The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-06-29
From the New Y ork Tribune.
will the People be swirl
died out the TARIFF

died out the Tariff.
: This Is plain question, but very i'm
porlant one. The prosperity Of the Coun
try for many years depends on the an
swer which shall be given to il. If of lha
large majority Of our People who are hea t
lily favorable 10 The Protection of GU
own Industry, one-iourth can be lied into
the belief that the preservation of the Tar
i'll does not depend on the triumph of tn,
Wings, then that Tariff will be undermin
ed and crushed. This has been effected
once already, and will be again If tn,
friends of Protection can he4uIled int,
sleep. If they can be fooled into max in.
this great vital, fundamental question sub
ordinate TO any mere party consideration
If they can be diverted into disregar,
of it by any Of the trivial or mock issues
which the enemies of Protection sci up ia
distract the public mind-tEen we may
fear that the Tariff will be crushed again
as i! was by the result of the Election OF
1882. But we will not, we cannot be
!leve it. 1t seems incredible that the great
Laborlng Glass, whose essential indepen-
dence and comfortable subsistence so
| largely depend upon the preservation of
the Tariff, will suffer themselves to be
cheated out of that Protection, by any
mere llummery oul'Fedcraiism, Y Dung
Hickory or any such contemplate party
cIap-uap. II they can be, those who are
thus gulled deserve the evils they bring
down on their own heads.
Just look at the glarng facts which
stare us all i'll the face. Mr.. James X
Polk is nominated for next p. esdent--
by what influences and for what ends?
Can any man conceive any reason why
Martin Van Buren, should be discarded
by their common party in favor Of Polk
but the clearly avowed reasons that Van
Buren, is not unequivo a. ~, consistently
Antl-Tarltf and in favor of AnneXation2
Who has ever pretended any other causes
than these2 Why was it that South Car
olina would send no Delegates to the late
Baltimore Convention while it was
thought Van Buren, would be nominated?
Why did her Plcnipolenlares 90 into
that Convention so readily as soon as
Polk had been preferred, and pledge their
State to support HING What means the
lInmoderate eXultalion all over South
Carolina on receiving the news that Van
Buren, had been supplanted and Polk nom
mated? They Tell you what it means, in
no eIuvocal language-It is Polk is an
original, unequlvocal Auli-TariH as well
as Texas man, Look at the Edgelirld
resolutions, which, after denouncing Mr..
Clay as all original and consistent adyo-
cate of Protection, proceed
Rcsoirrd, That in Jas. X Polk we recognize an
able bold advocate Of the immediate Annexation
OF Texas, and, firm and consistent Opp0n ent Of a
Protective Tariff assumption OF State Debt and
Aboltian and that, therefore we cordially APP
prove ci his nomination, and pledge ourselves TO
his support
So il is all over the South. "Down
with the Tarlllr' is there the OF en- war
cry of those who have defeated Van Buren,
and put up Polk. The Nashville Union
declares that he Polk and all his friends |
rie'r The present Tariff 'cuh a6hordncc.
SO Mr. Payne of Alabama, Mr.. Henley
of Indiana, and every supporter of Mr.. |
has declared that his success will be the |
downfall of the Tariff Hear Mr.. Benton
states the issues for 1874:
"1he question ITSELF is no,U on iriM bctorc The
.heOpGsus cf The people aud must hare its solution
from that tribunal JJOrs trc meet again. The PRE-
sIDLNTiAL ELECTION INVOLVES TIE FATE OF THE
Tariff, and 10 That tatc ott,tWe Congress lcW hare
TO conform, be our action NOR lChat il nlau. Now,
in The year 1882, the fate of tho high Tariff is
slaked III the person of It's eminent champion
its candidate for the Presidency of the United
States. That champion was defeated then, and
his system uih him; and he may be defeated a.
gain"
His system miM him'-do YOU hear?
The defeat Of Mr.. Clay is the destruction
of the Tarill--so says Col. Benton, who
was once a Clay man and then Tariff
man, but is now hostile to Mr.. Clay and
SO 10 Protection. SO says Senator Col
quit Of Georgia:
"Most olthc Wing Senators who have discus
scd tins question, have, in an open, manly man
ner, admitted that the act of 1912 was a bill pas
scd for Protection; that they advocated it because
of its ample recognition of the Protective rrinci-
pie: that il is tarorite Wing measure, to which
all other measures subordinate and of secon-
Diary importance. This is fir, and places the is
jetlceen The parties upon this subject 10 be deter
minOdby The american PeopIe-the Tariff .lct qCI
1912, aom itShigh duties md Principle Of Protec-
ton on the one side: and The adrocateS Of top duties
and an equal system oftarotion on The oAc."
But why need we multiply quotations?
Who does not knoac that the Tariff is the
great question: Who ever heard Mr..
Polk, or any one for him, claim to be in
favor OF any sort Of Protection till the last
week2 Who does not know that he al
ways voted dead against it while in Con-
gress, and that he stumped over Tonnes
see last summer decrying the present
Tariff as Wing measure of Profession,
and declaring himself hostile 10 any Pro-
lective duties? Hear him state the ques-
ton himself:
"IHE DIFFERENCE bci,cccn ,hc courses ofthe po-
,riJL b;,LL Ia. D.