The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-29

votes, TO get rid of the Land Distribution Act
1t was but natural to suppose too, that those
who claimed for themselves at the Syracuse
Convention the merit Of having aided the
Wings TO force this Tariff upon US against ihe
vote of the whole body of the Democratic party
would have RETAINED at least for breathing
space, from thus, through their organ, uuefy
frittering away and throwing of the principles
of The party. Those who gave ulterance TO the
feelings of the Democratic party in general, mad
clearly minated that the party fell aggrIeyed and
mortified at the vote for which the Syracusian
Democrats claim credit and when friends are
injured and mortified, friends should be eager
to assuage the hurt and scrupulous not to eA-
asperate the wound but this is insult following
hard and fast upon the heels Of injury Tor The
Argus assuming TO speak for us, undertakes TO
pledge the Democracy, Northern and Southern,
10 protective Tariff!
We protest against it in the name Of every
honest Democrat in the Union. No such De
mocrat will be content, and when it is present
ed 10 him in It's proper light, no such Democrat
but will be indignant, at such defining of his
position and that Of :" the Democracy" as Is
here prohered 10 our worst enemies by the Al
bany Argus: and for any who will persist in
making such pledges and promises to our foes
and unconstitutional oppressors-we cannot
conscientously desire the power and opportu-
nifty Of fulfilling aud redeeming them. We
should be lending ourselves TO the maintaining
of Wing doctrines, could we tacity consent to
their profession in our name-and these doc
, trin6s of the Argus are exactly and dentically
those Of the Wing party.
! The great body Of Democrats always mean
something when they speak; speak 1t unequi-
vocaly and spurn at deception towards friend
.or foe and when they mark this yielding to
the Wings all that the Wings have ever
claimed-this surrendering the true point of
difference, that Of discriminating duties for
protection sake and not for revenue-lhey
will not permit the surrender 10 be masked by
| pretended differences with The Wings upon a
surplus and its distribution, or upon Tariff Of
utter prohibition. No such differences as these
! do in fact exist between the Argus and the
| Wings; for the Wings have never affirmed
either that a surplus for distribution was their
object, or that they desired a TART which would
produce one, or that they aimed at thorough and
total prohibition by their Tariff imposilons.
Their distribution policy, though, if they sue
ceeded in carrying II out, it would have in eff CT
the same onefou, result as taxing the people di-
rectly TO raj mon to b. gwen to the States,
yet, acco ding TO their professions, covers only
the public lands. But was the question ola sur
plus at all involved in the Tariff act which no W
| grlnds ns--or was that question ever raised in
lis discussion? The Argus well knows that it
was not. Every body knows now, and knew
| when ii was enacted, that so far from producing
a surplus, this T"rifi would cut down the reve-
nue-and not produce a suficency for the ne.
cessary expenditures of the government $50
that in voting for II, the Wings have but afhliai-
ed with "the Democracy" of the Argus-by
voting precisely upon lis avowed principles; nor
is there any protective Tariff, the vlle.t and
most oppressive which The mag can
frame which cannot be rvetted upon the coun-
try and defended upon the principles Of the Ar
gus, or which after these avowas, that paper
can, with any consistency, condemn.
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in their Administration Of the Government, the
Democracy had much better be a minority in
perpetual opposition, and with fixed resolve to
resist tyranny, than gain a victory worse than
barren-a victory which will bring them chains
Instead OF deliverance and liberty chains, too,
sei-imposed! Better never grasp the reins, If
this is the fashion in which they are 10 be polite
Lee -. Il. 1
interested and self-sacrfcing good fiiends-the
manufacturing Afislocracy. If we believe that
the great victory in New York, had been
achieved only through concessions such as
these, we could not, as we do give the Demo
cracy there our joyous greeting on the occa-
sion for we could not congratulate the party
and the county on misfortune and disgrace
From view Of the field, now that the smoke
of battle has cleared up we are persuaded tina,
those who sought strength with the people OF
New York by such conct ssons, mistook their
r men-and would have trumpted as much more
signally more honorably, had they,as was done
In very many parts oflhe State ,manfuIly unurled
the Free Trade flag of the Democracy, and hon
? estly sustained it through the fight.
The Argus has wilfuly subjected itself tc
the conjecture, whether press which could
tender such concessions in the game fora single
state, may not be tempted to concede again and
farther for the sake Of the more glitering prize
of party ascendancy in the Union.
The establishment OF our principles, and no
p party ascendancy nor the elevation of any mar
or men, is the aim of the Democracy. We car
promise the manufacturers nothing farther, thar
that in carrying through our fixed purpose OF re
storing the principle of free trade and low du
ties, it shall not be done harshly, but with due