The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-02-21

Treasury for the expenditures of the next
fiscal year should be sanctioned by Con-
gressional appropriations.
The secret of this cheering result is.
that men have gone 10 work because their
laber was in request and paid for. The
operative in. his shop or mill, the farmer in
his fields, those engaged in our internal
commerce, have all labored with renewed
activity, their toll sweetened by the hope of
reward All classes except those who
riveby the disiresses of the communi'
ty, have profitcd by this state of things,
and consequently have been able 10 indulge
in greater consumption beth Of agricul'
turial products and articles of foreign i'm
portation. There is not 4 man scarcely
who cannot recall TO recollection one or
more families in his immediate neighbor'
hood, that. year or two since were al
most objects of charity, but now, under the
renewed impulse given 10 The prosperity
of the country, are earning comfortable
living, and are consumers of articles that
but little while ago seemed hopelessly
beyond their reach. And this is but the
beginning of the good TO result from the
Tariff.
Its full effects have not been, and can
not be, fairly developed until the various
departments Of business shall have accom-
modated themselves to the changes it is
working.
A system and measure ofpolicy which
have already conferred such incalculable
BENEFITS upon the country, party styling
itself democratic proposes to destroy; and
if they now "tomporise with public opin'
ion," il is only that, under the mask of
friendship, the leaders may retain their
places and gain strength sufficient 10 strike
The deadly blow. Mr. Calhoun and his
faction of the democracy openly and, in
so much, manfuly proclaim their deter.
mined hostility, while Mr. Van Buren, and
his friends covertly, but none the less i'm
pIacably, oppose the Tariff, in principle
and in detail. They do this on the ever
ready plea of the demasogue-regard for
the poor people. Take off the duties, say
they, so that all, the poor as well as the
rich, can indulge in foreign luxuries. but
they do not tell US now, in that case. the
poor will get the wherewith to buy these
luxuries.
To legislate so as TO deprive them Of
employment,-or force them 10 work in
competition with those of Europe, who
have the only alternative of the severest
unremiLting toll or starvation. and then say
it is done that they may be relieved ofthe
oppressive duties, is but Il cruel knocking
of the poor, even granting that reduc'
ton of duties causes a corresponding re-
duction in the price of the imported arti.
cle,-which all experience shows is not
the fact, for it reduces the means of the
poor in a still greater ratio. The Wings
say. legislate SO that every honest man
willing TO work may find ;remunerating
employment; make him feel like man
with The independence of freeman, and
you not only better fit him 10 discharge
the responsible duties Of citizenship, but
while protecting the industry of the coun'
try, and providing for the wants Of the
government, you enable the poor TO pur'
chase those comforts and enioyments
which the dcmagogues profer to deepen
the ssnse of present intensity of suffering
end privaticn. Buffalo Journal.