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Wilson ShannOn's Stump
Speech again,
Or The Governors Inaugural address.

heard Wilson Shannon's stump speech, .
delivered at sundry places, last Fall, The
Inaugural Address will present scarcely {
one new idea. In point Of style it is ut
terly beneath the dignity of newsPaPer
criticism. Almost every paragraph
furnishes gross examples Of false syn
INK; and, in this respect, perhapsi in none
other, the Inaugural might be advan-
~tugeously introduced in our Common
Schools. (Where's DR.. TrevinH On
ne subject of the Tariff, we have a
gain Mr., sbanCOn's old Southern argu-
ment against protection - laborlng TO
prove that our Western farmers must
Look chiefly 10 foreign markets for the
sale or,heir surplus produce; and striV'
ing to convince the whole people that
the cotton growing interest OF the South,
forms the main pillar OF our national
prosperity. The harmless thunder OF
South Carolina aullifcation seems still
TO resouud in the Governors delicate
ear;aud we are gravely told that "The
experience Of former years." Chat IS, to
speak plainly, nulijfcatiOn) "should ad
monish all, that the protective policy! to
that extent claimed by the manufacture
err, will not be quietly acquiesced in by
the majority Of the American people,"
Surely, Mr.. Calhoun will reward Gov
ernor Shannon for his very ingenious
defence Of Southern interest. 10 have
entitled our Governor to the post Of Sec
retary Of State 10 President Calhoun, il
could only have been necessary that the
Inaugural should have let of an analhe'
ma or two against abol ition. But, I'M
fortunately, the subject Of Abolition is
wholly overlooked by the Governor
Strange-thav man should so soon for.
get the power that made him!
The whole argument Of The Inaugural,
in regard to the Tariff, has been a thou
sand times answered and reluted; and il
can, at this late dag, have weight only
with those who are willing TO bind them
selves "body and breaches" TO the cal
OF the great NuAiGer, "John Catalina
Calhoun" as the Globe was formerly
accustomed TO name him.
Ii will be observed, too, that the Gov
ernor, in the course Of his labored dis
serta,ion on the Tariff, takes ground q
gainst distribution, and treats the sub
iect Of the public lands incidentally a
luded to,) as a permanent source Of ne
tional revenue. Upon the subjects {
the Tariff and the Distribution Of tn
proceeds Of sales Of the public lands, W
may, therefore, once for all, set dow
Wilson Shannon as a Western man git
Southern principles.
That Governor Shannon claims 10 b
alawyer, and, Of course, versed lhoI
ougbly in constitutional law, we had b
fore heard. The Inaugural, howeve
presents him in the attitude Of an E'
FOUNDER of our National CONSTITUTIONS
(Shade Of Marshall hide thy diminisht
headY National Bank is pronounce
unconstitutional by the profound and e
u1ite jurist Who presides over the des.
MES Of this great State! Bye the by
it is worthy OF remark that the ?aiIu
and frauds which the Cove rnor attri
ules to The late United States Bank,
they exist at all, must exist only in
prolific imagination Of the Govern
himself. Whatever crimes, failures
frauds may be charged on the State bal
called The "United States Bank Of Pei
sylvania'-theso cannot be properly II
OF the door of The late United Sic
Bank, We have yet to SEQ the n
who has lost a dollar by the national
stitulion. Yet, Mr., Shannon, presumi
as we suppose, upon the ignorance
the people, attempts to pass off the +
ure Of a State institution as a result
tributobIe to the national bank. 7
sort of clop-trap may do for Cover
Shannon, Sam Medaty, M'Nulty Byi
Ton g. Co. But rejecting men are
to be gulled by such petty articles.
As to the subject Of State banks,
arc advised that the Governors vi
are now inst as thew Hused 10 once u