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Protection including protection of industry - why - if you protect a mans mony in his pocket - why not protect him that he may earn money and have something to put in his pocket for the wages of a pauper, or the man in the palace complains that he is unjustly treated. The protective systems which feeds ten millions, and enriches twenty, may incidentally cost the owner of five hundred slaves five dollars per annum, more or lees, while it adds five hundred dollars to the value of his crop. Such is the oppression it operates upon the planter. See Colton p 18 also p 36. It oppresses the farmer much in the same way: It employs in the shop the hands which would otherwise ruin him by

    Free trade promises him the corn market of England in exchange for the same 

competition in the field, enhances the value of his

    corn market in New England - that is to say it offers him the chance of

produce, gives him a steady home market and eventually

     going into competition with the serfs of russia - to see which can sell it

cheapens by one third the full fabricks he has occasion

    cheapest - the man in the sheep skin coat - or the man in broadcloth    

to buy. The American Merchant too comes in for his share of oppression: for while free trade must necessarily fill all our cities with foreign merchants, American manufactures would secure the American trader some little nook, somewhere, in which he might open his shop, and vend his wares. If this be oppression, then it is the duty of the American Government to oppress. Note see Colton 39. free trade is the importation of foreign labor. Because it is cheap home industry is left is the alternative of losing its arms or working at the same wages is not robbery. The labor of five millions of men - amounting I may guess to1000,000,000. is reduced in value 1/3 at least 300,000,000 by our own suicidal government & we would fight an open enemy who did 1/1000 part of this - Our mortal enemy is at home.