The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-03-25
TRACTS ON THE TARIFF.

TRACTS ON THE TARIFF.
The editor of the Tribune, at the suggestion Of
some friends of Protection to Homo Industry, is
about to prepare two tracts on the following sub
jects:
| l. HE TARIFF AS IT IS AND THE SUBSTITUTE
PROPOSED BY THE LocoFocos, being full state
ment aud exposition of the rates of duty fixed by
the present tariff with the reasons for each item,
showing why each duty was made higher or low
er, ana how 1t bears upon the labor of the coun-
Try with the corresponding provision of the
tarlf bill reported to the House by Gen. MCKAY
| from the Committee of Ways and Means, and
which Locofocosm is pledged to drive through
the House OF Representatives at any rate, and the
Senate if possible. The Wing and Locofoco
| tariffs VIII be contrasted section by section, and
| the nature and bearing of each provision lucidly
| and calmly exhibited The general influence Of
the present tariff on labor, prices, &C., will be
| fairly shown.
| IL. PROJECTION AND FREE TRADE, or The
mentary exposition of the nature, necessity, ope-
| ration and effects of tariff of duties on imports,
with wise determinations in favor of our home
| industry.
Each of these tracts will contain 16 large
| and closely printed pages, Che size Of the Junius
Iracts,) and be sold for 50 per hundred or $l5
per thousand. 1t will be the aim Of the writer to
make them perspicuous in statement, cogent in
reasoning, and SO fortified with unIenable facts
| as to command respect from opponents. The first
will be published within fortnight.
MIssoURI--the Butaloes mOving. Wings
of the Sixth Electoral District of Missouri met in
Convention at Fredericktown, Madison county,
IN tba 7th petant Such on accop,hlo oo of tho
| representatives of the Wing party has never
been known in the southern part Of that State;
"and now that they have seen and conferred
with each other, and known their strength, and
how to act SO as to be most efectually felt in
the coming election, (remarks the St. Louis Re-
hour, abandon the contest, until the final dec.
sion in November next The Wings of the
southern counties have, we have always felt
undervalued their numbers, and betrayed too
great an indifference to the success Of Wing
principles They have now thrown off their
ethargy, and we hope to- see them so acting
hereafter as to make their influence and their
votes tell in the elections Of this year." John
son Ranney, Esq, of Cape Girardeau, was
appointed Presidential Elector, and Nathaniel
w. Watkins, of the same county, the delegate
to the National Convention, and Caleb Cox, of
Madison, his alternate.
The convention adopted resolutions in favor OF
Protective Tariff Bank of the United States,
the distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands, and "n opposition to the extraordinary
abuse of the ueto power, as has been Of late ex.
ercised by our Presidents
The following is one of the resolutions adopted
by the Convention
'Resolred, That to thus render our principles |
triumphant, we hereby pledge ourselves to use |
all our best energies to elevate to the highest Of
lice within the gift of free people-the nations |
ornament-HENRY CLAY-who for the last thirty |
years has stood pre-eminently high for his devo |
ton to the true interests of our glorious Union
whose genius conceived, whose eloquence has so |
often proclaimed, and whose energy has so nobly |
sustained and illustrated the worth and the merits
Of the American systematic profound states |
man, whose sagacity is not blinded by sectional |
leelings-the infeXibe patriot, whose heart en- |
braces every interest connected with the welfare
and glory of our common country
OHIo.-The Wings ofWayne and Stark coun-
ties, composing the 18th Congressional District |
of Ohio, have agreed upon JOHN HARRIS, Esq,
of Stark, as their delegate to the National Wing
Convention. DANIEL l.. SpRAGUE, ESQ.,, OF |
Wooster, is the alternate.
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WHY MR.. CLAY SHOULD NOT BE ELEcTED-I
Among the many cogent reasons we have seen
urged why this result should not be brought
about, the latest and most cogent is, that some
person wearing ,ohite kid gloves went to the
levee in his honor at Faneuil Hall, Boston
Philad. Gag.