Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-12-31
Hear Folks Secretary of the Treas
urY

Hear Folks Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Commerce between nations but an exchange their
pectve products specie qudaing only the occasional ucu
ans balances and cannot long be maintained to great
m@Se to our proincts whS we eHsud, by gh Juc, most
Of the fabrics she would sell eAcango, specie would rap
She might STILL necessity, purchase Poon of ogf T
duets but necessity equally stern ind irresistible from
hdusicd means would compel reduce the purchases
aud price, aud thus diminish the balance demanded from her in
with England, the barriers must BE- broken dorm
O." both sides; her corn F0,cs repeated, and our
Sxy:s.yGs issgs H.sHsgsf Ss' ESEs DIX aiHE
i - * ~. WIN hlgh duties on ou part, we would
corn laws such high duties would cont odc, against
our iamer the British corn laws nearly ccctuay tho
they had never been repealed Before the repeal of those laws
lho 9dVocaeS our n"ry conceded ti Enslr"d
should receive her fabrics in exchange Now her markets
are thus opened to those products and the friends of pocc
by LII a d. 6 ss
duced duties are continued on both sides as to permit n
5sRS1rm0S:.G EV c' Cgs,g.yss i orr
bread .tnis and provision must be maaiamod
for products, it will he their interest encourage and
large that commerce. and it must rapidly ausmentng,
there of food shall that of cotton, great that
destined to he under system OF low duties With this enge
OUEs F.WE'ORTs aud great augmentation OF the
revenue Of the Government and the prosperity OF the people.
Here then, is complete echo to both of the
British Reviews "a complete coalition between the
Polk administration and the British Free Traders.
Give US your cotton and corn say the British:
wheat and -four and butter and cheese, we don't
care so much abOut-we can get great deal of
these from Canada, so well discriminate against
you from 80 to 80 per cent or land besides,
there are big granaries in Europe nearer by, as well
as IN America; so give us your cotton and corn,
ard take BRITISH MANUFACTURERS .4ye,
respond the Slavocrats in Folks Cabinet--we can
raise cotton and by slave labor, and crush the
Free States by destroying their manufactures -
yell strife hands tOiW The British
This is the policy Of the Polk administration. 1t
is harmonious with its vast scheme for extending
and perpetuatng Slavery-it is ruinous to the Free
States. Let the policy begun in the Tariff of 1876
go on until our own manufactures are crushed, our
GREAT HOME MARKET destroyed, and our
farmers compelled to depend upon the British mar
ket for the sale Of their products and what is the
inevitable result? The President and his Secre-
tary fatter the farmers with hopes of vast market
and high prices; but what promise the British them
selves Lou prices for provisions -ioW to the pro-
ducers of the raw maeras-and PROFIT ON
THE BRITISH GOODS That is the language
OF the British organ: and it is common sense
view OF the subject. Just imagine, if you please,
that British markets are open to all the world, for
provisions and raw materials to be paid for in Brit
lsh manufactures OF course all nations will rush
there to compete with one another in selling their
PiOuuNtS anu tilS very competition VIII ChenDen
these products; but at the same moment they will
be competing with one another to buy British man
nfactueS, and thus stimulating their value to the
very highest point The competition will all be
on the side of the customers-the profit all on the
side of the British. And how would Vermonier
stand there' Why, by the side of his tcooi, he
would find any quantity from South America, rails
ed at half the cost of his own; and any quantity
from Spain and SaXony better than his own, yet
costing less to produce and less in freight. BY the
side of his beef pork, butter and cheese, he would
find like articles produced far nearer the British
market, and of course less burdened with freight
in short, in every respect he would be obliged 10
come do,cn 10 The prices of the productions of The
paaper labor Of The mord-i all, mind you, are to
be admitted on equal footing duty-free. For years
the woo-growers of Vermont have been demand
ing high protective duties against South American
wool let them remember that in Folks British
market all wool is duty free
And what shall be the effect upon the Great
Naw EnulnnI