Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-12-10
PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUS
TRY

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| PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUS
TRY.
TO TIE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA
FELLOW CuizRNs:-A great victory hav-
ing been achieved We desire, on the part OF
the committee Of sevcnty-six, appointed at a
meeting of the friends of the national indus
try in all its branches. held in this city on
the 9Th Of June, TO offer you our congratu-
latons, not only on the triumph itself, but
on the proof it furnishes of the following
facts
That, in the necessity for protecting the
farmer in his efforts for bringing to his door
the market for his products and thereby econ
omisiug the tax of transportation, Americans,
Wings, Democrats and Republicans. have
found the solid platform on which they may
securely stand
That men Of all pursuits in life-farmers
and observation-disclosures and capitalists
traders and transporters-havea arrived at the
knowledge that they have a common interest
in endeayoring so to diversity the demands
for labor as to bring together the producers
and consumers Of the country;
That they are awake to the destructive ten
denotes Of a system which burdens the nation
with foreign debt that already counts by
hundreds Of Misunderstanding the remit
tancc of probably thirty millions of dollars,
annually. for the payment of interest alone
That they are unwilling further to sustain
a policy which condemns their own coal and
ore to remain useless in the ground, while
draining the country Of the precious metals
TO pay for foreign iron
hat they do not desire longer to be COM
PEELED to pay tor foreign labor while Ameri-
can laborers are badly fed and badly clothed,
because unemployed
That the belief in a necessity for total
change in our domestic and foreign policy is
rapidly becoming general throughout the
state
mat II needs but union among ourselves
10 secure the permanent adoption OF system
mat snail restore prosperity to the people,
harmony to the relations OF the States, and
dignity ana character to the administration OF
the Federal Government.
he power to accomplish such change
iellow ctHens' Is IN the hands OF Pennsyl-
wanna, ana II Is needed only that she exercise
IT, RACED as she IS between the North ana
'he Hou'h--gre"'' as She rs IN her natural
sources--poweriul' as she IS oy reason OF
her weaith ana popuiation-she may II she
VIII guide ana direct the poicy OF the Unon'
bllnd' however to her true interests she has
out TOO often permitted herself TO be har-
messed TO the car OF some ambitious and un-
prlnciPled demagogue. who IN consideration
OF laNors 10 himseli, mas helped TO sacrifice
her dearest interests lending ms and to the
closing oi her mills ana furnaces, and to the
expulsion oi her workmen' and thereby de-
Prl'lng her farmers OF the advantage result
ing 'foh n"'lhg market near at hand, Inc
consequences eNh'pt themselves IN the iact
that she mas no rear ihhuence IN the unlon-
ner 'o'eS having oceh oo'a'neu oy means oi
IrauGs' l!ke unat ol ToiN' Dalias ana the
~fln ol ~ wn'le 'he hGfSeli when asking
"''en"oh 'o heI ih'oIes'S' mas oeeh treated as
d mere paupef' seeking 20 DE ied at the puohc
cost ouoh' lei.ow ol'@Gns, nave oeen the
ehectS OIL permitting herseH 70 oe lea, when
Sne shonia nave placed herself IN the lead
VI en"olstns Vnc opiuions Oh otnerS' "heh
sue shoui" oo,oly nave proclalihed her own
me true rehnsyiyania pomey KNOWS no
that which tends to promote the good of ali.
whether farmers or planters, miners or manu-
iacturcrs, makers of railroads, or owners of
ships. 1t is that policy which seeks to OBJ
tain perfect freedom of commerce among our
selves, and with the world at large, by means
oi such measures oI protection as shall enable
all to unite in the effort to increase the pro-
uucuNoheSs OF 'ne iaoor ol each ana all
tnere oeing perfect harmony IN the real ana
permanent interest oil every section OF the
country ana every portion oi our population
nat 'he existence oi such harmony may nave
,!l .he ehahce OF oeing iuiiy demonstrated but
ENgpnt another