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now.oracc ast,
'Jaen high,
a man at last,
coons sky-high, I.
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have luau-4
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as they say.
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nil nominee,
day;
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will go fur Polk,
oting Day ,
(;pen the 9
e a glorious fight,
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the leis mill
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up Salt River,
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otiig Day.
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the folk
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heated,
ry Clay; it
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s cheated,
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lsau. for
,is "pottage."
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arch away,
he stain, away again,
Voting Day.
tt march,
March, t
II wipe
Upon the
iue from his mouth.
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the tart
questlon, •
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th Protection.
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wields his pen,
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the Nu
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as• we shall show,
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is nO`g
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MEI
working
your fill
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bestride her,
es be ma
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s shovel!
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it, Harry Clay,
my going to last
oting , day.
nng himl
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au knowl
this is
MEI
; meek indeed, •
y Willie,
Ciamook the lead
or Cilley.
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• [Reported for the Daily Albany Atm]
Speech of , Ron. Silas Wright
DELIVERED AT WATERTOWN, N. T.
Mr. WRIGHT said•he had been, in
the course of the performance of the
services *which for many years had been
devolved upon him by the kindnese of
.fiis 4 feliow-citizens—he had been often
called upon by citizens and subjects of
foreign governments to converse about
our popular institution. And when he
had undertaken to tell them that with
the people were not mere subjects
to be goVerned, but were apart of the
government , itself—aye, that all the
government we - had rested on them as
its basis and received its - direction from, :
their will—it was a statement which
they seldom failed to receive with in.
credulity. The proudest moment'of
his life would be this, if now he could
have au intelligent citizen of one of the
governments of the old world standing
y his side, and could point him to
i this vast assemblage and ask him whe
..ther he did not think that the Ameri
;lcon people felt that they were a part of
;the government of the country. Look,
• continued Mr. W. as if in this imagina
v position, and speakiug to a foreign
. itibject by his side) look at this sky
I ,which was still lowering) and at this 1
sembled multitude, and tell -me, ac
'rding to your notions of goirernment,
' • tat has brought - this areat mass here T
mid he not believe that it is because
Lour breast rests the deep abiding
daciousness that a crisis has come in
thtfrairs of our government demand-,
input. earnest, patriotic attention,
wilut reference to the character of
the eather or the comfort of your po
sitii.? Aye, it would be a demon
stratn to such a man beyond the pow
er o argument; and fellow-citizens,
woulthat you had one more compe
tent t.n'• ,
I am - to aid ,you 'in the dis
' chargnf your duty as freemen of this
couutr Yet called on as I have been'
with tl utmost cheerfulness, as but a
speck i the debt of, gratitude I owe to
the deitcracy of this state, a' d most
especial to the democracy f Jeffer
son, alLewis. and Oswego and St.
Lawrenk, will I devote the strength of
my voiceand the best exertio is of my
feeble mkl. .
Everylection (Mr. Wri ht went
On) briugtwith it to us, issu s of vast
importanl dividing the two parties of
our counts; This election ha- brought
along witfit, with many others much
discussed afore you.rour years ago,
one of-pret ing and universal interest.
l - refer to t question of a tariff. It is
a vast qu ion,---A question of great
eomplicatio but I believe, with a lit
tle of your (aim, dispassionate reflec
tion, and a f draft on your candor,we
_ can arrive at.ouclusions clear and un
questioned d,4t,n upon this intricate sub
ject. Whatl;continued he) is the dif
_ ference betwen the two parties on this
subject ? 0 opponents tell us they
are in (oval. o protectivetariff ; and that
- - A protective tiff as they understand it,
• is' a source of 'a verv . blessing, individ-u
-. ally and collectvely, to every portion
of the whole atintry. .That we may
understand eachather perfectly, let , us
first . ascertain,f we can, what we
;: - should properly 'inderstand by .a pro
tective tariff—Girl believe a brief ex
amination will salsfy us that 'a confu
sion and misapphmtion orterms has
produced -as mutt difficulty- on this
great question as my other cause.
