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Parable.—-General Murphy, of Ohio,
For the Norwallt: Gazette.
Enigma, published in yourlast paper:
I hope no offence for this plain explanation,
’Tis Ilfartin Van Buren, that curse to theination;
The 4th of next March will spoil all his glory,
For I'IARRlSON then takes the seat of the Tory.
, _ ST A N Z A.
Now we part, and part forever,
Though but a moment since we met;
Relentless fate now bids us sever, i
Bidstts the past forget.
Though far o'er land anil sea,
Banished from thy sight lbrever;
Partedvfrom thee doomed to be,
Yet forget thee-—I will never.
Though the sea should roar around me,
Though the sky should lower above;
Still the tie which long hath bound me,
Still to thee shall faithful prove.
Still a prayerishall oft arise.
That hope may brightly round thee shine,
And these words, as now they rise,
Peace be unto thee and thine.
FOREVER THIINE.
In the range of English fugitive poetry, few
pieces are to be met with of deeper pathos or
more tender feeling. than the following, by Ala-
ric \Vatts. It breathes the very soul ol'devot-ed
afl'ection.
Forever thine, wliate'er this heart betide,
Forever thine, vvhere'er our lot be cast-—
Fate, that may rob us of all wealth besi-d'c,
Shall leave us love till life itself be past.
The world may wrong us--we will brave its hate;
False frientls may change and falser hopes de-
cline;
Though bowed by cankeriiig care, we’ll smile
at fate.
Since thou art mine, beloved, and T am thine!
Forever tliine--when circling years have spread
,~ _DR. G. R. PI1ELI"S COITIPUUND
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Time’ssiiowy blossoms o"er thy p'lat:itl‘bi"ow ;’
\Vhen youth's rich glow, its purple light is fled,
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Say. shall I love the failing beauty less.
HE vegetable Remedy for tliseases arising
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of that mineral, without its deleterious conse-
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Bridge, on the river side. is
prepared to execute all orders
_ in hisline with promtness. Ma-
Mng and repairing machinery. eitheriron or
‘steel, will he attended to by experienced work-
men, Shceing, horses and oxen, will be _done
i"for one dollar per head. A share of public fa-
. vor is solicited.. DAVID F.u.coivi-:11.
Norwalk. Jam]. 1S40. ITS
" v . SlLVERSPOONSare selling
i - N 9 Be at 25 per cent less than formerly,
in consequence of the priceof other things being
retluegd. by
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FURNITURE.
Tire subscriber, grate-
ful for past favors, would
solicit a continuance ofthe
same. He is now manu-
facturing Furniture of all
‘ kinds, and will keep on
hand, a good assortment
. - not to be excelled by any
ablishment. Any kind ofFurniture
on hantl. will be _made at the shortest notice.
Aigood assortment of CHAIRS will be re-
ceived between this and the 1st of April. and
’ willbe eold cheap for CASH. Don’t forget the
ldce, a few doorsyeast of the~Bridge. _
. B. All accounts due the subscriber to the
tdate, must be settled without delay. when
as wish to, may have an opportunity to
anew~ score.
a Horse Power. suitable for
It will be
country est
not
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, ‘ell, .a for sale.
carrying a lathe or saws, or both.
. ' ld heap. WM. A. B.uu.ow.
wNd:rwalk. Feb. 20th. .1840. if 15
DISSOL UTI ON.
nership of Keeler, Raynurd
day dissolved by mutualcon-
debted are requested to
meat to Bradley Kcelefo
he Carriage
THIE‘ Co part
‘a.Co.'is this _
s_snt._ All persons in
'make.i:nmediate 93)’ .
on] , who willthereafter continue t
Making business in his ovéqpgtlgitg Kan".
Moses Ravrmizo.
