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Show I lively and emphatically European and 1 Asiatic, The American ideas is freedom free-i free-i dun of religion, Ireedum ol speech, free-j free-j dura of thought, Ireedoin ol action, free-. free-. d )iu of trade. A liee church, a free j press, a tree ballot, a tree system ot commerce All these ideas were new at i the lime ol the American revolution. For these, for all these, the colonies contended con-tended and finally guaranteed them all ! itt the natiunal constitution, j None ol them was more warmly cur.-j cur.-j tended ior than lree trade. The effort lo restrict commerce, to tax it and luruj I it from its natural channels, the effort t uiictiere with the freedom ol trade pre-ci pre-ci Haled the resolution. ia Europe custom houses existed everywhere. every-where. Divided into d flerent stales and I principalities, each had its taiiiT, and itsj exactions were levied, not for the pur pose of revenue, not for the purpose of protection but, as under the McKmlev oil. in our own country, fur the purpose of plunder. That was the European idea, repudiated in America at the tune of the adoption ut the Eedt.il const, tu- lion, in tlie United S;ales we have !iee tiade, abscluie free trade from ocean to ocean. Kvery acrj o' tiew Territory add ed to our dominion becomes not onlv free but tree trade territory. We acquired ac-quired Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Uabtoriiia.and wit 11 thi:se acquisitions,! their old coinineicial traditions, inhumed inhum-ed trom Spam and France disappeared. The glory Li America is free ttade between be-tween tile suiiL-s, and to tins as well as to fiee suffice and a free press, to this as much as to Democratic government and a tree church, d we owe our wealth our political sueiij-tli and national puw-er puw-er He raid. THE TRUE AMERICAN POLICY. l is '-ustomaiy lo speak ol the protection protec-tion policy an Aui-iican. It is in no! sense American; il is strictly .and posi j 1 1 |