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words 10 actions, the public mind would
forthwith and by its own honest impulses,
right itself. This sanguine expectation
has been fully realized. The results Of
the elections which have taken place since
the extra session of lS4l ,viewde as whole,
have clearly shown that this opinion did no
more than justice to the democratic party;
and sure am, tina, the work which they
have so we'll begun will not be left unfn.
shed. Extraordinary efforts have since, it
is true, secured partial success to our adj
.ersares in limited, and, to some extent,
doubtful quarters but nothing has occur.
ed that should shake our confidence in the
speedy and complete re.establishment Of
democratic principles, in every depart
ment of the federal government, provided
only that the will of the people can be hon
eslly conveyed through the ballol.box. The
election of Polk and Dallas, and of ma
jorily of incorrup,ible and firm democrats
to the national Legislature. will witness to
the world the triumph of those principles;
and to the people. themselves, be sure
guarantee for their faithful observance in
the administration of the government. It
might seem superfluous for one whose
whole life, from infancy to old age, WITH
out the iniermission of day or the neg
lect of an occasion, has been devoted to
the support of democratic ciples-whO
embraced them with the ardor ofyouh. and
chung to them even more closely when they
were struck to she ground by adverse pow
er-to sap these are results the consumma-
tion of which he earnestly desires to wit
ness, Other important advantages may
also be anticipated from the accomplish
men, of such a victory. l, might, if prop
erly improved, be made to produce ha, de.
gree OF unanim'y and quiet among The
people, as well as in our public councils, of
which the country has so long been de-
prived,"
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MR. CLAY'S VIEWS OF THE TAR
IFF QUESTION.

Mr. Clays speech delivered at Raleigh,
North Carolina, on the 18th ofApril, from
which we took the other day passage in
favor of the establishment Of national
bank, is accepted by the wings as an ex-
position Of the political creed of their par
ty. The National In,elligencer in pub.
fishing it, says:
"In this speech we have a chart Of wing
principles, of winch Mr. Clay is now the
recognized representative before the pco.
pie. which the more youthful Of our friends
may study with instruction, and old ard
young cannot fail 20 persue with intense
interest as the last speech on general poll
tics which they probably ever will have
an opportunity of hearing or reading rom
the same source"
The points most elaborated by Mr. Clay
in this speech, which all the wing news.
papers are publishing, are the necessity Of
national bank and the necessity of pro-
tective tariff. The distribution Of the
proceeds from the sales Of the public lands,
though treated with some brevity, is also
acknowledge as one oflhe principal meas.
ures of wing policy. Internal improve
menis, or the power of the general govern
ment to make roads and canals. at pleas.
ure, within the limits Of any state, which
once used to make conspicuous figure in
the wing creed as expourded by Mr. Clay,
are passed over in silence. That dogma
has grown to be as absolate as Mr. Web
ster once said the idea Of a national bank
had become. Mr. Clay would evidently be
clad to allow the doctrine he has ayowed
on that question to slip gradually out Of
the recollection Of the people, as doc.
,rine so thoroughly exploded that he is a.
shamed Of it and considers its revival as
hopeless.
In regard to the tariff question Mr. Clay
is evidently a little embarrassed. He is
for protective tariff, he is for legal en-
enlargement, and he calls ii, Of domestic
manufacturers. He says:
at has been commended that the effect
Of affording legal encouragement TO domes-
tic manufacturers is, to enhance the price
Of commodities, and to impose tax upon
the consumer. The argument has been
a thousand times refuted. II had been
shown again and again, that the price Of
almost every article, on which the system
Of encouragement has ef1ectnnlly operated,
has been reduced to the consumer"
In other words. high duties make cheap
goods. a doctrine which is beautifully and
couvincingly illustrated by the rise in the
price Of cottons and woolens, since ihe
present tariff has had time eIeclualy 10
operate upon them,
or the other effect Of the tariff, merely
to reduce the prices Of the products of our
farms and plantations, Mr. Clay takes no
notice, !, is one of those difficulties
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POLK IT BEFORE THE! PEOPLE!
OUR DEFINITION OF "F r L E
TRADEr

