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for Home Consumption is really cheapest and
best for all. To say that this is the cause of tke
pauperisn ard misery Of Great Britain is the
baldest assertion-you might as well attribute
her Social evils to her abundance OF Railroads
and Canals. In France, the most stIingently
Protective of all nations, the condition and recon-
pense of the Laboring Glasses have been gradu-
ally improving for years. Holland, compare.
lively Free Trade country, has been running
down for the last century But all this proves
nothing decisively to the purpose. 1t needs
something more than the statement OF few
isolated facts to determine the complex causes OF
National prosperity or distress. Yet we must
know that while a few MOBILES and Capitalists
own all the land of Great Britain, on which
27,000000 people must hire the privilege OF
living, and these people are 70 pay some
$780, 100000 year in taxes, there must be
great poverty aud distress no matter what is the
Commercial Policy Of the country.


You scout the idea of considering Taxation q
blessing, yet your whole Speech assumes that it
may be made 50. say that the shutting on; OF
depressing Foreign competition and securing TO
our o.n labcrers ful! work and fair wages Is a
general benefit; but you deny this-you insist
that no duties shall be 50 high as 10 excude-in
short, you Insist on Taxation, while l would go
beyond it. You say What l pay for my coat
do not pay on any thing else, while aid an
important interest" But cannot see how you
aid any Home interest except the Treasury in
terest by buying Foreign coat it is when you
arc induced to buy an American one, and pay
nothing on it into the Treasury, that you en-
courage Home Labor.


IEejoicc, Hon. Senator, that notwithstanding
the psusibili'y end cain cunning Tor which you
50 justly celebrated, you clearly appear in
this Speech as the deadly enemy of thc protec-
tive Policy. Yeur last paragraph is full OF this
/ Iudisputably, if We could get Revenue enough
from the Public Lcnds and other sources, you
would urge and insist on total abolition of the
Tariff and a rejection of any Tariff whatever
no matter how heavily our products should be
taxed by Foreign Nations. To make ou, Work