C4..ii.r., -.641.6. - ...'t40. - . oblican. ..o.4it-itit• [D. A. II:1E :I t, E DITOR AND PROPRIETOR VOL. XVIL-16.1 POETRY. The Heart's Wreck. RT MRS. IN ourox• The lulling winds may still the sea, All beautigul in its repose; And with,a soft tranquility,- The rippling water ebbs and flows. But when the tempests wildly blow, Its Bosom heailes with many a wreck, Which, till that moment, slept below. Nor dimmed its surface with a 'speck. So /can talk, and laugh, and seem All that the happiest souls could be ; Lulled for a moment, by some dream, Soft as the sunset on the sea. But when a word, a tone, reminds My bosom of its cherished love, Oh ! fearful are the stormy winds . Which dash the heart's wild wrecks above ! One after one they rise again, And o'er dark memory's ocean steal, Floating along, through years of pain— Such as the heart-struck only feel ! ORIGINAL TALE. Writ'en l'or the "Star and Banner." THE PEDLAR'S STORY. nr A .!EM DER OF rut: 110 AX CLUB I arrived at Baltimore, in September, 18—, from Bremen, with thirty dollars, which was my whole capital with which to work my way in America.— Like many other foolish young men, I had got tired of my father's house, and had a wonderful itching to try my fortune in the now world. Fortunately, shortly alter my arrival, I fell in with several Ger mans, with whom I soon became intimate, under whose advice I concluded to commence peddling.— One of my new friends was established in business in Baltimore, and dealt in toys and fancy goods ; from him I obtained, on credit, a small assortment of goods in his line, viz: pills, needles, combs, brushes, Ince:shawls, &c., sufficient to make a pack of reasonable dimensions. .„ As I %vas entirely raw in the business, and knew very little of the English language, it was arranged that I should travel a short distance in company with an old-Gorman, who had been peddling in this country for some fears. We accordingly start ed, and under his-guidance and instruction, I got lifting very well, and was satisfied with my new oc cupation. We had gotten as far as, in PennSylva i'vhen my German friend informed me thnt it would be advisable to separate and' take ditierent routes, intimating that I had by thbi time got my eye-teeth cut sufficiently to travel on my own hook. At parting he gave me particular instructions res pecting my conduct in my new occupation, and among other things, cautioned me especially a gainst the Irish, whom Ito described as very rough looking men, with long hrords, who frequently got drunk, and beat and robbed 'pedlars and others who chanced to get Into their hands. My friend, it appeared, had, on a former excursion, been rough ly handled by some Irishmen on the public works, and ever afterwards regarded them with the deepest hatred, representing them as outlaws, robbers, and murderers. His opinion of them made a deep im pression on me, and I determined cure:ally to avoid all who answered his description of them. I left my companion with a heavy heart, and re sumed my journey about two o'clock in the after noon. I stopped at several houses on the road, but More I commenced opening my pack, was inform. ed that they did not wont any thing. I was very much discouraged, anal began to feel melancholy and lonesome ; it was nearly sundown, and I knew of no town within ten miles. Shortly after dark I saw a light some little distance from the road, near a piece of woods, towards which I directed my steps. hoping to find lodging for the night. I approached the door and, knocked loudly. My summons was answered by a large black dog, who crone round the corner of the house barking furiously. I fled in terror through the woods, followed by the dog, who pursued me with savage fury, jumping on my pack, and snapping at my legs. After a hard baltlo succeeded in driving him back, with no worse Mkt.; ry than two or three large rents in my clothing. My situation at this time may be more easily Imagined titan described. In a strange land—un negnainted with the immediate vicinity—alone, and not knowing where to obtain lodging, I was in the utmost distress. The comfortable home I had left now came up before my mind with very different feelings from those with which I had left it a few months before. I bitterly regretted having tlisre. garde) my father's entreaties to remain at home, and vowed that ill should - liver be so tbrtunate as to get safoly back to my native country, I should not be tempted to leave it again. There was, however, no time to lose in Useless regrets. I shouldered my puck and started off, I knew not whither, in search of a house. Coming to a very ste ep hill, it occurred to me that if I were on the top I could certainly see a house from so el. (wil ted a point. accordingly commenced the as cent, which was very difficult, the bill being so steep that I was obliged to pull myaelf up by the trees and bushes that grew on its side. I scram bled up, however, I scarcely know how, and arrived at the top breathless. Here the same dreary pros. pea presented itself ; no house appeared in any di rection. I descended the bill on the opposite side with, if possible, more, difficulty than I had ascend ed it. Arrived at the bottom, I found myself in a swamp, through which I dragged my way slowly, sometimes up to my knee; in mud ; I then crossed cleared field, and'discovered with infinite sal isfac. time a light at some distance. It came from the kitchen of a large log house, towards which I ati. vanced cautiously, wondering if there were any . • dos abotit the house. 