Lest there should be any doubt ABOUT
what we mean by Free Trade, we will
state, in short, that by Free Trade" we
mean-a system of duties. laid on foreign
imports for the support Of Government eco
nomically administered, established so as
not to give any ONE interest the adrdn-
iage orr anOther--not toprotect .ManVdc-
turas at the expense Of agriculture; but
so established as that, while it protects our
orn industry against the competition OF
foreign powers, shall do SO, by afiordng
"iair and just protection to ALL the great
interests of the WHOLE UNION"
The Free TRADE system is antagonist to
the Restrictive system. The latter i'm.
poses duties, for the especial benefit of a
porton of the Union, and is founded upon
Henry CIay's federal doctrine, "AGRl.
CULTURE needs little or no protection
from the regulations of foreign powers,
or in other words one or two particular in.
,erests shall be protected and the rest may
take care of themselves the best way they
can. The former system imposes dulie.
for the protection of the phOle Union, and
is founded upon Gov. Folks democratic
doctrine Of "fair and just protection to ALI
the great interests of the whole union, EN-
bracing AGRICULTURE, the VI E.
CHANIC ARTS, Commerce and Navi.
CATION"
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ACCOM- LIE REFUTED.

The cuons declare that we have always
advocated the doctrine that, our port.
were to be thrown open to all the world
while the ports Of all The world were TO BE-
shut against u.s. What Lie!
Tire Age April 81, 1913, contlins the
following:
Free TRkDE.-We find the coon pa
pers full Of misrepresentation of the doc.
trincs of Free Trade. The Albany coon
Journal says Of several Democratic papers:
-Four Of them go the whole for Free
Trade in our ports, though Foreign ma.
tons should shut our products out OF
theirs"
This is downright, Misrepresentation
No, single democratic paper has ever
advocated such nonsense. TIE assertion
of the Journal bears alsehood upon its
face. And yet, silly as it is, it is what one
half Of the people Of goodly Vernon, sup.
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"Gen. VIM. McCalla of Lexington Ky.
under date Of May 24,h. 1914, says that
Clay played and ,ron between one and two
hundred dolIars"-in another paragraph
"Mr Clays phOle history in this country
is so mixed up with his habits at the card
table that conversation about him, is al
most invariably inlermixed with the sport
ing anecdotes of his life" Gen. Mes let.
ter corresponding exactly with Mr. SHADES
paper 90 or 30 years ago
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WOOL should have brought go

therefore wool should have brought 60
cents pound aspromised by the election
eering capitalist in the political campaign
of 1910. The farmer is feeced OF his wool
at a low price-hs oats are worth a.
his corn 50-his hay $500 with us
whilst at the " est corn is IL, oats IL, and
-four $500. The high tariff as asserted
by Mr. Webster, making low prices among
the farmers. The consumers are inflicted
with the taxes-and the country has topay
so millions more for the articles of cloth
ing, introduced in our country the past IL
months, than would have been paid under
moderate tariff, besides the loss by lower
ing the price OF the farmers produce. But
says the politician and pro.eclions', things
cannot be kept equal'-change must be the
order OF the day-monopolsls must be sus-
tanned for monopoly is the life Of society.
There could be no advantage in the levy
of duties beyond revenue. if those who
levy them reap no advantage. It's not de-
MED but what duties are imposed upon the
great majority for the benefit OF the few
to enable them to add to their wealth,
and speculation would be restricted II the
multitude could not be kept quiet by ora
tors and lawyers who procure the passage
of acts which if duly reflected upon would
soon be expunged from the Statutes OF the
Union But that will never be dore till
the farmer and mechanic and other multi
plicial interests affected by the heavy bur-
dens imposed by lordly taskmasters, shall
awake from their stupidity, and become the
law.givcrs ofthe land.
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owe also recolect tina, in many sections
of the country. the nomination of Mr. Tyler
as Vice President was considered
indicative of the opposition ofthe wings
to the question of a United States Bank
as a test of political orthodoxy. "-Boston
Courier Aug. % ls44.
Then why call the President Traitor
to the Wing party! President Tyler sign
ed every other act the wing Congress
passed. The wings then mus, be set down
as Traitors to the President, or that they
have voted in ignorance of their own posi-
ton and that Of the President. 1t was
the democracy of John Tyler that gave
the wings their power in ls4O-and wings
in gratitude IN lS44 will reinsta'e the
democracy in power by the election Of
James X. Polk President Of the United
States.
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"Thc doctrine that duties OF import
cheaper the price of the articles upon
which they are levied, seems to conflict
with the FIRST duties of common SENSE
The duty constitutes a part OF the price
of the hoe mass Of the article IN the
markr, as well upon the domestic as the
foreign article"
We give the above as the result Of the
views OF John Quincy Adams upon a sub.
lcct that has engrossed public attention,
and will so long as overgrown capitalists
can aid their political advancement in
Ievying taAes upon the people of the Uni
ted States beyond revenue duty, under
the prerext ola protection to manufactures.
That taxes are levied upon the necessaries
Of life 100 per cent heyondthe revenue duty
by the high tariff Of 1912, need not now
be questioned, nor need we enquire to
whom we are indebted for that act. Are
the people taxed in articles Of daily con-
sumption in common life for the benefit
of corporations which sway the des-
tiny of free people! When the tar
| iff was created by Congress the English
manufacturer saw the advance in price
of the domestic goods in the United States
saw that the tariff was not prohlbltory,
but merely protective therefore he could,
as the duty would raise the price of the
domestic article as well as the foreign,
send his goods with profit to our markets
and get more money than he would, had
Congress but raised moderate duty, and
at the same time be giving a bonus to his
agents the merchants who would retail his
cloth by way Of commission not only upon
the clothes but upon the United States
duties rs the duties constitute a part Of
The price ofihe home and foreign goods
Our country is being flooded with British
goods-The United States Treasury filled
to overlooking with cash from duiics-do-
nestle cloth high as well as the ioreign-
the currency inflated TO such degree
that the foreigner, as in 1886 is selling
his goods on a credit Of six months, that
he may get bigger price for his goods
and get them on to the country before the
people are awakened to the condition of
things. In this day apparent prosperity to
the producer Of The raw material and the
tonished at the stupidity Of the farming
interest around US. Wool rises in England
80 per cent as was readily foreseen it
would, as the tariff was such one as
wooldra the price Of all kinds goods
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LETTER FROM MR. VAN buren,.

