Delaware patriot & American watchman., 1828-07-08


,ouod to endeavor by all the proper means in our
nower. to dyest this subject OF the disguise, which
h,, been the policy of the coalitonists to give it,
.,a 10 present it to our readers n that light
.shch candor demands.
Last year, it was thought proper by the friends
If the Tariff policy, to call convention at Har-
.burc of representatives from those States favor
;np this policy. to deliberate upon the subject, and
% take su ch measures as would be most likely to
orocure the passage of bill, securing this great
and all important interest, against destructive COM
net;ton from abroad. At some of the primary
meetings Of the inhabitants of villages, towns and
cities, held for the purposes fappointips delegates
70 this convention, resolutions were passed, not in
the most amcabe spirit of reconciliation, but in
some instances conveying pretty serious reflec-
tions. The convention met-and concocted
scale OF duties to be imposed by Congress, which
was afterwards attempted to be forced upon tina!
body in the face OF many remonstrances--and nn-
. der circumstances by no means calculated to pro
duce harmony among its members, or reconcile to
n he tariff those sections OF the country, where il
was believed it would operate mOst injur0usy "
| Congress however choose not to be overawed BY
the dctaton of an unauthorized convention Of in.
.yituas, partially selected, some of whom carri-
ed with them into their deliberations, little else
| .han sectional feeling, and local prejudiccs.
Notwithstanding this convention has been con-
| slerrd by many, to be e ne plus ultra, body en-
titled to the greatest respect, whose recommended
4 tcae of duties should have been adopted without
4 even an investigation Of it. But wish to be un-
lerstood, as not Obcctng to the scale Of duties as
recommended by this August body, on the contra
~ we believe it to be well calculated to advance
| The interests of the manufacturer We are speak
ins only of the body itself, aud perhaps our pur-
pose would have been attained, it we had simply
sal that it convened, deiiterated, and ''dissolved
into thin air."
We wish to have it understood that unauthori
sed as this convention was by any OF the legal en-
actments OF the country, still, it was much more
imposing body, and would be likely to, as it did,
gain more converts to ITS opinions, than mere
village collection OF spirited young men would do
assembled by accident, who when thus thrown to-
gether, from convereing upon the tariff, and being
previously impressed by prejudice, that it was IN
furious to their state, and under a sense of the
wrongs, should become infammatory, and burst
til in imprudent expressions.
These persons however seeing thata great many
people attribute the passage Of any tariff, to the
Importance given to it by the Harrisburg conven-
ton, are disposed to try if they cannot obtain an
SUNG similar course, and have therefore mot in
very decorous language it is true, made call upon
me antl-tarit states to proceed III the same way.
NO man in the country believes that thev seriously
mink OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the Union. The
sanguineous temperament Of the Southern charac
Ter accounts for their high sounding phrases. and
gives an apparent impetuosity to their proceedings,
that may Tor the moment surprise, but which are
BY no means calculated to alarm. The only con-
ANtrt Fno< xkn, snt hnrr
srn that we discern is, that, is very -ldiculous.-
There is no terror in thy threats Cassius"
But we are much surprised, at the course OF the
Adams men in relation to this business. We sup
posed that they would hail it as ga glori0as Sign
from the South - and we looked into the papers
With some curiosity to see, if some brother OF the
GULL had not set down IA voice from Georgia
for .4dams," " South Carolina ont for the .a3-
minsiretton.' This really would have been
much more natural and consistent, since Mr..
Adams has never given any body reason to believe
able to the tariff, and since his friends in Congress
80 stoutly opposed it last winter. This would
aaye been much more likely to have effect, than to
yak Of signs in Pennsylvania, or signs in New
lork But the real matter of astonishment is
mat they, not satisfied with heaping upon Jackson
all his own faults. and Of adding to them most
powerful amount OF caumny and detractlon,
should thunder about his esrs, the faults and nds-
sretions Of all his friends, and charge them home
Upon him. Is it forgotten that Gen. Jackson is
opposed to the Southern policy, and in favor OF a
urhF Is it forgotten that he has given recent
evidence of this fact IN his letter to Gov. Ray OF
indiana, ant by newly impressing the one that he
wrote to DR.. Coleman, IN 1854, where he openly
declares that he will vote for the tariff bill, and
winch declaration he maintained by his vote and
nnuenceP With these things before their eyes,
now can any set Of men be so inconsistent, as to
,.narse Southern folles upon Western man, fol-
'es' which every act of his life shows, he is op-
poSed to, from the most settled and firm devotion