The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-11-06
FELLOW
CITIZENS!!
often happens in a government
the cry of CRISIS a
Moment0us Crisis

uxUl1CuGOuC VII
has been raised by politicians to incite the
fears and arouse the energies of the people
to secure mere party triumph and the spols
Of office.
But you are not now to debate etthe ballot
boxes a mere change Of masters. 1t is indeed
not question Of good or bad policy whose
results are indecisiye and transitory. But it
is question which to the last degree, and for
generations TO come involves the immediate
well-being of every man, of every woman, of
every family, every lover Of his country and
his kind, of every friend to human rights and
impartial freedom in the land. There can
be no greater outrage perpetrated upon the
nation than the attempt Of our opponents to
lull the people into the fatal belief that the
government has little to do with the success
of their occupations. Such are the arguments
of demagogues and tyrants who, would reign
forever undisturbed over PROSTATE, pillaged
and spiritless people.
The great measure Of policy maintained
by the Wings as indispensable to The indie
pendence and public and private prosperity
Of the people of this nation is
Protection t0Domestic Industry.
This indeed involves question of Bread"
of the value of every acre Of land, Of every
bushel of wheat, of every pound of wool,
butter, cheese, beef and pork, ofevery produc-
ton of the workshop and mandatory, and Of
every days wages Of every laboring man in
the nation. 1t is unnecessary for us to show
Vermonters the intimate connection between
these results, and the existence of an efficient
Tariff for Protection. We cannot dwell up7
on the oft repeated demonstrations made of
the truth Of our remarks by the ablest States
men of this or any othsr country, yea by the
full blaze of experience. Two years since
the business of the country was nearly pros
trate, commerce crippled, agriculture thrift
less and manufacturers eking out a proftless
and almost breathless existence. The Wing
Tariff of 1912 was passed in spite of the
deadly opposition of9 tenths of the Loco par
ty. In a single year the whole scene is re-
versed. Every active man in every depart
ment ofindustry is now exulting in prosperity,
and even in the hope Of more halcyon days
when a permanent Protective Tariff shall
have become the settled policy of the gov
eminent. And who is it that would put out
the brilliant bow of promise which encircles
the nation. The same party who have fought
protection from that fatal moment in 1892
when Gen jackson yielded up the Union to
regency of Shareholders, backed up by
Northern dough-faced Loco .Focos. Indeed
SO determined and desperate has this party
grown that even the supple Martin Van
Buren, must be sacrificed for more subservi-
ent tool Of Frce-Tradc Loco ocoism.
Northern man with Southern principles could
no longer be tolerated. He must be pure
unbesitating free trader born south of Mason's
and Dixon's line to carry out the desperate
designs of the Calhouns and McDuffies of
the South against the protective policy. A
man who would tread the wine press of the
South against the Tariff till the very blood of
the North was pressed out. But the North
ern section of the Loco-Foco party swallow
this Employment of free trade principles
without a throe Of disgust, with their ac-
customed servility, and within single month
a comparatively obscure political adventurer
of Tennessee is enthroned on the affections
of the great Loco party throughout the Un-
ion. Even in Vermont where not Loco dare
was his tongue directly against Protective
Tariff, the Democracy regard Polk with free,
trade stamped upon his forehead as a cand,, =
date without blemish, and meekly take I'D
the cross which the South have com oelled
them to carry.
But Fellow Citizens.
there is another baleful PROBE. & which must