The Nashville Union publishes the re-
ply of Mr. Van Buren, to the invitation OF
the Tennessee Democratic State Com
miltee, to attend the great mass meeting
held at Nashville, on the 18th inst. The
letter fully sustains the distinguished wri-
ter's high reputation as wise and patriot
ic statesman, and pure.hear;ed democrat
II speaks in the most cordial terms Of the
democratic candidates for The Presidency
and Vice Presidency, referring to them as
"our candidates" aud contains the follow.
ing cheering view Of the prospects Of the
democratic party:
"The democracy Of the nation, though
Thoroughly United. were signally over.
thrown, and many al honest mind contrast
ing the means employed with the result
produced. was for the moment led to doubt
the capacity Of our people for self.govern-
meni. On my own mind no such impress.
ion obtained even temporary foo'hnld -
I was, Oh the contrary. well satisfied that as
soon as the disconienis which had been
enjendered by lonp-continued and ar:fulfy
conirived agitation had been allowed time
tn subside, and when our adversaries
should be compelled 10 advance from
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"But when say that, and nobody COM
plains of it but every body says is right,
Ito protect the carrying and coasting
trade of the United States) and should
be so when we come to the government
and ask them to protect the hat-makcr,
or boot-maker, or worker in brass, and
all the various mechanic art of the coun-
try, OR THE MAN WHO MAKES CLOTH on A
LARGER SCALE, then is raised the outcry
of Free Trade, and down with protec-
ton.
You are right Daniel in your speech
to the Albanians-When Congress pass
law to benefit the man who makes
cloth on larger scalc-up starts the
free trader and says he won't be taxed
except for the support of his government,
he will nulliy all laws which go to pro-
tcct the large manufactures for he wants
the small manufacturer protected as we'll
as the large-hc wants to see the small
streams and small country villages dot
ted with factories which shall work up
the wool and consume articles of home
growth in the immediate vicinity of cloth
mills, and rather than protect the manu-
iacturcr on large scale he would resort
to the common household, and there after
calling back the girls who stray to the
great factories, he would manufacture
with machinery all the wool grown in
Vermont, and export the cloth to the
west. In this way he would rid himself
of British power and of statesmen in Brit
ish interests. He would no longer be
told by the British NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
or Jonathan stand back-John Bull can
supply to China all the goods China can
pay for, and as Congress makes tariff
to benefit the man who makes cloth on a
large scale to raise the price of his goods
in the United States, the people, the ag-
riculturists, in those states shall be sup
piled with British goods and get rich as
fast as the manufacturer who makes
cloth on a larger scale.
The free trade man says tax the peo-
plc-burdcn them only with duties that
shall raise revenue to meet the wants
of the government-but levy those du-
ties so as to protect all the interests of
our great republic. But when the cry
comes from cities, from exchanges, from
monopolists who ave been enriched by
acts legislating for the benefit Of the man
who manufactures cloth on larger scale,
it may be expected that the nation will a.
rise almost as one man and claim equal
laws, that equal and exact justice be done
to all, the rich and the poor, the power
full and the humble. Mr. Webster may
wear his little Clay medal tied to his
breast with ribbon, at Albany, or sport
at Portsmouth, when member Congress
from New Hampshire, tied to his breast
with ribbon, a picture of Washington,
the father of his people, when as now he
was the advocate of British monopolists,
he can never make democrats believe
that special acts should be passed lin ia
vor of the man who makes cloth on larger
scale, not for the general welfare.
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SlLAS WRIGHT AND THE TARIFF.
The Hon SiIas Wright, of New York

