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and equal rights" are to be checked and thwarted because the 

 laboring man of one day, may be the " overgrown capitalist" of the 

 next? 



But strike a blow at the capitalist, and through what moral chan- 

 nel does the poor man become elevated? Depress our natural en- 

 ergies and ambition for wealth, and the vital power which affords 

 breath and energy to education and prosperity must necessarily sink 

 and die — for ourselves, in the language of a modern statesman, we 

 are content to be satisfied with those " blessings of government 

 which, like the dews of heaven, descend ' upon the rich and poor 

 alike." 



One of the greatest mistakes in our national diplomacy, was that 

 of mingling the protection of American industry with party politics, 

 and we assert this against the principle of dividing an unit, or th; 

 severance of a chain, in which one universal family have a whole, 

 united and entire interest. 



If we are disposed to look to England for her woolen fabrics, tc 

 France for her silk culture, or to Germany for her liberal arts, th- 

 scale of our own must gradually depreciate in importance. For 

 the triumphant success of these, the time is not yet come; we an 

 yet in our infancy, and we naturally seek the protection of our owh 

 government to aid us in these several powers of locomotion. 



It has been observed that wherever American protection clashes 

 with foreign interests, the foreigner manifests a desire of protectin;: 

 himself, and is sleeplessly active in accomplishing the overthrow oi 

 all opposition; and the truth is self evident that where duties are 

 attempted to be levied on French importations, the French merchan' 

 is first and forward in his desire of sustaining that M'hich may more 

 materially check his prospect oi success. It is precisely the same 

 thing with the German and English merchants, and, like the French- 

 man, their political policy is influenced as the national tide ebbs 

 and flows in regard to their financial securities. 



The system is therefore wrong, and as such only we condemn it — 

 it is not one man or any set of men, or degrees, or powers, or in- 

 terests, that require the protection of the Union, but it should be th( 

 great aim of our country to seek out and cherish, while it support- 

 and preserves the whole; and if her powers are insuflRcient for thi: 

 purposes of general domestic usefulness, we cannot believe that sh;.^ 



