Mobile register and journal., 1845-07-26

subject alike to merited censure cume from whence il may. Nov lhe effect of Col Dumas speeches in this coHniry, the writer oi thls bud perhaps as good an opportunity of Judging as any whom il has nIeaseJ 10 give ,nore favourable descrution; and the hest evidence, di,eoverHhle, that either no i'm nression, or bad one had been made, were the Ire quent remarks by the Nhgs after the speaking of each day was over, tlat "theA were convinced lhaI not a eing npiniUn lrd been changed enher way, by what had been said either b, the Coi or his "ppon- ent showing evilentl d resiiveness, indicative al least O dread. If Ihey wtre under no apprehen sions why these remarks? Why not, knowing that they have had tho majority here, con'enied and nt ease undisIurhed Iy d"ubts await the conflict at the polls in August with tfe conhden, reliance that ihe brute force of numbers, in defiance 10 ihe skill. energy and acI array ed against ii, will d" the w0ik of the whies without m effrrt No, they dare not they are fully cont tnced that II will require the hea viesl hooking and lammng 'o s'em the bold current of pubic opinion setting against iheIr princi ples and besides it IS qBie evident that they fully aware of the Col heng rather over mat, he'd in the race Ii was somewhat surprising to me in wit
 messing the remarks of Col Dunn on he tarH My opinion of he wings were that they generally assum- ed the doctrine of protection ourighi and, excepi- | np the last representaie from this district. were opposed 10 the repeal modification oi the tariff of 1S42
 Not go the avowels of lhe Colonel al least, in this county He said dsiinGly that Che was in favor of raj ing no more revenus by duties than were
 cpssary for the support ot lhe government econumi
 cay a,lmnstered;" i" hut in lie detail oi his notions l il was plainly apparent ilal he was n favor of so having ihe duties arranged, as to discriminate iu favar of domestic manufactures, let the necessities of
 government he wh heE might; be f twenty or a hundred millions consequently, notwithstanding his vrrtended approx imatitil la the demOciatlc cieed
 you see that really there was no relaxal"n of the whig principles, of fotfciIon the "eci and rev
 only the incident, h he settlement oi lhe rate of duties making vist distinction between the | md Ina Ilt.Iu holding 10 the demuciadc aih of first asceriainiug | the economical wanis ufIhe government, and then so arranging the tariff Is 10 place the lurlhen ihe heaviest those who ire most able 10 hear t, and lhe highest upon pooref classes oi the community The candidates first met, you kuow, at BeleviIle m thts county, and the great effort ut the whig candi
 date was to urce Judge Dargan to ,he alternative of choice, nf advncnting eiihes a hori2pna scale of duties, Ca horizontal tariff hs u called) or the ! views oi President Polk in fhe Cane letter, as Col | Dunn understood them, and of course identical win | the whig views that subject; but the Judge ii seemed had some ideas of his own, and was not bound take the pecnlia notion of any body, more | particularly with whi9 constructions and definitions upon them, and was resohe in using his own terms and explanations. So tlN Col. was iOed in his evil dent purpose al the very outset 0l fomenting sup | posed difficulty between "hunkers and chivalry."
 But democrats know loo well their opponents policy of ''dvide and conquer," 10 cherish now or al any | time, when danger ihre;iens, family feud; and l since the last presidential canvas, when horizontal
 isms were more talked oland old ''hunkerism" and ''chvalry" meant ltlemore than at present. At every public meeting wtere they appeared, Judge | Dagan got decidedly the advantage of his opponent in debate and effect, iron what could be gathered from appearances. AtBWoklyn, Col. Damn address ed the people, (the Judg' moi being there,) the last place he appeared in the country, when he took up one by one and discussed them, the dead, expiring
 dormant. well as the living principles of h's party
 the "obsolee idea, national bank, distribution o
 the prnceeds of the public lands the white asis law of Alabama, and inc virtue and necessity of tariff
 it's tendency to di"insh prices by creation of com peitinn--its counervailing efects, and many other
 hardly to be called plausible absurdites of hIs party; that after all thusgh there was an nppar | ent softening down com,g io, some points | truly lhe distinctions belween the two parties ION are, they have been, without much modification ol abatement. Every person, especially democrats could plainly see though there nas no little effort |, conceal s'that same old conn," with his tail stil sticking out feet. AN EYE WITNESS.