The Hon Silas Wright, Of New York,
in the course Of one of his recent speeches
on the subject of the tariff, spoke as follows:
ale said it was subjec, OF vast impor-
lance, and that IN whatever light it was
viewed, il was system Of government
taxation. This taxation, on some accounts,
ought to be popular, aud he was glad that
II was popular among the people. He was
not in favor ola horizontal tariff, but
wished every branch OF industry projected
~ proportion Ia its wants-saId the present
tariff was defective in some poinis, though
he APPROVED OF IT G GENERALLY.
He alluded to the wooI-grower-said
that he ras not enough protected. The du-
ty on coarse wool was not high enough. 1t
was folly to say that foreign wool at cents
and under did not come in competition
with wool grown by our farmers. Heinz
Wrghl)saw in Vermont lately a factory
for the making Of Salinet, in which ,hi.
kind Of wool was used to the tnfire srels.
sion of that grown IN that neighborhood.
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ore the people. With this view we have

fore the people. With this view we have
collated the public declarations of each,
and we present them below, that every
reader may compare them for himself,
and make up his judgment, with candor
and fairness. Let the facts speak for
themselves.
1t will be seen that Mr. Clay's positions
are, in the most emphatic manner, Ta-
riff for Revenue, ,riih incidental protection.
sDFThis is his Southern face. If the
Evening Journal and his high tariff friends
ut the North, assume other grounds, it is
in the teeth of the avowals of their candi-
date, in all declarations for the Southern
market, and in contradiction Of his avow-
ais, repeatedly made since 1910, that he
is opposed to a Tariff for PrOtecliOn.-
Again we say, let the facts speak for
themselves.
Mr. Polk stands upon the broad Ameri-
can ground-lNclDENTAL EQUAL PRoTEc-
TON, through a Reuenue Tariff Of all the
great interests Of Labor and Industry
Manufactures, agriculture, the Mechanic
.arts and Commerce. Who will contend
that this is not the true ground Oh which
a statesman looking to the true welfare
of the country, ought to stand'-Ab. mr.
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JAMES X. POLK.
Reasons rhy he should be supported b

Reasons mhy he should be supported by
the friends ofiaw, order and morality.
He is a man Of irreproachable moral
character, and contrasts in that respect
with the wing candidate.
He is not loaded down with the guilt OF
murder, medita,ed or accomplished like
The whig candidate.
No widow aud orphans weep the loss of
husband and father. slain under his coun.
sels as in the case Of Cilley aud the wing
candidate.
| The gambling table has not seeu him
robbing his infatuated or half intoxicated
fellow man Of his money or property as
has the whig candidate.
The brolhel has never resounded with
thenoise Of his prohgale mirlh and obscene,
jest, as the case Of the wing candidate.
lie is not chargeable with the crime of
violating the constitution and his oath by
setting in a legislative body, with a perfec,
consciousness that he had not the constitu.
tional qualifications, as did The wing candl.
date IN the Senate of the United States.
He has not violated constitutions and
oath of Office, by attempting to kill mem.
hers of legislative bodies for words spok en-
in debale-as in the case of II. Marshall
and John Randolph, and the wing candi.
date.
He has not been the first to provoke The
violation of law to suppress duellng vo-
ted for by himself, like the wing candidate.
He has not like Henry Clay, been put
urder bonds to prevent his headlong pas.
sons rushing him into the Pen,entiary un-
der law passed with the aid of his own
vote.
lie has no, like Henry Clay, abused
the frontier settlers as "a lawless rdbble' no
better than thieves, pirates aud robbers,
denying them the privilege Of buying vii
derness lands. which they have by hard
work made to blossom 'as the rose, while
willing to aid proAigate debtors in wiping
out all their debts by Bankrup, law.
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PUT IT TO EN- BOYS,
POLK AND CLAY ON PROTECTION
TO
rAGRICUL TUREaE,s

