The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-11-11

tue result OF local eieetlonS. Immense
amounts are squandercd in supporting
set of lazy drones and claueIous parti-
zaus in the custom houses; where the a.
mount paid into the treasury is not
tithe of what is paid to these greedy Off
cials, doing nothing. The public lands
are lavished by millions of acres, in bull
ding up mammoth corporations and en-
riching millionaire spectators, merely to
crafty party advocates in Congress, and
to enable them to re-establish their wan
ing political fortunes at home; and whilst
this wastefuI extravaganza is sanctioned
and encouraged for such nefarious purpo-
ses by the party in power, objects of par
amount Importance, involving national
safety and national honor, are secuted
and neflected. Instead of providing and
maintaining navy commensurate with
the growth of our commerce, an appropri-
alton of few hundred thousands to build
a sloop- -of-war is higgled over for months
--whilst millions are voted in as many
hours in jobs and contracts for party
friends. The army entirely too small for
our frontier defences, is neglected, instead
of being cherished With pride, as it should
be. An appropriation for an additional
regiment is bitterly opposed, whilst hun
dreds of thousands are voted to pay an
army of partizan printers for books which
are not worth opening. Our Notifications
are left incomplete and to go to ruin,
whilst millions are voted to build marble
palaces for custom houses, to benefit fo-
vorites who have sites to sell, party con-
tractors who wish to do the work, and
sinecurc officials who have nothing to do.
Not a dollar can be obtained for the i'm
provement Of barbors and rivers, involv-
ing so much not only of commercial
property but of human life, whilst
the most exorbitant sums are paid to par
tisan contractors for carrying the mails
on these very rivers, whose profits amount
to tens and hundreds of thousands, on
nominal engagements with which they do
not comply.
The utter prostitution of the functions
! Of government-both executive and legis-
lative--by the party in power, seems at
last to have excited the Indignation of the
people. The late elections show that the
people in their might, without respect to
/ old party affiliations are determined to
rebuke such barefaced contempt of popu-
lar right, and disregard of the Public
good.
| am well aware that, in addition to
this, there were two other potent causes
at work in producing the result exhibited
| in the late elections. | refer to the sub
ject of protection to American labo and
enterprise, and the Kansas embroglio. |
am pleased TO see the people of Pennsyl-
vania and of the northwest awakening to
sense of their own and their country's
interests, as involved in protection to A.
merican labor and pital-whilst do
not regard protection as northern ques-
ton, or as in any seDse sectional ques-
ton. For have long felt convinced that
protection is as necessary to the prosper
ity and well being of the south, as of the
north. Mind you, do not say "prOtec-
| ton to northern manufacturers - that is
the language in which adroit politicians
and stump orators state the proposition.
| mean protection TO every branch of Ia
bor and ndustry-whether of the field =,
the pasture or the worksbop-wbether of
the plow, loom, or the anvil. What
mean is, that our policy should be so
shaped as to ultimately secure to Ameri-
can capital and American labor every
branch of operative industry, necessary
towards the preparation of every article
for human consumption, from the crudest
condition of the raw materials, till it bas
reached its last stage of adaptability to
human use. Of course | refer to what
only is practicable under our natural capa-
bilities of elm ate, &c.
AS an american citieen, l am in favor
of protection, because protection will, in
the end, ma axe US independent Of foreign
nations for those articles indispensable to
our national safety and defence; because
the more employment we give to labor in
its diversified pursuits, the more We en-
hance the national wealth and resources
and the means of human happiness; and
because, further, any system which tends
to prevent the constant and regular efaux
of the precious metals "a result inevitable
in adjusting international balances of
trade) must secure to US more stable
basis for our currency, and, in measure
prevent tho fluctuations and derange
meDts of our banking system. AS a South
era man, am in favor of protection, be-
cause, with the raw material at hand with
labor as cheap, and natural advantages
greater, there is nothing wanting but TEN
porary support from the government to
manufacturing enterprise in It's infancy to
enable the south to manufacture for her,
self. Besides, by the concentration of all
our capital and labor in one industrial
pursuit only, there certainly is prospect
1 of our finally reaching production beyond
the remunerative point. When this is
the case, we shah be the less able to buy
of others; whereas, by consulting the har-
meDy of interests In the distribution of