Mobile register and journal., 1845-07-10

The Advertiser volunteers an ''if'' in conieclural explanation Of the pledge said by correspondent in our last paper, to have been given by Col. DUNN at Sparta, 10 vote, if elected congress- Tor the reduc ton of the tariff of lS42 to a revenue standard. The Advertiser ventures 10 say that his pledge was made wit, a restryalion # there were a surplus of revenue, and 3 il should be found necessary to duce the tariff for that purpose. These ifs do not affect the main point Iressing upon the pub lie mnd as arising out of the whig posi'on the tariff question. The dvertiser tells us that i, has been whig position during the last compaign that no more should be raised by tariff than is necessary for the wants of the government It GF true certainly, that many wings took that position in | terms, but even this is an abandonment of the old tariff policy forced upon the tariff party against their will by that very popular sentiment, 10 which we said that the whig party Is compe lied profess deierence and accommodate it's position, in submission to de- mocratic ascendancy The Advertiser is too well acquainted with the history of the tariff controversy not 10 know, that protection without regard to the revenue was the original doctrine oi its champions, including Mir. Clay himseIE-and that when they professed to yield this dcctrine and consent that
 
 nue. either by raising than was needed or 'ouid De spent, or by reducing as to make loans or direct taxes necessary to supply the deficit it was avowed To be change of the tariff policy-a conces. sion to the theory of their "opponents.' With all the Advertisers conectural emendatons of the DO. sltion of his candidale il is tariff position mate rially quafe from that with which tnridism frs, set out
 But there IS another change in this posi,ion.- The whg candidate it seems, has descended from MT. Chys platform upon which the whig party stood SD stiftiy last November, far that he is willing to discuss the revenue mperfections deficiencies of the existing tariff act, with view to change and for change adopting II to the 'revenue' wants oflhe treasury This would have been rank treason 10 the wings last November, when the tariff of lS42 was pronounced from all high whig quarters the very hest possible revenus bill that human vii could conceive |" which the eye of Mir. Clay himself could see neither spot or blemish. Now we are amused with the eagerness of these wings 70 have il believed among the population in the interior, where protection is not iavorie, that they are by no means welded to "s 'a''" o''i' h"t are open to all of enquiry a"" co"''c''oh 10 remedy it's defects and make it co"'o'""'e |" every 'hing 10 the particular notions oi every body. h Is not revenue tariff, say lhey, by all means let us make il one-aod here ia Col Dunn who really IS very excellent man to make a revenue tariff out of it ,D; and here comes the pivot of the qnestion-, the editor oi the Adyert, ser puts in hy way of proviso, you convince him that il is not after all very good revenne tariff al l ready! We think the position of the candidate there ana ms organ here, sustains very well on this us on the Texas question, position that whiggery mas been forced by public sentiment to modify it's extreme violence, and 's appealing to popular sup port Oy approaching nearly as the time and cir- cumstances will allow to those democratic views which have been shewn to have an answering im- 1 pulse m the intelligence and sympahies of the peo. pie
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