The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-01
POLITICAL.


POLITICAL.
Extracts from Ms address Of The Democratic Central
Sfate Committee Of Massachusetts, signed by Charles
G. Greene, BENZ. f. Haiief, &c. &c.
THE TARIFF.
When. after the war of 1912, the federal party
denounced tariff Of revenue for national defence,
and to pay off the national debt incurred in that
righteous war which they had opposed up to the
very line of treason and camored for exclusive ia
yors for commerce as the only good, because all
their wealth was then embarked in it, the republic
cans of Massachusetts, stood by the country IN her
then just system of taxation to maintain the public
faith.
And now, when the federal party have found
manufactures more profitable than commerce, and
are ravenous for high duties, which are not needed
for the public wants. but are solely designed to pro-
tect themselves the expense OF the consumer the
democracy of Massachusetts, standing on broad ma
tonal rather than local measures as they did in the
crisis after the war go fora "tar of revenue alone,
and with all their energies oppose the system of
unjust taxation, by which the laboring and consul
ming million are made to pay enormous tribute to
the privileged few and one section of the Union is
LOUISIANA AND TEXAS.
When the federalists of Massachusetts denounced
the purchase Of Louisiana as dissolution of the
G tntrodden soase fit only for ocIs 10 boot and ,colres
to hotci I'M" and when they exclaimed, upon the
change of the administration from John Adams to
Thomas Jefferson, "our Sparta is IN the hands Of the
Hsiotn the republicans of Massachusetts, hailed the
accession the presidency of the author Of the Dec
laration Of Independence as new guarantee to the
people of its great political truths, and behed in the
acquisition Of Louisiana that glorious expansion of
free country by which "epery State added to the
publican Jamily has increased national po,cer, and
iceded together the more securely our national Union
TEXAS AND OREGON.
When the same federal party, with their new al
lies, the abolitionsts resolved that the annexation
of Texas was Of no binding force upon the State,
and that if she came into the Union, Massachusetts
would 60 out Of it, and the constitution was de-
nounced by the spirit of fanaticism as ga covenant
acih deaih and league ioith HE'LL" the democrats Of
Massachusetts,, on Bunker hill, proclaimed as their
creed, that the annexation of Texas now, like that
QUESTION OF THEpAY and that the United States, with
her two millions of square miles, and her twenty
millions of population, should place herself firmly
at the head of the American policy of non-nterven-
ton Of foreign powers with the concerns of the
American continent; and that she should now en-
force the doctrine proclaimed in 1923, that Great
Briiain shall mol Advance another step upon the soil Of
The Ncto World nor her policy or her threats deter US
from fulfilling the great mission of our beloved
country to extend the area Of freedom, and "to
plant the standard of republican nation along the
endless shores of the vast Pacific"
THE TARIFF AND TExAs.--FALsE VIEWS OF THE
WINGS ON THESE MEASURES.
What purpose, then, have the wings Of Massa-
chusetts really in view, by exhorting the people SO
strenuousy 10 keep them in power in this State;
and what interest emergency is there in state OF
nation which requires, especially now, wing admin.
istration in Massachusetts, or which can be aided
byiti
Their address tells you that you must cleo,
Messrs. Briggs and Reed in order TO save the tariff
of ls42 and they coaxngly say, Gas if they had the
matter all in their own hands) "the 'chgs Of Massa-
chuseiis come before you, tO,c-citisens 'cih the tariff
Of l642 as II ism
Now, il this means anything, it means that it de-
ponds upon Messrs. Briggs and Reed land the egs-
lature Of Massachusetts,, whether the people shall
be allowed to have the tariff of 1842 any longer;
and if the people will not elect Messrs Briggs and
Reed why then the promugators of the WING adj
dress will cut them off from the tariff Of 1912
They to the people with the tariff of 1912 and
they hold 1t in their hands!
IL would be sufficient to expose the absurdity OF
this assurance, in the author of that address, by
what much greater whig than he (Mr. Webster
himselD had said not long before, in that same
Faneuil Hall, when he told the Massachusetts
wings the simple truth, that the wing party here
could not have carried the tariff Of 1842 without the
aid of democrats and when he prophetically advised
the New England manufacturers and business men
to seek for some stronger guarantee of the wing
party in the Union. They may now reflect upon
that prophecy and its fulflment at their leisure
But, right or wrong, good or bad the federal par
when flushed with the success of their disguised
election of General Harrison in l640 and how much
more mpotent are they now to sustain it, in the
present aspect and the future promise Of political
cendency9 In the next Congress, this ''deslructpt
party'' as the wings term the democracy, will have
nd
six to eight in the Senate; and yet in the face Of
these facts men Of considerable reputation for intel
lgence undertake TO issue address to the people
Of Massachusetts, assuring them that the tariff is in
danger in the hands Of the democracy, and that the
only possible means of saving it is to make Mr.
George N. Briggs governor, and MIR. John Reed
lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts, "for the year ensuing"-a marvellous
remedy proposed by these grave political econo
mists Of Faneuil Hall for 80 portentously
a political evil
If these men really had the interests of the manu-
facturers and domestic industry at heart, and beev
ed it depended on the permanency of tariff sys
tenn, common sense would teach them that the true
policy would be to bring Massachusetts into har
mony with the national administration, and with
the great interests of other sections of the Union
to be just to them, by fair and equal compromise
a reasonable amount Of privilege and protection
without endangerng the loss Of all by exac,ing toe
much. This is the only way to secure just and
fair protection to the interests of Massachusetts
II is the politicians, and not the manufacturers OF
business men, who hold the language Of the whis
address. The latter want moderate duties, that
they may be permanent--a settled policy, and ar
extending market. The former would be glad tc
see the tariff entirely prostrated and their prophe.
cies of the ruin of the manufacturer fulfilled to the
letter, in the hope that they might make out Of il
enough Of political capital to gain party power in
the nation. II is their interest to agitate any meas
ure, and start any panic, out of which they may
hope to produce uncertainty, fuctuaon, depression
and then base upon il another clamor, like that o
l840, for change.
THE TRUE POLICY OF MANUFACTURERS.
On the other hand, it is the interest Of manu-
facttrers and business men to secure stead
and uniform operation Of national legislation in re-
gard to revenue; and this, as sensible men, they
must know can only be attained by reasonable and
just laws.
A system which secures by special legislation tc
one branch Of investment enormous and Immature
profits while all other interests are depressed and