National Republican., 1883-08-10

of modern nations. From these sprung all
the prosperity and happiness which their
people enjoy, as also tho wealth and power Of
modern states.
1t is grand and fruitful subject. We arc
strongly tempted to go more deeply into it's
discussion, but are forbidden by our limited
space. But no careful" student of the his
tories Of ancient and modern societies, sim
cerely seeking for the truth, and nothing but
the truth, have failed to discover certain facts.
In every age and nation, from the earliest
dawn of history TO the present day, in which
slavery existed as tho ruling power, free trade
or foreign commerce has been its inseparable
handmade. In every age and nation their
joint tyrannical rule has been charac-
terized by carnage and crime by corrup-
tion, Generalization, and ruin. Modern sla-
vely, or as our Learned pundit" phrases
it, african slavery" forms no exception to
these facts. As in the ancient and medi@val
worlds, so in the SOUTH so wherever 1t had
existence, slavery brutalized man, society,
and tho laborer. Free trade, foreign COM
merce, in the south as elsewhere was its
elected handmade. Free labor and the free
laborer, slavery and free trade absolutely
detested. Protection" tariff laws for the
support of our free industries, the invention
of freemen for the preservation and main
| tenance of free labor, with its attendant
| blessings, free schools the enlightenment of
the masses, the progress, prosperity increased
comforts, happiness, and Independence of the
| free laborer, all were their denominations.
! In the langage of Mr.. Butler, of South Caro-
lima, in the senate of the United States, there
was mo free labor in the southp Our pro-
slavery magnates, our southern free trade
dignitaries, would tolerate no free labor on
their sacred SOIL" Like our learned
pundit," they detested the "vile creature
Protection" In their judgment, labor was
servile Manufacture was q hydra I" tho
all-powerful cause of the Generalization of
society, the source of poverty and crime in all
80 called free communities" In their hatred
of the "vile creature Protection" and in sup.
port of slavery and free trade, they denounced
freedom and free society. They pronounced
free society failure"-"a monstrous abor-
tionp They declared slavery the only
| practical solution of the awful problem be-
tween capital and labor"-"the great peace
maker" between them. Hence, their barbar-
| Gus formulas:
"slavery is the natural and normal condi-
| tions of the laborerW
slavery is right and necessary, whether
white or blackW
Hence, also, their labOred propositions to re-
form northern free society by reducing its
workingmen and laborers to slavery. The
conservative Fitzhugh, a free trader and a
sociologist as astute and learned as Mr.. Don
nell, exclaimed
Liberty for the few--slavery in every form
| for the masses p
Thus, for forty years" prior to the rebel
lion, our proslavery free trade magnates
soditiously warred against freedom and the
! tariff! In South Carolina in 1882, through
nullification, free trade, supported by the
brutal forces of slavery, raised its demoniac
hands against the national law, and in 1861
the two, slavery and free trade, precipitated
the south into bloody rebellion for the de-
struction of the union. In the terrible con-
test which ensued nearly half million
of souls and seven billions of treasure
were sacrificed to these cruel demons slavery
and free trade. But they were conquered.
The "vile creature Protection" was a
glorious factor in the conquest. 1t aided
powerfully in furnishing the sinews of war.
As III the revolution of 1776 so in the rebel
lion of 1861, freedom and protection tri-
umphed over the forces of slavery and the
foreign trader, and we rejoice in being able
to assure our Learned pundit," in his own
| elegant language, that FREQ trade, and not
this vile creature Protection, is chained to
the dead body of slavery, and it will be buried
in the same grave as "twin relics of barbar-
ism" We are also happy to assure him, and
in his own language, that there is no danger
of its resurrection"