.But
! first, to remove tpm our way, as de
mocrats, a siumblik block which - our
ingenious 'opponent; place' there-:--let
Us look at what they men•and. how,we
should understand thtn,lwhen they tell
. you that . we are the free trade party of 1
the country. and refer you to a portion
of our .brethren at sou t h who
the -assume
that name. It is a . misapplication.o' f
terms to us.' We feel and know if.—
We are not in favor of free trade in the
proper,'fair, and, legitimate sense of
these terms.- are, - our southern . bre-'
amen so ? Do they desire a repeal Of
all 'duties. and that the recessary; reve
nue - shall be raised by adirect tax on
,property t I eannotansweranyfarther,
than lain informed; . but,' will give you
.in candor; and frankeess the infermation'
.• rhave: ' Eadrnit'wheit Vsiti , thrs'immO
'inflamed by. thtise-Whd aiteiVP'olitieilly
. with, - me.;. at the scinth; it: startled:and.
: alarmed: Op. ~. I .cou.l,dmotpweive jhat
. crieft:9l . .snse, of i n formation, p(exten.
ewe practical
,experience should, liefe.
. adopted nonons Of that staniN as 'prabti
t - cable !tinder, our •'government: - ' oiCre- .
pairing to tWashington at thecOmmence
ment of the- last sessions finding that
Ahie - sitbjeit - 'dust - ha lifeisdirdn'ui -for.
• disetissioir.and , actius,7l.:wentle some
• of thes•southem members- of congress
• whom Otati - thought- men ,of. sound
Regardless of.Denunciatims from any Quarter. --Gov. PORTIA.
POOMISID&D 22..41M0MD 0WN1117,9 11)dilos• GIOUCOMINEE, So fall&
views, and said « I beg you tell me, if
you have, satisfied yourself that our re
venue -system is all wrong—that we
should no - longer tax foreign imports to
raise revenue to support government,
but have a direct tax upon the property
of the country. ?" .4 No." said the first
man asked, I entertain no such opin-
ion—never have, and I know of none
who. do." "Well then will you be
good enough to tell me what you mean.
You call yourself a free trade .man ?''—
"I do so, and I mean this, I am fr►end-
ly to. haviog the trade of the country
kept as free as- Kean be kept, and raise
the revenue necessary for the support
of government; and when it is so, I
call it free trade, because it is as free as
mirinstitutions will permit." "Then
sir, you are in favor of a tariff for re
venue, and of so much duty as may be
neces.sary , to support the government?"
" To be gureas much soas yourself 2!
And here was the explanation. 'rho'
ie called himself a free trade and anti
ariff man, he vas in favor of a tarifrfor
revenue ; and opposed only to a tariff
laid for the mere purpose of protection
alone. 'This was theesplanation given
by :all these gentlemen of their positions
as free trade men, If they were candid,
if they .told the truth. they are not free
trademen, tho' they call themselves so.
For free, trace neeeessarily implies an
entire absence of duties, and 1 have not
yet met the first man in public life in
in this Union, who will admit in con
versation that -he is in favor of such a
principle. .
Mr. W. went on to iavert to another
misapplication of terms. He said to
these gentlemen that he was in favor
of a protective tariff, and the reply-was,
you are in favor of a heresy, an op
pression. an equality
.in the administra
tion of the government. But what was
a protective tariff, in the proper sense
of the term ? It was a tariff, in his
judgment, imposed for the great pur
pose of supplying the government with
revenue, and so arranged as to protect,
as far as they may be 'protected, all the
great interests of the country=the main
and principal object of which should be
revenue fur the public treasury. Even
his southern friend would tell him that
he found•no fault with that—but what
he understood by a protective tariff
would be a tariff of duties imposed not
to raise revenue for the treasury. but
purely and simply to protect certain fa
vorite and part . Lcular interest to the pre
judice of others. Neither was Mr. W.
_ln favor of such a tariff. • Here then
was an explanation Of what Mr. W.
meant by a protective tariff, and of what
his southern friend meant by fret• trade.
Where then was the difference between
us ?
Mr. W. stated what his rule would
be•in arranging a revenue tariff. He
would by no means lay the same rate
of duty on every article of importation.