1 tapped vely gently, and wan) ut Came to tho door awl asked me to walk hi. I o,spoAited - loy hark and I*.a, tos-1.4 in a I was still timid from my recent fright, and not forgetting my German friend's advice concerning Irishmen, I scrutinized the apartment with consid erable anxiety. The furniture was of the plain, substantial, kind used in the interior of Pennfiyl - While the house-wife was preparing the evening meal, several chubby, rosy-checked children peeped into the apartment, entered cautiously, and regard ed me with amazed curiosity. The ample table was soon spread ; in the centre was a large dish of .selmitz and knep," around which, in a circle, w ere placed saucers containing butter, apple-but ter, molasses, and "smear-case." Two plates of stew ed fruit flanked the principal dish, while the im mense tin coffee-pot sent up a column of steam which filled the room with the fragrant odor of the grateful beverage. Not a word had been tittered 1 1 by either party as yet, and I waited patiently for the appearance of the man. He entered the room, and my terror may be imagined on finding him a large, rough-looking man, in his shirt sleeves, with a long beard—answering exactly my friend's description of the Irish. whom Iso much dreaded. The sudden appearance of Sa tan himself could not have terrified me more than the entrance of this supposed Irishman. Thoughts of robbery and murdi, , r at once occupied my mind, and my first impulse Was to rush from the house ; a little reflection, however, satisfied me that this would be getting out of the frying-pan into the fire, and I made desperate efforts to calm myself, resol ving to watch closely every movement of this terri ble fellow, not doubting that he .would murder me if ho could, for the sake of my pack. In the midst of these reflections, the whole fa»d ly dropped on their knees, and my host pronounced what I thought was a prayer, in a language I could not understand, resembling German. This reas sured me for a moment, for I thought there could be but little danger among praying people. But my horror of Irishmen again preVailed, and I concluded this was only a ruse, to lull toy suspicions. I sat down stale table With the family, but my fright and fatigue prevented me from eating any thing. After supper we sat half an hour, during which I made several attempts to engage my host In conversation; but he was not at all communica tive, and appeared to my distempered imagination morose and sullen. About 9 o'clock he arose, and lighting a candle, said ?Pedlar, I will light you to bed." I tottered after him, with probably the same feelings with which a criminal would follow the executioner to the gallows. Having ascended the stairs, we traversed a long, narrow passage, at the cud of which my conductor opened a door. Holding the light up he pointed to a bed in one corner of the room, and then retired with the light. The room into which I had been so silent• and mysteriously ushered was large, without carpet or furniture of any kind, except the hod and a chair. I sat down on the edge of the bed in the utmost' gloom and despondency, musing on the danger of my situation. I was at the mercy ofone of those sav ages against whom I had been cautioned, and I could think of nothing but the dreadful stories my friend had told me, respecting their cruelty to pedlars. I concluded to sleep in my pantaloons, and aftercare ; fully examining my pistol, I placed it tinder my pillow and got into bed. I tried in vain to quiet my mind sufficiently to sleep. Every moment I thought I heard foot-steps on the stairs. The sigh ing of the wind, the creaking of a gate, the scratch of I a mouse, every sound, in short, was magnified into some approaching danger. I finally fell into a con fused, dreamy slumber, in which I imagined I saw my host, bloody and haggard, stealthily creeping towards my bed, with a long knife in his hand,--- I started up, terribly alarmed, and, sure enough, there stood a man behind the door. I cocked my pistol quickly, exclaiming, "Whose there ! - -no answer. "W'ho'se therer—saio answer. Ili stened attentively, and distinctly heard him breathe. Failing to receive any answer, I plucked up cour age, and pointing my pistol at the intruder, cau tiously approached