Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

The British system, as found in all the
countries subject TO it. is one of enforced
idleness. Under it labor is everywhere vast
cd as we see to be the case in Ireland, India,
| Turkey. Portugal, Jamaica, and all the other
dependencies Of Britain. SO is it among
ourseves--the monthly waste being more
than the annual import of merchandise from
all the quarters Of the earth. Hence is it
that the country is paralyzod now, as 1t has
been at the close of every frce-trade period.
| To that it is we owe the fact that men are
everywhere seeking to sell their labor, their
skill. their talents and their taste, without
finding those who desire to purchase, and are
able TO pay for them. Unable to sell their
one commodity, they are without the means
with which to purchase food and clothing =
The manufacturer cannot buy machinery The
machinist is idle and needs but little iron
] The iron-mastor cannot purchase coal, the coal
miner cannot purchase labor, and the elaborer is
driven TO ask for aims as the only means by
which to feed his wife, his children and him
self The country is at dead lock, and
there it must continue so long as the Govern
ment shall continue to abandon its people to
the control Of foreign people and foreign gov
crnments.
For all these things where are we to find
remedy; Among yourselves, gentlemen
Hercules advised the man who prayed to him
for help, to put his own shoulder to the wheel.
and his advise may profit us, as it did the
WAGNER. Let the ship-owner look to the
fact that ships always pay best when immi-
grafton is large, and when we import largely
of raw materials. Let him next satisfy him
self that immigration always grows when our
factories and furnaces are most actively em-
poyod, and when labor is most largely paid.
Studying, then. the proceedings of our ship
owners generally, he will find that they have
been steadily cooperating with the General
| Government in the effort to close our mines
/ and furnaces, to compel the export of raw
materials, to produce exhaustion of the soil,
to destroy the value of labor, and to put a
stop to immigration.
Let the railroad owner look to the fact that
railroads become profitable in the exact ratio
of their dependence upon local traffic, and
Improbable in the ratio of their dependence
upon the distant trade. Let him next study
the action of our railroad companies, and sat
siy himself that they have been cooperating
with the Government for the annihilation of
all local action and local trade. That done,
he will understand why it is that 8 ,0OO, ,O0O,-
600 invested in roads have sunk to S400,-
900, 600, and will probably arrive at the con-
clusion that, like our ship-owners, they have
been active contyivers at their own ruin
Let the farmer look to the fact that whenever
he helps to close mine or furnace he annihi-
lates consumers Of his products, and creates
competitors for the sale of food
Let the merchant look to the fact, that
when he assists in closing furnaces and hcto-
! ries, and thus diminishing the demand for la
Dor, he creates competition in trade, while
/ diminishing the thing produced and requiring
to be exchanged Let him, then, study the
course pursued by merchants generally, and
he will be at no loss to understand why it is
that so large proportion of our trading OPP
erations end in ruin and disgrace.
Let the teacher, secular and religious, see
that instruction becomes more highly appre-
ciated as man becomes more free, and that
man becomes enfrauchised as employments
become diversified. Let him then study the
movements of our teachers generally and he
will find that they have labored to indicate
the doctrines of the British school-that school
in which originated the idea of over-popula-
ton, poverty, wretchedness and slavery, as
the intimate condition Of the human race.
Let each and every man apply himself to a
careful study of the facts pertaining to his
own especial occupation, and with every step
of progress he will be brought more nearly
20 the conclusion that the interests of all,
farmers and planters, laborers and capitalists.
merchants and manufacturers, miners and
machine makers, are in perfect harmony, each
with every other, and that the prosperity of
all is to be promoted by the reinauguration
of the policy of the men who made the Rev
olution-that policy which looks to the ele-
vation of the aborer, and to the development
Of all the faculties by which the human ami
NAL is distinguished from the beast. That
done, gentlemen, the day will not then be
far distant when the policy of the country
will have been changed--when harmony will
have been restored-and when the perma-
nence of our admirable institutions will have
been secured.
Under the circumstances in which we meet,
| might, and perhaps ought to have given
more consideration to the occasion than has
been done. This city is the place of my
birth. Here have lived and labored. | am
among friends and neighbors, and you have
this day made yourselves my witnesses that
| have labored with zeal, at least, in the pro-
motion of your various interests. For this
deeply thank you-fnding, as do, in your
generous recognition of the motives by which
have been prompted, all the reward that
have desired or could accept And now,
my friends, with my renewed thanks, pray
you to receive my best wishes for your future
prosperity and happiness.
t-S5' The Jackson Mississippian, a ire-eating
journal which is anxious the South should