THOMAS I'ANCHlR-
\Vliose spring-tide radiance has been wholl_v
nlInt—- 7
No! come what will-, thy steadfast truth I'll bless
,Mr_._Editor_—The following is a solution of the
who was a delegate to the \Vhig National
Convention, concluded a capital speech with
the following parable:
“The mother ofa family, he saiil, became
very sick, and lay at the point of ‘death.-
The family consisted ofthe father and moth-
er .and three sons, VVilliam, Henry, ‘and
Winfield. They were much distressed, and
it being necessary to send for the physician,
the question arose which of the thrieeso-ns
should be sent upon the errand. 'I_‘hey_i.vere,
i1ll_ anxious to go, and after deliberately‘
weighing the subject in his mind, the father
cameto the concl_usion that \Vin.' should be
sent, not from any disrespect to the others,
but because he had run over the road once
before, and because he could run the fastest.
If the mother got sick again, then he would
send one of the others, but as the present,was
a very urgent occasion, he must send VVm.
The cause of the sickness of the mother,
said Mr. M. ‘was—she had been poisoned by
the cooks in the kitchen.” ,
So7r_gs.——The honest old English's’or‘i‘g-ne‘-
ver was at a greater discount than in this
most musical age. VVe. do not get a decent
one once a year; and when we.li:u'e that
luck, it endures only for a week, Our mod-
crn fashionable ballads are the most 'execra-
ble compounds of maivkish sentimentality _
that ever melted the soul of nursery m:iid—-
full of the pale high broivs, and dark flash-
ing eyes, and long flowing tresses of raven
blackness—-strong spi'rit-yearniiigs and he.irt-
tempests of appalling violence. Unhappy
afil‘-icted‘,~is‘, to my t'hink‘ing, three
for words; and one would think they were
Our list of modern song-writers (I do not
mean mere
writers) is small indeed; of living ones we I
have scarcely any. Moore seems to think
-for there is immortality enough and to spare,
..‘E..‘.!"i...1F5§h..1él°!%£!.*e‘ ¢'tt‘ri5»“i's
iiTii'g ,
his pen idle:
Peace to his manes!
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In youth,in age, thine own, forever thine!
Forever thine. at evening's dewy hour,
\Vlieu gentle iiearts to tenderest tho’ts incline,
When balmiest odors from each closing flower
Are breathing round me—tliine, foreverthine!
Forever thine! amid the boisterous crowd,
Wlien t-lie jest sparkles with the sparkling
wine,
I may not name thy gentle name aloud,
But drink to thee in tliought—forever thine!
I would not. sweet, profane that silvery sound:
The depths of love could such rude hearts di-
vine;
Let the loud laughter peal, the toast go round,
My tho’ts, my tho’ts are thine, forever thine -
MISCELLANHY.
Loft :2, the Pirate.—It is gencraly known
that Lafite, for a considerable time, occupied
Gralyleston Islalnd and tfinqllyéqborédoned it‘t1i‘p-
on t e coin u sion 0 tie . tates. e
have seen seiiieral. pet’$ons\\'ho were there du-
ring his stay, and"ivh‘o knew him.
He and his party had builtquite a vilgage,
u on the site of the present city, as eat‘ y as
lr8)l2. His own house wastwo stories high,
and a very good one. The others were.
only one storyd and of plainley C0l'lSil'llCl.lOl’1I.
The . rocure 2 their bui c_.ing~ r__n'atei‘ia s
fromy Orleans with which Iplafpe tlIi-‘ey
kc to a retrular intercourse. ‘ n act, a-
fitti: boiiisted That he had made half the met-
chants of: the city rich. I
leged that his depredations were committed
alone upon vessels sailing under Spanish
colors, and he is known to have h-ung one
of his men for having robbed an; Amer-
ican citizen. '
He was a Frechman by birth, but had’
lived some time in the U. States. He woulp
stand and talk, u on any serious matter, wit 1
one eye shut, for? hours, and atsuch times
had rather a harsh look. But he was ‘tall
and finely formed; his manners were high-
ly polished, and in his pleasant moods one,
who did not know him, would have suspect-
ed him of being any thing but a pirate.
He lost four vessels and many men in a
storm in 1818. Three of the vessels were
lost at sea, and one went ashore on Virgina
point, on the opposite side of the bay.
He stated that he had spent one winter in
fashionable society at Washington City, and
that he had expended sixty tliousanddollars
durinoi the time.