Ill !
Polk ii before The people
That Henry Clay SAID in his speech on
protection to home industry, in Greedy and
Nc Elra,h's life and speeches of Clay, page
l55, vol. |,
AGRICULTURE wants but lit
tie or NO Protection against
the regulations of foreign
powers.
And that in his letter to Messrs Cam
eron g. Fall, publishers of'he Tenn Ag.
riculturalist, dated Ashland, Aug. ls43,
repubished in the N. Y. Tribune, Aug. 20,
1914, he says:
Owing to the peculiar position Of the
Uniled States. agriculture requires but
title protection, and THAT confined to a
fcw branches of it.
And, that on the 18th Of April, 1912, a
little over TWO YEARS ago, only,-in his
reply to letter from the wing members Of
the New York Legislature, he said
Agriculture requires but little protec.
ton, because its position secures it a
galnst much foreign competitions; or RATH.
Err PROTECTION TO COMMERCE
aud MANUFACTURES is the BES |
FORM of affordng PROTECTION to agrl'
culture.
James X. Polk said in 1912.
"lf by "giving protection 10 home industry
YOU mean to assert The distinct principle that d
Tariff is 10 be laid solely, or in any extent, not o
revenue, but for the protection Of capitalists wht
have made their investments in manufacturing es
Establishments, so us to compel the consumers o.
,heil articles, the AGRlCuLTURlSIS and ME-
CHANCES, persons employed N commerce ant
in all other pursuits, to pay higher prices for them
then say am opposed 10 such principle ant
10 any tariff which recognizes it,
And June 10, lS44, he says:
"IIoME INDUSTRY" bya JUST legislation
should be made 10 embrace the industry en-
ployed in AGRICULTURE, in the MECHANIC
ARTS, in commerce, and all other pursuits, N
well rs the industry employed IN manufactures.
at is the duty of Government to extend
FAIR and JUST PROTECTION to ALL
the great interests OF the WHOLE Union
EMBRACING AGRICULTURE, Manu-
jacturcs, the mechanic arts, Commerce, ant
Navigation"
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On Friday morning, the 10Th inst. JOHN SwEENY
The friends and acquaintance oil the family and that Of
his brothers. Daniel and Ephram respectfully invited
to attend his funeral this day. Sunday the 2lst ns at
o'clock, from his late residence No l4 Fulton street
Yesterday the 10th inst of Scarlet Fever ALICE, daugh.
ter of r. M. Jimsey, aged years and months.
The friends OF the family invited TO attend her ne
raj from the residence Of her father No7 st Marks Place.
this afternoon at o'clock.
On Saturday morning, the goth nst Captain JOHN CAS-.
SON. of the 9th Regiment National Cadets of Consumption
in the Seth year oil his age.
The friends acquaintance officers and members of the
regiment, the Old Company Citizen Volunteers, re-
spectuly invited to attend his funeral this day. Sunday
at o'clock p from his late residence, 900 Blocker
street
Contamination on the Lungs, MATHEW, OF Patrick
Brennan aged 81 years, ii months and days.
The friends OF the family and those of his father and bro
Their nlaw Felix Qun, respectfully invited attend
the funeral this Sunday, afternoon at O'Clock, from
ais fathers residence 253 Stanton Of Sheriff street.
At Brooklyn, on Friday night, the 10Th inst, Captain
ALFRED s. CONES, in the 3lst year of his age
The friends and acquantances Of the family and also
he has been commandment respectfully invited to at
tend his funeral SUNDAY afternoon, at o'clock from
his late residence, Henry and Cranberry Streets
Brooklyn.
On Saturday, the Goth inst ELIZA A. daughter of John
and Rachael McGovern, aged years and months
At Oswego, on Sunday morning ldth instant, WILLIAM
FLOYD PLATT, apartner in the house Of John Stewart jr
s. Co New York.