The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-06-01
VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, JUNE /, 1867.

planning that the duties were so odious
that the passage OF the bill was certain
death to the Wing party. South Caro-
lima vixen ike, pouted, and not casting
a vote for any Presidential candidate,
doing nothing for Jackson's election, she
passed in convention, two weeks after
his election, the famous nulificatio1f'.l.
The succeeding session Of Congress
knowing then the evil that had crept in
To the prece,ling bill, accepted Clay's
amendment 10 the Verplanok bin while
they were putting on their overcoats TO
adjourn. after spending eight weeks in
amending the previous one. of which
Clay's bin contained not one word ex-
cept the enacting clause. This bill
greatly modified the previous duties and
was the first retrograde step from the
high protective tariff system. Clay fully
understood the motives of the Demo
cracy in voting the previous tariff, and
in the explanation of his conduct, stated
that he found IL in the hands of the
their custody that it migbt grow and
strengthen and become acceptable to the
whole people" 1t is system of revenue
and protection that originated in the
South, and was advocated by them until
i'm a moment of delusion they attributed
il TO the destruction that was a natural
result of extraneous circumstances. The
New England States who are now charg-
ed with the responsibility of the tariff
were opposed 20 it originally, and in the
modification and reduction OF duties as
embodied in the Clay Amendment, they
were not even consulted. We know the
history of succeeding years. the ruin
that swept the country in 81, consequent
upon the flood OF foreign goods that
swept our manufacturing capitalists iF To
bankruptcy. threw our laboring classes
out OF employment, and lined the sea OF
American industry with wrecks freighted
with starved operatives. This when
our national debt was in the neighb9r-
hood of u hundred Elillion dollars. Now
it is two and half billion. If Englaad
and France wish TO make America
market tor their wares, let their manu-
facturers, who employ labor for ten cents
per diem, pay the difference into our ma
tional treasury. American ar tizansmust
not labor for the prison-hOuse compen-
sation that keeps the Atlantic la
borer forever in penury. Our Legisla
lures are reducing the hours of labor,
that the workingman and his children
may find health, intelligence and happi-
ness. The manufacturer should be aided,
that IN this humane intention he be not
disparaged. We should encourage home
manufactures. We owe debt of graft
tude 10 the laboring classes who sus-
tanned the Government with their blood,
and to the capital that poured into the
National Treasury. We owe none to
our commercial rivals across the At
lantic- The South viii in ten years be
a rival of the North in her manufactur-
ing interests, under the protection of a
carefully regulated protective tariff
We have every element for national dc
velopment, strength and wealth, within
our borders. and il is but that natural,
God given instinct of self-preservation
that suggests at this time g protection
10 cur labor and capital. Ii should not
be a sectional or party meas ure, but. a
national one. having but one aim in
view, the welfare of the Great Republic