The North-Carolina standard., 1844-09-18
4 leading federal paper IN North Carolina
in favOr Of reducing the Tariff
The last Fayetteville Observer has the follow

/ ing:
awe are for no undue protective policy. We
want to the debt of the nation paid Oh, and the
Tariff reduced. Government should take no more
bap is really wanting to carry her operations IN
an economical but not mean or pa!slmonious way.
Every mans money Is better IN his own pocket
han in the Golfers Of the government except so
much as government ought TO have. We are for
building up no one anterest to the ruia Of any oth
or Haws, says the Constitution, shall be equal;
and so they should be as far il is practicable SO
10 have them enacted"
Very well and very fairly spoken The Edi-
or talks Just as he did when he supported Gener
81 Jackson and Judge Barbour. Will he stand to
the aboYe2 But what says Mr. Clay, the leader
and idol of the Observer2 In his last letter on
the Tariff; dated "Blue Licks, August o. 1s44,"i
he says: s
aEverywhere the preservation of the tariff of
fs42 which has worked so well, and is delivering
US from embarrassments,i is loudly demanded.
"The circumstances which led to, attended
the enactment of the compromise, may be curious
and interesting as matters of history; but, in
spect to the poiicyof protection, the great, practi
cal absorbing question is, shall the tariff of 1912
be preserved or repealed2 That question is to be
solved in November next. l have repeatedly ex-
pressed my opinion unequivocally in favor Of it."
There it is in plain language. The Editor of
the Fayetteville Observer says; j" we want to see
the debt of the nation paid off and tie tariff re-
dueed; !" but Mr.. Clay says, "IAaUe repeatedly
expressed ny opinion wnequivOcUIly IN faUOr off,
PRESERVING "the tariff of 1912, which has work
ed so we'll" We agree with the Observers to
portion of his wants" We say, with him,
that the present tariff is too high; that we are op-
posed to building up one interest to the ruin of
another; that government should "take no more
than is actually wanting to carry on her opera
tons in an economical but not a mean or paIs-
monious way" and hat the present tariff, which
Yields TWENTY MILLIONS more than the
government requires, ought to be reduced, and
that at the next session of Congress, because the
public debt will not all be due in ten years to come
and there is no reason why we should lay up
money to meet that debt.
The people in all sections demand a reduction
of their taxes. " That question" or demand, says
MIR. Clay, els to be soLued IN November nezt "
So far as he is concerned, 1--WE make the assertion
upon has authority, and challenge contradictory
he is in favor of preserving the tariff of l842,
and thus keeping up and making permanent the
taxes of the people Do the people of North
Carolina desire, for any purpose, to pay more
moneys W SOtSIHIlCut ILlou
wants2 Do they lOUs to pay taxes? Do they
feel most happy and prosperous when their pock-
cts are empty, and when they are consoled with
the glorious certainty that what they have paid
away will go to pamper the fat ofice-holder or
build up one interest upon the ruins of another !?
Is this the patriotism of the federal party of North
Carolina2 Or is that they say, let as support
he; IN f,u
high taxes-but we have easted him in our City,
and pledged our faith to him, and therefore mast
vote for him2 Such talk may do very well for
tho leaders, but will it suit the people? Does it
even suit the Fayetteville Observer
North Carolina-we again proclaim it in the
face of the world-has atsO0ys opposed high pro-
tecHve tariffs. Whilst she has ever been willing
to support such tariff, adjusted on revenue prin-
cples, would raise sufficient money to conduct
the government in plain and economical way,
she has lifted her voice, as well in her LegisIa-
lures and primary assemblies as in the halls of
Congress, against every high tariff which has
been fastened upon the country by Mr.. Clay and
the party leaders who support him. And now
what is she called upon to do2 To assist Mr..
Clay in preserOang tariff which taxes the salt in
the poor mans meat which cleaves to his scanty1
supply ofiron, and makes him pay double price
for it; which taxes the hat upon his head, the
shoes upon his feet and the coat upon his back !;
which tells him that he shall neither buy where
he can at the lODest prices, nor sell where he can
at the highest but tha: he shall purchase northern
articles, and sell to northern people; which follows
him from childhood to manhood, and from man..
hood to old age, taxing, as Senator Mangum said
in 1882, the nails of his coffin, and demanding a
tribute for the spade that covers him in death and
which adds to injustice the enormous oppression of
demanding tsOe~ty millions of dollars per annum
more than is needed to carry on the government /.
And wherefore are the peoplesof North Carolina
called upon to support this taFif2 Because Hen
ry Clay supports 1t. That is the answer, and we
throw it in the teeth Of the federal leaders in North
Carolina. VII they do 1T? lie: them respond
at the polls m November. We are as willing as
Mr.. Henry Clay can be to abide the solution of
this question. Thrice have the people solved"
the question, shall Henry Clay be President
twice directly against him in person, and once
against his particular friend, MI. Adams-and the
indignant opposition of the people is fourth time
gathering itself up, like lion for its leap; and in
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