The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-17
Correspondence of the Boston Post.

nave the gratifying TACT 10 announce 10 your
readers, that arrangements now in progress in
this city, and will shortly be made public, which
will result IN the erectionfof an appropriate monu-
ment to the memory of the great and good Jackson
Mr. O'Snllivan, the able and enterprsing editor Of
the New York Morning News, has been spending
the last week among us, and has prosecuted this
noble project with a degree of industry and per-
severance worthy of all commentator. The
fruits of his abors already manifest in the
turity of plan, which the public will not fail to
carry forward to successful contamination.
"
Have you remarked the spasms Of the National
lntsigencer, whenever it refers to the interrogao-
ries propounded by Secretary Walker to manufac-
urers and others' The hostility of the central wing
organ TO the collection of such statistical Informal
ton may tend to elucdate the operations Of the
tariff of 1912, looks very much as if the lords of
the loom afraid to allow Congress and the peo-
pie to see how enormously the many taxed for
the benefit of the few. The questions all gnma,,s
to the subject, and those whom they are address,
ed should not hesitate to answer them with frank
ness and candor Similar information was elected
in the same way when Mr.. McLane stood at the
head of the Treasury Department, and ne one COM
planned that It was introducing system of unwar-
ranable espionage into the government. If the
manufacturers, it is affirmed, are realizing inn
mense fortunes under an act Of Congress, at the
sacrifice of other branches Of industry--if capital
has contrved 10 wiring from legislation undue adj
manages over fnO0r,-Wncre Is COQe OF
be sure, which would teach us that such law must
be regarded, like the ark Of the covenant, too
cred to be touched by profane hands,
That the present tariff act will be essentially mod
fled by the next Congress, SO as to approximate
more closely to the revenue standard, does not adj
nit of reasonable doubt. From every quarter of
the Union the voice Of dissatisfaction is heard; and
this overwhelming tide of public opinion il will be
difficult for representatives to resist am assured,
from the most reliable sources, that, even in good
old Pennsylvania, the reputed headquarters Of high
tarifism, marked change of public sentiment has
taken place. The disgraceful means employed by
the wing iron-masers in that State, during the late
presidential canvass, in coercing into the wing fold
hundreds and thousands of honest and hard-work-
ing aborers who had all their lives before been
sstent democrats, have SO filled the sterling yeo-
many Of that State with indignation, that they
would be quite willing to see the Ter taonis dealt
out pretty literally to their oppressors. But there
is, besides, abundant reason to apprehend that the
extraordinary prosperity Of the Pennsylvania "iron
masters" Ian expressive and wellchosen phrase, by
the way)is based slippery ground. The spirit
of competition has already been pushed to fearful
extent, and general revusion is, sooner or later,
inevitable II but the other day that of the
most extensive iron establishments in that State,
owned by the Messrs. Bayard, (brohers of the late
United States senator from Dclaware,) located with
in nine miles Of Harrisburg, on the main branch of
the State improvements, be,p out for want of the
only about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars! If
the much-vaunted tariff Of 1912 shall produce many
more such results, would not even the great Key
stone State be better off than at present. with her
furnaces and forges conducted on safe and stable
system, realizing proper and reasonable profits, but
stimulating no one TO rash and hazardous extremes,
Our city has been honored during the past week
by a visit from two distinct classes Of ''natves,"
each sporting the same soubriquei, but totally dis
similar in color, features, and habits. The con-
sisted Of depuation from tribe of Cherokee Indi
ans the other Of two members Of Congress regular
ly chosen by the enlightened aborigines Of New
York city. The Cherokee "natives" attracted
much larger share of attention than the Gotham
natives" from the fact that the former were con.
sidered highly respectable much lament that the
pious Levin, of Philadelphia, was not here to join
one or the other of these native attachments. He
would however, in all likelihood, have preferred the
red natives, as most congenial in mind, color, and
temper o.. q.