him, threatening at every stop to fire if he did not speak. Still there was no answer, the assassin remaining immoveable. PIV:IIICed until I got near enough to touch him, and violently thrust my pistol at his breast. It came in contact with something which I knew was not human flesh. On examination, I discov ered that the assassin was composed of a barrel, on which was placed a large basket full of white clothes which had just been washed; on either side of the basket hung the sleeves of a shirt, On making this discovery, I slipped back to bed very much relieved, but still in dreadful appre. }tensions as to the intentions of the long-bearded fellow below stairs. After an hour or two spent in unavailing efforts to shake otrmy fears, I heard footsteps below, and and could distinguish the heavy tread of my um posed Irishman coming up stairs. I thought cer tainly my dine had come now, and stood ready to tire the instant he should open the door. Slowly the steps approached my door, and without open ing it, a rough voice exclaimed," Pedlar, it is time to get up"---after ‘shich I htlrd my host descend again. I now began to thiuk my Ger Man friend had somewhat embellished his pictures of the cruelty of the Irish, and that they were not so dangerous after all. I slowly descended the stairs ; it being still dark, candles were burning on the table, which was set for breakfast. As soon as I appeared, a blessing was asked as on the previous evening, aftor which we sat down around the well supplied table. The children still regarded me With the utmost curiosity, and having got rid of the distressing - apprehensions %%hich had tormented me so much, I was delight ed with , their cheerful prattle and healthy appear mice, while I did ample justice to the good things set before me. Bleakta,t titer, the suppre,6l Iri-httlan retired, .t.tei dpeloLrizipu hit the eally li t e a ktot, hour, and GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1847. requesting mo to sit by the stove until such time as I should be ready to depart. I was so agreeably surprised that I distributed nearly one-half of my pack to the family in pres ents. As 1 was leaving the door-step, my curios ity got the ascendancy, and I turned and asked: "Aladam, is your husband an Irishman ?" "An Irishman! No, sir." "Why, then, does he wear a long beard ?" '•Ile is a I)uukir." But I have been digressing, and must return ' beget caution in the councils and conduct ;----- importation of shoes ready made clothing, I ctsc was likewise ' very much reduced, to my intended line of remark. of individuals and governments. We do 1 The President denounces the tariff law ; a thing, an idle one, apparently a slight ; though se not in as , g , reat a proportion, •• The will i _ nr c o r t e m ta i ry u . o f the i. ;of 1812 as unequal and unjust—operating; one, but who shall fo ' rtell its ellitcts ? We injuriously to the interests of the county may make blind guesses at what they I.tion of the s se in art i i i c s ie r s ep w o i I reasury (Mr, Walker r li e be thattne imports, y favoring the few at the expense of the ' be; but time may develope thorn in such largelyincreas. ; m . aty. p Demagogues in all ages have one character as will' astound us. ed by the act of 1846—50 largely, that al, ; s tr .a l i c u i t t e .. li,suisitiricaittues time Polk, against it is all t t ) he tel iMi• peaker, Such as I have been ats ' though the duties it imposes on them, are ; any e 'twig to deseribe was the condition of more than a third less, the revenue derived I few—the poor against the rich, has been the country at the time of the passage of from alike the practice of the Athenian and - A- I the Tariff law of 1812. And what effect, I geat,thein will be five or six tinies as The li consequence is that foreign • inerfeansdemagogne. When the President! allow me to ask, did this act produce upon speaks of the Tariff of 1842 as having ! the country? Its passage, as if by the' 'workmen pay‘vi perform . the labor and re. which h a wise and just . poll. been mulcted for the benefit of "the !livered I waving of a magician's wand, waked pros. I ceive the id i; cv Withouttoll protectionsectt r secure to to our e r own mechanics niech are en, classes and the wealthy few," at the ex.; perky out of the gloom and despondencysnits.— ' pense of "the many who have been made I which prevailed. Confidence between ' ' able to compete with the' mechanics of tributary to thorn," he utters with seared ) , ! man and man, and between the people and furope, The employer in Paris, or even h cange of phrase the language used by his i ! the government was restored, Commerce n London, can procure the labor of a jour, prototype more than two thousand years I which the loss of confidence had greatly ,ne men hatter or shoemaker for a shilling ago. Pisistratuo talked of the wealthy ; affected, and industry which foreign orcoin ,Y eighteen pence a day, for which the classes, the oppression of' the many by bad ' petition had almostdestroyed, were revived. ; !employer here ii must pay seventy-five cents, lases, enacted for (ho benefit of the favored I New furnaces, forges, cotton, factories,ow then is it possible for the or ,Americanmore, few. But, Mr. Speaker, the parallel be, I woolen factories, &c„ were erected. Oldmechanic to compete, svithout tween the Athenian tyrant and the Ameri.; ones were ro-established and mechanics i protection,with the foreign mechanic ?