The thing was impracticable in itself;
because one article would not hear ten
per cent., until you prohibited it, and
destroyed revenue. Another .would
bear 50 per cent., and yet the trade hold
up. from the nature of the article. It
Was absurd, in a revenue'sense, to say
put a uniform duty on both." Be.
cause do that, and you either fail to g et
the revenue you want, or you prohi bit
the importation altogether Mr. 'W.
would then discriminate according to
the nature of the article.. That would
be one ground ofdiscrimination. Eye.
ry community consumed cif foreign im
ported articles, a portion which are
really necessaries of life,, or have, be
collie so among - all' classes. Another
portion were emphatically - luturiei.
'Phil were purchased and donsum6d't o .
gratify taste, ' the, prithi`rit dres4,•the
'pride of living,' the stYle . olour - hotiSes,
equipages,, Ste. Would lie
,tax . these
tWo . classes alike to raise revenue ?.. 1
Would he tax' the necessaries: of life
which every, Man, wilinen and child
must Constobe. and 'the tuxuries,olthe
rich equally He . would' tax
the nece:ssaries - liS tight 'a's he'conld,
and secure the necessary revenue; ` and
'he would tax thefluxurieS as heavily as
they could' be 'witheid destroying 'die
reiientie bY,'dutting tip the trade: This
waSano;hergroan discrimina tion:
- fin(therp wai:,atirittier, and third
ground., ft'here. wore'cerfain:iptie;§ - ts.
io - this ;country which came in compe
fitien,With,similar,..interesti in forewri
couniri , e(l 7 raridi4',Vi r , dirierimi
mae in r eference to 'them. When an
,irrip,ortstion camp in competnion with a
doniestie 7 • raise e t
"
on, ihp foreign Article as . .far aS revenue
iequj~eil; to f4P?ri But
pfk , ,wctiO4 tar es tO.oefeat k ,Ote
• "ekli,?l , 4 lo :o 6 . ll3 i , n it *Ok i J i lOg , M
revenue, for :the,treasury.,
act) how far 14103410g0-n•ao
:art' the aaricultiral interest ot,thii sec.;
tion of the country. Where were the
articles you could benefit by 'a tariff?
What were our principal staple artieies ?
Bread stuffs were one. Could you be
nefit the farmers and the grewers of
bread-stuffs by putting a duty odfor
eign bread-stuf f s? No Why 'not ? Be-
cause we do not import bread-stuffs, but
export them: We loo,t „fyr a market
not merely to our owa country but to
the whole world, and we send our Sour
to all quarters of the globe: What then
made the price of ourilour, and where
was it tnade ? In the great markets. of
our country—in New York, Beaton and
Philadelphia 'principally. What go
governed the price there ? WaS it . the
call of our own 'people on those towns
forlour ? • No; but the entire demand
for, flour in New York, governed' the
. ..
price there—as well the demand for
expOrtatiOrias f . r consumption. 'What
good then did o ir duty on foreign flour,
and wheat do ; when foreign flour and
wheat did not come ? None : -what ever
The duty
_neither brought money into
the treasury nor the plackets of the far
mei. This 'was no fault 'of the law,
but resulted from the impossibility o
protecting an article so as to raise the
a rice while we regularly export it. So
with our beef. We - did not import
beef. for 'consumption. We raised
more than our own people would buy,
and we looked bco other countries for a
market for our surplus. Then the du
ty under the present tariff (100 per cent.
on the present price of beef) did our
farmers no gocd. It .could not. Fol
low on with his cheese. The present
tariff imposed a duty 'cif nine cents a
pound on cheese. Where was the far
mer of this or any other country of the
State, who could say that this has had
even a little effect on his cheese tins
year? [Laughter.] Aye, said Mr. W.,
I fear it will prove to be true that the
farmer will be glad to get even half the
duty .for' the whole, price of his cheese.
So the duty on these articles was elm)
practicable utility—not because the
fault was in Congress or the law, but
because we exported these articles, and
they therefore could not be protected.
