The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-08-16
We omitted much that was ssid and done,
because il was too impious md obscene TO
appear before the pubic.
THE TARIFF.

Upon one important point of nations
policy the issue has been fairly joined
Notwithstanding the arllu lodging" @
The Locoiocos. they are directly at issu
with the Wings on the tariff oflsI2. Tn
great leaje. of the Wings, HENRY CLAY
has uniformly declared himself ia favor o
sustaining that great and, as experienc,
has shown, most beneicent measure: ant
the following brief letter, which has jus
been published, upon that subject, mus
stop the mouths of the most unscrupulou,
siauderers in the Locoioco ranks
Ashland, June 80, 1914.
Dear Sir: | have received your favor
stating that our political opponents repre-.
sent me as being a friend of protection
at the North and of free trade at the
South; and YOU desire an expression of my
opinion, under my own hand, for the pur-
pose OF correcting this Misrepresentation.
am afraid lhasyou viii tind The effort vain
10 correct misrepresentation Of me-
Those who choose 10 understand my opin.
ions can have no difficulty in clearly com.
pretending them. have repeatedly ex-
pressed them as late as tins spring, and sew.
eral times IN an answer 10 letters from
Pennsylvania. My opinions, such as they
are, have been recently quite as freely ex.
pressed at the South as ever uttered :hem
at the North. .Ihare erery where main
TUNED that in adjusting Tariff for rer.
ense, Determinations ought 10 be made for
Protection; THAT THE TARIFF OF 1912
HAS OPERATED MOST BENErIcIALLY, and
that AM UTTERLY OPPOSED TO ITS REpHAL.
These opinions were announced by me at
public meetings in Alabama, Georgia,
Charleston South Carolina, North Carroll.
ma, and in Virginia.
Your friend and obedent servant,
IL CLAY
Mr.. FRED. J Cora
Thus stands HENRr CLAY. Let the
following letter, equally explicit and en-
phaiIc, dehue the position Of james Il
Polk:
Winchester, May 30, 1e43.
To the People Of Tennessee
The object which | had in proposing 10
Governor Jones, al CarroIyille, on the 2
OF April last, that we should each write
out and publish our views aad opinions on
The subject of The Tariff, was, that our re.
spectre positions might be distinctly kao,rn
and understood by The people. That my
opinions were already fully ard distinctly
known, could not doubt. lind steadily,
during the period Iwas Representative
IN Congress, been opposed to protective
policy, as my recorded poies and publish.
ed speeches prore. Since retired from
Congress had held the same opinion. In
the present canvass for HAD opored ray
opposition 10 The Tariff act of he late uhig
Congress. as being highly PROTECTIVE 10 lis
character, and not designed by its authors
as rereane MEASURE. had avowed nv
opinion in my public speeches that the 10.
teresis of The couniry-and especially of
the producing and exporting Slaies-re.
qstred its repeal, and the restoration of the
principles of the compromise tariff act Of
1883.
JAMES X. POLK.
Thu. stands jones X. Polk; anil thus
stands, before the People, the question of
the Tdrif Of 1912. 1.-THE Wings sue.
coed, it will be continued il the Locolo.
cos succeed, ii will be repeated.