--, - resident ends' can with the means by , and laborers of all kinds, finding their em - ille cannot do it. Foreign mechanics can I which the • sought to Mr. Speaker :—The controversy whist' ' yacquire and maintain ; ployments the objects of the care and pro- ! make and send into our market, hats, shoes, powe The f r. e ormer having deceived the; tection of the government, pursued their I ;.ready made clothing anti existed two or three years ago between the other articles at . people and made himself master of the ! avocations with invigorated industry two groat political parties of time country,and ,prices lower titan like articles can be man, government, was nevertheless just In his , Increased profit.; The sun of prosperity, as to which of them belonged the credit ofllff:toured here, The duties imposed by the passage of the Tariff law of 1812, has , tbreign, and munificent in the administra- ; which had been for years obscured by Ith e Tariff of 1816, on these and many is, (ion of the domestic policy of his country. clouds, shone brightly and clearly upon been settled. A Democratic Congress, atl titer articles (for I refer to these in partic, But the truthful historian will not he able; the whole land. The whole harmony of ; the recommendation of a Democratic Pres- 'ular only for the sake of illustration) are ident, has settled it. The act of 1842 has to say this much of Mr. Polk. He will 1 the Tariff system was being gradually de-; d j masequate to the protection of those en been repealed ; and in time Tariff of 1846,have to record that lie obtained power by ; voloped in the enhanced prosperity of every I gaged in producing thorn I and the conse we have the true "Democratic Tariff," the fraud, and exercised it without regard to : department of industry. A home 'market; queues will be as I have already stated, ; wisdom or justice, either at home or a- ' i was gradually growing up for our agri- I measure of protection which the Democra- that the foreign article will supplant the broat 1. ; cultural products : labor was every where ; domestic article, and drive our own rise, tic party is willing to a fford to Atherican . - ; lint, Mr, Speaker, is it true, as the Pres- in demand, and every where wellpaid iere ; the Industry. In the repeal of the Tariff act; e'lanics from their employments, or reduce of 1842, the policy of the Government, ; Went alleges, that the Tariff of 1842 was; foreign debt of the country was almost ex- i them to the condition of the laboring clas, injurious to the interests of the country', or ; tinguished ; the currency bad been resto, ; which began with its existence and con- l of the old world, tinned ever since, has been cl rerupsed . , z , —,- . any portionof it s or of any class of its citi-; red to soundness, and the credit of the goys; It is true that our mechanics, by perse, zens f To decide- this question we have , mullein re , establishod. Such was the mine industry, may -Mill acquire the means pudiated. "Protection" is a proscribed but to look at the condition of the country ; operation of the Tariff of 1842—an ope , of a I term. Legislation for the benefit of free ' scanty subsistence-,-..as much food as pu the act of 1842, and the; ration uniform throughout the country.— laborers will be tolerated no longer.— :Previous toh will allay the cravings of hunger, and as gpaceimmediately up- . aw, more generally beneficial, never Southern Democracy forbids it ; and Nor- (Mane which tookl A l ,much course raiment as will hide their na, them Democracy (though, thank God, not °" its passage, was enacted, It diffused blessings every I kedness, But the competence, and the ' it the anal oane, previous to the ; where. Its beneficial operation was not all of it) bows to its behests with a sub- Of Jaime, comforts which competence ,secured, they mission more servile than is manifested by . passage of the act of 1812, the ditties un- I partial or - sectional. The South, so clas can no longer enjoy, Are they prepared, der the Compromise Act, went down to ; morons for its repeal, participated in slaves, whose toil, and sweat, and soul, be- : it; do you suppose, Mr. Speaker, to forego long to their masters. Henceforth the' ; to the bottom of the scale—and ceased to; and if it did so to a less extent than the the conveniences and comforts which pro, * mechanics and laborers