decision what ii may, shall be
content. But regard it as due to the
occasion, 10 YOU and myself, to declare
that under no circumstances whatever shall
| support any candidate who is opposed TO
free trade, and in favor Of the protective
policy, or whose prominent and influential
friends and supporters are. hold the
policy to be another name for system of
monopoly and plumber, and to be thoroughly
anti-republican and federal in its character.
| also bold that SO long as the duties are
So laid as Ia bc in fact bountics to one
portion of the community while they are
oppressive on the other, there can be No
hope that the Government can be re-
formed, or that lis expenditures will be
reduced to the proper standard.
Were |, with The evidences before me,
To say otherwise of my course, II would
DC practically TO declare that regard the
protective policy TO be an open Q0cstloH
81 lai DIS thu party is concerned: which
would consider 90 my part. virtual aban.
d,nuiem Of the cause of free trade. That
eau never b.. | have done and suti, red,
t9n much Tor ii. when its friends were few
anl feeble, to abandon ii nDw-now. when
tie auspices every where, on this and the
other side of the Atlantic, proclaim the APP.
pfoacIing downfall Of protection and the
permanent triumph of free trade. who
upheld il against monopoly and piunder.
IN The worst Of Times and hraved the
menaces of Administration and Opposition
when hacked up by single Stale, will not
cannot abandon the glorious cause now
when lis banner waves IN proud triumph
over the metropolis of the commercial
wDrki. NJ, | snail MAINTAIN INN bgabIv
the ground have So long occupied. unu
| have witnessed It's great and final VIC
tory. if il shall please the Djspnser Of all
events to spare my life so long. II will be,
indeed r,"tOly-,he harbingec OF new.
aud brighter, and higher civllt2ation,
Much less still can give my support Il
any candidate who shall give his aid OF
counienance to the agitation Of abolition
in Congress or elsewhere: or whose prom-
uent and iuH lentiai supporters shall.
doubt the sincerity Of auy man who de-
clarcs he is m a6olitiDnist whilst at the
same time he aids or countenances the agi-
taliun Of the question, be bis preteXt what
it may. II we have the right 10 Our slaves
we have the right 70 hold them IN peace
and quiet If the constitution guarantees
the one. it guarantees the other and if il
forbils the one from being attacked, il
equally forbids the other. Indeed, the one
stands to the other as means TO an end
and is 50 avowe., by the ab1li!i jnists; and
on the plancst principles Of morals. if tbs
end be prohibited, the means of etiectine
1t also are, Of the two. Iregard the dein
ded fanatic far less guilty and dangegou'
than he who. for political or party purpo
ses. aids or countenances him in what he
knows is intended to do that which he &C
knowledges To be forbidden by the constl
tuition.
1t is time ha, an end should he put tC
,h;a system Of p,under and agitation. The!
nave uGen uJIuC tp'. Ugh. ThDy dit
Kindred measures. and hostile, as far a
least as one portion of the Union is con
cerDed WhIe the tariff takes from II
the proceeds Of our labor, abolition strike
at the labor itself. The one robs us OF on
income, while the other aims at destroying
the source from which that income is dc
rived. 1t is impossible for us to stand pa
tienty much longer under their double op
GRAFTON without being impoverished am
ruined JOHN c. CALHOUN.