The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-24
ATTENTION, PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTENTION, PENNSYLVANIA!
The Globe copies from the Richmond Enquirer
letter written from Nashville, Tennessee, pur-
porting to give an account of the Locofoco pros
poets in that State We take the following OK.
tracts from the letter, in order that our northern
friends may see what sort of arguments are adj
dressed to the people of Tennessee by Mr.. Folks
friends, and with his sanction:
sin the western part of our State, which is fa-
vorable to the calture of cotton, we have added
largely to our strength upon the Texas and tariff
questions. 1t would
do your heart good to see the gallant style in |
which our friends come up to their work in every
county Of the State, and the emphatic tone in
FAMOUS SWINDLING TARIFF, and the
craven deserton of the cause of Texas by the
wings. Gov. Polk, whom saw flew days since,
is we'll, and is awaiting the judgment of the ma
ton with perfect calmness believing, as he does,
that the people will at last decide rightly upon
the great issues in question in the peuding con-
test"
Such are the real sentiments of the despicable
puppet set up by the Baltimore convention to
humbug and cheat the people. Is it not mon-
strous that man asking the suffrages of free,
enlightened people, should play the game of du-
plicity which has characterized the whole course
of James X. Polk? He was nominated, every
body knows, for his ultra free trade sentiments,
as much as for his annexation predictions his
whole political career has Leen marked by nothing
10 much as his hostility to the Protective policy;
and now the leaders Of his party, under his nose,
h;o coJ ,,;th :,
unquestionably, denounce the present Tariff as
Infamous" " sUindling." And yet the friends
of this man in Pennsylvania have the unparalleled
impudence. the unapproachable audacity, to call
him friend of the Tarif-yea, Of the present
Tariff! To countenance this nefarious fraud, the
Washington Globe, the organ Of the locofoco par
ty, publishes two prospectuses, one for the South
denouncing the Tariff as system of exorbitant
plumber; and another for Pennsylvania, emitting
all allusion to the Tariff. And in conformity with
these diverse prospectuses, pamphlets are issued
from the Globe office denouncing the Tariff and
Mr.. Clay as its friend on one hand, to be sent
South, while other pamphlets are issued from the
same press and sent to Pennsylvania, in which
the attempt is made to represent Mr.. Clay as the
enemy of the Tariff, and Mr. Polk as its friend
And Mr.. Polk, to second the schemes of his
friends, writes letter to Mr.. Kane in Pennsyl-
vania, in which he attempts to wheedle the people
of that State into his support by the use of "vaeue
generalltes," words that mean anything or moth
ing, just as the reader pleases. He says he is in
favor of protecting all the great interests of the
country-agricultural, manufacturing, and CON-
mercial )" but how is he in favor of it! In what
sense does he use the terms! Certainly not by
system OF import duties, which keep away for
eign competition, because he has thousand times
declared by words and votes that he is opposed to
the system of Protection by means of revenue
laws. He can only mean, then, that he is in fa-
vor Of giving the employments of the people that
sort of protection which arises from prompt and
faithful administration of the laws. And who is
not! What fool would not take that truism for
granted? Mr.. Polk shows contempt for the
understandings of the Pennsylvanians, in address.
ing such language to them. He shows at the
same time, his craven spirit--a want of manly in
dependence, readiness to say ANYTHING in order
to secure the prize of office.
How nobly does the course Of Mr. CLAW con.
trast with the shameful shutting or the coward
ly silence of Polk Time after time has Mr.. Polk
been importuned by friend and foe for his opinions
, upon the tariff; and although no body had been,
Ito the time of his nomination, more thoroughly
hitted in favor of free trade, not word has
been elected from him.
ht the Pennsylvanans are acquainted with