Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-12

Over 100000 pounds OF stock will be
manufactured yearly, giving steady en-
ployment to workmen and calling for an
annual expenditure of thousands of dol
lars in our village. Free Trade theorist
may rail against home manufacture as
much as they desire, but a practical test
only tends and never fails to dissolve their
pernicious doctrines into thin air. The
good old sound doctrine of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Clay and
host of others, of protective to American
industry, is what in the infancy and on
ward march of our national progress, has
80 vastly contributed TO our growth and
prosperity. Free Trade under the teach
ings of Calhoun, Hayne and Southern
Democratic politicians, aided by Northern
sympathizers, would break down every
manufacturing establishment in our land,
put out the fires of every forge, hush the
spindles of our factories into silence, stop
digging the ores from our mountains, and
hand us over to England, who having
grown rich from protection to her manu-
features, now cries out against any and
all efforts of our government to apply the
same salutary and saving principle of
power and protection to our own institu-
tions and manufactures that bid fair to
supply the world with products, the re-
suit of American skill and enterprise.
The Free Trade says: United States
hand over your raw material to English
operatives who will make it up into what
we want, and then English shipping will
bring it to us to consume. But what will
become of our own operatives, our own
cotton, woolIen and paper mills, our
FORCES and foundries ? Ofcourse says the
free trader, they must be closed. But
then to compensate for all this destruc-
tion, we shall buy our goods so much
cheaper, that the people will be the gain
ers in the result. But who does not
know, that if our manufactures are des-
troyed, and we are compelled to rely upon
English factories and operatives for our
supply, and all fear of American COMPETE
ton removed, that English Gupidity and
avarice would make US pay largely in ex.
cess Of what we new pay for goods we
consume, Then again, where could we
dispose of the surplus products of the
soil had we no manufacturing consumers
to supply? What would become of the
millions of bushels of wheat, corn, pota-
toes, etc, that now 80 largely enter into
the consumption of the people? Far dis
tant be the day, when sound and healthy
protection shall cease to be afforded to
our manufactures, Free Trade and dir
eCt taxation are synonymous terms, Who
is prepared for and willing to adopt the
one, with the surety that the other must
follow Protection to American indus
try by positive law, me ms, national pros
perity, glory, renown, the prevalence of
intelligence and virtue 1t encourages
the erection of all kinds of Manufactures
upon all our main rivers, and their thou.
sand tributaries. 1t builds our railroads
and clothes them with American iron.
1t multiplies our machine shops. 1t gives
it intelligent operatives and artizans. 1t
fills our schools with children who grow
up to be the future rulers of our land. I
learned my ideas of protection from that
champion of American industry, Henry
| Clay. He is dead, but his teachings are
not lost to the nation. He was the true
embodiment of an American Statesman.
| He loved his country above all other ma
tiUus; ana 10y his power as an orator aud
| teachings as practical sagscious states
man, handed down to this age and day
the true principles of American states
manship, which, if carried out in all their
| legitimate results will make us the first
nation in pow err and influence, skill and
enterprise, virtue and intelligence on the
globe.
Rev. A F. Bailey preached to very
large audience last Sabbath evening, in
the NJ. E. Church, upon the iniquities of
Modern Spiritualism, as illustrated by
modern Spiritualists. He quoted from
the writings of Spiritualists quite extern
sively to show their deep hostility to
Christianity and contempt for the Savior
and the Word of God. His own COM
ments upon the system were most scath-
ing and truthful, showing up its abomina-
tions and blasphemous disregard of God
and the truths of revealed religion.
CANDoR.
January 9, 1871.