If then these articles were out of the
reach of protection, so far the agricultu
ral interest was beyond the reach of
protection. Where did the farmer
come within it ? On his wool.. We
never export wool. We did not now.
We did not grow as much as we 'con
sumed. Every year we imported for
eign wool. Was it not easy to see how
our duty protected our farmers ? For
when the Spaniards or the Belgian
brought his wdol here, he must first
pay our duty and meet our farmers on
equal terms: The duty then was a
protection, and the article was subject
to protection. It would be reached by
Congress in regulating this tariff law.
He wetild then, raise the duty high on
wool, in proportion to articles. that re
quired no protection of - one great in
terest. But would he go so high that
wool couhl not be imported ! •Prohi
bit importittion, and thus defeat any re
venue from wool.? If he did, what
would he the consequence ? It would
give to the farmer, who raised.wool,:a
perfect monopoly of the market. They
could command their own price, ac
cording to the demand for wool, the
foreign article being excluded ; and
every citizen who did not raise , wool,
and must wear woolen cloth, must pay
more. And 'where wart' his rernunera
.tion !;-' If • he -paid a revenue . dotY, his
remuneration would be revenue. and re.
,lief from taxation.,, , But if : foreign , wool
wasprohibited„it paid nothing into the
treary; arid in 'addition to the price of
wciolen elcith;Seniethintelse - rutisi be
taxed., • This.would . he not pro
tection, but., prohibition. And :here
was the difference between . us' and our
respected opponents. They went for
all the duty they could get—all you'
eonid' iinpose prehrbitOri, instead'
orproteetive duties. ..This Mr. W. was
against. He Wculd ntit raisp.up a mu
nopol, among our farmers, any sooner
'than among our manufakurers; :and no
sooner among .our•menufacturers .than
others—, He believesEin fair healthful
eompetition,, in every trade and,every
thing: Bet he' iliduld inotect the . f.ariner
where hP could.;:i • '
•2 See the , inerAnality (continued Mr.
NV:.) ,of -this prohibitory, ptiltuy.
.:19,re
fereuee to wool., you liettOt,the tarmer
add . give* him a monopoly::
. get
'reVenue..Vis iielehdrraiseigrain ;
'another beef, atiiitheebtitter.mitt -cheese
-.and pork: ;Non icaunov:psoteet them:
and vet you, must, tax, them on some
other,artiele of cottattmptiOn t to soppiy .
the irea'ititirthe ; reY'e'nne'Ortiliieri“ it 'is
de rifikeii'by
isihis: - fatr, useful. air at jiiptt 03'6 - Any,
.tuirtd is not eithfr..,,Apilong-ros _you
derive the revenue, and your
~duty is:a
revenue duty, with protection incident,
all others, derive, an equivalent, because
yougetrevenue. Butprohibition sinks
revenue and raises the, price. other
words.you establish a legal monopoly.
. Zarry this along to the manufactured
article of. northern, agriculture which
can be protected. Hemp, in the south
west and west can also be protected,
though ; I think the . time ,is close -by
when that will cease—for alreatly,se
veral cargoes of American beiap.have
gone to Europe, and the experiment
has proved.very fortunate. As the new
state continues to open, it will come to
be an arricle of exportation. Now, it
is protected. The sugar of the south
is kl protected article. It is highly pro
tected. But protection there yields re-
venue. It soundly taxes us, as every
body can testify. We dont complain.
Let us cro reasonably there. But sup
pose you carry the duty to prohibition.
and to protect the sugar grower of
Louisiana, entirely exclude the foreign
article. What would we pay for su
gar? We should be taxed un some
other necessary article, to supply the
deficiency in the treasury'. This is an
illustration - of the prohibitory system,
and if it is just and politic in no-in
stance, one interest will demand it as
strongly as•anoiher.
