Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-02-12
For the Delaware Republican.

PROTECTlON TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
The Democratic doctrine of protection is az
| old as the nation itself. The first act OF the
I first Congress of America 10 an act entitled an
oct to rrotect American industry. Ponnsyl-
vania which has ever been Democratic State
up to 1880, gave more votes in fav or OF pro
lection than all the six New England States
combined, by nine. Even John C. Calhoun
himself, whilst he remained true to Democracy,
| advocated tariff for protection. Thomas H
Benton, one OF the truest Democrats and ables
| statesman the country has ever produced, was
an able advocatefor protection. So also were.
Jefferson and Jackson. The latter advoc Gated
protection in stronger terms than any states-
| man before or since.
| In the face of all this We have a modern
spawn who call themselves Democrats, adyo-
eating Free Trade; who are constantly prating
about monopoly, and the protection of the few
at the expense of the many; who claim to be
the workingman's friend, while advocating a
system of all others most calculated to grind
him to the dust
What was the condition of the working man
before the introduction of manufacturing and
mechanical industry Nearly all labor was
confined to agricultural pursuits, consequently
their wages were reduced to the starvation
point. Six 10 eight dollars for the summer
months, and forty cents by the day, when he
paid half crown per yard for home made lin
en-, or twenty i've cents per yard for lnda mus
lin which in common times could not be sold
beside American muslin for four cents per
yard. Every rejecting man who knows any.
thing of political economy knows that no
country eau prosper without division of la
hor, The producer and the consumer must be
placed side by side. home market is the
best market for not only the farmer but the Ia
borer. The more the farmer can get for the
product of his farm the better wages he can
afford to pay his help.
Now to prove that free trade is not demo.
cratic measure we will produce the testimony
of Daniel Webster. No man who knows his
history will claim him as a man likely to ad- |
vance democratic ideas He said: "ho never |
wanted to see any Birminghams or hanchesters
sprineing up in America. Our workshops
should be In Europe. We should be an agri-
cultural people," (See his speech on Foot,s
resolution.) The Federal doctrine of his day
is the doctrine of the sham democracy of to.
day
working man, can you not see by these facts
tfor they are facts which l dare any man of the
so-called democratic party to deny,) that the
party claiming to be Democratic are nothing
more nor less than the old Federal Party, new,
ramped, and furnished. They advocate the
same principles as tha old Blue Light Fsderals
OF lsl2-always opposed to Democracy.
80 DNNSieSJ WoDhttE Qonn6b IL
in his Dictionary to be-" Governments by the
people, form of Government in which the
supreme power is lodged in the hands of The
people collectively, or in which the people sx-
ercise the powers of Legislation" And a
democrat accordingito the same Lexicographer.
ID one who adheres to q government by the
peple, or favors the right ofsuffrage to ali clas
ses of men, such is democracy and a democrat.
Not single feature of this description applies
to modern 80 called democrat.
They deny the right of uffrage to the negro
OF the United States, or to classes. Who gave
the negro the right or in better terms who ad.
mitted the negro to exercise his right to vote
IN Pennsylvania, IN New Hampshire, In New
York, and North and South Carolina7 The
true democracy OF the country; this no one
dare deny. Here then is another cardinal point
in whlch the sham democracy or free trade
party differ from the true democracy of the
country.
Working man OF Delaware reflect on these
things. Be not deceived by a name. By that
they attempt to deceive you In order 10 get
your votes to bolster up their rotten aristoc-
racy. A. p. oSMOND.