Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-07-16

you can manufacture TO The iuli extent of our
own wants. then, in the language Of Thoma,
/ Jefferson, impose on them duies lishe. az
first, and afterwards heavier and heavier as 'to
channels of supply were opened THIS was
/ Jetlerson's plan; the reverse 0t modern de:iii.
cratic "free trade" Next Mr.. S weht fof
levying the highest raies Of duty on the Iuxu.
ries OF the rich, and not on the necessarie, of
The poor, Encourage American manufactures,
and while on the one hand the poor man loun
plenty Of employment, on the other he 90, has
goods cheap. He could cloIhe himself deceu-
ly for q mere trlfe. He wanted M foreign
commodities but his tea and his colloe aud they
were free, and should remain free. The poor
man could now buy cloth for full suit from
head to foot for less than one dollar of subsan-
tlal American manufacture. lie had himself
worn in this hall garment OF this same goods.
at Il cents per yard, and ii was so much aj'
mred that more than dozen members had ap-
piled for similar garments, and they had been
supplied 10 Senators and others yet We are
told the tariff taxes and oppresses the poor
Put high revenue duties on wines. On brandies,
on silks, on laces, on jewelry, on all that which
The rich alone consumed and which the poor
man did not want. Take of the duliss from
the poor mans necessities and give him high
wages for his work That was the way To Iil-
fuse happiness and prosperity among the great
body of the people. THAT good sound
democratic policy, He was for lifting up tho
poor. He was for (" levelIing upward )" for in
creasing the domestic comfort Of our own la4
boring popula,ion-lhe true democracy of The
country. The rich could pay and ought TO be
made TO pay, and they should pay The poor
man could not, and should not, with his consent.
Mr. S. went for the system which elevated the
poor man in the scale of society; that promo
ted equality, that essential element in all free
Governments, no, by pulling down the higher.
bat BY lifting up the lower classes TO their level
The gentleman from Alabama and his friends
advocated policy which would have precise
y The opposite effect Their system would
truly make the "rich richer and The poor poor
err The gentleman advocated system " hose
direct and undeniabe tendency was 10 destroy
competition, and thereby give monopoly TO
The heavy capitalists He would benefit those
very mionares" of whose presence here he
complained so loudly.
Labor, productive labor, was the great source
Of national wealth. It's Importance was ncal-
culable. Compared with this all other inter
esls dwindIed into perfect insignilioance What
is all other capital combined compared TO the
capital Of labor-hard- handed, honest labor
the oiling millions? Supposing we have but
Two millions Of working men IN the United
States, whose wages average : so per year
this is equal to the interest of $4,000 al six
per cent. Each laborer's capital, then, is equal
10 $4,000 at interest. Multiply this by two
millions, the number Of laborers, and il gives
you capital amounting 10 the enormous sum
of six thousand millions of dollars. producing.
a, six per cent, three hundred and sixty mil
lions of dollars a year. This was the }abor
capitaP' he wished to sustain and uphold. This
the grea, national industry he wished To
protect and defend against the ruinous and de-
grading effects of free and unrestricted COM
petition with the pauper labor of foreign lands.
He went 10 secure the American market tor
American labor. In the great struggle for the
American market he took the American side.
On the other hand, the gentleman from Ala
bama and his friends went for I" free trade, Tor
opening our ports 10 the manufacturers oil all
the world; for bringing in freely The Pauper pro-
duclons of Great Britain, TO overwhem the II
sing prosperity of our own poor but industrious
citizens. They went for crushing American
enterprise grinding down American labor. and
putting their cOunrymen on footing with the
very sweepngs of the poor houses Of Europe.
and would in the end, bring them down TO their
political, as we'll as their pecunary aud moral
condition Mr. S. was for cherishng Amerl-
can labor for giving i. high wages; tor sur
rounding it with all the substantial comforts of
life Which was The true friend OF the PEo-
PLE9 And yet these " free trade advocates
from the Secretary down, prolessed 10 be the
exclusive friends of The "Poor man. and We
are denounced as the friends Of mllionares
and monopolists" We now imported liliy mil
lions worth of British goods aunuslly, and
therein we imported twenty m"ns Wc''h
of British agricultural products Of E"gIish
wool, English grain, English beef and mutton.
English fax, English agricultural productions
of every kind. And yet gentlemen would rise
here and talk of British market for our bread
sluff. Why, how much of this did England
take! Not quarter of million, IN all IT'S
forms
Here was beautiful reciprocity Here
were the beauties of free trade. Here were
our equality Of benefits. We took fiy millions
in British goods. one-half OF it agricultural pro-
duce, while she took one-quarler OF mlshon
of our bread -stuffs. This was our boasied
British market What was this British mat