The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-26

and make herself independent Of English
hagglng.
The same magnificent breadth of states
manship was manifested in General jack
sons celebrated Coleman letter, in 1924.
He saw the real situation of the American
agriculturist /; that he had no market for
his surplus products except what England,
haggling as to price, might dole out to him
and he said we must adopt policy that
shall detach a portion of our population
from agriculture and turn them to manufac-
lures. "Thus detach six hundred thousand
men, women and children, )" said he, "andyou
will at once have home market for more
breadstuffs than all England now furnishes
u.s." General Grant, in few compact
sentences Of his message of December.Gth,
1860, gives the clearest and plainest practi-
cal recommendation to Congress on this
subject. What he says is a complete ex.
position of the true policy of the govern
ment in regard to our foreign trade. His
views harmonize entirely with those of
Jackson and the First Napoleon, as quoted
by us. .-..
Against the first two named of these
authorities let the Virginia free-trader cite
the authority of R. M. I. Hunter and Sem
ator Johnston of this State. 1t may be
well to weigh names where the ponderous
nature of the argument fails. The Demo-
cratic leaders of Virginia are not only hostile
to protection as principle applied to Amer
lean industry, but practically opposed TO
manufactures as means of recuperative
energy and power in the State. They
pirate about the cheapest market to buy in
and the dearest one to sell in, and lose
sight of the fact that the only difference
between Pennsylvania and Virginia to-day,
in point of industrial prosperity and power,
is that created by this principle of protec-
ton against which they harp. Pennsyl-
vania welcomed the principle, Virginia
repudiated it, and how do the two
States relatively stand? Let every man
who is about to vote for member Of Con-
gress from this State ask himself this ques.
ton, and then weigh his vote in the scales
that measure the value Of wealth in Vir-
ginia. He will get no protection to our
local industries by voting for Democrats.
He will build up no home markets by
such disposition of his suffrage. Vir-
GINA will remain stationary in the old ruts
of unthrift and half-pauperized labor, by
voting the Democratic ticket.
Our Republican nominees for Congress
are all committed to protection--to the
only measure that will impart new life and
energy to industrial Virginia. Vote for
them. if you want to create large manufac.
turing centers in the State--if you want a
home market for your agricultural products
if you want to invite immigration-and
not for the Old Bourbons, who learn moth
ing from history and who follow only in the
dead ruts of the past. None of these old
Bourbons can do anything for you in Con-
gress except to fight the party who
would save your homesteads, invite immi-
grafton, enlarge your thrift and
enterprise, secure you splendid school
fund from the public domain, improve
your rivers and harbors, extend aid to
your works of internal improvement, and
put Virginia in the way of becoming great
and powerful in the future, as she was his
torically grand and imposing in the past.
Wake up to the demands of new Virginia,
and no longer fight the only party which
can save you from the Bourbonism Of the
past. .asE 9.sgl. .7t.