During the laftt session,'l was one of
those who was willing to modify the
present tariff. I would not have agita
ted this subject voluntarily, although 1
belieVed that while the' law.contamed
many 'good things, it . also contained
many,unjust and bad ones. But I was
willing, when the subject came up and
I was compelled to act, to do what,'
believed to be right. I Rill give one
instance in which I thought the law
defective.. As to this very article of
wool—l think' the duty on fine wool
sufficiently high. I think with safety
to our farmers, it might be reduced
some—made to yield more revenue,,
and yet be an equally effective protec,
tion to them.. Whether lam mistaken
of not time will determine. But I
speak of the duty on coarse wool from
abroad. 'There is a description invoi
ced abroad as costing not. more than
seven cents, which pays a duty of five
cents on the dollar in value—a piacti
. cal duty of three mills on the pound of
wool. It is said this wool don't come
in competition with ours. We grow.
no wool Worth seven cents, it is true ;
but our farmers do raise wool that will
answer the.very same purpose that this
does to every practical extent; %V ith
my own eyes, on my journey from
I Washington in the month of June, I
saw in Vermont a manufactory, sur
rounded by wcol growers, employed
busily and exclusively in working the
wool of Smyrna, which paid five cents
duty on the dollar, or three mills on the
Pound. Another factory across the '
Street, was. working American wool.—
Both made the same goods ; sattinetts
for the New Y,ork.market. How stood
these manufacturers with reference to
protection ? Precisely alike—the cloth
rnade , by each is protected by a duty of
forty cents on the dollar. But the wool'
manufactured by the one is protected
•
by a duty .of torty cents oft the dollar,
and by th \ e other, with a duty of five
cents on the dollar. Is the protection
to the 'manufacturer, equal in both ca
ses. BUt if the coat q wool ivas char
ged with as much duty as the fine,
*could I have found one. factory
working, the wool of Smyrna ? No.
lilt is right to protect the manti.
fActurer,' It. is right to protect the
farmer also,andlothe'satne extent. 'This
is not the defect.- - There are a vast
Many•others.• ' A - .great many duties
under, ~this ; law . are whais, arc de
sPOcifl,c duties ; not duties
on the
_pound , weight of the goodi.
•-'l'alle 'the Strong, firm black' silk.
• which - is .an "article worn generally
in all 'ourcountry towns and villages.
,Weigh
,a piCce.of it; value it.. It.will
weigh, about double the same number
,of
yards of iine,'figured' Vrencli silk's'. It
will Cost 'half - nth mtineY'atiroad.
.Yetlthe:pound - weight paYeAhe.• same
,thity,,of, two ; and,aihalf dollars .. the
. on”,ae,atid in thapther.. f NV hat Is.the
cOnie9tieni!e ? plain Tanner's and
do itOTor i eliii-.
fi(ii4ndolgein":silkal)evond :th'e4lnin
subatantial Areas. Ilescriptiord
,have.designated. Tay—shout lima* the
dety,that the family (lees that'inclidges .
thc Ora, fing . and - , Silks - cif
France." 'tllldk t tl3' is pbtVefting
you' favoreit either,
you should
.favori.thoso ,w . ho i „ptiehase
vem tlmutore. necessary: article.—
I do not pre,tend'iliat a
edtnfortablb tot-tiht Arifivfitifdatighteri
andrislinsoapd MiidairetthomigilaW
them • ,mad be.catmo we do shall7l-fla
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ioublecor
. treble what) the la - oes ,
able to wear The riely4tilks and
laces of foreign countries? •
Again—;eurcoarse . -cottonand: we
speak in 'the preiende of, these who nn
derstancl" this - better than I take our
duty on canon tinantirectilre!l,,
are not sne,cifie;, but there. is .another
,contrivance applicable to them? called a
minimum duty. which may be . thus ex
plained.' The •law says, every . yard
of cotton,ideaclied or unbl eached, shall
be valued when troperted, tit twenty
cents the square yard. and on that val. ,
tie, pay a duty of 30 scents on the dol
lar, 'Now.i of all the cotton worn by
the mass-of, citizens oUthis. scout try,
what does the square yard cost a4oad
where it comes from? What do you
suppose is the average ? We purchase. •
I believe, in-the retail stores, at from 6
to 16-cents. It is. a.very tine and rich
article, when you •go beyond
The average would be 10. or 12,a cents.
