Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-04-05
From the Globe.
from the OIooe-
THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE
HIGH TARIFF.

Every person must see that the revival
of the high tariffs now the main object,
and that the Webster wings and the Clay
wings emulate each other in their labors
to effect the revival. Mr.. Clay submits
the resolution to violate the compromise
and raise the duties 10 thirty per cent,
and the Webster wings become the cham
piOns Of the e;propSstjon, take the whole
argument on themselves, and deliver the
most elaborate speeches in favor of a pro-
lectivS tariff that have ever been delivered
since the foundation Of the Government.
Now, Mr.. Webster is Mr. Tyler's first
Minister, and while the President has no
party in Congress-; (half dozen individ.
uals excepted,1 yet Mr.. Webster has a
considerable party, namely, the majority
the New England Senators and Repre-
sentatives, and few others from other
States. Now all these are champions of
the protective tariff, all speaking for it +,
and in their elaborate speeches leaving
the Clay wings far in the rear, SO that
the strange spectacle is presented Of
Virginia President who went the length Of
notification against the protsctiYO tariff a
few years ago, now being at the head of
the party, and retaining for his Prime
Minister the very head and front man Of
the high tariff policy. Mr.. Webster iS
that man, for he is from the part Of the
country which fOurishes on the high tar
if, and which furnishes the speeches and
votes which sustain it.
In this respect, Mr.. Webster must be
deemed the real head of the high tari #
party, Notwithstanding Mr.. CIay's lGbors
to place himself there: and this being lhe
case now, it will be paIpably so when Mr.
Clay retires. This event will take place
next week; and after that, Mr.. Tyler,s
Prime minister will be as openly and pub
Ideally the head Of the tariff party as he
is now actually and cOyertly so. This is
fact for the public mind to take posses.
sen of and TO dwell upon. The public
complains of the inaciiOn of Congress;
yet what Is going on! Endless tariff
speeches, and endless measures 10 create
a necessity for taliff and all this from
the whiggieS. They are for tGriff-;thcy
are for tBxes--they are for loans-thsy
are for the land bill. All these measures
occupy Congress, and they, are all whig
measures, and the whiggs not the demo
Gratis are responsible for them. The
wings conduct the measures, and what
are the measures which they rromole?-
They are tariff,first and abOvS all and then
every thing that leeds to tariff, and be
cause it leads TO tariff. They are for loans
because It leeds to tariff-they are for
taxes, because they lead to tariff--they
are for Treasury notes and ExchOquer
hills because they lead to tarff-and
they are for the land bill, above all becauS
more than all It leads fastest to The grand
ultimate Obiect--hige tariff. Thus, high
tariff isthe absorbing object in congress.
Either direct or openly, or Indirectly aud
covsrtly, it is the grand object Of the
wings, and Mr.. Tyler's first minister is
the potential chief Of the party9 We re-
peat it, this is strange state Of things
but not more strange than true. The de-
mocracy alone oppose the high tariff; the
Clay and the Webster wings rival each
other in itS support, being most interest
cd, are the most prominent, active and
powerful in its support; and thus the ad-
ministraiion, whatever may be the private
feelings Of Mr. Tyler, is the actual and
potential head Of the high taaif party now
in Congress.