VVfien he left the Island, he went. to em-
bark in the Colombian service, having re-
ceived the tender of acoinmission in tbheir
v . No authentic account has ever een
Etc: of his death, and some of ‘those. who
knew him believe that he is still aliye.-—
Nearly P1111 pl%P'IlSl'18d in relqpon t_o Ir? tvheti
Lives 0 t e irates, as we as in _ 0
bearing his name, with the exception of
what relates to his conduct at the battle of
Orleans and his operations in Louisiana, is
said to be fabulous by those who knew him.
Galveston (Texas) Civiliart.
-e
I-lie uniformly‘ al-' _
were Dibdin’s=——wei:e superb in their way:
that’ is, when men were seasonablywcll ad. t
vanced in~the second. OfBurns I fear'I
may say little, but -the ‘name is known in
these pai‘ts—save to a few. VValter Scott t
has written some glorious songs, but who
sings them ? and last, “ not least in our
love,” Felicia Hcmans has penned some 8
strains of passingbeauty, which one would 3
think the world would not willingly let die :
yet are all these passing aw
their oblivion, to be recalled, now
only by such old-fashioned folks as myself i
and the mayoress.—Blac/cwootl. I
The Springfield Mass. Republican says,
steamboat, or stage coach, which shall, by 1
ncgligerice or carelessness, cause the loss of 1
-.1 person’s life.
1
FIRST SESSION.
FRIDAY, Feb. 21.
praying the enactment of uniform lbws on
the subject of Bankruptcies, which were re-
claims which-- have been decided against
tiv'ic'e,'sh'al'l'not be brought up ag'a:int,"unless
some new evidence shall‘be pres‘en't’ed which
could not have been procured before.
Mr. Tappan, of Ohio,spoke at some length
in support of the resolution.
This measure, which of little p’ublic'inte-
rest, -occupiedsthe whole time of‘ the sitting.
In the House, the morning hour was spent,
as has been for several days past, in discuss-
ing points of order connected with the pro-
ceedings"'of~the Comrnitté-e" o‘n Elections.-
The question was taken on the appeal from
the decision. of the Chair, declaring that Mr.
come d-o"wn- to,-day to ask you how the Sub-
tell how a thing works for every individual,
and yet it is easy to see how it works for the
benefit of the whole.
La-‘borer. I botiglit a house last year of
my neighbor TVhcaton; I paid him $300 in
c
be paid atthe rate of $100 a year.
music appears doomed henceforth to a’ per- this I could easily save, with wages at $1 50
petual state of ancient maidenhood ; fcrthere a day, and in five years the house would be
is no longeran'y"i'mmot'tal verse’ to rnarryher paid for.
to. Even good mtisic when btiithened with cents a day, or even to :1 dollar, it will just
the trashy words with which these days are take all that I can earn to support my fami-
parts ly-and my house, with all that I have paid
ruined; but this matter about which our on it, will, at the end offive years, go back
modern musicians trouble their heads very to Mr. Vllheaton.
little-—-words are made for tunes, not tunes benelilted’?
-ma/.le by contract into the bargain ; same sequence of a general rule. No general rule
times they rhyme, and for the most part works well in every case.
scan; but as to any thing beyond, why a have gone in debt—you’d no business to go
black swan would be nothing to‘ the rarity. on the credit system—.-it is a wicked system.
“ metre-biillad-mongers” and i
H-aynes-Baylcyites. but good honest song- could easily have earnt the rest, and lived in
he has done enough, and so he has for fame ciples of the party to hav-e no credit: no real
good'Loco has a bit of credit; and you must
anyijmpg; you tg't3_not_t_i'u_e togyour party.
Poor Capt. Morris is dead l l1
His songs——and so of labor red-need.
y——don’t you ?
he party, and therefore it is for fr/our benefit.
dear and 1 am not sartin that is quite right. But,
ay silently to It _
and then, deuce in Buchanan and Walker; they say
[S
neasure, and therefore it must be for the good
of the people.
a bill has been reported to our Legislature of Congress be dhninishgd?
lmP03l“.¥‘1 fii“"'°l $1000 “P0” ‘"13’ Tallloado made Governor next spring, will you get
In.-it-he Senate, Mr. VVi'ight presented the be be _
memorial of a number of citizens of N. Y., l-l18'y. 511' 3
From the Connecticut Couraril.
