Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-12-31
The expectation of the AMERICAN TARIFF bein.
carried, WILL also HAVE A VERY FAVORABLE
INFLUENCE ON OUR TRADE.
How the Polk Tariff helps the
British.

The Boston Atlas copies the following articles
from British newspapers Of the lst inst. showing
the state of trade
The Halifax Guardian says SO rather better feeling has
been mnnestodn the hail. but many goods have gone
off, and prices continue unimpoycd The sales hare been PRci
patty IN Jinty good for the 3moyicdn markets Hdte prospects
The Leeds Intcgencer says; Our markets. have been bu
thnly attended with buyers this week. AMI the stocks OF good
hand the increase. The manufacturers but partial
poyed on goo Lor Oh Ors hare been scenJ adapted for III
american spring trade"
But to the language of the British organs, ant
the dictates ofcommon sense, we add the warnings
of past experience. AS BRITISH COLONIES
this country stood precisely i'll the position which
the Polk policy would again place us. We Deepen
ded upon her then for market for our productions
and for the supply of manufactured articles, pre-
cisely as Polk and his Secretary would again have
us do. That dependence an Intolerable curse
upon the land. 1t was burden which could moi
be borne and to remove it and establish our indie
pendence as nation the Protective Policy a.
dop,ed in the first act Of the first Congress under
the Constitution, and has since received the sane
ton Of all the greatest statesman and purest patri
OTIS of the land. For more than half century the
system has existed and though the people are now
told That 1t has been a grinding taxa monstrous
burden--a ruinous exacton upon them for the ex-
elusive benefit Of few manufacturers, the unpar-
uleiiod advance Of the nation III wealth and power
In agriculture, III mechanic arts and commerce,
quite as much as in manufactures all attest the
wisdom OF Its founders and the consummate folly
OF those who have now abandoned" it. AS to
manufactures, it is true that the advance has been
wonderful: but the assertion Of the President that
manufacturing as n business has been more pr0ftd-
Ole than other branches, is in contravention of no.
torous facts. With all the aid of protection, there
Is not factory in Vermont established previous to
1887, nor one in ten in the Union, which has not
tllled.-a result partly owing to the competition
which has served to diminish the profits Of manu-
featuring by too rapidly increasing the number of
factories and the quantity of goods produced-and
partly to the fact that protection 10 iabor and The
rae material has generally required handsome wa
ges to aborers and fair prices to the producers.
But the President derides the system unequal
unlust-a monsrous tax upon the millions for the
benefit Of the manufacturers thus denying the ev-
ldence OF all past experience and directly making
the insulting charge, that WASHINGTON, and
JEFFERSON, and MADISON, and the eng ar
who for half a century have sustained the Protec-
tive Policy, were blind to the dictates of common
justice or criminay treacherous TO the interests of
the people! Vermonters = to you we put the ques-
ton, whether justice and gratitude to the illus
trlous dead, from the Father of the countryn TO
the last President who has gone to the grave
whether patriotic desire for the independence and
prosperity of your country, and a prudent regard
Tor your own interests, do all mpel you TO with
hold your support from President and party
who have now adopted for the government IA
BRITISH POLICY, and reflected upon the most
honored OF American Statesmen SANDER which
can meet with no response, save in a BRITISH
HEART?
And here let US exhibit the sentiments of the
FATHERS OF THE REPUBLIC,