The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-25
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THURSDAY EVENING, JULY IS. 1874
MISREPRESENTATI AND FALSE.
HOOD

We have seen, with no little surprise, that a
Locofoco paper printed at Uniontown, Pennsylva-
mia, has been guilty of perpetrating most wilful
falsehood at our expense, in charging US with
having denied that the present tariff, and the pro-
tective policy, is a measure of the Wings. The
charge is utterly false, and the fellow who fabri.
Gated and published it. has furnished the evidence
of its fasity along with it, by inserting our article
upon which it is based There is nothing mar
yellous in the bare fact that Lccofoco editor
should lie, but that he should be so stupid as to
convict himself, may excite wonder.
We will demonstrate the falsity Of his assertions
seriatim. The editor says:
Sin all this region, the Wings assert that the
protective policy is the Wing policy. The Wing
Standard, at Washington city, makes "fat-
footed" denial to this asserton-avers that pro-
lection is sectional and not political question:
and that NO HONEST MAN" will say ought to the
contrary"
To show how utterly false is this assertion, we
quote from our article the passage to which the
editor refers as follows:
"Great pains are taken at the South to bring
odium upon the Wings by misrepresentng the
tariff, which they declare to be exclusively Wing
measure But every body knows who has given
particular attention to the subject, that no mea-
sure of protection has ever been adopted without
the essential aid of Locofoco votes.''
Here, it will be seen, that, instead of denying
that the tariff is Wing measure, or wishing to
deny it, we have merely charged that Northern
Locofocos are also in favor of the tariff, although
they have been kicked into the support of free
trader against their wishes. The Wings are for
the tariff, as every word of our article admits,
though they not exclusively for it, because the
poor cowardy Northern Locofocos want tariff
ALSO and will help the Wings to make a tariff
while they, at the same time, suffer themselves
to be dragooned into the support of clamorous
free trader 1t is true that no tariff has ever pas
sed Congress without the aid of Northern Loco
focos; but it is, at the same time true, that they
have only co.operated with the Wings in a Wing
measure, while their Southern friends have all
along been plotting schemes to dissolve the Union
because Of the tariff 1t was in this way that we
said, and we repeat, that honest man will deny
that the brow-beaten, doughface Northern Loco
iocos, who are now supporting free trade candi-
date for the Presidency. are the advocates of a
protective tariff The editor remarks further:
Mr. Stewart, Mr.. Mcdonald, and their follow
ers, have earnestly attempted to produce the i'm
preston that the Locofocos are so devoted to
British Interests that they want to destroy the
tariff. The paper above named fatty contradcts
all such allegations, and declares that the Locofo-
cos entertain no such purpose"
Here is another falsehood. We charged North
ern Locofocos with being the advocates of the
tariff. Mr.. Stewart justly charges the party with
the design of abolishing the tariff. But Northern
Locofocos are not The party by great deal. Their
leader, Mr.. Polk, is avowedly opposed to the tariff,
as well as to tariff. He is the avowed and boast
ed enemy to the principle of protection and is
now the champion of the Nuliers, who would
dissolve the Union rather than submit to pro-
lection. He is the champion of those who con-
froHed the action of the late Baltimore Conyen-
tion' In spite OF the numerical majority" of the
North. And If Mr.. Polk should come into power.
he would exert himself to accomplisb tho do
struction of the protective policy. He is NJ doed
TO DO SO. Mr.. Stewart is right in charging free
trade as party measure with the Locofocos. be-
cause their masters, the Nulliers are in favor Of
free trade. Walker, McDuAie, Hamilton, and
Rhett, the masters, who made Polk, would dis.
solve the Union, rather than submit to the op-
preston of protective tariff; but their white
slaves of the North will always cooperate with
the wings in support of home industry-that is
what we have said, and is in no way inconsistent
win what the editor charges upon Mr.. Stewart
The pennsylvania editor says further:
ihe tariff OF 1912 is claimed by all the lead
ens mere as wing measure At Washington
city, the Wing Standard proclams this to be a
misrepresentation of the truth, and tells ts read.
ers "that no measure of protection has ever been
adopted without the essential aid Of Locofoco
votes"