Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-02
SUJTFFI,ING.


is truly ridiculous observe the efforts oeing maoe
BY Mr. Clay TO persuade the people of the South that
he is now land as matter of course always has oeen)
opposed to a thigh Tariff The Wings met win sue
cess at this game in running General Harrison, oe-
cause he mad been an obscure in political life; but
!, will NOT do for Mr. Clay The boosted father of the
uAmerican SYSTEM" who for twenty years has played
the demapogu in crying out tor "protccton to Anne
rican industry, is too well known, we trns 10 De aoe
| to deceive the farmers Of the South on this point
Mr. CLAW denounces the Tariff OF 1875, and claims
credit for having voted for reduction of that Tariff
in 1892 but the records show that, IN 1852, he mani
tested his appreciation of the Tariff oil 1913, by resisting
all attempts reduce the duties on the protected arti-
ces He declared in of his speeches. that the du
ties should be taken off those articles only which did
not come in competition with manufactures at home
The effect of such policy would have been 10 make
higher duties necessary on cottons, woolens ana all
articles manufactured in this country, enriching by
this PROCESS the manufacturer at the expense OF all
| ether classes of the community
| Mr. Ciay denounces the tariff of 1928, and boasts
that he did not vote for it, (he was IN Adams Caoine'
at the tine) yet the records show, that IN 1884, when
modification of that "bll of nominations was called
for bv The whole country MIR. Clay voted with meaper
minores to retain the duties cottons woollens, SAL
duck, bagring DC. Let the people make their own
comments -.
Mr. CLAW pretends TO adhere to the principles Of the
compromise act of 1885, yet he approves the arn OF
1912 which is an open violation OF every principle OF
that act and worse than that OF 1885, IT the great re-
ducton in the prices of foreign goods is considered
The Tariff of 1872 just the thing desired by the ma
nufacturinr monoposts: they admit its highly protec'
tive character and they declare 1t to be treason IN any
Wing who shall attempt or coun'enance us repeal, ~,
These men are the warm supporters OF Mr. Clay. But
thew are not able Of themselves TO make hun President
Hence he must look elsewhere and in order TO get he
frc.n the South he must seem to have abandoned MS
tariff notions, which have heretofore been The rum
of the planter and like Webster, when he claimed 10
he .sJeffrrsonian Democrat Mr. Clay must be read
TO "knock any man down" who says he is "high tart
man. :
Another reason why Clay must look TO the South Tor
HELM will he found in the Abolition question General
Harrison had an immense advantage IN having Deen OH
both sides of this question: that while his Southern
friends quoted his Vncennes speech those IN the NORM
could bring forward his certificate OF membership IN an
Addition Society. The fact of Clay having been an
anti slavery man in his youth will not serve HIM as
well What effect his project tor aboshng The
veto power Intended we doubt not TO win the Adolf
ton party may have in the Morrill, we are not prepared
to saw but the indications are, that Inc great oouy Oh
the Abotionsts who supported Harrison against Van
Buren, will 90 against the great embodiment OF all Inc
Wing principles except that OF Abolition.
Independent of all this, it is now reduced 70 Ger
tanty that Clay can get the votes OF Name, ~
York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, nor Mchigan-hVe
States which gave Gen Harrison VI electoral voes ana
made him President. The support which he received
in the South was given after his most solemn pledges
to adhere to The Compromise Tariff 10 receive The
same support Mr.. Clay doubtless deems 1t necessary
to make similar pledges, such as Will bear the real
Tippecanoe construction But when is notorious that
the first pledges have been broken and that high a
riff is regarded as n "lnk in the great system OF Wing
measures" is it not pa pablo that The "emoodmen oil
all the "nks" will, if he gets the chance, betray the
South, as he did the people of Kentucky in voting
against their will for john Quincy Adams'
fylushriie Union.