Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-08-06
THE ANGLO-LoCOFOCo TARIFF

From Pennsylvania there comes to us 4 voice Of
wall, not unmlNed with certain other sounds thar
bespeak a gathering of public Observation-Disclosures
lnPs OF all that multitudes suddenly beggared feel
when they know that they have been cruelty de-
celved, and that ruin is dealt TO them by the very
hands which they armed with power. We hear.
100 OF yet more deplorabe forms into which this
public Indignation Is bursting--outbreaks in dero-
CATION of the law itself; of which the criminalitv
great as Is is at least shared by those whose gross
receptions, when once discovered, tempt too sadly
the duped crowd to violence.
The Philadelphia Polk papers, meantime have
some of them, it seems, put on the signs of mourn,
ing Sable Is not, however, a color invariably sim
cere; and 1t chances that the same journals were
parties, In every instance, TO the very imposition
which Pennsylvania is now TO rue.
The truth OF those arguments is now to be test
ed, by which the jealousy OF the mere laborinp
man has every where been, to q certain extent.
played upon, against the pursuits that gave him his
best employment, by representing the sole gamer
! from them the capitalist who sets them in motion.
Not we who write, or the politician who decaims.
are now to see ,cho ,cM be the main sufferers by this
law Tor the encouragement Of foreign industry and
arts: 1t Is now the laborer himself who is eyery
where, without the aid of print or of speeches, to
view for himself the effects of the new law
lie will see them in the sudden suspension of
large part Of the occupations that made each FORGE
or mine, or factory the busy centre Of hive-like
ACTIVITY ana order In the instant StOppape, for
thousands around them, of all those comforts which
rewarded toll diffused among the poor in the
young cast into deness the decrepit into want the
robust themselves into an inability to procure food
for families, the weaker members of which can no
more aid in their own support
Certainly, If that can be any sOlace and if mise
ry loves company, the ruined operative will not be
without the consolation of seeing the man who gave
him employment struck down by the same blow
which has laid low the humber success of him
whose sinews are his sole capital. But what then2
They, for whose elevation to power the rich are
made poor and the poor beegars, sit high, lords
IN the land which they have impoverished and de-
ceived; Party, for which was offered up all this
human sacrifice, iourshes, if every thing else
ceases to flourish; and office holding and the spells
iatten, If all else is to grow lean.
Possibly, too, he (the laborer) may be of large
and liberal soul, Of which the capaciols affections
embrace much more readily all mankind than the
narrow good oil his own country, the selfish con-
Germs Of his own household. In this case he will,
OF course, reflect with satisfaction that the wretch
ed populations of Britain and France and Germany
will gain, in wages and comforts, all that Ameri-
cans lose.
Sorry are we to be obliged to add, however, that
the foreign capitalist will also gain in still larger
proportion, by whatever has been done to ruin the
American one. For, after all, a little thought will
teach any man that this war upon what Secretary
WALKER and his people call 'the bloated capital
Ist' at home, is only going Except the ruin of our
poor) to serve to swell still more capitalists still
more bloated Unconstitutional Hsteligencer.