The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-23
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 "Aye all this is very we'll" says the Low ell high-tarifi man-the capitalist, who IS ma king 20 per cent. profit OH his invested mll- lions; s.but for ali this, Mr. Clay will go for just such tariff as we desire, and Is utterly opposedst to a repeal of the present high and unequal duhes."
 Is this true Do not these high-taritf Wings grievously islander Mir. Clay Are they not representing him as q turn-eoat-a miserable demagogue-a political whiiiier- deceiver-a man of no stability or consis- tencyi Are they not themselves set oi miserable and knayish impostors What IS the fact Why this-and let the friends oi Henry Clay blush for shame, and hide thelr heads in confusion on the 29th oi June, 1841, two months after the above quoted speech at Charleston, Mir. Clay, i'll letter 10 Mir. Cope, says:
 "TnE TARIFF OF 1842 HAS OPERATED MOST BENEFlciALLY AM UTTERLY oPfo- sEp TO ITS REPEAL
 And this declaration is now paraded at the head of every high-tarif Whig paper at the North, as the exactly contrary declarations are paraded in every low-tariif Wing paper at the South. This political Janus IS the great embodiment of Whiggery, held up for our admiration and our suniages MT. Clay, notwithstanding his declarations at the South, is pledged to the support of the existing iariil without modification. He is pledged to h1s friends. the manufacturing millonairles; and no amount of money will be withheld which may appear necessary to secure hls election. Here, then, we find our issue upon the tarltt.
 The Wings, the leaders whom the whole party will inevitably follow, are for sustain ing the present tariff.
 The Democrats contend that it is unequal, unjust, and oppressive, and that Il demands important notifications.
 We demand modification of the tariff be- cause its unequal. We are in favor of equal rights, and opposed to granting privileges to one class above another. That the present tariff does this, is evident and notorious Twelve millions of the people of the United States are engaged in agriculture; aud the tariff, so far from alfording them any protec- ton, has, by cutting off our foreign trade, shut np foreign markets, and thus lowered the price ofalmost every article produced by agriculture The only article of any impor- tance produced by agrieullurlsts, which ta- riff can protect, is wool. Cotton, tobacco, wheat, corn, pork, beef, potatoes--all the great staples, ill short, cau be produced here cheaper, and in greater abundance, than in any other part of the world. What the far mer needs is a market--not protection.
 t Is not always the amount sent abroad that keeps up the prices, but the circumstance of a market An unsaleable surplus produces at once competition, and prices fall, and 8 small surplus often produces as much depre- citation as large one. Hence farmers, te keep up fair standard of prices, want for eign as well as home market for their pro- ducts.
 In the meantime, the highly protected man. ulacturers are getting enormous and unpre. eedented profits, varying from 10 10 100 pel cent. upon their invested capital.
 A tariff, which Is enriching few thousands of capilalisisyat the expense of, while it i'm poyerishes, millions of agriculturists, Is un- equal, oppressive, and demands modification
 Since the passage of this tariff