Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-03-14
DAILY FREE PRESS-MARCH. II, 1851
QSThe y. Y. Courier s. ENQUIRER not

OFThe n. Y. Courier s. Enquirer, noticing
the adjournment of Congress, slys:-
he Tmrty>tirst Congress has adjourned
and whoever writes the history of its second
session, Wi,l fad It, merits, if N ,rits it had. in
/ the evil it neglected to d. rltler thln in the
rood achieved In other words, It's good quail
l0os. if 1t had any. were entirely NEGATIVE, Ii
Htnot dcs'roYHc Union. and we doubt wheth-
cr this is not ali that can be sld in It's favor
And yet, but for the folly and i,lnllic.sm of a
minority Of the members of the Inst Canrre- :.
but little, if any Of the agitltioa oflSj0 would
have had an existence, They were the agita-
tors; and when they wen. to their homes, in
Sept 'm5er last, agltltIoo gradually died out,
and the country became quiet
The only measure of the last session of Con-
gress for which any merit can be awarded. is
the chc1p Postage bill But while no absolute
/ ly bad legislation marked the course OF the last
session, It's SINS of omission ar innumerable q
First and foremost among these ; the neg
lcct to modify the ttrili' 50 as to mike the du,
ties on imports specific msteld Of nd v4orem
TheconSafu nces ofthS ne elect will be another
year OF excessive Import lion, the closing OF 4
few bias, furnaces sill stu cling 70. existence.
tn shutting up OF one t1u,tl OF the cotton AMI
wo.len mlnuiNctorics now III succcssiu! opera
ton, the lessoning Of n no ne mlrket tnr agrl>
cu'ura! produce, wit diminished mlrkptS, an!
dEutnlshe enumeration TO tle lborcr; ana all,
mat the pluper Labor # Europe may be bena
fitted Il the expense of the free labor of the t.
StltoS
Another year of adj valorcm duties AMI OK
ceSsIve lmpUrtatunS, will do much to reduce
all Labor IN the United States to the standard
OF the pauper labor of Europe; and at the same
time, the destruction of our best home markets
ana manu- a tories, viii 50 CHOPIN agricultural
products. that ultimately our farmers vii wake
up to the conviction that this question of pro-
tecuve Tariff Is one in which they are more di-
rect'Y interested than any body else. Ne can
abide our time, because we are directly interest
e ina low tariff and its effects upon abc.. We
emp,oy upwards of eighty persons and Just so
certainly as we employ them, so certain is il,
that with the fall OF agricultural products, the
price of labor must decline Oicourse we are
benefited by such result AMI apparently, our
interest consists IN keeping things as they are.
But we look beyond the present. We look to
the future, and to the whOie country; and we
insist that most men are ben fitted by the
general prosperity Oft whole country even
while their apparent interest consists in the low
prices of the nccessayleS of life. But be t. is ms
1t may, the farmers will soon learn that the pro
ducers have been increased and the consumers
of their products lessened. We need not tell
them that lower prices must follow; and we think
they will have the sagaclty to discern the cause
The country asked not prohibitiry duties
1t asked not even an increase of existing duty
we wanted competition, not prohibition and
sought prshlbluon only against the pauper labor
OF Europe, by insisting that the duty which the