Western statesman. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-1845, 1844-07-06

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we're bHled upp1 h.a hating Lesn ihi.ee be.
fore ihe people, cod thrice rejected wifi ifofBt
nnd oilisfwits spoke lightly ol W. Clay and
bic PRINCIPLES, winding up with bic vlews
about TcxHsa IT, believed NJ Clay would
never favor annexation. ilc No sooner eat
down Than NJ Hardin ~ Illinois got the floor,
and gave him ADD biz Gle leader, NIr Polk,
The ovefest setting down that either NJ them
will meet with fof The rest Of their lives. "
wa painful operation, such rs NO man. who
loved his reputation, would Ike Ia undergo,
as will be seem by the following extract, from
the MAJ. Intel Of the House proceedings.
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Mr.. =. having concluded
Mr.. Hardin obtained the floor. Remarklng
that he had anticipated that no question would
arise to-day upon which party debate would
be sprung, he proceeded to say he wished TO
examine few Of the arguments Of the gen
tlcman from Alabama with reference to Mr..
Polk. When the American people got to
know him, they would not know where he
was to be found. Although Mr.. Van Buren,
was used.up man, they had endeavored TO
place i'm his shoes a man who compared with
him was but pigmy to giant. What were
the arguments upon which the gentleman
wanted the American people 10 unite in the
election of James X. Polk First, let them
try him upon the tariff question. There had
been no shutting in his course, the gentleman
said All did he acknowledge his friend
"Matty" lad shuflled aud equivocatedl
! Mr. PAYNE protested against any inference
of the kind lie had said nothing dispectful o.
! Mr. Van Buren,.
Mr.. Hardin continued. Certainly we
would not expect that you would kill him frs
and kick him afterwards. But in that Con
venion Mr.. Van Buren, had been ruled OF
and consigned TO political disgrace, for the
purpose of finding some new man with whom
the party would be able again to ride into
power and to the spoilS of office. What were
! Mr. Folks views on the tariff? The gentle
man endorsed him, and said he was not fo
direct taxation, but for expunging from the
tariff every item of protection to American
labor. This might answer his friends IN Ala
bama, but when they remember the votes o
this House, il would astoniSh every man who
used Folks dogmas You democrats" (Saio
Mr.. H. have a twO-thrds majority IN thi
House, and yet, with all your free trade prn
ciples. YOU could not even pass an abstract res
oution asserting the principles maintained by
Mr.. Polk. "The Globe" said that Mr.. Polt
was for restoring the tariff to where 1t wa
found by the wings in 1912; l. e. to twenty
per cent horizontal tariff, with determinations
If any, below that. When the bill TO reduce
the tariff had come up at the present session
thew had killed it by slow degrees; they mac
kept il hanging here until after the Vlrglnl'
election, and then they had killed it by coul
de grace. o,L 49,
on the tariff question, which had been thus de
fnitelv settled He would come to talk abou
lanes X, Polk. Let us know (said he) VIVA
II is that he has done? What were Mr.
polk,s views with reference TO the depoSlt'
hanks. which were now held up as most ob
noxious system. Who did it! (asked Mr.. ii.
Won democrats" did it against the warning
the wings and James X. Polk brought 1t Tor
, ward in Congress, and he held in his han'
two or three speeches of Mr.. Polk in favor .
, this system. Mr.. H. read from volume Oh
,, and from volume llth Congress debates iron
sneecbes of Mr.. Polk in defence OF the otat
bank system, ascribing all the prosperity o
! the country to its operations, &c. After you
: party (said Mr.. H. had got tired OF this sys
tenn. af,erit had exploded in your hand yo'
GOT M the sub-Treasury system as the Pana
E cea which was to relieve the country OF al II
= evils. James K. Polk, chairman OF the Com }
q mittee of Ways and Means, had brought IN
: measure forward and was it that which wa
going to give him claim upon the gra.Ia "l
> of the American people, by whom It had y, mos ,
signallv condemned! But had Mr. FOLK a
! Rvs been consistent in this LOOK az az
: f way Mr.. H. and weep9 Mr., II. read tF r
one Of the speeches, to which ne hao DELI
Unc an elaborate argument, comParaelv
= 60. ,,,or;ts of the two systems, III Cohu0A