of the country must ' afford such protection to many of the t North and the East, the fault was not in tection afforded them? Will it satisfy branches of our domestic industry as was ; the law but-in the people. The same de, `them that by unremitting. toil they can keep rely upon their own skill and energy for necessary to enable them to encounter; gree of taking• d industry and energy in a , femme from theirsloors, and put upon their protection against the competition of for the. competition of the products of the ill ; vantage of Its provisions, would have made own, and The backs of their wives and vipers who labor for ten pence or a shil ling a day. . paid labor of European countries, -At that 'it as prolific o f be ne f i ts to th e South as to Ichildren:a little, hardly dclothing? i I event, , • time business ofevery kind was ever} any other onion of th 3p e country. ; No sir ; the American mechanic desires President Polk tells us that England has ' • abandoned her restrictive policy —that the where languishing, In the debate on the bill repealing this I more than this. He has been accustomed i • wisdom of her modern statesmen has ! In Pennsylvania the tiros on the hearths law, were not Southern members challen- ;to better than this. His industry, while it thrown down the barriers raised to pro- of an hundred c..,oaces had gone out; the . god again and again to point to the interest enjoyed protection, afforded him abundant test her people agaICSI MC innuence 01 the hammers were ceasing to resound on the: It had injured, to the section of the country ; and good food, sufficient and decent rai, fabrics and commodities of the foreign anvils of our forges; the hum of the spin- I upon which its operation had been op- ment ;—and besides this, with the means world. England has not abandoned what dies in the rotten and woolen factories of, pressive ? But they did not do it; they to educate his children,. 'ls lie to give 'up the President calls her restrictive policy ; New England was dying into silonae; the; could not do it ; for no injury, no oppres- I his hopes' . for the future, and narrow his not at all. She has modified it to meet hands of thousands of men 'and women ! slop had been wrought by it t—and there- desiresto the morsel of daily broad with the exigencies of her present condition; were idle, because they could find nothing; fore it is was that they sat like "dumb dogs" which to feed himself and his fenny s—, and in doing so, I have no doubt site has to do: and the industry of the country, of , and opened not their mouths to vindicate Must he forget, or remember with bitter done wisely. But what does this prove ? all kinds, was gradually perishing in an ; the wrong, which in a spirit of wanton /grief, that his children have minds to be Not that time restrictive policy, as the Presi, unequal struggle with a foreign competitor, I aggression, they had determined to inflict ', improved and destinies to be shaped by dent loves to call the policy of protection, Nor was the credit of the Government. at I upon the free labor of the country. The I education, the means of which, the policy %vas unwise or injurious to the interests of this period, in any better condition than I demon of envy, jealousy of the prosperity ' o f hi s government has placed beyond his England. That policy , was adopted in the prosperity of the country, Both had lof the free States, indtieed the war upon !reach ? Must he look on and see the path the far offolden time, when t h e ,„„h„„i e m gone down together. The National Trea, the Tariff of 1812, Ito power and fame, which the true genius industry of England was in its infancy, stir)- was empty-; without means to defray It was not to be endured that duo labor of; of his country intended should be open to while the sceptre of the kingdom Ives yet the ordinary expenses from day to day.--- white freemen, working with willing hands ; all, closed against his children ? Is it not, in the hands of the Tudors. It was .con- ; The engagements of the Government with and conscious that every blow they struck la cruel policy that smothers the hopes ofa filmed through the reign of the Stuarts ; ' its creditors remaked unredeemed, and its I was for themselves or their children, should ; parent and fastens to the earth the minds was extended by the soldier whose squad- faith and ability became objects. of suspi- i be blessed with richer fruits than the la- of his children with the chains of poverty'? roes turned the tide of battle on Marston don at home and abroad. In July 1841 1 bor of despairing slaves, toiling without re- I Yet this is the policy which the present Moor, and achieved a victory at Dunbar— Congress authorized a loan of $12,000,-1 ward, and hoping but for the grave, the administration has adopted. and to which by him whose genius for Goveroment was ' 000, and the appointment of an agent to