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 l shall, by way of introduction, address a few words to you, sir, the Editor of the "Union.p
 am rejoiced 10 observe the stand taken by you, Ill the columns of your excelentand valuable paper, upon the subject of the laria And, let me add, that you have assumed the true position before the American people, in relation to that vexed and troublesome ques- ton. f understand your views, as eXpress- ed in the columns of your paper, you are i'll favor of rere,tae tariff, and against proiec- Hpe tariff; and are, therefore, in favor of the reduction of the present tariff (which is more highly protective in it's provisions than any former one ever enacted i'll this country) te the revenue standard. This, sir, is the true constitutional, republican doctrine. lt is the doctrine of the democratic party, as set forth in the resolution of the Baltimore Gonyen- tioH, and entertained by that party through out the Union, with some few exceptions,
 From the present signs of the times, l in- fer that the Pfincipl promulgated by the de- legates of the democratic party of the Union, ill two conventions assembled at Baltimore those of 1910 and l814-are not 10 be re- garded by the party, in is present hour of triumph, as empty professions, mere rhetorI- cal ilourshes, promises made to the ear to be broken to the sense; but afe to be carried out, i'll good faith, in practical legislation and administration. That such is the determina- lion of the democratic party of the Union, and those who represent that party in the general government, infer from your eoarse, and that of the main body of the democratic press from Maine to Texas, and from the shores of the Atlantic to the farlhest confines of the great West"
 This is as it should be. IL will be acting in accordance with that character for truth, integrity, and justice, which ha ;, and should ever mark the course of the great party of the people. The people expeet llis course from those who now stand atfhe head of the democratic party. They have right to ex- pect that the democratic party Will redeem its pledges to the country; and fl il dc not they will turn from it's support with disappoint- ment and mortiiicatlon, not 10 say with dis gust and loathing I'he adage that s.honesty IS the best policy" though irlle, has lost none of the influence of it's pregnant meaning upon the yet unadulleraied popular mind of this country. Individuals in their transaction: and conduct in reference 10 others, are ex pected to live up to the golden rule involved in that homeIy precept; and he has seen bu little of the world who does not know stha the most exalted stations in life only enforce more imperativeIy obedience 10 1t.
 Tam one, therefore, who expects that those who now represent the democratic party in the government of the Union will honestly and faithfully redeem the pledges which that party has made to the country in the resolu- tons of the two last Baltimore conventions, and particularly of the last. One Of those pledges was a reduction of the present tariff to the revenue standard. Indeed, since the bank has become all ..obsolete ilea,o Fexas annexed, aad the whole scheme of fedora measures repudiated by the people, the tariff and the independent treasury seem to to bt the only issues left, upon which the parties