AND AN EX-SENATOR.
Laborer. G_ood morning, Mr. St‘n7llOl'.
Senator.
how do you do to-day?
arty get on in your town '1
Laborer.
hav’nt turned VVhigs yet, and don’t mean to.
hard money currency.
will make us all rich.
man as much money as he wants, and that,
too. of the right-kind-the real shiners.
Laborer.
es of Mr. Buchanan and Mr. \Valker, that
The Sub-Treasury
labor. Having al‘wa_vs looked upon you as
the “Dr. Franklin of Ne\v—England,” and
knowing that you have rottentlybeen to Bos-
t‘on‘t'o‘tal-~k to the folks of l\'It)SSitCllllSellS,l
Treasury will hefp't'he laboring man, when
it reduces the price of labor’!
S67t'?¥l07~- Oh! you can’t always exactly
ash, and gave him a inortgage for $500, to
Now,
But if wages are reduced to 75
How, then, am Ito be
Senator. This is a kind of natural can-
You ’should’nt
But how could Iget aihouse
_ Laborer.
I had 8300, and in five years
vithout it ?
he house all the time.
Senator. No matter; it is one ofthe prin-
ow I am to be beniefittediby haviiig the price
‘Senator. \Vhy--you belong to our par-
‘v=..'.‘
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Yes.
\Vell—it is for the benefit of
Laborer.
Senator.
Laborer. This is not quite clear to me,
ince you have been to Boston to Zecter,I
uppose it must be true.
Senator. I don’t see myself exactly how
s _goe7t to work; but [have great confi-
all i'ight——and its now become a party
Laborer. ‘Will the pay of the members
If you are
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A LABORER
Good morning, Mr. VVilson ;
How are your wife
.and,children; how do they stand this hard
winter; and hoiv does the good cause of the
, Pretty well, sir, though times
are rather hard, money scarce, and labor is
not as ivell paid for as it used to be; still, we
Senator. Tbat’s i‘ight—-stick to the party
to the last, and we will, in the end, have a
It will give to every
But I have read in the speech-
the Sub-Treasury will diminish the price of
»0FFIC',E' WEST SIDE THE BRIDGE Hov
VIVJS
ly mean to benefit themselves at the expense
of the laboring classes? _
_Se7tat0r. Oh no! ll They are a high
minded race of men, who would not doanv
thing for themselves. , '
Laborer._ But they always stick mighty
close to their offices. '
. Senator. Y_'cs—-but they go for their prin-
Clpl_t’S'£lI'l(rl their party. .
Laborer. Their principles and t_heirpar-
I)’. you. must confess, always lie along the
same road_\\-ttlh their own interests.
Serrator. I hat may be, but it is merelv
~‘€l(.'-Cl(.lt‘l]l8l. _ '
8
_Labo7'e,~r. It may be so, Mr. Senator, but
still I can t exactly see why all the zncitlcn-
tal benefits should go to thc office-liolders,,,
and all the rratural conseqttertces, as you call
them, should operate to depress labor and
discourage. industry. Good morning, Mi‘.
Senator, when I have time 1 will call and
converse. further with you. You have al-
ready szitd enough to convince me that Mr.
Cla_v’s_ opinion of you, L'.\’pl'L’SSL’(l to your il-
lnstrious frii.-iid, Mr. I-Iolt, is veryjust.
F.XRAC'l‘S I-‘ROM Tin: sténnéii oi-‘ Tm;
Hair. JOHN DAVIS,
01'‘ MASSACHUSETTS,
On I/ze Srtb-Trert.szt*'3,I Bi_ll.—-—Se.~tale, J.’L7I.. 23
He (Mr. Buchanaii) solemnly afiirms, and
l‘:l;)V;]ClSd :0 tl')c;rlz:it;]tico;il iniwpgcs and property
' -e i. .e ussee.
