The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-07-09

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ted States, whose wages average $3.50
per year-this is equal TO the interest OF
$4,000 at six per cent. Each iaborel's
capital, then, is equal to $4,000 at inter-
est. Multiply this by two millions, the
number of lnborers, and it gives you a
capital amounting 10 the enormous sum of
six thousand millions of dollars, produ-
cling, at six per cent, three hundred and
sixty millions of dollars a year. This
was the "Iabor capital" he wished 10 sus-
tain and uphold. This was the great ma
tional industry he wished 10 protect and
defend against the ruinous and degrading
effects of free and unrestricted compeli-
lion with the pauper labor of foreign lands.
He went to secure the American market
for American labor. In the great strug-
gle for the American market he took the
American side. On the other hand, the
gentleman from Alabama and his friends,
went for "frec trade," for opening our
ports 10 the manufacturers of all the world;
for bringing in freely the pauper produc>
tons of great Britain, TO overwhelm the
rising prosperity of our own poor but
industrious citizens. They went for
crushing American enterprise; grinding
down American labor, and putting their
countryman on footing with the very
sweepings of the poor houses Of Europe,
and would, in the end. bring them down
TO their political, as we'll as their pecuni.
airy and moral condition. Mr.. S. was for
cherishng American labor; for giving it
high wages; for surrounding it with all
the substantial comforts of life. Which
was the true friend of the People, And
yet these "free trade" advocates, from the
Secretary down, protested 10 be the ex>
elusive friends oflhe "poor man." and we
are denounced as the friends of ''milion>
aires and monopolisls.' We now import
ed fifty millions worth of British goods
annually, and therein We imported twen-
ty. five millions worth of British agricul- |
tural products; of English wool, English
grain, English beef and mutton, English |
agricultural productions of every kind
And vet gentlemen would rise here and |
talk of British market for our bread
sufs. Why, how much of This did Eng"
land take? Not quarter Of million in
all lis formsl
Here was a beautiful reciprocity
Here were the beauties of free trade
Here were cur equality OF benefits We
took fifty millions in British goods, one
half OF it agricultural produce, while she
look one. quarter Of million Of our bread
stuffs. This was our boosted British
market. What was this British market
10 us2 The American market consumed
nearly a thousand millions Of
American grain; the British market one
quarter Of one million. Great Britain
look of our -four not tenth part OF the
amount taken by the East and Yves, In.
dies not third part as much as Brazil |,
not as much as the little Island Of Cuba
md not much more than half as much as
Hayti. Poor, miserable, negro Hayti,
ook last year SO, l44 barrels Of -four, and
England, Scotland, and Ireland together,
ook but So, 355 barrels of -four and one
,arrel of corn meal. Yet we are told, in
he face of these official facts, by the Sec
eary of hs Treasury, that we mus! I'd Ike /
more British goods, otherwise she will
lave to pay US "cash for our breadstu6s,
md not baUiag 1t TO spare, she will not
,uy as much OF our cotton" What an
insult 10 American farmers is this. AS t
ii honorable man must he not blush for c
lis reputation when he looks upon these !
acts But wha. better could we expect
rom this American Secretary, who, over
nc over, in his report, denounces the S
ubsliulion OF American manufactures for
oreign goods, aud declares that direct .
a1ation is more equitable and just than
'uties on foreign goods, especially in its
peration on the poor Better levy tax G
s on our own productions than on those S
f foreigners Such are the doctrines
penly avowed by this Secretary to favor d,
lis miserable system of "free trade."-
Away with such British doctrines as these. s
they could never find favor with the A. 4
nerican people while spark of patriot r
SIN anmates their hearts, or drop of
revolutionary blood run in their veins.
The gentleman from Alabama will no +
oubt discover another terrible absurdty 7
when Mr.. s. slated that Great Britain ex- 4,
orted and sold more agricultural produce ,
han any other country in the world. Yet
is strictly and undeniably true. Ex- i
orted, moi in its original form, but work,
d up and converted into goods, iron, and T
ioths, &c., consisting of raw materials
nd breadstuffs. Great Britain exported, t
n an average, more than two hundred & Y
fy millions of dollars worth of mannfac- n
Tres, one"half ofthe whole value of which 7
onsisled of the produce Of the soil. The l
United States took about one fifth part Of a
II the exports of Great being 7
lore than all Europe put together. In S
report of committee in the British
'arIiament, made some years ago, it ap>
cared that the British goods consumed q
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