Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-02-28
DAILY FREE PRE- S-FEB "a, 1851.
The 'rariH.

There can be no reasonable hope that any
modification of the existing Tariff will be made
during the brief remainder of the present ses-
sion of Congress. The great Cardinal Inter-
ests of the Countrywide Tariff, Public Lands
Cheap Postage, &c.-have, as usual, given way
before the interests of Slavery The South
appear to be determined that the attention of
the country shall be so exclusively occupied
with their grievances, in the matter of catching
Fugitive Slaves, that no other subject shall be
either settled or agitatcd. We hear Of nothing
but reasonable and disloyal Conventions and
Resolutions at the South-nulication and se>
cession-unless the principal energies of this
Government are mainly devoted to the cama~
ton ola few poor Negroes, who have managed
to escape from scrvtude.
The North is quiet enough We hear of no
| Conventions nor Resolutions, in our section of
the Union, having for their object the peaceful,
or forciblc, dissolution of this Confectionery, or
any thing like resistance to the laws Of Con
gress. Every thing at the North Is in amcable
repose Whenever Fugitive Slave is arrests
ed, and, on competent and legal authority, re-
manded into Slavery, the people of the North
are sorry for it, but call no Conventions, and
pass no resolutions. They are content to 'bde
their time" They are convinced that so de-
te stable and abhorront system as that of hu
man slavery cannot exist a great rhiie longer
in this age of the world and they are content
"to labor and 10 WATT There is nothing like
excitement at the North. The North OBEYS
TIE LAWS not, perhaps, without ques-
tioning or disputing their justice and humanity,
but still OBEYS THEN. The North asks for
nothing except through the regular operation of
Law. She submits to FREE TRADE because it
is Law; though it impovcrishes her Farmers,
and shuts up her Workshops She DEMANDS
PROTECTION from Congress, but threatens no
dissolution nor secession if she does not get
it. The Free Trade policy of Congress- is n
: thousand times more destructive of both her
: Just rights and her interests, than the escape of
a thousand slaves would be to the rights and
interests of the South =; bnt she uses no threats
and INDUCES in no bravado, because that poll
cy is not changed. She is content with the
Union as it is, and only seeks her Just rights
and the rights of humanity, under it, by the OPP
Grafton of Law. If our Southern brethren
woulu believe this, and not ascribe t. THE
-. NoKTH the abonnabe doctrines and scnti-
mcnts of Garrison, Wright, Smith, Sumner &,
Co they would show thcms,v infinitely more
wise than they now appear to be But they
will not. The tLnlticism Of the South Though
it take the form Of chivllry) is quite as imprac
tIcable as the flnlticism of the North. The
i great body OF the people must let the two flight
it out!'
> -Congrcss has now been in session ol
nearly three months-and what has been done
Nothing! The real interests of the country
langush and die, the producers and manufactu
y rers are equally oppressed for the want of ration
al Legislation ruin like that of lS37-> stares u.
IN the face, AMI yet the whole nat on is reused
into a splsmo of excitement because an alleged
Il fugitive from Slavery has accidentally escaped
from arrest 1t is nothing that the splendid
Manufactures of the country are shut up fo
> the want of decent legislation, and thousand.
of Frecmcn thrown out of employment; tha
e the great interest of LABOR is paralyzed = tina
" producers and consumers are constantly remov
ed to greater distance from each other by thu
I policy of the Government to which alone the,
: can look for favor and encouragement al
It this is nothing, SO long as poor Negro canno
e be easily lie uced from the condition ola Free
: nun to that of Slave Even the Secreta
of State of this Republican, he New Eng
land man-makcs proclamation that he "wil
resign in u hours" unless prompt an,
- vigorous measures are taken in regard to thu
Boston riot" 1t seems to us that it would bet
ter beseem DANIEL WEBSTER if he were t.
threaten that he would resign unless Somethin!
were speedily done to resuscitate and invigor
u ate the palsied energies Of AMERICAN INDUS
=, TRY.
- We have had about enough of Fusitv,
ii Slave Laws and Compromises. Let them g
10 their way. Let US at the North try to do some
~ thing FOR THE CovNTRY. Let us turn our al
n ten,ion little to the fatal sophisries and NOR
81 fatal practices Of FREE TRADE. What III
Country needs is Protective TARIFF. w
in are preparing for nothing but commercial re
l. vulsion and disaster, under existing laws, Will
~ our ears are stunned by the cry of the rights q
o Slavery" Let us turn our attention 10 some
70 thing more profitable to consider. We ask on
# readers to look at the following article whic
~ we copy from the Boston Journai We as
r., them to ponder its exposition of the working
10 and the hopes, and lis illustration of the argu
no menls, of Free 1rade. The time has about al
rived when the REPURLIc should receive som
consideration, even if, thereby, slavery shonl
be placed for the moment, in the background
IL The following il the Journals articlo:-
l.. Agricultural Expectation.
IL The "free trade )" Journals from Faths
~, Richie " to the " Journal of Commerce" All
10 including that concentration of all economics
w wisdom. "lIunl's Merchants Magazine" hav
=, been aboring for years TO prove the great bel
eft which their system would confer on IN