Suppose that wages and property will be
retluced one-half b_v the bill-—that is, ifwa-
ges are now a dollar a dav, they will be half
it dollar; and if beef and rnuiton‘ are now
l2l‘gl1tl‘Cti‘f]l'fl a p0l(t]n(l,.l.l1ey[\‘\'l[ll lip gout; and
soo a t is pro uctionso tie -. t-ate-s,and
of all property created here. Upon this
state of facts as things at'e,the laborer would
have, at the expiration of 20 diivs’ labor, 20
do-llars, to provide supplies forihimself and‘
family. As they will be, he will have 10
dollars. Now, -sir, be it remembered, that
I give him all credit for sincerity, that he be-
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NUMBER 16.
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and as the notion of a reduction is founded
00 '1l. tilt}! is also fallacious.
. Follow out the case I have S
The income of every mae, excep
er is reduced one-halfin the value of wages
3",‘! P’°P9T'.V. While all foreign mercharidise
Will _COSt the same, which will obviously in‘
93901: double the price.’ as it will take twice
the amount of labor, or twice the amount of
the products of.l-abor, to purchase it. .
_ ‘I do not ,aSCl'll)e.tl‘llS pow:-if to the bill, be
it is enough‘ for me that its friends do. W'hat
response Will the farmers, mechanics, manu-
facturers, and_laborers, make to such a flagi-i
tious proposition ? Can tlit-_v_ be r_econ'ciled
to such a measure of oppression .7 -one,_tha_t
-ext.-or_ts from them the fruits oftheir industry
to .professedly enrich the planter who now
enjoys a prosperity tineqtialled in the rest of
the C0Unll‘_V'_.? No, sir, such plansof sectioi-ii:
alaggrandisement, and such a disregard of
the i'nt‘erests of the‘gi'eatest and most power-
ful class of people in our country, can only
excite their:disgu_s_t,and iridignation. '1"hrj_=,-,;
sir, I have traced the benefits of this bill, if
have any. as interpreted by its friends, to the
rich and powerful. I have, ii I mistake not,
demonstrated that they, are, to be made rich-
_L’l' by .a_ta_1_£ upon their lL'SS fOl‘ll1f)ale,'but more
industrious and more. industrioiis and there-
D(‘CE.’:3SllOllS félloiv clliZt_!llS-—,8. tax that they
nevencan and never will submit to, so long
as their power can be feltthrough the ballot‘-
box.‘
Bill. $11‘. this is not all.. \'Vhii'e'we are
thus to have intolerable burdens loaded upon-
us, to add to the weight of our embarrass-
mpnlts, and to increase our sufferings; and
‘="' ”..e.lhe ‘!eb,t°.!' P0111011 Of the public‘ are to‘
be crushed and ground ‘to’ dust between tile‘
qppper and n'ethe.millstone of this process,
thie madn of money is notonly to escape,un.
[_i'mI1€ id but to have his property doubled.“
9 ho 5 Cash. or its equivalent in notes,
bonds or stocks, will be able to buy double
the amount of property with it, and will
thei'ef'ore have its value doubled on his hands‘
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apposed :-—-
t the export-
we buy and sell in foreign markets by their
standard of currency, and that lowering wa-
ges and property here is to have no t-ill-c.t
there, according to the reasoning of the Son-
ator, as their currency must regulate the
price of their wages and products; bitt cot-
ton is to sell, and goods are to be bought, as
if no change had taken place. Goods, there-
fore, will come into this country no cheaper.‘
If then, the laborer goes into the market
with his money, as his wages are, he will
LIEU-"(!_V2_0"(_llJ_-'l,l_R1I'_S_A_l_(‘:t. ex-pend in tea, coffee, so-
from foreign countries; but ll heigoies into“
it as they will be--ten (lollat‘s,‘under the op--
erations of the new theory—it is plain, there-
fore, that with the same amount of labor he
can purchase but half as much foreign mer-
chandise; in other words,’ it will in effect be
doubled in price, while it” is apparently the
same.
But the Senator did not stop here, for he
alleged that, while the laborer would be in at!
better condition, the exporter of produce——
that is cotton, &‘c.-—wou1d derive a" greater
profit, the measure of‘ which would be the
amount of reduction of wages and of proper-
ty, as he would be.able to produce cheaper.
