Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-10-12
VOL. XIII, NO. 4s.---WHOLE NO. 2I9I.


wild table land, but high minded men; not
great barbarous wilderness frontier, but
commodious and polished life, and cult
waited fields. We have a country large en-
ough, an area large enough to raise upon it
holy and beautiful city; and it is our de-
sire to see the buildings begin to ascend
the farm houses, and school houses, and viii
lage spire, the pyramid fronting the sun, its
summit resting in the stars. We have an
area so ample, so various, so happy, that the
most consummate civilization ever develop
cd upon earth, may be developed upon it.
1t is our aim to bring out all our material
resources, TO construct harbors, to clear riy-
ers, to tunnel mountains, TO bridge valleys,
to-level hills, to pour out wide and scen-
ttic agriculture upon it.
This we call progress. These are the
imperial arts that we regard as worthy of
us. In this respect, fellow citizens, we
hold that every fundamentally has its part
to perform. The giant hand of the FEEDER
al government has its pare, few great
and national wants here end there; the
State Government has its part; associated,
corporated capital, skill and labor, their
part; individual talent, capital, taste and
skill, their part and the result shall be
moral grandeur and beauty worthy Of Amer
lea, worthy Of liberty, worthy of the age in
which we live
This, fellow citizens, was the doctrine
of the Wings of 1910. This was the doc
trine Of George Washington in 1859, and
it was this vision of the future condition Of
his country that cheered his last look from
the summit of Mt Vernon. Nor has this
object lost its Importance any more than the
other, no, nor will it, till the harbors and
lakes shall show also their ten thousand
masts, till the iron roads have extended
through the Union, and the long line oftel-
egraph communications shall enable the
talking son and lover to whisper to his mis-
tress or mother of Massachusetts till the
wilderness shall bud and blossom like the
rose; till the keystone shall be set in the
arch, at which men shall look up and WON
der
Now, what help may we expect from
Gen. Cass? Let the administration Of Gen
Jackson, Martin Van Buren,, and the adj
ulnstration of James X Polk, answer the
question. Let the platform drawn up at
Baltimore, that cold-booded and elaborate
denial of every political and valuable power
of the general Government answer that
question. These must answer it, or it will
not be answered at all. For you know that
circumstances" prevented Gen. Cass from
attending the Chicago Convention and
had it been otherwise, ''the noise and con-
fusion" of 30 600 people would have utter
ly prevented him from being heard
(Laughter.) But what are we to expect
from Gen. Taylor:
"Upon the subject of the Tariff, the chr
rency, The improvement Of oar great Mgh-
rays, rice'S, lakes and harJOrs, tie toih
of the people, as expressed through their
Representatives an C0ngress, ought to be
respected and carried out by thr Erecufipc."
By the way, fellow citizens, before we
commit any part of the executive power OF
our own Commonwealth, say half of it to
MIR. John Mills, the friend of Marcus Nor
ton, who was the friend of Thomas w.
Dorr, think it is worth our while TO look
and see if Massachusetts, is not the most
splendid monument this day standing upon
the face Of the earth. The policy we would
recommend, constitutes her leading policy.
Nature las done next to nothing; the rest
has been done by you, and it is the fruit OF
twenty-five years Wing administration, I'M
terrified by the fraudulent camor about as.
sociated and incorporated wealth. The
fruits of the Wing administration are now
before you, in this long line of roads, upon
which caravansers exchange between the
old world and the new this broadcast, IN
dividual and incorporate capital, skill, anc
wealth, that is inscribed along her surface
written upon her rocl-b0und coast, craven
on her granite hills; all this is the monu
ment and defender of the policy upon which
| insist. Verify, fellow citizens, Wisdom
after all, is sure to be Justified of her chill
dren." There are honest George n. Brigg:
and John Reed, presiding over the whole
scene, calm as couple of summer morn
ings-"may they live a thousand years, and
may their shadows never be less ~
There are three great cardinal doctrine;
to which | would refer, and do not intenC
to detain you very long. Let me, in The
first place, refer to that great and cardina
doctrine, that in the arrangement ofour sys
TEN a due regard should be paid, and
great deal of regard, to the protection of TIN
laborer, We have always held views upor
this subject, "known of all men," as thu
granite Of our native hills, or the granite up
on which the globe itself is fixed. We hole
to the general proposition that the marke
of America belongs to the producer. Ii
order to develope and reward scientific az
rlculure, the farmer Of America eyerywher
has a right to find the consumer OF his har
vest at home. In order to effect this object
and to develope to their ulmnst measure tn
great industrial capacities of the country
we hold also that the market of the produc
er of the mechanic and the manufacture
of fabrics, belongs also at home. We hole
that such revenue system, such tariff
should be constructed as to protect onr la
Dor from the aggressive, ftful policy of tn,
pauper industry, matured skill, redundan
capital and wealth of the old world
Has that doctrine ceased to be of practi
cal importance in this country Z win tn
mechanic of Lynn say sol VIII the fisher
man of Marblehead or Gloucester say SO 2
Do our mechanics and farmers no longe
want a market at home Are TIER de
mands so completely Withdrawn, that thu
lawgiver has no longer anything TO do re
speeding thenil There has been liti'
trouble in Denmark or in the North of lta
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