Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-11-02

NJ The following appeal to the Daborers OF
Pennsylvania, by Horace GREELY, edidi;or OF the
New York Tribune we commend to the consid-
sderaon of every voter in this County.
To the Laborers of Pennsylvania.
Men AND BRETHREN
For the familiarity Of this address, | make no
apology and ask no pardon Your State Is the
chosen home Of nv kindred | have worked on
her soil and as mechanic among her sons. She
embosoms all own of this earth's surface but
grave. But, more than ihis-she has been my
teacher in the noble science of National Policy
When bat child listened to the words of wis
dom that fell from the lips of her SNYDER. her
Ton, her BALDWIN, her FoRwARp, as from her
chair of State and from the halls OF Congress they
appealed TO Intelligence and Patriotism in behalf
OF 1he policy of PROTECTION TO LABOR. In those
parer days, Pennsylvania spoke with no divided,
40 double voice. She was the citadel OF Democ-
racy, and Protection was then Democratic; but
on this subject Pennsylvania knew no party. Her
Ingersois. and Daases then were not the Charles
j. Ingersols and Miffiin Daliases OF this day
They stood together for the interests OF their State
and of Labor everywhere. New York may have
been distracted by glitering dreams of commercial
msgnihcence, and Boston was entirely under the
sway of the Free Traders, when Pennsylvania
taught me that the prosperity and true glory OF a
Though War and extended dominion, not through
vast Commerce with its gigantic fortunes for the
few and hopeless bankruptcies of the many, but
through devotion of It's intellect and its energies
10 the steady encouragement of Useful Labor by
calling into existence new branches of Productive
Industry, by fostering TO vigorous maturity those
vet inianlle and feeble, and by SO adjusting its
Duties on Imports that the fluctuations of Foreign
Markets, the oscillations of Foreign Policy, shall
If II
ployneni and Bread. Years have passed since
your Stale taught me these truths, during which
experience and study have combined to convince
me more and more firmly of their soundness and
Importance. They tell me that my teacher has
aposiauzed; but know better. She cannot SO
slulufy and immola.e herself. Deceived and con-
fused she has temporarily been by men, whose
path to personal aggrandizement lay across that
dictated by her principles and her interests, but
she is still unchanged conviction uncorrupted
in heart. speak TO her she was and is heI
betrayers shall answer for what she has seemed
10 be-
do not propose TO argue TO you the policy OF
Protection I; that were needless; but will fore
stall cavileIs by stating concisely what it is;
We who stand for Protection maintain that a
Nation large and prolific as ours ought To draw
upon its internal resources for all such desir-
able staples as may be produced on its own soil
We do not, we never Gid, contend for buying only
of each other aud thence attempting to grow, Cot
ton 10 Labrador or Oranges in Wisconsin, But
we do insist that nation so large as ours and so
widely separated from other civilized countries
commits an enormous and calamtous mistake
when it pe rsisis from year to year in importing its
Fabrics ,ro U beyond the ocean and sending It's
Food thitber in payment and leaving its Ores un-
disturbed in n ,eir beds while it ships orf its har-
vests in exchan, ge for foreign Metals. We insist
that ia send our Cotton Flax and Wool across the
ocean 10 be made into Cloth for our use. even il
,ha aanufae,urers shall be fed with our Grain and
Pork ;,yolyes an en- ormous icaste Of Human La
no, in the expensive transportatons, trans-ship-
men,s 6c ,ybich wouie inevitably he saved by
,yooino the mani, factui.er TO put up his mills and
tac,or'es heside and araoDg our farmers. thereby
inducing a more thor ougb and diversified culture,
annually lertilizing ins,est! of exhausing (by the
removal Of its pfoducs) tie soii, ana al tne same
tine securing TO our laborera far greater choice
Of employmenis and higher average wages than
any one vocation could possibly turuisn in snort
We believe this country is now annualiy imposef-
fishing Itself to the extent Of many intlilons ol ooi-
lars by buying largely Of the Metals Wares and
Fabrics OF Europe and sending tbither Its Grain,
Meat. DC, IN return. instead Of making It's own
"details Wares and Fabrics ALMOST exc, ,usisely,and
thus Withdrawing It's husbandnen largely from the
growing oi Grain ard rearing OF Animals 10 the
culture of Fruits. Vegetables, &c and the fabrca-
Of the ihousand accesspries TO warmth, COM
isrt Or elegance we now buy from abroad when
they might easily be made at home.
IL, thought you were hostile to Com |
merce.' says Free Tradef-W Well, Sir, you