Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
The PrOSIayery "PlOtecliye Tariff Of p.

AS the columns of the Freeman are proessedly de-
voted to the discussion Of the subject of slavery, ln
all its bearings" we trust that in examining the "whg
protective tariff of AZ" in connection with this "pecu
liar institution our remarks will not be considered as
offered malapropos. We know of no measure pEopo-
sed by the several conflicting parties Of the day, or
adopted by the Government the policy of the
try, in which the nhence Of the slave power has been
more controlling, in securing advantages and profits
to the luxurious and rofgute Sayeocracy ofthe South
for the encouragement and extension of the slave sys
ten, than in the tariff act, to which we have alluded
In support of this position, we adduce the following
articles with the impost duties established by the whg
tariff of 40, annexed.
Cotton manufactured 3 cents per h., equal accord
ing to the estimate made at the Treasury in 1874, to
|6ynine per cent. Hemp manufactured, forty DOL
lars per ton, equal to ryonc per cent Tobacco, in
the different forms of cigars snuff &c. from 90 to.
-four per cent. Sugar, in its various preparations,
as brown, raw, brown clarified syrup of sugar
E, refined sugar, sugar candy moasses, comfts,
from 81 to one hundred and ninety per cent.
addition to the above direct "protectiv." duties
ncourage and sustain human slavery at the South,
he rule contended for with such zeal and apparent
nestness by the "Proecyo League" that "protec-
l" to the manufacturer affords incidental "protec-
l" to the agricultural producer, by creating an addi-
lai demand for, and consequently enhancing the
pc of his commodity, be correct, we have the tol-
Ing;
IN the various manufactures of cotton the protec-
tariff duties range, according to the estimate re-
red to, flom thirty to one hundred and s;rty PEI
IT. On the manufactures Of Hemp the duties are
m 16, to one hundred md njnety-nine per cent
tmay not be improper to observe IN this connection
we have omitted an important list of articles, CON
Lutlng extensive interests common to both sections
slaveholding and the non-savehoding states-ir
ch the industry of tine North, so far as the opera.
MS of trade are considered, is in direct competition
on the same level with the slave labor of the
nth; and by which think 1t could be easily shown
The satisfaction of all candid minds, that while A.
rlcan labor in the non-saveholGng states, stand
IN positive competitor with three millions of slave
orers, at home, the cry protection against pauper
orers, three thousand miles off, in Europe, Is not
y palpable absurdty, but down right mposure
however pass the data by which this view of the
ject of protective tariffs" might be conclusively
tanned; it being our purpose in the present writing,
demonstrate the proposition implied in the terms
ich stands at the head of these remarks, VIZ: that
Tariff of 42 is a proslavery measure-adjusted
tn the design of protecting" encouraging and ex-
ldng the slave system, and thereby conciliatng the
or and fellowship of the Shareholders.
Now if we enquire, what motive or passion thus OPP
ates to the sympathes of the hearts of men, de-
sing and destroying their own souls and the souls Of
hers in the diabolical work of enslaving their fellow
en- it will be found that the love of "fIthy lucre"