The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-08-29
THE CALIFORNIAN,
The Anglo LOcOfOcO Tariff


From Pennsylvania comes to us voice OF
whit. not unmiXed with certain other sounds,
that bespeak a gathering public resentment
uutterings of all that muiutudes suddenly
hcorared feel, when they know that they have
hoe1 cruelty deceived, and that ruin is dealt
~ them by The very hands which they armed
win mower. We hear too, ofyet more de-
nlorabIe forms into which this public indig
nation is Observation-Disclosures, in derogation
Of the law itself of which the criminality,
aren't MS it is, is ut least sharedb by those whose
cross deccptions, when once discovered,
fcmpt too sadly the duped crowd TO violence.
The philadelphia Polk papers, mean time,
hive. some ofthem, it seems, put on the signs
1r mourning. Sable is not, however, n color in
yoriably sincere; and il chance s that the same
Journals were parties, in every instance, to
The very imposition which Pennsylvania is
now to rue.
Thc truth of those arguments is to be test
cd. Inv which the jealousy of the mere labor
mo- man has every where been, to Il certain
extent. payed upon, against the pursuits that
rove him his best employment, by represent
inc. rs the sole gamer from them, the capital
ISIS who set themin motion. Not we who
write. or the politician who decaims, are now
TO see ,CIo ,oiH be The main sufferers by this law
for the encouragement of foreign industry and
arts: il is now the laborer himself, who is ev-
cry where, without the aid of print or of
spccches, to view for himself the effects of
the new law.
He will see them in the sudden suspension
of a large part of the occupations that made
each forge, or mine, or factory the busy cen
ire ola hive-like activity and order; in the in
slant stoppage, for thousands around them,
of all those comforts which rewarded toll diff
III. al, ,,,F,
idleness, 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 TINT can be any solace, and if
misery 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 then? They,
for whose elevation to power the rich are
made poor, and the poor beggars, sit on high
lords in the land which they have impoverish-
ed and deceived: Party, for which was offered
up all this human sacrifice, flourishes, if ev-
cry thing else ceases to fourish aud office.
holding and the spoils fatten, if all else is &c
grow lean.
Possibly too, he, (the laborer,) may be of a
affections embrace much more readily all
mankind than the narrow good of his own
country, or the selfish concerns of his own
household In this case he will, ofcourse,re-
fleet with satisfaction that the wretched popu.
lations of Britain and France and Germany
will gain, in wages and comforts, all that A.
mericans lose.
Sorry are we to he obliged to add, however
that the foreign capitalists will also gain in 4
still larger proportion, by whatever has been
done to ruin the American one. For after all
little thought will teach any man that this
war upon what Secretary walker and ms
people call the "blooted capitalist" Mt home,i.
only going( Except the ruin Of our poor tc
serve to swell still more, capitalists still more
boutcd abroad.-.Ndi. Int.
The following is given MS list of the prin
cipal appropriations made at the recent SEES