boundary of the taskmaster's power, and 'it 'is determined to adhere, as great as his genius for war ; and whose negotiate it. In pursuance of the law au-, I the termination of their degradation and I Mr. Streaker,moment let for a us re, administration, though an usurped one, thorizing the loan, certificates of stock ; oppression. The curse of slavery is not I versa the picture and look at the mechanic • brought glory and greatness to England, bearing an interest of six per cent. were' upon us, wasting the fertility of our soil las the object of the care and protection of and terror to her foes. That policy Eng- issued, and an unavailing effort madeand blighting our harvests ; and there are to; his Government, He has employment ; land never abandoned. It was nurtured sell thiossine'Boston, New York and the those in the South who hate us because of ; his employment is profitable ;it surrounds by her despotic. monarchs ; it prevailed in ' other great stock markets oldie country.- our exemption from it, Envying the res ; liiin with coniforts ; it makes him inde, the times of the Commonwealth ; and has •I'No sale could be effected at home; and wards of our successful industry, they des ; pendent, and enables him to qualify his been pursued by the ministers of her eon. the agent - Was sent abroad to hawk and; termites(' to destroy it, by subjecting it to . children for the duties of' citizens and the stitutional Kings, until the skill of her ar- peddle the bonds of his Government in the competition of the starving laborers of ; highest honors of the Republic. Educa, tizans and the perfection of her fabrics, the money markets of Europe. But faith the old world, whose wagesw. ill not buy tion removes from their path the only bar, (many of Moto at least) are unequalled in in the integrity, as well as in the wisdom them bread. The injury they have done ; ( tier to faMe and power ; for in this coon, the world which us was gratuitous. It was provoked by no they are intended to sup- if our Government, had been so far des- ' try nothing but ignorance, and vice, of . ply. - - - I troyed, that the agent, after the most ac- wrong done to them;—it even wanted the i which parent, can resist the energy This policy has helped to make her live exertions, failed to sell a dollar's worth Plor apology of having been dictated by ,to which it gives impulse and direction.— what she is. It created and cherished 'her, of the Stock, ' Such was the condition of sell' interest. If I in laboring to promote How many instances do our short annals manufactures ; these became auxiliait'to the credit of the country at the expiration their own interests, ours had been sacrifi- I furnish of men who have started from the commerce—commerce built and support-' of the Compromise Act, when the duties ced, we might have complained; but we : lowest level of society_ and attained the ed her Navy—her Navy has tank her the under-it had gone down to the lowest point. should not have felt, as we are now corn- greatest eminence in power, and the high, mistress of the seas, and the sovereign of Of the depressed condition of the country pelted to feel, the stinging sense of wrong . est place in the affections of their country, au empire such as the world has never of the gloom, distress and despondency, I which gratuitous injury, witotonly inflicted, 'then m en ? And when such are mentioned, seen till now. And now, after three bun- which prevailed in every department of has produced, I how instinctively do we turn in thought to Bred years of protection, when she has its business and industry, I have spoken Mr. Speaker, it is hard to forget that' him, who, though not highest in official distanced all competition, and has, for her already, The effect of bad legislation was North and South were baptized as breth- I station, is still first in the hearts of the,good, own benefit, reduced the duties on bread never s more strikingly exemplified than at ren with the same blood;—and thank God . the generous, and wise of the land? Ne'ed - stuff:4, and a little relaxed her restrictive the period to which I. have just referred. it is so. Were it otherwise, the ties of po-; I say that I refer to HENIIY ClikAv ? 