Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-07-31
From the Baltimore American.
THE COUNTRY AND THE ADMINISTRATOR

THE pUNTRY AND THE ADMINISTRATIONS.
hishsual with the Administration presses, as
they nfe the signs of prosperity on every hand,
TO taup the Wings by saying "the country is not
ruinedbet, Notwithstanding Mr.. Folks election"
And tIsn they will ask "what has become of tho
predict ons of the Whigs!"
VIII in such language as this is used there seems
TO be forgetfuness of the fact that the coun-
try is at this moment governed by Wing pol
icy, solar as our domestic affairs are concerned.
The Wing tariff of 1912 is now operative, al
though it is denounced and its overthrow threat
ened, This great measure diffuses its happy in
iluen{e through all the departments of industry
1t Is fe great buttress the public prosperity.
Agpn, the Wings, when i'm power for brief
Iniervi, repealed the Sub-Treasury and tho
country is saved from the ruinous effects of that
iii-Iud3ed measure. 1t is true tho Wings did
not succeed in establishing such currency sys-
tenn as they desired to establish. But the use of
the Stale Bank, under the present arrangement,
Is Tar bdter than the Sub-Ireasury. The latter
system,with its contracted basis and its cumbrous
machindy, its Anticipated lock and key contri-
vances, its absurdities and insecurity, would
nave deanged every thing in the commercial
sphere, destroyed all existing relations of values.
and haveproved, in all its bearings upon the cur
Iency AM business of the country, one of tho
most gri9ous infections that ever misled peo-
PIE PIE, endned at the hands of their rulers. The
wings s;yed the country from this-the great
'NS"|J VI DuTen administration, and the
crownlng .onsummation Of Democratic Uexperi-
nents" Onthe currency
ne neM commercial recusion will explode
me presentsystem. There will never be stable
ccuhe"iy until there is national one, emanatnp
from one source commensurate with the extent Of
,'e iNepuDilc and the wants of the People, with
the functions Of issue entirely separate from those
OF discount, and with fixed relations established
between the specie basis and its representative.
-. nu' we heeu not expect to arrive at that except
through The future ordeal Of troubles and disas-
tets.
In all essential points Of our domestic policy
the country is now governed by the Wings. 1t
Hust always be so. If it is governed at all. Be-
cause me democratic leaders have no definite sys-
ZEN tha' is at all practicable. They talk of re-
seh"e talih yet unless there is protection embo-
deo init their revenue tariff WILDE miserable fail
uTe The essential Wing element of protection
must be the essential principle of our tariff poi-
cy, let it be called by this name or that.
80 also they talk Of Sub-rreasury or of an
Independent, Treasury, as they prefer TO call it.
VIII they dare establishit again! No, they will
not
In point oil TACT the ultra democracy of this day is
wei nigh Incompatible with government in any
shape, II its professed doctrines and principles
were actually carried out. But the leaders do not
carry them out.-They got into power bv TALKING
democracy, and then, when in power, thew are
compehed as matter of necessity to adopt in
SUBSTANCE The fundamental principles of Whp
policy. There would be beautiful DISPLAY Of
anarchy II the democracy of the husiings were
really transferred to the administrator oT tho ov.
eminent.
we have spoken of our domestic policy as hay-
ing, Enthusiastically, Wing features In re-
sspect to our foreign relations MIR. Polk, having
been elected ON the Texas and Oregon questions,
started OIL on his own hook; he made demo-
cratic start. But it was found that democratic
maxims of diplomacy, however well suited to
eectioneer with, were not exactly the thing in
PRACTICAL application TO other countries. So while
he declares our title to the Oregon to be "clear
ana nnquestionabe,' he sends an Envoy Extra
ordinary to England to negotiate on the mixed
basis OF American and British titles. His Ex-
ceilency will probably have to look to the Whiqs
frequently before he is through this business