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preeulinently prosperous.


But the representative of this valse Of Labor
being Money, it should be measured BY uniform
standard, and net by huctuating currency, which.
tits said is the of the present distress. Now,
what is the existing stase of our money value as
the representative of other values? We have no
National Bank The business of the Government
is done upon Specie basis. The Currency of
those States which have any Paper issues is nearly
equal TO Specie. If the wages of Labor therefore
decline, it will not be owing to Barking in any way
Fo, the future, if we behold our Laborers without
employ, Trade paralyzed, and the wages OF all our
Working Glasses going down, we mustimpute these
evils 10 some other than that arising from
Paper Currency A real want OF work at home in
consequence ofemploying operatives abroad to work
for s,pad by Specie the products Of sectional
and not general Labors the true cause. Look where
we may. we witness this result The dismantied
state of our American Shipping, the monopoly
by foreigners of what little carrying-trade there
is, the suspension of cur manufacturing enterprise
to give employment to needy Operatives abroad
the restricted trade and non! Intercourse between
all parts of our once Aourishiug Country, the PIE
thora attributed to cver-production and diminished
consumption in our Agricultural and Mechanical
pursuits-the downward tendency OF all values
save that of money, whereby Capitalists alone are
benefited, and they but transicntly, the exposure
Of the destitute to crime and suRering-the destruc-
ton of principle so prone to follow that OF proper
ty.-lhese are actual niseries, which for the want
of Protective System, the American Laborlng
classes are doomed to sec and feel.


But the Committee fully believe that the Coun-
try is not compelled to submit long to this degra-
ded condition There is no need that our young
and puissant nation should be over-laid or over
reached in the throes of distress which now con-
vulse the starving Millions in the Old World nor
however deeply we may commiserate their sut-
ferings, is it necessary that we should throw our
selves into their wretched condition That policy
which seeks to level the wages of Free American
Labor to Servile or Pauper Standard, cannot be
tolerated by our Industrious and better Educated
citizens. The high character assumed by US IS
capable of being sustained. The bountics of Prov
idence now everywhere smile upon our fields
II.
the advantages of Education and Freedom which,
with proper encouragement, are odds in our favor
against the World, a cheap Soil and every variety
of Climate, secure to US success If we only have
the wisdom to embrace it, Some concessions and
alterations may have to be made by US to the
changing state of circumstances, but it is by pro-
tectipg and fostering care over our Home Interests
that we shall be enabled surely and permanently
to regain our prosperity. \ National Commerce
among ourselves must be encouraged. A motive
power from our own government must come IN the
shape of Protective Tariff, equal in its counter
vailing power to all the emergencies we may be
thrown into by foreign interference-a Tariff Sc
curing Home Industry and Home Competition, not
ment merely, but FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY, RE-
wARpING LABOR, REMUNERATING CAPITAL AND
EaUALIzINe PRICES. This, as we believe, is the
necessary result of the system we advocate, the
League and the only League we are bound to-


The statistical reports emanating from our last
Convention have already done much TO convince
the public of the ability of our countrymen, with
proper protection, to sustain themselves as free
Manufacturing, Agricultural and Commercial Peo-
ple We now invite the various branches OF our
Association TO continue to furnish such reports
and to correct any errors which may have appeared
in those already published. Let the employed
operatives meet in their respective districts to con-
suit together and devise the means to give new
impulse to the hand of labor; let them appoint
Delegates to express their wishes and views at the
the country its former prosperity. Let the Farm
ers of the interior look at the state of the Repub
lie, and having a regard to the whole country, let
them meet US through their Delegates, to represent
their feelings in behalf of American Industry, and
of those classes who furnish market for the pro-
dvctions of the soil and prevent them from being
dependent On foreign workshops for fabrics fthe
first necessity. a due preparations of measures
to be acted upon at our next meeting, will
essentially facilitate the execution of what will
there have TO be adopted, and ss every inter-
est in the Country is deeply connected with the
Protection of Labor and the prosecution of recip-
roca Commerce, trust our citizens generally
vii! unite in our patriotic abors.


The Committee in conclusion will only rcpea,
that in whatever section of the Country these SEN
titnents may be promulgated, whatever party or
whatever trade may espouse them, it is hoped i'm


pcit faith may be placed in their sincerity, and if
delegates appointed to meet US, that they will
bring with them a determination and the means
to carry out views. We again assert
what was contained in our former address that


:so promote Domestic Interests the Home


League established without reference 10
party distinctions, and to impress upon our
public representatives the proprieY of guard
ing and promoting those interests, our efforts
will be directed. The occasion is propitious and