Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-03-13
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The Inaugural Address of President Polk viii
be found in our columns this week, to which we
invite the attention Of readers. Our readers
viii form their own opinions about this Address,
and we therefore do not propose to make great
many comments upon il. The Address sets forth
a number Of political maxfHs and truisms TO which
the general assent Of all parties will be given, and
though there is nothing in them, still they are
very appropriately introduced by the President
and pressed on the minds of the people with be-
coming and patriotic earnes,ness. As long as the
Address deals in generalities ii is well eneagh,
and perhaps j, policy in Mr.. Polk to occupy
as much Of his time possible in that way hemm-
mocracyD las one Of bis own organs styles them)
and it beirg impossible to please all.
/ We think from this Address. the President
would like to make his administration one Of mod
Grafton, and seeks to administer the affairs Of
Government for the general good. We hope he
may succeed--bu, we do not how he is to ac-
complish IL, as the very coufse by which be seeks
70 accomplish his ends is to drive him upon
the stormy pillows of political strife at once-as
We find HE Southern friends attacking in advance
his views upon the Tariff, and they viii be sstish-
ed with pothing short OF the standard Of the Com
promise Act" TO which it is evident be does not
wish to resort exactly TO for fear OF calling down
upon bis head the whole opposition Of Pennsylva-
ment of Pennsylvania to the Tariff Act' of 1912,
and he fears any material disturbance Of that act,
may prove disastrous TO bis futsre prospects and
success in the Administration Of G5vernmeni.-
So tina, here be is between two fires in his own
camp, and let him run too far either way and hs
burns himself to a certainty, while If he attempts
to stand between the two he ofends both and con-
seauently be ia left in such an uncomfortable posi-
tion that he is glad TO get off for the present as
well as he can even though he should escape be-
bind little common place metaphysics about cob
iects and incidents" and determinations within
the revenue priRciple,' &c, which may mean any
thing as occasion may hereafter require. No
Wing who opposed Mr.. Polk's election conscien-
liossly and from principle be satisfied with his
views upon the Tariff. as they had the same lights
before them during the canvass in bis letter to Mr.
Kane that they now have. We are opposed to
any reduction Of the present Tst destructive TO
the best interests of the country, and believe is
founded on just, equitable expedient and Constitu-
tional grounds, and is epphatically Teeenne
Tariff Nth iHcideRtoi protection, and has de-
mon.trated its capability for both in the present
a IS al Traa md
the improved and improving condition of all
branches of our national industry Mr.. Polk in
bis argument about high and iotc duties is evident
" driving at the tariff act Of 1912, and has his
mind clogged with the same bright and weighty
argument, with which we often entertained
during the last summer by his friends-'the poor
mas's log chain We thought that part of the
Addres. rather 100 demagogtcai for the dgni6ed
oifi.e of President Not word about the Public
Lands-perhaps the Democratic principles on
that question not yet determined.
And "strange," that beautiful doctrine of the
zone term principle always preached by Gen.
Jackson and Col. Polk ont of Office, is not adyerted
to once and perhaps will not be again unth some of
unwilling memory.
The Bank of the United States il is true gets
passing blowout not word about the Sub.Trea-
sury-is that too heavy milestone to swing around
the reck of the new Observation-Disclosures is it too
much of mixture of the Northern and Southern
allies of Democracy Van Buren, and Caihoua7
The Veto-that only sweet and savory Vestige
of monarchy left in our Constitution is a partlcu
lar favorte with the new Plesident-the club
of j ackson, and the "Pandora's bor" of Tylersim.
A strict constraetionist too, and yet in extacies
over the passage of the "Ioint Resolution" annex
ing Texas to this Union.
The new Democrat creed then as far as the
ne~ position is dcfned, is-no Bank of the United
Ststes-a Tariff if possible to please oil PARTIES
Oregon and Texas-the Heto--and a strict Cow
strxction of the Constitution when it suits the
purpose, and not so s,rict when Il dent. Well we
will see how the new machine will work.