The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-03-03

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ter lapse OF three centuries, in which she
has yearly acquired additional skill and facul-
ties i'm the manufacture of her fabrics, she
kindly invites young America. mere APP
prentice of the arts, TO enter the field of coID-
petition with her, and when she has once ur-
ed us into her net she will extract from US
our substance until she has reduced US to
shriveled and empty carcass. Wages in
England are low and the wants of her opera
tives comparatively nothing, and never can
we rival her manufactures until our laborers
are ground down to the poverty, degradation
and deprivations of the peasants and paupers
of our rival. How is it possible for us to
suppose that England would yield protection
unless she could make money out Of it. And
with our ports all thrown open to her enter
prize, our manufacturers beaten down, and
annihiIated in the vain attempt TO compete
with her. what a rich theatre Of plumber
would the Union present to the manufactu-
rers and merchants Of England.
] And what wretcbed equivalent is offered
us for the demolition of that wise and happy
system of policy under which our county
has so greatly prosperedl Nothing but the
poor chance of competing across the Allan
tic with all Europe at her door, for the sale
of few millions Of bushels ofwheat and 9TH
er eatables. The peasant labor Of the CONT
nent from the Baltic the Black Sea, would
soon send more corr to England than she
could consume, and from their proximity. at
prices far less than we could deliver it now
| at our own barn doors. Besides it costs vast
! " more 10 purchase manufactures for a nation
than to feed her. Consequently, Free
| Trade between an agricultural and manufac-
turing nation has always resulted in the i'm
poverishment of the former. For two centH-
ries Spain and Portugal have suffered Eng
land to manufacture every thing for them
and all the wealth OF those once most Opulent
Kingdoms, and Of both The Indies, have not
saved them from ruin and impoverishment
the most complete Of any of the nations OF
Europe.
The question now is. shall we swallow the
bait which England has thrown out to us!-
/ Is there no danger that as destructive as Free
! Trade will be to us, after our manufacturers
have once been Frustrated, even the poor IN
equal boon of reciprocity will be withheld
when we have lost the power Of enforcing it!
1t is full time the people Of the North AMI
East were awake TO these base attempts to
sell our prosperity for a mess OF pottase.-
This call from England for reciprocity in free
trade is a grand stroke Of policy on her part
to rob US Of our wealth and subordinate US TO
her power or greatness. And there is too
much reason to believe that this free trade
Administration will suffer the trap to be
sprung upon us, and even that they have al
ded in setting it Who does not recOllect
the policy avowed by Buchanan five years
since in Congress, and SO ably exposed BY
honest John Davis, TO do away the necessity
of protection hy reducing ,rages to pence a
day, and thus manufacturing cheaper. And
are there not grounds TO suspect that this
same buchanan who is now high function
AIRY Of this Government. is carrying out those
ruinous schemes which the people so fully
condemned in 1912. even to the extent o.
claiming us by treaty to the car of British
policy. If not by treaty before the present
session Of Congress has closed. we dare pre-
our country, by the reduction of The Tariff, as
completely subjected 20 Great Britain as
when we were not permitted TO manufacture
hob nail without her consent.