Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-06-04
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OF all sections of stheseountry our section,
which produces corn; and the Southern Sec
tion which produces eotten, the wide and rich
interior of the Union, suffer the most from
the protective tariff syste m, and the ':popala>
ti6a of the Mississippi Valley are its 5whole-
sale leevictimssR WeShaye seen the, .representas
tiyes OF our ipari of the country, aud of such
a people, selling us out at the Federal CAPITOL
SO often, that we know it to have become the
chronic condition of public affairs. It's rare
sport and profit to- the iron masters, and the
cloth makers; and the salt boilers of the East.
who thrive beyond description, and roll in
their ill>gotten gains, while We are not only
deprived of our natural advantages, but are
actually standing in the midst of that plenty
which our suil, climate and industry have pro.
duced, like Tantalus, forbidden to touch it.
We work for it, and when it is realized, the
proceeds are no sooner placed in our pockets,
than be the vilainy of protection, so called,
but really, oppression to industry, all our
money beyond slaves living. is taken out
without our leave every season. aud we are
left in our dirt and rags, and poverty, to be-
gin the same round of hard work, good har-
vests, and regular spolistion. We seem to be
like nothing else than gangs of aborers who
work for what are called enterprising cnrpo-
rations engaged in, developing the resources
of our country, who work their hands some>
times above, but often under ground and
who make it condition that they shall trade
at the. company's store. The store is theirs,
and they put high prices on every article of
use aud comfort they have to sell, and by
shrewd system get nearly all the wages they
have paid out back again.
The truth of che matter becomes more APP
parent every day that individually and col
lectively our burthens arc increasing, and our
ability to pay is diminishing.
One would think that under such circum.
stances the bounty system was about PLAYED
out. But not at all. 1t is to be kept up
aud extended, by most heroic expedient;
nothing less than the proposed election Of
Horace Greeley President by Democratic
votes, which means Western and Southern
votes That is what is known in medicine as
the heroic treatmeut, to>wit, a trcatment which
is intended more to test the strength of the
patients constitution than to ex pei the disease
1t is like the expedient of the late war which
was begun and protracted by the tariff rulers
of the United States to divide the Tree trade
force of the interior. Democrats went into
that foolish aud disastrous war with their eyes
shut; and now when sober secoud thought
ought to have returned, aud the odious robbery
system of the tariff been put in immediate
jeopardy, with eyes half opened, the Demo.
Gratis are asked by trading politicians to take
leave of, their principles, convictions and
senses, aud to vote for Greeley, the protec-
.ionist-the head and front of the deep and
damning oppression of our interior labor sys-
tenn by brutal aud devouring tariffs that have
spread nothing but wretchedness and misery
among our towns and villages and farms, even
to the remotest log cabins Of the frontier
Our axes and ploughs and our good
right arms were the natural sources of supply
for every want, if we had not been cut off from
free exchange with the world. We could and
would have lived throughout the whole broad
domain west of the Alleghanies better than
any ether people, because we had greater
natural advantages, and quite as much personal
merit but the authors of the bounty business
have completely frustrated the designs of
Providence. 1t is not wo, but strangers, who
actually enjoy the fruit of all our natural ad-
vantases and our unremitted toll. The power
loom and the mine and forge have been do
mesticated among US by falsehood and impo-
sitious, to cut off half our supplies, and
by appeals to passion, prejudice, and, heaven
save the mark, patriotism, we have made our.
selves worse off than the so-called paupers of
Europe. Our condition gets worse every dav,
instead OF getting better: Our soil and cIi-
mate and our industry and our very impe-
meuts appropriated, taken out of our hands,
by crafty, designing. dishonest, and tyrannical
men, we are asked to create a dynasty, SO as
to make our serfdom permanent and invulner-
able. Horace Greeley is to be made the king,
after all his SHINING, and that by Democratic
allegiance. ,-a ,-i
The Romonoffs, Hapsburgs, and Hohen>
zollerns, we do not hesitate to say, are
dynasty to be preferred to the house of Gree
ley, for they have not themselves to blame for
their belieffin the divine right of the few to
trample the many. Ages ago, and dark ages
too, their ancestors when the world was young,
got the mastery of the people by rendering
them some actual service, which ripened into
privileges and a'throne by way of compebsa-
tiou. What but wrong. and that the deepest
dye, have Mr.: Greeley and his school of fol-
lowers done to the masses of the people of the
whole country, and especially to our OWE Sec
tion, for the benefit of small number of pro.
prietors, capitalists and Spectators, called
manufacturers? He has the bravery to re-
pent of nothing, but on the contrary. to boas.
OF his past life, and OF his intention to con-
tinue as he began, advocating the robbery of
protection.
The Liberal Republicans have been 90 verv liberal
"a to consent to suppress their testimony ngaiust
this ystem, in order to put Mr.. Greeley with DEM
ocrstc aid upon the people OF the United States az
their first officer, whose children now in Eurone
may after the Grant fashion. be treated like kings
and princes. -, s..s
This last humiliation is the worst OF all rb. re
are plenty of Enquirer Democrats who would fore
swear their fat hers md grand fathers we'll a, all
their materns relatives for the cake of spoiis and
othce esq ialy the former. nd they call on The
party to follow their vile example with Tom Scott
or Charles Adams or Horace Greeley or any other
man, who will pile up promises enter into tT,ns
actions The Ohio Statesmen and the Indisp. Sen
ttnel, too, driving the brisk trade
because of the EnquiJsy's tearhings and eS-nnI.
end because is Is their nature too. Now We bavs
this to cay that any people oppressed as ,careeiy
any other people ever was before that will con.ent
for what is He'd victory put their in their
meuths, AID their mouths in the duet at The bddire
of silly and servie caucus lsaders. deserve To re-
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