The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-09-29
ADDRE SS
Of the Wing State Convention to the EIec,
tors Of Massachusetts,.
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Massachusetts has uniformly decIared-and her
Wings in Convention assembled now again re-
peat the declaration-that if Texas is brought
into this Union under color and by force of the
Legislative action of Congress, she is brought in
by perverson of the powers and the prostra-
ton of the bulwarks of the Federal Constitution.
In this work, therefore, Massachusetts,, as
State-and her delegated power in the Congress
of the United States-can take no part and hold
no communion and if accomplished at all. it
must be accomplished by those whose sense of
constitutional duty and consistency of conduct
and principle, differ altogether from her own.
But Massachusetts makes no factious opposi-
ton to this or any other act of the general gov
eminent She has no sympathy with nulifica-
ton she passes no laws rendering appeals from
her own jurisdiction to the constitutional authori
ties OF the nation penal offence she holds not
with the modern commentators of constitutional
law, that every violation Of the Constitution is a
dissolution of the Union. The Wings of Massa-
chusetts, hold no such doctrine if such were
the true reading of the Constitution the national
government would never have emerged from the
lmbecility and arrangement of the Confederation.
where the father OF the Democracy desired to
place it, and would have been, in truth as well
as IN theory, government dependent on the will
OF the States alone for support.
but the national government has wisely pro-
vided tribunal, authorized to decide upon all
matters arising under the constitution and laws of
the United States
To this august tribunal-though recently de-
prived of the aid of her own distinguished son.
whose days have closed in equal honor to himself
and his country-Massachuset submits this. as
she submits all other questions of similar origin
and character, and will abide the result
The other great measure of the party in power
is the reduction of the tariff of 1912 to the s.rey-
enue standard" The decree, fellow citizens,
has already gone forth from the Treasury, and
the machinery is now in motion to accomplish
this great party measure
But the reduction of the tariff NAV prove
two-edged sword to the present Administrations
The principles, objects and policy of protection
to our own industry, are daily becoming better
understood and more fully appreciated through
! out the Union. The East and the North are not
! alone interested in this question
The sugar of the South, and the coal and iron
OF the Middle and Western States, are claiming
/ protecton,-and these States never claim in vain
The demands on the treasury, are, moreover,
not to be met by a reduction of the Tariff or
national debt of fifteen millions, -contracted on a
declining scale of duties in time of profound peace
and the war upon Mexico now carried on by
the executive authority, Alone all concur in keep
ing the revenue standard high and, in admon-
lshing the secretary and the administration, that
money IS the sinew of war, and comes not by re-
duction of duties
Why, then, is this demonstration made and
why IS 1t deemed necessary to disturb system
! by popular clamor, to which the country owes so
much! Do the administration suppose the coun-
try has already forgotten that cage OF horrors to
| men OF business, the period between 1886 and
! 1917 period, when, under constantly re-
cedIng tariff, every interest of the country was
paralyzed its productive industry without life
or energy, the treasury without means, the gen
eral government without credit and without the
confidence Of any one, at home or abroad The
extreme depression and arrangement of that pc
Rod cannot and will not soon be forgotten bv the
people of Massachusetts. They have BROUGHT
harm to the government as we'll as TO the peo-
pie.
Under these circumstances, the Tariff of 1912
was passed 1t was every where hailed. as the
RAINBOW after the storm, sign that the deluge
OF false principles the subject of protection.
which had overspread the country, was stayed,
and would never return.
The sign has hitherto not proved fallacious-
Inc hopes OF the country have thus far not been
disappointed.
A more sudden or more universal regeneration
OF confidence and credit has never been witness
ed. From that moment the whole country be-
gan Its march on the grand highway to increased
and increasing prosperity and wealth, with a new
andl lrrepressibe spirit, and has continued to a6.
vance with steady, unfaltering and accelerated
step.
These results are every where known, felt. re-
ahzed and all but universally acknowledged.
why then is the present movement to disturb
a system SO interviewer with every interest in the
State and nation?
The attempt can only be explained by the reck-
less character of the party who makes it, and the
hlgh Importance heretofore given to the subject
o,y the leaders of the party at the South, win
therefore require the attempt to be made, and the
party machinery at the North may render it sue
cessful
But the Democracy of Massachusetts, feel too
strongly their obligations to the Tariff OF 1912 to
seek or permit its direct and immediate over
throw.
The leaders are therefore obliged to make their
attacks with caution and reserve-and instead of
direct hostility and open war, they make their ap-
peal under the soft-sounding epithet of reduc-
uon OF the Tariff to the revenue standard
But their legitimate object is overthrow and
prostration, and Massachusetts, will not fail to
member that The tariff is reduced on her own
productive industry, protection is weakened and
ost-that the tariff, it is, works well for all in
terests and all classes-that she has no desire to
place her own aborers, of any class, with the
half-paid, haf-ied and half-cad laborers of Eu-
rope aud that her maxim on this subject is, Let