Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-11-18

| FkEE RADE.~- y duFoCdtc tuiS poHCy
seems to be most heinous offence in he
eyes of the wing press; and ifthey ever seem
disposed to show mercy TO the culprit guilty
of crime,it is on the ground that the doctrine
is SO heinous, that no harm can possibly re-
suit from advocating it. Now a wing, OF
of necessity, is one who is behind the age in
every thing. If there had been nothing but
wings in the world, since the first creation,
The world would be in point of improvement
Just where Adam left il. They cling with
the utmost pertinacity 10 what they found in
the world when they frs, got their eyes open
and it must be ten times exploded and doub-
ly and thirdly rotten, until the stencil Of its
rottenness Is empowering, before they
leave it. To be sure, they are of use 10
the world-every thing has its destiny 10
fulfil; it is possible the world might get a.
long TOO fast without them; at all events the
presence and existence of evil seems TO be
very necessary, to keep up the unfagglng
exertions of virtue. But as TO free trade,
what is it2 Simply permitting the different
nations of the earth to freely exchange their
products. Under its influence every por-
portion Of the earth would be applied to the
purpose for which il is best adapted; the
products Of the earth would he raised with
the least possible expenditure of human la
Dor and the wealth OF the human family to
that extent increased. BY removing restrlc-
tons on commerce. is tacIlita-
ted, and whilst it thus disperses mole album
dainty The physical comforts of life, it more
rapidly carries GU, its great mission in civili-
sing and outstanding to world. This is
free trade. The tart # is an institution of an
age when tyranny had unbroken sway over
The minds and bodies Gifts subjects. There
was time when tyrants boldly plundered
their subjects by force o. arms; that age
passed away and the same result was brought
about by the more ingenious but not less et-
fective institution of the tariff. We are how
dealing blows at thisrel;c Of tyranny, and ii
must shortly 60 the way of its kindred rob
berry institutions Of earlier days, when those
who live by it, will have TO take TO the high
way again or goJo work. lis operation is
The opposite of free trade. 1t robs the people
impoverishes and enslaves them, as is fully
manifest in Europe. 1t hampers and restricts
commerce, thereby retarding civilization and
christianity, andin shorts fraught with more
mischief and evil, than any one Of the many
con,rivances ofcunnirg men, tolive on the
toll of others, Aswe love our feliows,so do
we hate the tariff, and we are now aud hence
forth, while it exists, its Incorporating foe
in every shape. If the Milwaukee Sentinel
or any other paper, expects to weaken the de-
mocracy ofthe territory by holding US or any
democratic paper up as the advocate Of free
trade, il will be mistaken. We doubt wheth'
er'under the sun, in the same number peo'
pie, there is more general intelligence, than
in the people of Wisconsin. This is the
soil for the free trade doctrines to flourish in,
and here we calculate e'erlong an Influence
will be felt on the subject, which will affect
the world.