To make myself understood, I will proceed
with the same supposition, that wages and
property are to be reduced one-half. Then
his theory is. that the cotton planter, for ex-
ess wages than Gov. Ellsworth gets? Will
he wages of the Postmaster be reduced ?
Senator. The officers __will all g t as
much as they do now, which may be worth
T IVE N T Y-S [X '1‘ H C ONGRES S. a trifle more, if every thing else is reduced
one-lralf.
coiild’nt well be otherwise.
This is an incirlental benefit, and
Laborer. , Then the office-liolders williall
nefittcd by the Sub-Treasury bill, will
Senator." Yes—a'kind of incitlental ben-
efit, which we do not well see how to avoid.
ferred to the committee on the Judiciary. Laborer. And the laborers. M13 Sena‘
The Senate took up the Joint Resolution tor _ _ ._ __ _
offered some time ago, requiring that all Senézl‘or. Yes, the laborers will get a
kind of general benefit, which it is not very
easy to explain; but still, t/iey will lmozo it
'tt:Iteiz.’it comes.
Laborer. You don’t suppose, Mr. Seria-
tor,that the benefits which the officers are to
receive from the Sub-'1‘reasury bill, is any
reason why they‘ are allfin its favor, do you ?'
Senator. Oh’! riiolgl by no means. They
are in its favor becfiifsjé it is for the ‘good of
the party. They don t want anything from
it for theni§,éTves.'
Laborer} ,1 wish I could be a little more
sartiri. about thisredtrcing the price of labor‘
being SIlC‘l'l’fl good thtng.‘
Fillmore of N. 'Y., had not the right to read Senator. You must Tel)’ 3‘ little °“'}’°‘"
a resolution adopted in the committee of clec- party-—the.y will do every thing‘ Tlghlt _
tions,. but not reported to the House. The Laborer. Yes. I know filial; but DOW. In
decision of the Chair was sustained."-
Mr. Fillmore was then ‘proceeding to speak,
when Mr. Petriken objected on the ground
that he had been called to order, and should
ed no rule of the House, and insisted on his
right to proceed, he being entitled to the floor.
Mr. Bell sustained‘ Mr. Fillmore in a spi-
rited and able speech.
A member moved that Mr. Fillmore be
permittetl to proceed.
Mr. Fillmore protested against such a
course. He would not submit to receive per-
mission from the House to speak, when being
entitled to the floor, he had a right to go on.
The debate was interrupted by a motion for
going to the orders of the day; and this gave
rise to the question whether the private bills
on the Speaker’s table. from the Senate,
should be regarded asthe orders.
- It was finally decreed that the House
should proceed to the consideration of private
hills,‘ which occupied ' the remainder of the
our town, neighbor Leavemvorth’s factory is
stopped,.and all his
hands are discharged. 1
used to get good \v
plenty; btit now labor is down, D0l5°dlt'i!‘a5
not proceed without the leave of the House. any employment. and I °3"“_9th§i')e”’- Si-“Pe“_°_e;
Mr. Fillinore conteniiedthat he had violat- , Senator-. I tell Y0“ “eh!-I °Ts Y0“ “"15
have confidence. I1‘.“ié"a 390d ‘hing l° h3‘f‘3
hbor down I can- new hire a man to work
in my garden next summer lor eight dollars
a month, instead of sixteen. by Wlllcll Isllflll
make a clean saving of fifty dollars.
Laborer. But will that bea benefit to the
lab r’ 0‘ man or to you. _
§.i,i.7.r. It will be _a kind of incidental
benefit to me and a kind of natural conse-
quence to him. _ _
Laborer. Icannot exactly see, Mr. Sena-
tor, how labor is benefitted by having wages
reduced one-half. Some of ourneighbors
have a notion that the office-holders are in
favor of it because their‘ salaries will then
be worth more than they are now. _ _n
Senator. It is certain that the thing W}
work so, But then. it 18 only a kind of in-
cidental beneflt. '
Eexperience is the in st eloquent of preach
N.swCanaan1 fab. 20%’ 1,840: 4 gii 15
\ .
ers, but she nevcr_h_z_is a large congregation.
sitting. Both Houses adjourned over to
Monday. .
