The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-15

powerful elects which they expect it to produce ana
usi rely upon tho press Of Fssnsy 10 1000
stall II To expose the system Of Islander pfe", spa
prepare public opinion To receive and reject WIN
scorn and Indignation when il shall make It's appear
ance. .al. =
This moustrous attempt. fellow-citlzens, to deude
you into the belief that James n foIk Is friend 70
free trade and an enemy 70 tariff, with discrmina'
ton for the protection Of American industry Is to be
publ ely made in the of the ensuing fortnight
In anticipation Of it, application has been made 10
Mr. Polk in the most offensive and insulting manner,
"a IN anuer 80 insolen indeed as 10 make II imposs'.
Bile that no should reply TO it-ior another formal
declaration Of bis opinions respecting the tariff Yes,
the political opponents Of James X. Polk are de-
sirous of learning what are his political opinions
statesman whose views all great public ques ions
have been long before the world whose addresses
and writings and public acts all speak the same prln-
cIpies the policy, the sane affections, the same
language, who, unlike his opponent, the many faced
candidate of a many faced parry, has never written
one letter to tho North and another 10 the South, Us
opposite In their bearing the points oil The com
pass 10 which they we're ed,-who Is not the
author Of the Compromise Tariff, and yet It's oPPo-
nen; the advocate Of slavery and tho friend oil abo-
lion, and half house man, neither one nor the
other, all at the same time opposed Ia the snne1a-
ton Of Texas, yet friendly to il personally, and then
upon the whole, regarding il as :" positive good y
no but Democratic statesman, frank gallant, UNI
form, patIiotc-James X. Polk, the friend and fol-
lower Of Andrew Jackson to be robbed OF your
good opinion and you TO be robbed OF his services by
Insult which he cannot condescend TO reply TO- and
by Wing certificates, cunnngly word d, siealthiiy
got up, and to be brought before the light Of day,
only when il shall he late answer and expose
Them!
How meanly must they think of your Intelligence,
freeborn Democratic citizens of Pennsylvania, who
hope to mislead you by so clumsy trick as this !
Are we to be indebted to certificates from our Oppo-
nens forithe character of our own candidates! What
was the character Of Jefferson Madison, or jack
son, according to the same calumnaiing witnesses
What measure Of our party have they not distorted
and condemnedi What man have they not vii fed
The opinions of James X. Polk! We need no
Whiggery TO teach what they are they have been
proclaimed at The house top! They smack of the
ancient Democratic faith, they come from the great
fountain Of patriotic Truth in which the Republican
principles of 1895 had their origin: they are the
opinions which Old Hickory asserted and vindicattd,
and under which alone Democracy desires to trl-
umph. Hear them
yTIN MY JUDGMENT, 1T is THE DUTY
OF TIE GOVERNMENT TO EXTEND. AS
| FAR AS 1T MAY BE PRACTICABLE TO DO
$50 BY IT'S REVENUE LAWS AND ALL
| OTHER MEANS WI THIN IT'S POWER, FAIR
AND JUST PROTECTION TO ALL THE
GREAT INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE
UNION, EMBRACING AGRICULTURAL MAN
UFACTURES, THE MECHANIC ARTS,
COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION
| BY order of the Committee
JOHN T. SMITH, Chairman.
JoHN j. MoCAHEN, Secretary.
| Philadelphia Oct. IL, 1874.