Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-06-18

previous law,were promised better time under
the present; they trusted the promise, AMI have
sunk millions beyond the possibility Of rcdemp-
non Those then in power are in power in the
Legislature now. Wlll Won give the laboring
man what you promised: l. can be done with
out an} departure from principle formerly Of
very recently avowed. Plke iron as an Illus
trltion. In 1876 it was promised, a duty OF
$3.50 II. e, thirty per cent. Oh SO per ton }
give the same duty now on that article, and
a like on all others, and manufactures will
make under it Il struggle for life. 1t Is the
least they can ask ; and the honor Of those who
passed the present system can offer no less.
There ought to be a settled understanding
this session, whether anything will be DONE
Il ought to be done Hotc, before The political
campaign, fast approaching. We want some
national system that MI will support, that no
party viii claim, and no party Will abuse. This
is tie time to settle that system, while dllieren.
branches Of the Goyarnne are in the hinds
Of opposing forces. Ia Com nttss Oh Ways
and Means, IN the last and present Congress,
have Il decided lA4 only, tnj power of control-
| ing this subject; though pressed b. the mos.
urgent petitions and cnjrclties. they have not,
/ for now near three years, pecped, or mutteced,
Or moved the wing. We have had as ljte en-
couragement t,om the railing maioily in the
other House. Proc.anNllon was mlde III all
the p1pers Of the country, that Il plan ot relief
for manufacturing labor would be mad! by a
New England Senitor-suppOscd, II not piciT-
Ell 10 her interests at the tHuC OF ms eI"CtOu.--
! His late political speeches have dissolved the
charm, by showing that he has az little dIspO-
sltlon as powertO render assistance. We want
something settled. We do not ask for a faai
dy. We have had enough Of tAtt for the whole
session. Lately, a genllcman iiom Baltimore
Mr.. WALsu cAcltnd Us out Of very respcc'
tlbie ealthQnIEc, while loudly calling for ii
nill'y, aud abusing the ordnance Of l'cI aut
the gentleman ..oa Nirgna, Mr.. BAILr. ur
gin- MnIlly. pyessed the tugltve slave law
itself fugitive from JUS lc-, to hurrow up II
the Constitution as the only refuge from thu
avenrer OF blood.
am bound 10 carry our every constitutiOna
law OF the and, wIle it remains law; but
am not bound to make it eternal. The preseu
+ Congress have done very little. but they have
made up in assumptions. We seem to the wori
tlal our successors wIl be fools and inca pabl'
OF managing affairs OF State ; that we are til
people, aud wisdom viii dc VITA US and, there
lore, we m2>t settle up ali the past, by maxim
al. that Is done fatalities. suppose there IS
tinally IN the natural and revealed laws OF Goc
have 10 expectation (and certainly no wlst
, that there shall Je repeal, modification, {
ans ndmeut OF the Ten commandments. Beyon
1 iual, | know Of no !Aw--thal may not
, changed. Ii i, therefore, Ia keeping with ger
} I'd principles, tHat AK tor - Hnanty lna
, IL laws OVl do ask. 10 the name 81 snbru"
: huu,auts, ior some system iJi adequate 80
= iecuou ol labor iGai may nave a Reasonable al
| well founded hope OF perma"eacc.