The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-11-04
WEBSTER IN FANEUIL
HALL.

Inst week Daniel Webster made Speech
IN thousands assembled in Faneuil Hail. 1t
WINS npon the Sub Treasury and the
Tariff of 1s46. He told very plainly why the
wool of the Farmers of Vermont and other
Srates cannot be Sold Hear him. He told
what was running the
WOOL GROWERS OF VERMONT.
"Now, gentlemen, let us see how this pol
lev of the Administration, the united opera
ton ofthe Sub Treasury and the tariff of'46,
has operated to maintain the prosperity Ofthe
manufactures Here / can only instancea
few things md so far MS am concerned,
and this meeting is concerned,they must TAKE
them as specimens of the whole. begin
with wool aud wollens, great Northernn.
terest. The production of wool and the man.
uiacture of wool, is n vast Northern and M&
die State interest. IL extends through Viz.
ginin Ohio, the Western States, PennSylM
and certain parts of New York and New
England; but the manufacture of II Is esab
lished principally in the New England SLAVES.
Now, take few instances OF ms Here
is II wooIlem establishment, in our nelghbor
hood. nj Lowell, called the MiddleseX Mills
within very short time, such has Geen tire
depression of that interest, and such the
overwhelming effect of manufactures from
abroad. that eight hundred hands have been
discharged and others, If not nll.wlll be dis
charged soon. Wages are reduced ~ per
cent, and the price ofwool is reduced at least
one third.
THERE ARE COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA
Upon THE Urn or NOVEMBER WHO WILL
THINK OF THs-Washington, Green aud 9th
or counties in the Western part OF Pennsy
ynnia. NAV well take it into consideration
that this tariff and Sub Treasury have pro-
| tected them by depressing the price OF tner
main commodity at lenst one third. II may
not he amss for our neiglhors OF Name and
Vermont, ms well as New Hampshire, 10 no.
tce that also. A respectable gentlemhn,welI
known to you, this afternoon placed III my
hands n statement, according 10 which FOR.
nv wooLLEN MILLS, KNOWN TO HIM, HAVE
WITHIN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS ALL sTOPP-
I'D WORKING, FROM THE PRESSURE or THE
MONEY MARKET, and the influx ct foreign
manufactures, and they have discharged
nearly three thousand hands, and greatly re-
duced the wages of the remainder.
There is a singular fact connected with
The wooden manufacture in the United states
believe not generally known. A great por-
ton of the imported articles Is from France
aud the continent. Now believe that II is not
generally known that France pays nouny
upon expectation of WOODEN nanuiactures
TO the amount of fourteen per cent. 1t was
formerly .. per cent. Belgium manufactures
now send their goods through france ana
thus all these great importatlons OF woolenS
come TO the u. States, under n bounty equal
to halfthe tax imposed upon them by ON
government; so that our tariff upon wooIeM
is rendered null to one halfits full extent, by
hounties paid upon woolens abroad. rive
sixths, and some say nine tenths, of all these
products come to the United States.
] spoke of labor as one of the great ee-
, meuts of our society, the great substantial III
L. - Ill NnF
service, not predial toll, not the irksone
drudgery by one race of mankind, subjected
on account of color, 10 the control of another
race ormnnlind; but labor intelligent, manly
independent, thinking and acting for itself
J earning It's own wages, accommodating those
wages into capital, becoming part Of soc-
= ETY. and of our social system, educating Chl.
. dren maintaining worship, Ginning the right
= of the elective franchise. and helping TO up
: hold the great fabric of the State. THAT'S
. AMERICAS LABOR, and confess that oil my
= sympathies IRE with il, and my voice until
. am dumb, will be for it. Great applause.Y
" After speaking of the great amount of in
portations of foreign products, Mr. Webse
y says:
d Specie is constantly going out of the conn.
a try Ten millions have been sent abroad,
- understood, since January last. How are
we to get over this? And of what is left I'M
!! der the effect of this importation, the Sub
q Treasury locks up what would make cWcu-
= lation of fifteen or twenty millions. mus
suppose this state of the Tariff and The sur,
l. Treasury, always going on,nnd always found
n together, like Castor and PolluX, under a.
IS Democratic administration. Aud VINO
n blessed by it? 1t is all from the unwilling
:, ness ofparty men to acknowledge themselves
" in error. lnppeal to you. You are al" aci
n uuainted with the state of commerce anu
St, business. Do you know twenty men, ac' .t
"a in business sensible men, who do rot WIZ.
the Sub-Treasury anywhere but where To-
Do you know twenty mechanics ana nia"I
al, facturers men of sense and industry, wnoW
not wish the tariff of 1876 had never pTt .,
il born What is it that keeps 1t IN peihg W.
- prejudice, party pride and obstlnacyF uen,
ne tetnen. have no right to speak here 10 mg h,
ot bers ofa party TO which do not he'o"s' oOn.
Or vet would venture to beseech them w. Hon.
R, slider whether there may not be s o"o
-, sideration, whether our own daily pus rros
~" the muintainance of our wives ana i"" -
d the securing of competence for col.,,O nav
he BILE old age, whether these considera'VIS , rs
not be of more importance tha'l uI'a .,sr
:; should learn by rote, and reclte oy ro. r'ohsE
III dogma of the party 10 which we are u, 'od nv
MS know that confidence IS to be pin'. .ho,I
man i'm man. l feel the convictloh " N
must repose trust in somebody's 'a" 'sorrp
uphold our essential interests,and 10 P'1III ays
the honor and peace Of the country. 80 the
%; made up my mind, and give that trp rus o "
lie; wing nominaUUn-o1 49, bound Ip and
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