Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-21
TnE TARIFF r,7I.r- ar, .lr".J,.


THE TARlFF.-Om readers are already
aware that the oiii-ial organ of the Executive
has pronounced the existing Tariff Oppressive
upon the poor unequal ami exc ssive that The
tranquility of the administration" requires
is reduction, aud HAT in fact. the sooner il is
reduced the better for all And the principle
oi this reduction, il IS intimated. should be
that of mere Rercmc Tariff. We have al.
ready called attention to the significance Of
this promugation of Executive doctrine. in
connection with the peculiar aspect of our
foreign affairs. We have denounced it as a
sacrifice offered TO England by AN administra-
uon, either so conscious of It's own weakness
that tits araid to breast her anger, or so crate
ful for her tavors to 1.-The party" that it is
willing to purchase continuance of good will
But apart from our relations with Great
Britain, this declaration of war upon the Tar
i'll ought to bringa blush TO the cheek Of many
AN honest Democrat" and kimile a flame Of
indignation in the heart Of every true Amer
ican. WIZ not Democrats blush TO hear
this open confession of stupendous fraud
practised on the people of the Tariff States
it,
tonoma othars,) even at our own doors, every
organ oi the party, from James Buchanan
down to the penny whistles of the neighbor-
hood presses, proclIimad that Polk was in ia
Vor OF more Protective Tariff than CLAY
They charged the Wings with wilful slandsr.
they branded them for false alarmi,ts when
alcy asserted that Folk had been. his life long
anenemf OF the protective policy. But now.
when power has been secured by votes thus
begulled, the mask is thrown of, the dcccp-
ton is confessed, protection is denounced. /
But II the bushes of the bashful Democra-
cy were the only evils which threaten us pain
iul as that novel sight might be. il would be
endurble. But who shall loretell the distress
ana ruin that must follow the sudden aban-
donment OF the protective policy? Favored
b. that policy, the youthful energy and rich
resources OF our country have lust surmounted
aoch emDarassncntS, as the folly of rulers has
seldom bator, inflicted on a conflinr peonle
lhank ii 'avcn, that energy, and those rcsour-
ces' can again rise buoyantly under any disas
tcra which the wickcdnass of government can
inlet! Thcdcs;rlcton OF the protective pol
ICY, or any other act of this Administration.
cannot wholly ana finally ruin country like
ours. But tillsis 10 apology lur an executive
who sets out on crusade against ourprospcr
ity; who threatens to WELD all the powers of
tie government, and marshall all the mercen-
airy dependents OF his patronage to overthrow
a measure the most salutary, at the moment
when it has begun TO be most beneficial.
Notwithstanding the former sentiments Of
MI Polk, many have trusted in the declara-
tons OF his partizans, that, as President, he
would favor the protection of the industry of
this generous nation, which has so highly hon
ored him. Many believed that when his mind
was called TO preside over all this glorious
Union, it would expand with the grandeur of
It's task, and burst through those narrow pre-
JUDGES which see no country but the " South"
and no good for the South but in free trade
But scarcely had he established an organ.
through which 10 publish his intentions, when
mat organ prononces, without mincing and
without compromise, against the existing sys
TEN of protection.
Oppressive to the poor indeed The labor
ing poor who have once enioycd the rewards
of industry und,ra protective policy and who
no more than five years ago houselcsss and p,n-
hiieSs' led their wives and their little ones
forth from our manufacturing towns, ruined
by the reduction of the Tariff, and other like
measures of miaule--these laboriuc moor will {
httle thank MIR. Polk for sending them once !
more ona pilgrimage of beggary. The mouths I
which they daily feed by the wages earned in a
our workshops and manufactures. would not '
willingly exchange their daily bread for line c
oil mock sentiment, about the expressions Of
the poor, in journal fed by the dainty spoils
oi the treasury II the wages of the indus
trlous poor are TO b. taken from them. to hen.
eht the manufacturers of England. in the nam,
OF; Heaven let them not also be inyulted Win
hyPocritical pity.
The Tranquility Of he Administration q,
What phI1s. Tne business of the peopIs
shall be invaded; their commerce der5pged
Their currency drained; cirhopes blbhtcd
Their industry P3raysrd,: and al. To promote
the =" tranquility of the servants of the neo.
pic, When was il ever before hoard !, {
country blessed with the least spark Of liberty,
that measures affecting the vital interests orI $
inc nation might be sctup. or pulled down for !
the tranquility Of the rulers? Ii is DOGMA {
"' q" democracy air ady somewhat stale that $
tile people must take care of thensolyos and
mat ths Governm mt only takes care of itself e
b"t q" democracy has borrowed a still deeper
shade d desPoism, when it holds the prosner.
NY OF an entire country at lighter value thap
The tranquility Of tie Administration.
o. We have been shown splendid 10, a
OF goods advertised in another column nv 4 \,
M. ADAMS * Co. In choice. neat and bean.
THU selections Of gools his stock is NOT TO h,
beat anywhere. The rich anl gsy p,t,oro. l.