Litchfield enquirer., 1855-10-25
HEAR THE ENEMY.
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1t is good, said the ahcients, 10 learn wis
dom from theteachings of orr enemies, and
the maxim IL a. sound in our day as il wa.
in theirs An illustration Of It's truth may
be found in an. account given Of the pro.
ceedings in t. case Of Hertz, charged al
Philadelphia With enIisiing men for the
Crimea. Our readers will there find the
British minister encouraging Mr. II TO The
violation of our neutrality laws, on the ex-
press ground of the feebleness Of our Gov
ernmont. which he regards as unable to
adopt efficient measures for the maintenance
OF It's rights. When told that the popular
voice would be opposed 10 such measures
as he has suggested, the reply of Mr.. Cramp-
ton was brief and 10 the point :. Meier
mind The popular roice," said he, ~ house
in liverpool fails the rAaie United States
frem5ies IAN assertion embracing such an
amount Of truth that we print II in the most
emphatic manner, with view to call the
attention Of onr readers to tie way in which
the policy of the country has operated. and
is now operating. in depriving not only our
people but this Government Of all power Of
independent action.
ii is Fundamentally bat too true--that
when house in Liverpool fails the whole
United States tremhles But why Is il 50 I
Because the existing commercial lesisla-
ton Of the country requires that our people
should waste their energies in carrying their
wheat and their corn, their cotton and their
tobacco, up the hill TO Europe, in the hope
OF obtaining some little of it again in the
form OF iron and cloth. when by the slight.
est effort they might bring the makers of
iron and OF cloth to their side and thus for
ever free themselves from the enormous tax
Of transportation. Because that legislation
founded on the principles Of British free
trade-compels them to sell their products
in the rudest state, and thus 10 lose all the
manure that would result from their con-
sumption, and then when they have exhaus-
ted the soil they heretofore have cultivated,
to fly to new and distant regions with in
crease in the tax Of transportation and in.
creased difficulty of finding consumers for
their products in any hut tho most distant
markets. Because British Free trade thus
enriches the soil Of Great Britain with the
spoils Of world, and enables individual
iron masters, as we are even told in an Of
heial report Of Farliament,s 70 waste hundreds
Of thousands Of pounds in carrying en- the
WAT against oil competitors. ard TO find
their profit in il by reason Of the monopoly
of the trade they are thus enabled 10 secure.
Because, by resson Of this monopoly they
are enriched. while We are 30 impoverished
AZ 10 be compelled with outstretched hand
and on Blended knee to solicit them TO take
our bonds snd give Ne iron in exchange,
when oui own mountains and those of the
neighboring States could supply US with
iron in unlimited quantity, could DOR people
be protected against the war that is thus
waged upoa them. 10 the name Of Free
trade, By men with whom monopoly is the
only object. Because we thus build up
against ourselves huge debt, amounting
10 hundreds Of millions OF doliars, the inter-
est upon which ahsorhs more than The whole
produce OF our farms that goes TO Europe.
Because We are thus rendered tributary to
Europe to an extent that causes the export
Of oil the gold Of California, and thus MAIN
tains interest ut tan, thirteen, fifteen and
twenty per cent. while in England il is
maintained n three, four, or at the most,
FIVE per cent. Because the march cf i'm.
provement among ourselves is thus arrest
ed and our water-power, our mills, our fur
naces stand idle by reason OF the instsbili-
~ resulting from the perpetual hoctaasivn
of European markets-those rarkets in
which the failure of 4 single merchant
causes the whole United States 10 tremh!e.
Because our people are thus compelled 10
stand idle when they wonld desire TO work,
and their wives and children are forced to
fast. and perhaps TO perish, by reason OF
their own inability TO sell their labor FL
nslly. because the whole machinery known
as British Free trade is a most ingenious
continuance for subjeciiog the world To the
control of British sailors and British ira
drrs; for ?erpetuating Slavery where il ex.
lists and for rressing il where il does not
and for rendering all mankind mere proper
ty in the hands of that worst Of all aristo-
cracics-thc one which rests for support up-
on cheap labor and whose whole soul is
found In its breeches pocket. - Tri5wne.