» .1_,.aborer. But don't y_ou'-think they, real-
-. la" .“.-i'..»".'1’.,___—éPd
a-gas; = and: money.‘ was
cost, by the saving in labor and‘ the support
of it, and consequently derive double profit.
That he would produce cheaper is undenia-
bly true; andfif‘ he s-ho_iil_d sell-‘for the same
price he now does, andbring liorne specie,
he would realize double profits, provided his
laborers are siippo'_-i-ted \\'ll_,(’Jl_ly-i on the pro-
ducts of the U. States.‘ 'l.‘li’is,'liowev'er§ is
not the course of trade oi‘ of business. But
from whence'would the profits come? Not
from foreign"cot'inti'ies, for no change is to oc-
cur there,'but from the poc'ke_t's of every c'oi‘i-
sumer of foreign goods in this country, for
the change is"wholly insthe wages and pro-.
duce of" our own cou_n:t'i‘y. The idea is, that
if wages and property sink together one-half,
the relative positions of the li‘iho'i"er‘a’n‘d the
owner of‘ piroperty die the same, for the la-
borer can pu=l'cliase jbst as muc"h with one’-
half the m‘or'r'ey‘, and: the some airioum‘ of
property will purchase t‘IS‘[Ill'IlC’li labor as be-
fore. But the laborer-‘tvill, at any given pe-
riod, liave biithalfias m‘uch7'niorI'ey,'and the
same amount of pr’opei‘ty will be worth but
half as much;coast-quent-ly', all the surplus
gains of the fiii'mer, mec.'han’ic, iiianufactui'ei',
and laborer, ‘will be but half what they now
are, ‘in nomin‘aliainoun:t_f IF property, in fo-
reign countries‘ should descend in the same
ratio, the most thaticould be said of our con-
dition is,‘ that it is’no woise’,'fo’r it is obvious-
lv no better." But-iif we descend while they
riemain stationary, an'd"a pro'fit'is thus gained
to the exporter, nothing is plainer than that
siich profit‘ is drawn'ft'om- the c_onsum_er of
foreign merchandise, as it will take twice as
much of our labor or products to buy 1}. as
is new reqiiired. lf the theory establishes
the fact that the exporter is to reap double
profits for cotton-,_'if establishes, beyond _con-
troversy, the fact also, that that profit will be
a tax upon every man \v_h0 c9nSl1m€S 11 l0-
reign= article, and‘ that it will be wholly
drawn from their pockets.‘ The Senator has,
led himself into an error by" stippositig that
foreign productions are to come to us cheap-g
er, while our cxportsare to keep up wb_ere"
they are. He thinks the importer sells In a
market inflated by paper, and‘reali2‘cs' an ex-
traordinary profit; But he‘ must perceive
that the low and depressed state of -the‘ work:
ging classes in Europe, is pgoofenough that
no excessive profit is obtained hf?” “P0”
goods-—none that can bear essential {edite-
tion; and that while raw cotton tnaipt81!,1S_ "5
' gr‘: goods must also tt3aintain._}lt_‘§i'3-_
tition of ' tradegfbifidea’ °f
price,forei
In the great cornpe _ _
excessive profit to the-impprter
..-'.' '- " " - -~‘ -
an-.».D
Ject is."
ample, would produce his crop at half'the -
is*'fallac.iou: ;,
for while wages and property are to go down,
m011,1f9Y 13 $9 g0__up in tlie same ratio‘.
I ‘the fl“1E‘nCl'S. of’ lllls bill have given toiit
it true construction, it is a bill of privileges
to the rich, but a scourge to all others.
