Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-27

and Democrats, and decide for yourselves in
your own honest minds if this land Specializing
Secretary of War, whether guilty or not guilty
of the crime, laid to his charge by the Hon.
Henry Hubbard and his other associates, of de-
frauding and swindling them. is the man whom
you will elevate to the Presidency.
OrThe following excellent article. which
we copy from the North American, is recon-
mended to the careful perusal of our readers:
The FREE TRADE HUMBuG.-When is this
miserable illusion Of Free Trade to end? 1t is
true that England-when her harvest failed,
and she could not supply her wants from the
Baltic and the Black Sea-did temporarily OPP
en- her ports to our American -four and corn
But was that free trade? No No sooner did
that season of scarcity pass BY, than her wise
Sir Robert, forgetting all the sycophancy of our
Sir Robert. applied the screw-again revived
his famous sliding scale--and so efIectuaIly
drove ourbreadstuffs from her market, that the
export of 1917 was not one-tenth part of the
amount shipped by us in 46 and now, in AS
threatens to shrink to one tythe of last yeor's
tenth; in spite of our daft Sir Roberts prom
/ Used grand total-for the millenium-of nine
hundred millions per annum.
| Again-Great Britain condcscends to admit
cur cotton duty free, while declaring chat to
put arms in the hands of the Southern slave is
/ a fair business transaction Fra2ers
Mag but she does this only when our better
fabrics threaten to drive her coarse goods out
Of many foreign markets, protesting all the
time, most virtuously against using the blood
stained products of the guilty Southland
spending millions for the avowed purpose ''of
crushing the Southern staple BY and through
the free labor produce of her ryot slaves OF
Hindostan. or her convict slaves of New South
: Wales. True, she will receive our spirits and
tobacco at 1900 per cent. duty. This is Free
Trade with vengeance! But as if TO put oul
supple Sir Robert to shame, the true Sir Robert
issued an order commanding the Lord Cham
berlain to announce to the ladies' who shall
attend the dra wing room, and shall be honoreC
with an invitation to Buckingham Palace, tina
her Majesty, cucr DESTROYS fgiving encourage
msnt to the trade and industry of the United
Kingdom, and particularly at this time Of com
mercial depression would wish to see them il
dresses OF British manufacture" AS the Queer
. had expressed the same wish the previous
month, this reiterati on can only be regarded il
. the light of royal order We can hardly be
ll;aya that napcocraiic A n,er;ca, a N, haeS. In
though representing a.British free-trade admin
istration at Washington, could tamely submit
, to his lady appearing at court, clad in British
, costume, at II, B. Majesty command. As lit
tie can we conceive one of our Eastern mer
, chants-after paying discriminating duty o
800 per cent, on his cottons at Calculated
ishing such a comment on our Sir Roberts doc
trine of free trade as TO find his wife excluded
from court, unless rustling in British silks-or
compulson. Yet such; after ruthlessly sacrii
cling the iron, wooden, and cotton manufac
: lures OF our country on the altar of this Mo
a loch of freetrade, robbing or operatives o
/ bread, and our farmers of the British markets
4 promised to them by elevating Polk and Dal
e las to power, are the sad truths forced upon u
: as bitter comments on the celebrated Kane
letter, which WILL ere long shroud the furna
: ces, FORCES and factories of Pennsylvania w,
: commend our readers to an attentive perusa
ii Of Mr.. Niles speech in the United States Sen
ate, in which the speaker, warning his brothe
Y Locofocos of the coming evils of the British
0 Tariff, admits that the balance Of trade agains
5 us in 1913 will be at least S42 000, 900. Blu
: Mir. Niles warns in vain Senate so hopeless
: w inimical TO home industry and national in
o dependence. There, party rules, and the coun
t try is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES has powerful
a majority, and the republic none; here we fint
S may politicians, few statesmen-lost grea
f men and perverted patriots of the Goldsmith
S school, who hold the interests of faction supe
r rior even TO those of mankind Senate
t with an impracticable Locoloco free trade ma
$ jority!
With no hope, then, ofreief from our owl
S Govemmen-withn no demand abroad for GU
breadstuffs-with ourports filled with the EN-
igrating labor of Europe, anxious for employ
2 ment-it requires no prophet to fortell the re
a suit Our manufactures closed-our specie
drained to pay for foreign fabrics inferior t.
our own-our farmers without foreign mar
ket, and their home market paralyzed in the
midst of teeming harvest-our honest ant
high minded merchants ruined BY the yiIlanie'
of foreign agents-(who deem ingenious fraud:
! on the custom houses of all rival manufactur
nations perfectly innocent, if necessary TO thei
success) ruin and reputation must again
t stalk through our land. Shall we, then tame
: ly submit TO witness these inevitable conse
D quences of the niquitous policy of Polk, Dial
las and Walker? The remedy is in our owl
hands, Popular calamity and popular pros
perity are alike ordained. in America, by ths
popular pleasure. If the people of the Unite'
States choose. they can at once esca pc all thes'
0 thickening evils offree trade. If they will it
: they can, in moment, change-they can ut
$ terly annihilate-the free trade majority in TIM
b Senate Oar great periodical, qilairennial rev
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