Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-07-20
The Tariff and the Wings.

The Tariff and the Wings.
We have always contended that the tariff is
not, and cannot be made party question That
in the South both Wings and Democrats are op-
posed TO the tariff, while, with us both Wings
and Democrats are in favor oft. To prove this
we have only TO refer TO some of the Southern
Wing papers The following article is taken
from the "Whig Standard" strong whg pa
per, published at Washington city. The edi
tor il will be seen, denies most emphaticaly
that the tariffs exclusively Wing measure, and
states that it conld never have passed without the
essential aid of loco foco votes and that the loco
focos, though they had majority of two-thrds
in Congress, refused by majority Of ten, TO re.
peal or alter it in any manner The Standard >
from which we make the extracts, is highly re.
commended by number Of Wing members of
Congress, as an able advocate of "the principles
and candidates of the party Among them we
find the names OF Messrs Irwin, Dickey and Oar
ragh of Pennsy ylvania
From the Wing Standard, July 8, lS4l.
"Great pains are taken at the South to bring
odium upon the Waigs by misrepresehtng the
tariff, which they declare 10 be exclusively
Wing measure. But every body knows, who
has given particular attention to the subject, that
no measure of protection has ever been adopted
present tariff law adopted in lS42, could not
have passed the Senate without the aid of Lo-
cooco votes ; and at the recent session, the Lo-
cofocos having in the House of Representatives
a majority oftwo-thirds, refused by majority
of ten te repeal or alter 1t in any manner. The
following, from red hot Locofoco paper in
Maine, "The Age" puts the case in its true
light. The Age admits all that we have asser-
ted ABOVE, and more-it admits that the protec-
tive policy is not party question, which is per-
! fecty true north Of the Potomac. How, then,
can the South be benefited by the election of a
1 free trader What good will his theories dc
them, when the practice OF the party with
which he is leagued has uniformly been, and
will continue to be, the contrary! We have
already had two Locotoco Presidents, Jackson
and Van Buren, and have they introduced free
/
it 4! On the contrary, Mr.. Van Buren, voted
/ for the tariff of '2s, which the South has al
ways held to be the most oppressive which we
| have ever had.
No other Use has been made or will be made
of this question but to operate on Southern pre-
iuGice. No sincere purpose is entertained by
the Northern I.ocofocos to interfere with The
tariff. The rabble in the commercial cities may
chime in with the South in the chorus OF tree
trade but all those interested in manufactures
mines, and the growth of wool, will support tn,
prote ective policy in spite of party politics.
We repeat that the paper from which we ex
tract the following paragraph is rabid Locofo
co organ "down East" and supports Polk ant
Dallas with the greatest ardor. We trust
therefore, that It's admission will be seized upoI
by Southern Wings, though what it admits
what no honest man can deny
From the Augusta (Nle.) Age.
THE TARIFF.
The tariff question is a question which ca
only be discussed properly by discussing it in de
tail, and when that is done, it will easily b
seen that it is a sectional question, and not
party question.
Take. for example, the article of iron. Main
buys iron, and wants to get it cheap. Penn
sylvania sells iron, and wants to keep il high
Maine wants low duties, and foreign compel
tion in that article. Pennsylvania wants pre-
hibtory duties, and the entire possession of tn
A market
t Ifany one will look over the past votes
c Congress, he will see that they have been col
. troiled by State interests, and not by PolitIct
sympGth'es