Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-03

Garrison to Hoar.
Senator Hoar having in recent cam
paign speech at fremont Temple, Boston,
attempted to discredit the tariff reform
influence of William Lloyd Garrison by
representing him to be in antagonism to
the principles Of his father, the memoir
able anti-slavery statesman of genera,
ton ago, has brought down upon him
self an open letter from the son which,
In most courteous but blightingly sar-
castle vein, completely cuts the ground
from under the Massachusetts eulogist
of the Mckinley bill. Senator Hoar
had stated in his speech that among the
men who petitioned Congress in favor
of tariff bill, in 1928, was Will
liam Lloyd Garrison, "then in
the flower and vigor of his
YOUTH" &c. While technically true, as
the present William Lloyd Garrison ad-
mits, this remark has the force of an
untruth, because it leaves upon the pub
lie mind misleading impression. "You,
sir, were aware" he replies to Mr.. Hoar,
"as most of your audience were not,
that upon many vital questions, includ-
ingprotection, my fathers opinions, in the
process of his development, underneath
revolution. You will find recorded in
his latest biography that an eminent
townswoman of your own, Mrs. Abby
Kelly Foster, once playfully confronted
him with an earlier utterance conflicting
with his present belief, to which he re-
Joined manfully, whereas | was blind,
now l see.' And you have chosen to
quote with authority sentiments spoken
by him in his confessed days of blind
ness, wilfully emitting to state
that they were spurned and repu-
dated by him in his days of light"
Then, with keen satire, Mr.. Garrison
proceeds TO suggest a supplement to Mr..
Hears speech, in which, after citing
the sentiments expressed by the elder
Garrison at "the tlowery and vigorous
age of 23," he should go on to say:
But, fellow protectionists, candor COM
pe,s me to add that in the faded flower
and feebleness of his manhood, persist
ing even to his maturest and latest days,
Mr.. Garrison held and advocated an
entirely opposite opinion" The scath-
ing criticism goes on TO refer to "the
pernicious influence of Harvard Col
lege +" in bringing about the "apostacy "
of the elder Garrison to inslnuate that
Mr.. Hoar fears bad politics" more
than he loves "goodsmorals;" and CON
cludes with extracts from some of Mr.
Garrison's later speeches and writings
From the latter we reproduce the fol.
loving, printed in the New York hide.
yendent of May goth, 1869:
The protection of American labor has q
taking sound, but it really means the re
striction and taxation of that labor. Pro
lection against WHAT Have we not tn,
best educated and most intelligent popula
ton on earth And does not this impl,
industry, thrift, skill enterprise, inyen
ton, capital, beyond any other forty mil
lions of people? Have we not muscles a.
well as brains Have we not a country un
rivalled in the variety and abundance o.
its natural productions and the aboundn,
riches Of its mineral resources? Wha
more need we to claim or ought we t,
have? IL, i'll an open field, we cannot sue
cessfully compete with 1.-THE cheap anC
pauper labor of Europe" in all that i
necessary to our comfort, OF even Il
our luxury, then let us 90 to tn
wall. Was the slave labor of tn
south at all match for the free labo
OF the north2 In which section of TIN
union was industry best protected o
wealth most augmented Is it not ludi
crous TO read what piteous calls arc mad
for the protection of the strong against til
weak. of the intelligent against the igno
rant, of the well-fed against the half
starving, of our free Republican natiol
against the effete governments of the OF,
World, in all that relates to the welfare o
the people2 With all that God has don
for us, in giving us such goodly heritage
cannot we contrive To live without erectin
barriers against the freest intercourse viii
all nations2 Must we guard our port
against the free importation of hemp. iron
broadcloth, silk, coal, &c, us though
were q question of quarantine for tn
smallpox or Asiastic cholera? Refusing /
do so, will the natural consequences b
vacant factories, furnaces standing idle
the shops of manufacturing industr
closed, labor begging and starving 70
want of employment and all the othe
fearful results that are so confidently prt
dicted by the advocates of the protectiy
policy, falsely so called2 Similar urediC
lions were made by the defenders of soutl
ern slavery in regard ID the abolition q
that nefarious system and in order To sui
lect to popular odium those who demands
the immediate and unconditional cmano
patton of the oppressed. Freedom. rs we
as wisdom, is justified Of her children, an
IN proportion as she bears sway will it e
well with any people.
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