The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-07-30

OF great and imposing traits OF character.
We may therefore look forward 10 a ~vascilla-
ting and unstable administration, driven
about by every wind of doctrine, as the diff
erent rival factions shall from time TO time
Huctuate and predominant.
The Wing party,on the other hand, though
defeated, was never more harmonious or
determined than at the present moment 1t
is entirely united as to measures, entirely I'M
pledged as to men. Though represented by
many OF our wisest statesmen and truest pat
riots in our National Legislature, il is yet both
there, and in most OF the States, in a decided
minority, and can ofcourse expect little share
in guiding the movement or directing the
policy OF the National Govern ent. Ii must
for the present be content with e~xerting a
simply conservative influence, and il il shall
succeed IN preventing the abandonment Of
The eminently wise revenue policy devised
and adopted by acknowledgements Congress,
lis UTMOST labors will nave been abundantly
rewarded. AT the accession Of General Har-
rIson IN lS41, almost every branch of domes-
Tic industry was PROSTATE, the National Treas
ury was empty, the General Government in
volved IN debt, and almost without credit or
resources. The Wings, disheartened by the
sudden providentIal removal of the Chief
Executive, and d~isorganized by the detection
ofhis constitutional successor, were able 10
retain their a%scendancy but for a single Con
eress. To that brief period Of Wing power,
cramped and thwarted rs it was bythe weak
ness OF the new Executive, our country owes
its rescue from wide spread private ruin and
national bankruptcy and shame. First and
foremost among the restorative and remedial
acts of that ever memorable Congress, was
the wise and s%alutary OF 1912, a measure
which in its tangible and demonstrable re-
suits stands wholly without n parcllel in the
history Of American Legislation. Contrast
the long night Of embarrassment, depression
and gloom, which followed the feveIish cx-
element of 1886, ~engendercd and fOs,ercd
by the policy ofthe Jackson and Van Buren,
administrations, with the life and hope and
prosperity 10 which the tariff of '42 gave
birth, and whose smiles we still enjoy, tho;
somewhat dimmed by the fear of change. J
and you will allow. That our estimate of lis
value is by no means extravaganza. So far
rs any union and concentration of opinion ex-
isis among our opponents, it is principally d.
fected against this one measure. and there
can be no doubt that a large majority nj least
ofthe leaders of the administration party, are
decidedly hostile TO the general policy OF en-
couraging domestic industry, and particular
y W tpS u vi X, anu tHCN viii ut - IC-
peal, both for its protective character, and
because it was emphaticaIly Il Wing meas
ure. 1t is matter ofsome doubt, what pre-
else course the administration, distracted as
it is by so many conflicting influences, will
pursue, but as tar as can now be Judged. it
may be considered certain, that the tariff win
be attacked, and though considerations of
party policy may induce the majority TO spare
those branches of industry, in which the
Southern and middle States are particularly
interested, there can be no question that an
lndlscriminatc warfare will be recommended
against all the peculiar interests of New
England. In the first session of the last
Congress, the Tariff of1S42 was saved, in
the House OF Representatives, by n majority
of five only, erery Wing member sustaining
il, and nearly four ffths ofour opponents 20
ting for Mr.. McKay's destructive substitute.
The Administration will nave nearly as
large Il majority in the next Congress as in
The lastand the Senate is VIGOROUSLY against
US, the Democratic journals, with scarcely a
dissenting voice, are calling upon the Prcsi-
dent TO carry out the will of the faction by
whom and for whom he was nominated, and
the leaders of the party power are no longer
restrained by The fear ofimmediate reIrlbu-
ton at the hands of the people. Is there not
then the strongest reason TO fear, that The
most important features OF the tariff
of 1912 will be obliterated or essentially mod
flied, and do you not already feel the effects
oiihis well grounded fear, in The declining
price ofyour only great staple?
AS a matter ol pride, of interest and Of pat
riotism, it is obvious, that the chiefHoPE. the
chief DUTY. the PROPER vocATioN ofthe Wing
party, is the defence of this child ofiheir own.
THE PROTECTIVE POLICY AS
EXEMPLIFIED IN THE TARIFF OF
1912. With proper exertion on our part,
there is reasonable ground Of expectation,
that this great BULwARK OF OUR INTERESTS
will survive the shock it is destined 10 en-
counter; without such effort, its overthrow is
morally certain.
But there is still pending before the nation
another great question less important no
doubt in its Immediate res ulis, but offar
greater moment in its ultimate bearing on
the great OF OUR the
Federal Constitution. Youwill of course I'M
derstand that we refer TO the Annexation OF
Texas. The history of our country has nc
page so black as that which records the sto-
~ OF this nefariCu US scheme. Never did our
Government so openly set at defiance all law,
both human and divine, and SO treacherousIy
betray the rights of a friendly ond confiding
nation, so shamefully disregard the rules of
International comfy. as in the conception and
promotions fthis crying and monstrous wrong.
Never have men in high places manifested
such weakness, regeneration and venality
as in this fragrant outrage, which is destined
TO expose US 10 the universal contempt of the
christian world: and ifnot 10 provoke the
thunders of foreign war, at leastto excite and
feed anew the flames ofyet more rancorous
and destructive internal discussion amongst
ourselves. What particular shape this un-
happy question will assume, cannot now be
ioreseen, and Of course the position of Yer
mont in regard to it cannot at present be de-
termiued; but this much is clear: twill be
her duty. and that OF all TO, whom her inter-
ests are intrusted, 10 oppose The consumma-
ton of this great mystery of iniquity, by ev-
cry legal and constitutional means Of resis-
lance.
There is another great subject to which.
both because Of its increasing and almost over
s~hadowing importance, and IFS near connec-
ton with the principal topics TO which we
have already referred, especially to that which
we have just dismissed, we have no specific
action In recommend concerning n. IL is /,