Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-10-30
From the Hartford Courant.
HOME LABOR.

We pIblish, this w,"k, the articles Of a $50
citation. b. which the patriots Of Virginia defcn-
Ged them selves against the strong influences of
Gragt Britain. and did some hing for the cr.
C0urlT"M1ut Cf domestic lanor and fuat ron
when Nirrlnla va, flied with race Of m IN
W19 have not been called thu oDpressors of the
ponr.-rhey saw the true policy of Americans.
and as the government could not then IN Ike the
needed provisions, these patriotic gentlemen took
the work into their one hands.
The same spirit which actuated these men is
now moving upon the hearts of the people of th,
country, and thousands are ready In n -app in
the sam method a irg the me hani = and ar
tIzins of their own nations. A. a part of this
design W. notice with pleasure a very neat and
vel! dsyi 'ed pie ig1 (origna ing in Tolland
County, intended ~ secure united effort in the
work OF ailing our own countrymen.
The pledge is as follows !" We hereby mu-
tually pledge ourselves not to purchase any ar
tice of FOREIGN MANUFACTURE, (know-
ing IT to he SUCH after the goth day of November
1876, winch we can obtain Of AMERICAN produce
ton, until our GOVERNMENT restores JUST
PROTECTION TO AMERICAN LABOR"
Above the scroll on which the pledge is prin.
ted is the American Eagle bearing the motto
Protection to American Labor" Tne scroll is
labeled " The Peoples Tariff" 1t is very neatly
designed, and the Associations which are formed
bv these pledges will do something towards sus.
tanning the INDUSTRY of our own people.
From the National mtegencer
Free Trade and our FOrefathers.
The late proposition of Mr. ANDREW STEW
ART, of Pennsylvania, to fight the new Tariff
law for the protection of British Industry and
capital and for the destruction of American Ma
nufactures, by Home Associations of person:
(riend, of their own country and its arts) who
shall bind themselves not to consume the foreign
productions which locOfocosm and its leader,
prefer 10 our own-that proposition we say, may
or may not find, IN the present state OF party
management and subserviency, spirit enough 70
sustain it, even among the States and the mas
ses of working population most interested in
manufactures, most dependant on their encou.
ragement for all their well-beng. A party ever
appealing To domestic names and household fee
lngS, because It'll byI e7e that manare most easi.
iy mlsled a party that brands nen FEEDER ili,ts
for merely daring to oppose an Executive supre-
macy and usurpatlons that federalism never VEN
tured u imagine party that calls men british
wings iof all thelr conservative efforts TO save
every thing really American-our laws, our
institutions, our morals, our industry a party
that breathed flames of war for fifty -four fortv
that senseless eXtravagance-than crept on,
themselves at forty-nine, but still have the Of.
frontery to vliy men as partsans of England
for having calmly advocated a rational arrange.
ment the anti-Bank party, that filled the conn
try with banks the anti-Credit party, of Repu
diation the llard-money party of empty Subtrea
suries and deiaulting Receivers !; that part,
which made such cheap and sucha blood
less acquisition" of Texas, at only the cost o
our Constitution and fifty millions of dollars t,
begin that party, we say, merits such an ex
IRENE confidence from all Americans, from al
the manufacturing interest, and from Pennsyva
MIA in particular for all its achievements that
willno doubt easily succeed Gas its Organ her
boasts that it is doing) in persuading every bod
that its doctrines are to be believed, however fata
its doings, and that its theories arc perfectly b
be relied on, though its pledges are openl
falsfed. Bless us, Pennsy lvanians and all tn
rest Of you why, consider lis not this sagacious