What wou ld be-the coatabroed? Some
of-it 6or 7 Cents--:the mass
What is the duty ? Why. you must
value, the yard_at,2o cents, and at that
value pa y a duty of3o cents OR thedol
lar. Yotr vatie it ai,:t Wont.' three tithes
as much as it is worth. then add thirty
per cent-4hus making the „duty sixty .
or ninety, and as the table will show,
one hundred and - twenty per cent.—
Take those'who-can - afford 4 the shirting
and sheetingsl id cost 20 cents.
What do they Thirty per cent
duty. Hereti. principle is re
versed. , The necessary article is taxed
the highest, illicit eritirelY prohibited;
but the, domestic competition relieves
us from a grievous 'monopoly in that
palls of the tariff. Take up the. tables
of importations, and you will findthe
bleached cottons coming in : n the hie t-
-est valuations. rake ,the' calicoes.—
Value every square, yar'd at 30' cents ;
then charge a dut9if thirty per cent on
that. AU of, yoti - purchase ..calico,—
What do you 'pay for the mass of.wear
in this country?—Welve and a half
or sixteen cent s. But the statue value
is at thirty, - and then charges a duty of
30 cents on the dollar. ,Take calico
which costs abroad 20 cents. That
pays thirty per cent duty; while the
plain and cheaparticie, in common use,
pays double and treble duty. Here
the true principle is again reversed-.
The cheaper and necessary .article is.-
the highest taxed. There is a discrim
ination but the wrong Way. 'And here
I think the lat s v defective. I doubt if
you don't discriminate enough on these
goods, when you make a uniform duty
on the value of' all. -If it is necessary
to tax cotton 30 per cent, tax all the
same. Not put an artificial value on
the poorer article to increase the, duty.
Still 1 would protect generously—and
go to the full extent of what is just—
these manufacturers of wool and cotton..
They should be protected, but not in
this unequal way.
Let us consider, (continued Mr. W.)
as connected with these- articles, the
prohibitory policy =— for that is the pol
icy of our opponents, Suppose we
carry our duty en wollen,- aad cottons
up to the prohibition,-and to protect
our manufacturers, and incidentally in
the article of wont, our fanners. We
'go so high. with' our ditty es to prohib
it itnporyiou. We firstgive our man
ufactureriP.t. monopoly of the market,'
Then : we issue only domestic compe
tition to protect us from exhorbitant.
pricei. - .But we lose sit millions of
revenue, and we- must be taxed for
, some other articles, te make it up.—
, And I- ask any man who ; has the -curl-,
osity to examine this subject, to, go to
the tables of importations, for any num
' ber of 'Years, and- see-on - what he Can
fay duties to supply this' deficiency :of
six : millions, made by raisinglltis pro
, hihition., 1 know of netie Puttea and
coffee, which' are now free. ...And
would it be rightlii give the Mann-,
fneturerera of' wool' and crittonti mehep
oly of the, roarket.,anct. then = tax:.the
whole community
,on these. necessaries
of life I:believe it Wouid „be,.unjust,
unequal, and Moat iropelitie. _
- But, weare told,-;This.::policy.-iezAe
!cessary to protect the inbor.ofthe coon,
try—and thatiVis . the'rprodtictivelaber
of the Union which we ilesiretePretect
by 'this prohibit ill d Lei: us
tett itQW‘lar thelahnr ; 411,.,1„he, =.cettn try
can. be, protected:' houlpr, t i t
pinver of gOngreSs, foriiivect We
'hive alre . bdy Seen - fhat" the . tfabOr -
Ifiloyetran4aisitig;grainvberit4orlt. bet;
'teri•-, and ,'.cheeseA -:cannot - be pin te aid;
because : you ,capeot, by Ldu qes ;4 . mik
tie
,111.? e qx:pKvoen)..
Tito eafiber proteei
the Veit 'ean.*oteit; in tiitil
fsenieilthe! Ilizatirantrioicilabbt.m:fei
im:seentow 7tkttyill 911era3 : awl:how:: fit ,
[cos,(3.,t - prJa i qrootritt isost.) .
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