The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-22
W A S HIN GTO N.
THURSDAY EVENING, AUG. %, 1874.
POLK AND TYLER-HARMONIOUS
PRINCIPLES.

"a POLK AND TYLER-HARMONIO
PRINCIPLES.
The Washington Spectator, an ultra Free
Trade Polk Journal, published in this city. pro-
fesses the most unbounded JOY at the withdrawal
of Mr.. Tyler, aud says, we throw open TO MIR.
TYLER and his friends the doors of the Party TEN.
pie as wide as the whole Union"
The Richmond Enquirer, another free trade
paper, before hearing Of the Presidents with
drawal, in an article written with view to per-
suade him to that step. says: safer acknowledging
the many and eignal services which had been
rendered by President Tyler to the democracy,
we appealed to him and his friends to unite with
their Republican brethren, assuring them that
they would be received by the friends of Polk and
Dallas with cordiality, confidence, and joy'" Ii
another place Mr.. Richie says sit is the ardent
wish of the Republican party that Mr.. Tyler and
his friends should cooperate with us as brethren
and equals" The Enquirer, in the same article,
says: The Nashville Union, speaking, no doubt,
the views Of all our friends in Tennessee, quotes
our article lin relation to Tyler) and most able
editorial of the Boston Post, endorsing our state.
ments, and says, in regard to both We partici-
pate in their noble sentiments-we profess equal
good fellowship with ALL who go for our common
principles
Now let US ask what these common principles
are. The Spectator, which is at once the organ
of Polk and of Calhoun, is the advocate for the
most ultra free trade, and would prefer to see the
Union dissolved than submit to the present tariff.
And yet it will "open wide the portals of the
Democratic Temple to Mr.. Tyler" who signed
aud approves the " tariff as it is.'
The Richmond Enquirer and the Nashville
Union, though not the advocates, perhaps, of Null
LITIGATION, are equally clamorous in their oppos-
ton to the existing tariff, and yet they are will
ling to take into strict fellowship cas- equals
the very man who signed that law" We have
repeatedly exposed the gross inconsistency Of
the Pennsylvania Locofocos in supporting Polk,
who thought the Compromise Act too high; and
we have heretofore demonstrated the futilily of
Southern men looking to such allies for assistance
in repeating the tariff. So far from Pennsyl-
wanna Locofocos desiring TO repeal or lo,ocr the
present Tariff duties, they actually assail the
Wings because those duties were not made higher
repeal the tariff at the late session of Congress
but with what effect! The House Of Rerresen-
tatives, with Locofoce majority of two-thirds,
refused, by vote of ten to interfere with the ex-
listing tariff. 1t is now proclaimed all through
the South by the organs Of the Free Trade and
Modification party, that they are willing to re-
ceve, with open arms, the author of the tariff,
the man who could have prevented its passage by
merely refusing to put his name to the bill-a
man, too, who interposes the veto to thwart the
will Of the people with az little ceremony as he
would kick dog out of his path. But Tyler
never pretended to be opposed to the tarifF-on
the contrary, his organ, the Madisonian, has re-
Gently declared that the President will sustain the
tariff as it is"
When the editor of the Nashville Union talks
about receiving into fellowship "all who support
our common principles" he must, of course,
make an exception in the case of the tariff.
What, then. are the points of agreement be-
tween the parties 10 the coalition Is it the
exchequer scheme of a Government bank Are
the cub treasury and the exchequer to be anal.
gamatedi That is the idea. doubtless. The
public money is to be taken from the safe depo.
STORY of banks, and placed in the hands of indi-
vduals to be appointed and removed at the will
OF the Presden',-tbat is TO say, It is to be put in
the keeping of the Presidents creatures; and
these creatures Of The President are 10 be invest.
ed with all the powers of bankers. Who we
ask, will be likely TO fare best at the counters OF
these sub-treasury banks the officers of which
will all be renewable at the will of the Pres-
dent! IL it needful to answer the question
Can not man with half an eye see that the
Presidents friends will be the recipients Of his
fayors At the bank boards? The best men in the