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ers would be prepared specially for their noble calling, and be more respected 

 and better paid, as they should be. With improved education, we should have 

 improved morals, and the whole community, as it would increase in the sum 

 of its knowledge, would possess in like proportion an accumulation of productive 

 capacity, and a higher character for all that gives to communilies the power of 

 local and social attraction. 



Should not every community covet and take measures to secure the reputation 

 and general intelligence and prosperity enjoyed by New-England, where free 

 trade in money and a large proportion of consumers, give men the ambition and 

 the means to have it said of them, as was said by an accomplished foreigner — 

 De Tocqueville — sent out expressly to examine and report upon our social and 

 political institutions ? Hear his testimony : 



" In New-England, every citizen receives tlie elementaiy notions of human knowledge ; 

 he is, moreover, taught the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his 

 country, and the leading features of its Constitution. In the States of Connecticut and Mas- 

 sachusetts, it is extremely rare to find a man imfierfectly acquainted with all these things, 

 and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon." 



Why, then, farmers of Maryland and Virginia, do j'ou not look into these 

 things — break away from leaders and demagogues — learn to think for yourselves, 

 and demand of all in authority to enact, as a permanent National measure, a 

 Protective Tariff, that shall force the foreign manufacturer to relinquish, now 

 and forever, all hope of supplying us with his goods, until he comes and plies 

 his shuttle and his forge within hearing of our plows — that the products of the 

 one may be taken, as directly and inexpensively as possible, in exchange for the 

 other ; instead of the present ruinous system, under which your lands are con- 

 demned to lie idle because there is no market for a thousand things that would 

 pay well if the consumers were at hand to demand them ! As the system works 

 at present, three-fifths of the value of what you do make, is lost in the act of ex- 

 changing for the things for which it goes in payment. Hear, on this point, the 

 declaration of the accomplished Editor of the New-Orleans Bulletin, in the very 

 heart of the Cotton and Free Trade region : 



" We bny," says he, " in New-Orleans, negro cotton goods manufactured from one bale 

 of cotton, for about the same sum that we receive for five bales of raw cotton ; the other four 

 bales being for the labor and profits, which are divided between the ship-owner. Northern 

 or English operatives, mill-proprietor, agent.s, and commission merchants — all of which would 

 be retained at home, for the benefit of our own citizens, had we cotton-mills established 

 here." 



But who will risk his capital in the establishment of cotton-mills, that may do 

 well under the laws of to-day, and ruin all concerned under the different policy 

 and legislation of a new dynasty to-morrow ? 



" Since 1843, millions of dollars," says a writer on the spot, " have been invested and ex- 

 pended in Pennsylvania iu the erection of fiirnaces, forges and rolling-mills; and thousand!* 

 and tens of thousands of men have found employment at wages which have remunerated 

 toil in the various branchesof business connected with this trade, and in the extension of our 

 internal improvements. These important interests and these cheering prospects have been 

 sacrificed ; and thousands of men and their dependent families, we fear, will soon bo tem- 

 ponirily left without the means of subsistence." 



" Temporarily left without the means of subsistence ! " and what next, good 



reader? What is the only resource which the policy of the Government the 



Representatives of the Landed Interest, those who make your laws — what is the 

 resource left for these " thousands of dependent men and their families " ? Ex- 

 actly that, and that only, resource which has been draining your population and 

 leaving you with millions of uncultivated lands on the seaboard for half a cen- 



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