The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-10-30

Down with the Tariff, is the universal cry of
those now advocating the cause of Polk,
Dallas, Texas and Wright. Thus saith the
Union:
"We wish it borne in mind, that the op.
pressive Tariff of S42 has been CO nden
ned by every true Democrat, and by none
more decidedly than by Mr.. Van Buren,
That its provisions are yie,ced Nth ABB
HORRENCE by Coz. Polk, and all his
friends, we need not repeat"
The Washington Correspondent of the
Journal of Commerce, leading free
Trade paper Of this city, writing from
Washington, says
"HE (MR. POLK Is FOR FREE
TRADE; he is for Ieras he is hostile to
distribution. 1t will be easy TO make iss-
ue with him on all these questions"
The New York Plebian, a Locofoco
paper, on this subject says:
"The language of Mr.. Richie is an i'll
dex of the feeling ofthe South, which is
nearly unanimous in favor of James X
Polk, Texas, Oregon, and opposed to a
Bank and the PROTECTIVE FEA-
TURE of the Tariff"
The Charleston Mercury, the leading
Modification paper of South Carolina, an
official organ OF John c. Calhoun, speaks
as follows of James X. Folks nomination
for President
"Mr. Folks views on the Tariff, the
Bank, and the all-absorbing question of
Texas, are SOUTHERN TO THE
BACK BONE"
Then we have the proceedings of a
meeting at Edgefeld, S. c. at which the
Hon. F. W. Pickens made speech, and
at which several resolutions were passed,
among which are the following:
"Resolred, That the Tariff act of 1912
is liable to all the objections we have
heretofore made to the constitutionality
and expedience of the measures of the
Federal Government for the protection o {
domestic manufactures, with the aggrava-
ton that it was a gross breach ofthe faith
plighted to US i'll the Compromise of Is
30 and that we regard the time and meas
ure of our resistance to this act, as mat
tiers TO be settled upon our own views of
expediency, is no rise to be hindered by
our SUPPOSED allegiance TO the Federal
GoUerRmcHt
The following recent letter from the
Hon. L. E. Holmes, Locofoco Member of
Congress, from s. Carolina, is taken from
the Charleston Mercury, of July 81, 1874,
in which paper it was published, by the
gentlemen to whom il was addressed:
CHARLESTON, July -, 1874.
GENTLEMEN:-Iha have Just received
your letter, in which two queries are dis
tinctly put, and as distinctly will 1 reply.
LIST. | am in favor of the election of
Mr.. Polk and Mr.. Dallas, and am decided
ly of opinion that South Carolina ought to
vote for them.
I'd. | have no doubt of Mr.. Folks sin
certify, when he declared his opposition to
the entire system of protection, and ife-
lected, he will endeavor to subvert it.
Having answered your questions, l
might here stop, but l may be permitted
to express my surprise, that any doubt
should have existed ofmy wishing success
to the Enumeration candidate" as | deem
the incorporation of Texas into this IN
ion as VITAL, and the only hope now en-
terrain of adding that great and valuable
Territory to our confederate empire, is
through the success of the democratic
party.
| remain gentlemen with great
respect, your obedient servant,
l. E. Holmes"
AT public dinner, given to Mr.. Pickens,
the Congressional Leader of MIR. Folks
friends in Congress, the following toast was
drank:
James X. Polk and George NJ. Dallas
identified as they are with the great public
questions at issue, South Carolina will give
them her cordial aud united support"
A few days before the adjournment of the
Senate, Mr.. Tappan, of Ohio, proposed
resolution declaring,
THAT THE DUTIES IMPOSED,BY
EXISTING LAWS, on IMPORTA-
TIONS ARE UNJUST, AND OUGHT
TO BE REDUCED"
Hc NucSuOu
was rejected by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Atkinson, Bagby,
Benton, Breese, Fairfield, Fulton, Ianne-
gan, Haywood, Huger, Lewis, McDufie,
Niles, Semple, Sewer, Tappan, Woodbury.,
Wright-18.
Nays-Messrs, Archer, Barrow, Bates,
Bayard, Buchanan, Choate Clayton, Critten-
den, Dayton, Evans, Francis, Henderson,
Huntington, Jarnagin. Mangum, Merrick,
Miller, Morehead, Porter, Rives, Simmons,
Sturgeon, Tallmadge, White, Woodbridge
-25.
Affirmative Is, all Loco Focos.-Nega-
tive 25, viz. % Wings and Locos.
Every Wing voted to preserve the present
Tariff. Every Locofoco Except twol in
Guiding Silas Wright, voted, that the duties
imposed by the present Tariff, ''were I'M
just and ought to be reduced"
1t is plainly seen from the
foregoing, that MIR. POLK and
HIS PARTY are DEADLY HOS
TILE to a PROTECTIVE TAR
IFF.
Such is the position occupied by James
II r.