Sir. it has so.shattered the framework :of society that society itself existsonly in an inverted order at the North. Capital at the North for a long time waged an unequal contest with labor. It looked then to the Government. and found that impotentfor aid. -For momentary security it seemed to sympathize in the objects of the.fanatics and to point to theinstitutions of the South as fit objects for attack. "Restore the peace and harmony which this -system [protection of Northern labor] has destroyed." said Hayne of South Carolina. ".and I will consent that -every manufacturing .estab_lishment shall be: razed to its foundation which has been built up and can only be sustained by this accursed system." "Were there no black slaves in the United States." said Niles. in a sentence which summed up a volume. "there would be no opposition to a protection of the labor of white freemen." The friends of protectionopenly declared it was their purpose to prevent the laboring men of the North from going down on a.level with the.slave of the South and pauper labor of Europe. Mr. McDuffie and his colleagues challenged their right to elevate the workingmen of the North up to a higher plane than the one occupied by the black men of the South andof the poorly paid toilers of Europe.
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