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

cilities for eliciting the facts necessary to be
known in order TO Just legislation in regard
to that, or to any other interest claiming pro-
lection.
The past furnishes a lesion for the future
What has been done will be done again. The
character of the Van Buren, policy renaIrs
The same-sinuous, dOuble-dealing, treacher-
Ous-one thing tO-day-another Tomorrow
here for protection-ihere for free trade
throwing embarassments in the way of matur
ing measures for protection, & then protesting
to sympathize very deeply with the interests
which it is pretended are neglected in the ad-
justment of a tariff. This is Van BureRiSmi
i need not say that decided opposition to
protection is far less dangerous than such an
equivocating, vascillating, treacherouS policy.
Let us rather have unveiled hostility. All
know how TO meet it. And here it is in the
following resolutions of the New Hampshire
Legislature, which were presented in Con-
gress by Mr.. Atherton in June, 1872
Resolved, That system of tariff duties
except TO supply the wants of government
ought not to be established; that the whole
scheme ola protective tariff is gross legiSiC-
tire error, founded in ignorance of The true
principles of political ecOnomy-an impOsi-
ton upon the creduhty of the people, ~ lraicis
they are tdred irjdiost any eqvirGjeRi; that,
instead of encouraging domestic industry, it
depreSseS it--instead Of protection, ii means
destruction.
"Resolved, That the true policy of the
Federal Government is to couine its ac-
ton to the objects specifically enumerated in
the Constitution, tearing industry 70 IL ke care
of ITSELF"
Here is a plain dcaIing-the doc,iine Of
protection openly secuted o. a gross legis-
lative error" and frank avOwa Tia; indus
try must be left TO regulate i,sclf;-in other
words that tariff is 10 be adjusted with
view to revenue oriy-draw;nE from Ike roo-
pie the means necessary to carry on tie gov
eminent without amy compensation in the
encouragement Of their industry. or lie pro-
lection of it from the exhaustins and ruinouS
influence Of commerce so couGuc,td AZ 10
make Us tributary to the skill and caIi-al and
labor Of foreign countries. This is reaiiVthe
doctrine Of Mr.. Van Buren's Indiana leticr.
Il is mystified and half concealed but it IS
there undeniably there.
II remains to be s,--n whether The people
of Vermont will sustain the policy Of tie
New York Leader by aiding 10 elevate him
20 the Prcsidercy. 1Eci is to he tic cues
tion of the coming year. Let us prepare TO
stand irldi we are to meet. There nav Ic
those amcEg rs who are incr,duiCus a. to
the danger. Such We know there are a.rorc,
the honest, true hearted friends Of protection
in the ranks Of our opponents. They have
not fully learned what is meant by being -
northern man with southern TrIucirles.'-
They are yet to see, and / trust that many of
them will yet sce-that it is 10 IT, Us IL has itre,
the policy Of Van Buren, "io earn tie rorih
by party nGcLrny CHd lie .>cu.h Lj so'r.,
jor as principles" Let the upright aud m
suspecting Of his party in Vermont oli. II III, ir
eyes and look at this. Let them consider
the power there is in this machinery ard to
what uses it has been applied. How has it.
for example moved the party, almost in L
mass, upon the question Of slavery and the
right Of petition! Year after year. and Con
gress after Congress, has that right Iecn
trampled under foot 10 secure southern snI:-
port to this beirGyer Of northern rights and
interests; while every proposition having lie
remotestbearing uron slavery, and the detcs-
table slave trade in the District of Columbia,
or in any manner tending to diminish or con-
troll the influence of slavery in the admins
tratiOn Of the government, has been put
down without debate by the votes of rank
and file, drilled almost to the perfection OF
military discipline. And all this in open de-
lionce of the popular feeling in the free
States.
And then there is the question of the pub
lie lands. By what necromancy has the
whole party at the North been marshalIed
against the great and benefcicnt measure Of
distributing their proceeds among the States
for the purposes Of education and internal i'm
Provement! Opposition to it has been sus-
tanned by the merest shadow Of argument:
and yet our most obvious interests have been
sacrificed by following. with blind zeal, par
ty leader in his hostility to the measure. Il
Is in vain that We have urged its Obvious
tendency to increase protection by diver
ting the proceeds Of the lands from the
common treasury. The argument has been
lost upon those with whom party Bchests
have more power than the stongest argu-
ments in favor Of the protective policy.
Mr.. Van Buren, calculates upon the same
sort Of success in his project Of carrying the
party at the north against protection. He IS
not out against it openly and at once. He
talks equiVOcally-a little more than half pro-
lection & little more than half free trade. He
puts forth professions in favor OF protection;
but connects with them principles ard doc
trines subverSive Of il.
With these he gradually famii.a-'Zes his
them on if they will
consent to follow him, towards as complete
an abandonment Of the protective policy as
their New Hampshire brethren have arrived
ut, in the resolutions to which have re-
ierrcd. There are hundreds of the party in
Vermont who now start at the the strong an
language Of these resolutions,
but who, if they do not abandon their party
and shake off its trammels, will be drawn into
the same vortex and become avowed oppo-
nents of the protective policy-resPondIng
heartily to the New Hampshire declaration,
" that the whole scheme of protective ia
riff Is gross legislotve error"
1t remains for the Wings to stand firm up
pom the true ground Of discrimination for The
sake of protection; while Nr. Van Buren, is
drawing his followers into the mire Of free
trade, by this igais fItuus of "iHcidentaiPro-
lection By discriminating for rreHue purposes
'nly." ITO be continued.l
Daniel Webster, we are informed, intends
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