The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-07-04
JAMES X. POLK, AND A NATIONAL BANK.
JAMES X. POLK ON THE TARIFF.

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!, worth, dated Phiiaieiphd, June g, 1874.
JAMES X. POLK ON THE TARIFF.
During the progress of the animated car
vass in Tennessee last summer, a numbe
of citizens of Memphis united in putin
to the rival candidates series of question
on the leading topics of the day. Anon,
them we're these;
"5th, Are you in favor of Tariff or di
rect Taxes for the support Of the Genera
Government"
18th, If Tariff, do you approve o
such Tariff as would give protection t.
home industry against foreign Industry"
Mr. Polk replied that he was favorable tc
a Rcccnre Tariff, and proceeded to dea
out string of the usual Free Trade as
symptoms and imputations, manilestng {
gross ignorance Of the purpose and etfecI
of Protection, or settled desi On to mis-
represent them-in short, Just such de-
formed perverted view ofthe Tariff question
as any an,i-Protective zealot would make
He closes as follows:
81 an oppoScd to The
Tariff act Of the late Congress, consider,
ing it to be in many respects of this char
acter-and, indeed so highly protective
upon some articles as to prohibit their i'm
portation into the country altogether. /
am in faror ofrepcaling hat AT, anil re-
storing the Compromise Irif act of
March End, 1s43, believing as do, that it
would produce more revenue than the pres
ent law and that tho INCIDENTAL protection
afforded by the 90 per cent duty es-
peclnlly when this would be paid in cash,
and on the home valuation, will afford
sufficient protection to the Manufacturers,
and all that they ought TO desire, or to
which they are entitled
Such laborers of the United States! are
the views of James X. Polk, as carefully
drawn ont by himself, and repubished in
the Nashville Union of Jan. 18th, 1s4l.-|
you are hostile to the protection OF our
home Industry, you ought to approve them
and support him, But if you, Weavers,
Shoemakers, Hatlcrs, TaiIors, &c, &c,
do not believe that twenty per cent advance
on the wages paid to your iellow-work.
men in that Foreign Country where labor
is lowest is sufficient iol you, how CAN you
vote for James X. Polkl Look the qnes-
ton fairly in the face-think OF the COM
fort of your families, the bread Of your
and vote for yourselves!
". Y. Tribune
Here is something very horrid! Will
you, my good sir, into whose hands this
may fall have the kindness to read over The
1rlicle We have extracted from the Tribune,
and make up your mind with what horrible
hing Gov. Polk is charged. You find he
IS charged with having supported the Com
promise Act-that is the head and front of
MS offending. Now, who that does not
lnow to what miserable tricks the coons
will stoop in order to carry their ends,
md how assimilation, falsehood and mis-.
are the meats upon which
hey feed, who that do does not know all
this, would imagine Henry 'Cioy brought
for~ard and supported and supports to tins
tag this rcry Compromise AcR Let US see
now this is:
eff the compromise be invioably maintained
IS, iLJel THINK 1T OUGHT TO BE" III Clan
1t Buffalo, '39.
81 AM FOR ABIDING BY THE PRINCIPLES
oF THE COMPROMISE ACT."-H Clay, in
Senate, March 1912,
"lnfluenced by desire TO avert the coming
LANCER, and anxious TO perpetuate the Union and
1--WE peace to a distracted country, | brought for
ward the compromise act, and aided IN its pas
sage. IN MY SUBSEQUENT LIFE I HAVE
ADHERED TO IT'S PROVISIONS, and SHALL
DO so IN FUTURE."-Ciay's recent speech al
Georgia.
We suppose these extracts will be
leemed sufficient, by any reasonable man.
Now, while the Tribune endeavors to ex-
lite prejudice against Gov. Polk for sup.
porting the Compromises Act, that paper
tudiously keeps out of sight the fact that
clay was the father Of that very bill, and
hat to this very day he declares that its
provisions ought to be maintained What
ort Of dealing do you call this! The Tri.
rune pre,ends to be very nice and candid
does this look like! 1t not
'nly looks like, but it is downright and
vilful deception.
But the Tribune is Mortified because
Jol. Polk thought, once, that The incidental
protection afforded by the twenty per cent
Iuty would be sufficient. Now, what were
he provisions of the Compromise Act, of
which Clay was the earthly parent, and
,boso inviolabilitv he maintains so stron