1 - 1 C lilleal 11111011 would soon be severed, The i Mr. Speaker, was not the child of afflu, policy in other respects, our President re-1 A country of vast and continually- in- commends to us to follow her example, creasing resources, at peace with all the I fabric reared on tho'foundation of the (ion. ; enuo, He was born to no inheritance but stitution would be tumbled into pieces ; '. the genius with which his Creator had; en and abandon the American system of pro- world, with harvests nor abundant and as and we would be ready to rum the risk of lowed him. To the perfection of his fame tection to her own manufaetures, yet tom- 'rich as a bounteOns• earth ever yielded to being able to build from its fragments ano-; of what importance is it that he is not the paratively in their infancy ! What paral , ' the influence of the fertliizing rain and ri ther more homogeneous, jest. and enduring, ; President, The system °lslander and 41e, lei is there between the condition of time petting sunshine ; with no extraordinary but old recollections of common dangers traction, which for a moment triumphed o,two countries, that one should follow the draft upon its Treasury, to be reduced to and sufferings, of common struggles and ; ver truth, cannot obscure it. Posterity will example of the other ? The population of the condition ofa dishonest bankrupt, sus triumphs, still hallow the Ueion--.still ; take care of it, It will regard him as a England is dense the wages of' labor low, _petted at home, distrusted and 'despised a- triumphs, it to be regarded as the -Ark of our : publie benefactor. It will inscribe his go low that misery and destitution are the 'brood, was a spectacle humiliating indeed, Political Covenant, against which it is sa.. name side by side with the names of earth's inevitable inheritance of a considerable nor- but not without its lesson of ,wisdom. It I) tion of her laboring classes, England, I teaches us how carefully the public b faith creligious to raise an unfriendly hand, 1 .. ' good and noble; and when, in after ages, therefore, dreads no competition ; She should be guarded ; how essential is confi- hope sir, that these recollections will cop , and in some far ,distant land, some bon or need not ; her skill and the lowness of the dence to the maintainance of National and ; tinue to live, and that they will ultimately : the soil which heO.ountry and . whgt she once,trod, shall be interrO , : wages of labor are ample potoction to her individual prosperity, , .:That bad togisla- restore the feeling of fraternity and the gated about his c industry. But such is not the case here, ' tion, on a single subject, should degrade sense of justice, which it has been the ob , • possessed worthy of remembrance—he Hero wages are high, and skill not yet ma. the National credit and prostrate the hides- ject of demagogues to destroy,. I • ture. We need protection—. Our median- try and enterprise ofa whole people, :night But Mr. Speaker, what is to be the ope- pensive commerce, her teeming population, ics and laborers need it—the country needs appear surprising to those who have not ration of the act of 1846, which the Ares- ;her poWer or her wealth, but to , eome such . it, in order to the developement of its vast , marked the stupendous effects produced ent Administration has given us in place of; Dante as a'prouder and nobler Memorial of resources. It may be that when our ire.' by apparently trivial causes. Some body that of 1842? ,How is it to affect the: her greatness. . •chanics and laborers have experienced the ' says that the mighty avalanche which has mechanical and agricultural - interests of thel But, Mr. - Speaker, this is a digression, . m benefits of a protective system as long as swept away villages in its descent, and left country ? And in the first place, let me ' fro which , I must return to President the mechanics and laborers or England desolation- in its track, was probably at ask how the hatters, the shoemakers, the , Polk and his assertion as to the effects or . have done, it will be .wise to ( modify it. first, but a snow flake which the wing of tailors, the blacksmiths and other mechan,lthe Tariff of 1842 upon the agsimltturidr. This will be a question for posterity. It some tiny bird brushed from the - summit ics' of the country are tu . be affected by the' mechanical and commercial interests of: the is for us to take heed to ourselves—to la, nithe far off Alpine glacier, This inns', competition of their foreign. rivals? The ;Country's. In his message - he esserte that _, , -- bar for the benefit of our own generation tration of the seeming disproportion, (for! act of 1812 diminished the importation of , those a4loyed in agriculture, medial:dell? :, taking care to he sure not to-east uptun our it is but seeming) between the cause and hats to less than a tenth part of what it haul. pursuits; commerce and nayigatints, were , children b4riften , s which-tire properly out-4 ' thecuusequeeces is instructive; tied should i.beee under the Compromise ;let; and the compelletl,by the Tcrlfrof Is - $ to cot**, This explained all ! I departed, laughihg at my own credulity, and perfectly satisfied that a kindly heart is sometimes concealed under a rough and unseemly exterior. POLITICAL. REMARKS OV TIIE LION. JAMES COOPER, On !/e Tariff Resolution?, Delivered in the ilowe of RepresentAtiveie of thu :! , :tate of Pennsylvania, on VVednesday, and Thursday, January 13-1,1,1547, "FEARLESS AND FREE." TERMS-TWO' DOLLARS PER ANIV111•3 11VHOLE N 0.878.
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