‘BU? 81!‘. you cannot maintain a state of
things such has been supposed. You may
c‘r:ribar.rass.antl distress us as you have done,‘
bu‘ “"3 W1-l_l.'t—n~the e,nC_l."work out no such‘
adiiantages. as are anticipated for the planter.
lhe theory contains in itself a princip_le'
tpat will defeat the end in view. Go oifsiir,
' ivnr¥‘ V '
anticipated, at the expense of the other’
branches o_f indtistry; how long will it be
before that pursuit will be overloaded withj
competitors, till the market will be inunda-
ted with cotton, and its price fall" justin the‘
ratio youhave s_timula_ted‘its production’ .7-
Downit will—-down it must, by the laws of_
trade, come to a level with the fall of other"
productions. And what will be gained by
the whole process? Nothing; absolutely
nothintr, except that'it' will take more ofour"
labor a°n‘d' more of our productions to bu
foreigdmercliandise; our gain will turn lit-
erally into a loss. This.is capable I think
of demonstration, if it does_not already suffi=
ciently appear; but I ha ve no time to enlarge,
inte‘_restin’g and all-important as the sub-'
\Vhat motive can we have sir to reduce
wages and.‘ the value of property? VVhen
did”tli.e_,s;ti'n' e'.j'e'r\sh_ine upona laboring peo-
ple so blesse‘d"as those of our _coun'try ,have
been? \Vher.e have they ever been able by
industry to feed, clothe and educatethemselvcs
so well? The history of the world proves
nothing more cei'.tainly——notliin’g with clear-
er demonstratioii,‘ than that where wages
are lowest there is the greatest poverty and
suffering; there the condition of the laborer
is most forlorn and wretched; there tsthe‘
least‘ m‘orz'il‘ and‘ intellectual culture; and
there our race is sunk into . the depths of
political degredation, incapable of raisingit-
self to that lofty elevation attained by a'free
enlightened ,,Peo'pTe',‘ capable of governing
their o'ivn"a airsi It tends to the opposite of
every thing dearest to us, for the descent
will carry, __with not only, the wa_ge_s',,blt)it
all the hiirh qualities which fit us“ to e
what we aTe——free and irlildependentbi "Phi:
is a sufficient answer to a that can ‘e sai
upon-the subject.’ _ . ,
Such is-‘ the‘ _re;m‘e'tly"fdr th'e disease which
shadow forth itsevils be iond "ant vconce _tion
f "‘ 'f h b'i'l'Iib'" ’) 'd 'it ffp
o mine, 'i t e i e carrie in 0 c ect, as
has been proposed here, I must confess that I
see in it nothing to soothe or relieve the Pub-
lic-—nothirig to restore confidence, which is
the great and desirable end-'—,n‘0thing to avert
future panics-—nothing to stop this sc‘ra'rnble
after’the“'go‘ld~-and silver going on ibetiveep us
and other’ ccu'titries—nothing that has’ hear-
ing power enough to revive and mantain
prosperity. V
.Butsir,'mu'ch" remains" to’ be said,,I‘rnust
draw to aclose, as my object was merely_ to no- _
ticc leading remarks of Senators which have
developed the new and extraor£linary'dT)c'«
trines'“ef this Adininistration, “'35. "t"'.’‘''’.'.
ions to vindicate the rights of t'Ii_e‘g'_€?,3 m?§?f;
ofthe People, who acquire their suppor;rt.‘:y..
labor,-rand whose interests, as a-ylngfjtl _eF,
basis of pi-o’s'peri't'y‘, Ihave at all times and.
on all fining op_casio..s espoused and main-'
In this, sir, I have taken great: and sincere‘:
satisfaction, believeing itto be the great end‘_
of our free" G_overnrnen't, and the only sure:
means of sustaining it. In the name and befi,
half of the powerful andgerilightened class
our ;,,11,,,,,;cni,-,.‘ens of Massachusettsgwhom‘:
I have the honor to represent.‘ I‘ enter;
solemn protest—_88'3in§l the d°°m"95 l’°_§°“a.d‘i
Wanted; andifmy’voice.cotild—reach in
their dwellings, their shops or on_-g!,h'__e decks
of their vessels"-I'\vould exhort .the,ri‘i not t9.-
zdé:n,se...aed ao...le.riislate as, loubt}-_;1jL_LQ,f_ _
afll'ict‘s’"'o"i'i'rcountry; and while its advocates 4
tainied“with whateveriof ’ ability‘ I'possess.—- ‘ '
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