The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-05

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used-up man, they had endeayored TO place IN ms
| shoes a man who, compared with him, was but
| pigmy beside giant What were the arguments
! upon which The gentleman wanted the hmsleen
| people 10 unite in the election oil james N ON
First lei them try him upon the tafIn question
There had been no shutting In his course, the gen
,eman said All did he acknowledge that bis
| friend "Matiy" had shuiiied and equyocated'
| AIR PAYNE protested against any inference OF
this kind. lie had said nothing disreSpeet'ui oil mr
Van Buren. a.
Mr.. HARDIN continued. Certainly We would
| not expect that you would kill him hrst and KICK
| him al erwards But in that Convention Mr.: van
Buren, had been ruled oil and consigned 10 poiiucsi
disgrace for the purpose OF finding some ne" man
with whom the party would be able again TO ride M
TO power and 10 the spolls Of Office What were
| Mr.. Folks views on the tariff The gentleman Gu
dorsed him, and said lie was not for direct tsNation'
but for expunging from the tariff every item oil pro-
IL cton 10 American labor. This might answer ms
| friends In Alabama, but when they remembered The
votes of this House, it would astonlsh every man
who used Folks dogmas.
You Democrats (said Mr.. II. J have two-lhirds
maioiity in this House aud y,t with all your Tree
trade principles, you could not even pass an abstract
| resolution asserting the principle maintained by MI
Polk 90 The Globe" raid that Mr.. Polk was Tor Je-
storing the ar TO where II was found by the wings
in lc42 to twenty per cent. Horizontal torit,
with disc imin atoms ii any, below that. when Inc
bill to reduce The tariff had come up AT the present
session they had killed il by slow degrees they had
kept il ha ging here until after the Virginia cl' cton,
and then they mad killed 1t by coup dc grace
Blu, Mr. II. not 10 b. led oil to ,als upon the
tar ques ton which had been thus fnuvey settled
He would come to talk about James X. Polk. LIT
Us know said he) what it tha, he has done WHAT
were Mr. PoIks views with reference TO the dep1se
banks, which was now held up as a most obnoxious
system no did II (sskcd Mr. II You De-
niucraisr did it against the warning OF the Wings;
and James X. Polk brought IT forward in Congress,
and he held in his hand two three speeches # Mr..
Po.k favor OF this system. Mr.. Ii. read from Vol,
5a aud fom volume | 18th Congress Debates,
from speeches If Mr.. Polk in d fence OF the Stae
bank system ascnbiog all the prospei Of the coun-
try t, It's operations, &c Ahery ur party (said Mr.,
had got inc Of ,hls system, after had exploded
IN your hands, you got up the sub Treasury system
The panacra which was to relieve the country OF
all lis evils James X Polk, rhoirman Of the Com
miuea OF Ways and Means, had brought tn inca
sure forward and was ii iLat which was going TO
give him a clam upon the gratitude Il the American
people, by whom il had most tignally been condemn
ed But had Mr. Polk always been co ss'ent Ia
this Look at IT (saId M. H. and weep Mr., II.
read from OF the speeches, 10 which he had be-
foIe referred, eiaborale argument comparative
OF the ris Of the two SYSTEM IN conformation OF
the sub Treasury, and IN advocacy Of the State back
system. And yet these sell-stytd "Dcm crit C
gentlemen (and they had much night TO the maine
he had 10 that OF Chnuuan) now denounced
tis system a Federal measure, which thelr own
snddatt had approved as better and safer system
han The subT,easury.
Mr. H. wanted some of his 'Deml cratic" friends,
who happened TO be tariff "Democras," or half
goose half duck, according 10 the defniton Of the
Globe of full biooded democrats" 10 come up
and tell this House and the Try whether they
dorsed MIR. Folks notions The tariff, they had
been endorsed by the gentleman from Alabama-
lie, the delegates TO the Convention from Penns Iva
mia, New Jersey New York and Connecticut, say
whether they intended to be double accd IN this mat
ter Did they endorse this candidate of the Bati
more ConyentIon-did they give up lhelr own senti
mems and support James Il. Polk' If they lodged,
If they equWocated, they would be scored red.
But another question. I he gentlemen a. ilt-
more made sacrifice Of Mr. Van Buren, For
wha Some OF them from The South sand because
OF his Texas letter; but did th,y not know-he knew
that had long since been deermlntd, and stated,
n, IN this House, but publicly tia if the Connect
cut and Virginia elections went against them, they
would Withdraw Mr. Van Buren, They surely
knew IT and as this Texas question had come along,
a. afford them mighty good oFpouuniy 10 siie
down The rail, and GET III from supp Tung Mr. Van
Blu en-. Did gentlemen forget how IN 1871 they had
abused the Wing for bringing forward Gen. HATH
son, and how they had charged The party with giSnI
up their principles for the sake of "ayails nle mann
What hsd they brought up mes X. Polk tori Had
soy man here or Ia he nation teen for him' No
but because he araildbie candidate. But ih-ro
were ducume ntsupoD the subject Of availability
20 which he wished 10 call Il particular attention OF
gentlemen. Mr. II. read from an article IN 9Th.
Globe" January s, 1874, contrasting the claims ir
the Vice Presidency Of James h. POlk and WIN X.
King, (theTe was not man in the ni'ed States he
said VINO atIbotli dreamed of Mr. Polk Is a
dilate for the Presidency the following extracts
7"Finsy, the political condition ofthcir respective
Stsles is another point Of preference for Mr.. King
Alabama is Democratic T onnesseei Is Federal Wing.
One is helping the other Injurng, the Democratic
cause. The red-hot shot Of Tennessee Is now fired
into the Drmociatc ship his may be a misfortune,
apH la. fnff Ia. tts and
her present public men. 5 III, It il misfortune
which entails consequence, and VIII oh involve a
serious consideration IN the 81 con of Vice Piesl
denisl candi laie."
| "In such a contest the Democracy has no compl-
ments spare to uniotunate Sialer by carrying the
burden OF the public men who cannot b th IT own
5 ate Gto the Democra. line. They want strength,
/ not weakness
"Thoy want strength, not weakness continued
| Mr.. II. Did not the gentleman from Alabama
write that sentence in that communication II the
! gentleman denies It not | say tie did.
! Mir PAYNE said no man TO IN fer any thing,
the one way The other, from his silence
Mr. HARDIN. II the gentleman says it is not
true, | will take it back
! Mr. PAYNE lbeievc so lido not know whc-
ther wrote II or not Laughter
| Mr.. HARDIN said he would read another article
relative 20 the claims TO ths Vice PRESIDENCY Of Jas
X Polk, and the gentleman might have his choice OF
| the two, n. to which he had written. lie res
| from "the Globe Of January 10, 1874 the Elowine
extracts from communication N reply a. previous
one in that paper with the signature of " A Ten.
| nessee Democrat
"But why attack Col King1 why advert to
his earliest legislative history Does be feel thai
the political capital of Gov. Puk J. quite too limited
to secure nomination from the Republican party
unless he can pull down toe fame of others whose
shadow has fallen across the path Of his posthunou.
bsutling for the Wee Presidency n So let me warn
| "A Tennessee Democrat that his di-paugement OF
Col king will add nothing TO the political capital
! of Gov. Po!k.'
| "Bui Il he will convince me hat there is well
| founded suspicion-a reasonable doubt-of the per-
| sonol courage OF Col King pronounce him with