New Haven Daily Herald

There are but few farmers in Connecticut who believe with James K. Polk that WOOL ought to be duty free. Most of the farmers in Connecticut raise their own wool, out of which they cause to be manufactured almost every necessary article of woolen clothing, and some even have their finest carpets woven out of the wool which they raise with their own hands, which cannot be exceeded in beauty by few of the imported carpets.—Farmers won't be stuffed with any such nonsense as James K. Polk would try to make them believe—that wool should be free from duty—any way you can fix it. Polk must have a very wrong idea of the intelligence of Connecticut farmers to attempt to impose on their knowledge, good sense and understanding, by any such slang as that "wool should be duty free!" We can tell him that it will not be safe for him to judge the intelligent Whigs of old Connecticut by the benighted Locofocos with whom he happens to be acquainted. It will never do. We happen to know an old farmer in this State, a Revolutionary patriot, who raises wool for the manufacture of all his woolen goods, and who, in addition to this, raised wool enough besides to manufacture a splendid carpet—one which we venture to say, cannot be surpassed by the best imported carpet on the floor of any aristocratic Locofoco in the country, and one which he would not certainly exchange with the best of them. He raised this wool with his own hands, after he had passed the age of eighty, and attended to its manufacture personally, in his own State and County.—Be it remembered that he is a Whig, a Revolutionary patriot, in favor of protecting home industry—and what is more, he is a Christian. You can't make him believe the British free trade sophistries of James K. Polk any more than you can make him believe that Henry Clay won't be the next President, for whom his vote will be cast. The argument drawn from such a source as this is worth a volume of the twaddle of the Locofoco silk-stocking, free-trade aristocrats, who now swarm the country. Such patriots as this old revolutionary veteran will learn them a lesson in November, and silence their noisy twaddle for years.