New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-26
Brooklyn. July 81. lsil.
The WING Tariff and the Loco Focos.


The Nyhig Tariff and the Loco t'ocos.
The Texas bubble having burst and VAIL
ished into thin air, and tie Loco-Focos having
previously abandoned f1T this iof!orn hope al
their other favorite issues, sacrificed their strong
est man and entered up general confession o
Judgment on every point but Texas, they art
now In a truly helpless condition. Desperation,
however is fertile in shifts and expedients, and
is natural to suppose that poor b,okcn. dOw!'
Loco. Focoism would not die quietly. Yet arnlc
all its cJnvulsons, Its p,overbial disregard o
truth and fairness, one would hardly suppose
that any party could be SO infatuated, SO oollsh1
base, 10 seize upon q strong ana popula'
measure Of their opponents and, alter having We
hemen.ly and consistently opposed It for years III
every possible shape, boldly claim il as tier arm.
But this is exactly what the Loco-Foco party
have done in the casc'of the Wing Tariff See
ing that in its path Industry and Prosperity
sprang up from their death-like torpor INTO sudden
life and activity, and that every where us bies
sings were Literally dispensed among grateful
people, they have actually deliberately com
menced the work oil lying themselves out OF
their favo,ite and long maintained position ano
claiming the Wing Tarif-a measure which
more than almost any other has for years risen
into popularity against the most relentless and
unscrupulous hostily of our opponen;s-as their
own measure! The proofs of this impudcn,
piece of audacious political villainy rife on
every hand and accumulatins upon US day by
day. We have this moment received leltei
from distinguished citizen OF Pennsylvania, in
which he says: i" In the District composed o.
Monroe, Pike, Wayne and Susqlchannah the
Loco Foco Representative, who owns the news
paper at Siroudsburg, has the impudence 10 IS
sert every where on the stump that Clay ant
the Wings are opposed TO Protective Tariff!
This is nothing new; bat we refer u this par.
ticular instance Dec il happens to be at hand
If we had either leisure or patience to run
through the last few pages IN the record cf Loco
Foco mendacity we could multiply proofs to any
extent.
Now, what shall we say of such bold, naked
falsehood and dishonesty as this, or hew charac-
terize it as it deserves without sollng our columns
with epthe,s untitled TO them or TO our readers
Is it, can it be, any thing bat most deliberate
and barcfaccd attempt 10 cheat and swiGd!c ;h
people, frs, gu, OF the truth as TO iehich pty Is
the friend of the Tauti, and next out o! the
Tariff itself, if By these means they acquire The
power to work this deadly mischief? How loFg
docs any intelligent mar suppose the Tanfi
would be suffered 10 exist under Loco Foco
majority in both Houses Of Congress and Loco
Foco President i'll the Chair Did not the eac.
ers Of the party, not four mcnths ago, declare
publicly in and ont of Congress that the oal.
reason why they did not pass McNay's POISONOUS
bill in the House was because they knew 1t would
be killed BY the Wing Senate : and did they nr'
openly assert that so soon as They had the powei
to co II etfectualiy, the present TART should b
DESTROYED And this-doubt j, not, l..en OF II,
United States-thls Was pialn, sincere ana earn
est Loco. Focoism. Elated by what they con,
sidered their growing prospects, and Cared away
by the momentary confusion attcisting the SUD
den hurting OF the Texas tirebrand into the po-
Ircal arena, they for = momsn, io.got then
habitual caution and non comnli;taliSm, sno
dared to talk as they thought and ieit-as they
mean to act, If they ever get the power int,
their hands.
But the voice of the people in favor OF tn,
Tariff has come up IL one long, loud, startling
shout, and the enemies OF the Country perceive
what fatal error they have committed. Then
Texas frebrand has died ou,-on no one CUES
ton of public policy 90 they stand before the
people otherwise than as exposed baftisd and
defeated schemess-and now. forsooth, they viii
ROB the Wings OF their tovori'c, their long
cherished, ardenLy defended Policy, for the pur.
pose of afterward robbing the Country of that
Policy itself. What must be The hopes and
prospects of a party that resorts 10 such expedi-
ents as these ?-expedients even more weak than
dishonorable, more ludicrous than malignant.