Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-10-03
From The Cincinnati Gazetle.
THE TARIFF AND SUB.TREASURY

Treasury, il il can.
No one, in this, can charge Mr.. Polk or
Mr.. Walker with Inconsistency; both avow-
ed this to be their policy before they were e.
lected to office; after their installation, il
were strange, indeed, if they did not exert
whatever power they could to estabshit.
A letter TO the New York Evening Post,
from one in Washington who knows, says:
"Knowing how we'll you love the black
tariff, am sure it will crafty you to learn
that Mr.. Walker, the Secretary Of the Trea-
sury, is unwearying in his eXerEons to eel
lect such statistical information in refer
ence to it, both in its commercial and do
mes1ic bearings as will show it up to the
country in all its depravity; and if glarng,
inconlrQveytbe black facts will do the deed,
may almSaa announce to you that this ca
ecrabLe relic es esEhiggery is doomed. am
also informed tRaH equally efficient meas
ures will be takenT5 T5ua-estabIsh that excel
lent democratic regulNi92 known as the
sub Treasury, and thatts early re-enact-
ment will he eurged upon the xtCongress.'
The scenes of 1887 are fresh ensVgh in
every ones remembrance. A varfeS OF
causes tended to produce them. ButGmong
them all, none was more fatal than thisfr
trsde-sub-treasury pOics it marred the
hopes Of thousands, and helped to bring
Npen the States, and the nation, disaster,
loss Of credit, panic, and wide spread pc
cuniary distress, and mora! injury-
Whether the sanre results would follow
now, frCm the establishment OF this policy,
or whether the Administration can carry it
-out, may admit ef debate. AS regards the
tariff we have strong hopes. True, the
friends Of Mr.. Polk control both branches
of Congress- bat they are not united on this
great question; there is division among
thenI and our trust is, that enoUgh nem-
bers may be found representing New York
and Pennsylvania among the Locos, with
the aid of Wing votes, to control any mad
crusade against the tariff Of s842, and in
flv0r of free trade. If net, there is troRble
ahead. Great as are our resources, and
"snug" as are our affairs at this time, we
very much fear with this change, that the
energy which has, and is developing the
one- and extending osperousIy the other,
would be cramped, our industrial power
again paraysed, and our commercial aC-
tiEity deadened-
One cause, The chief cause among the
people Of +the party" Of any hostility to
the tariff arises, with liRted exceptions,
from hostility to manufacturers, "See," :"
says one, "what wealththey have, and how
they lord itover their fellows" "LooK,"
excains another, "at their large buildings
and at their cxtraVsgant profits" And
with these views, and this sort of conpic-
tion, menOf influence 90 among the people,
and endeavOr to inAame them against the
tariff policy, as if its single aim was simply
to buiid up these wealthy manufacturers
and add to their power and means. This
is wrong and unjust, We care not fig for
them. Nor does the Wing party, They
are men Of capital and Of large resources,
and can take care Of themselves come what
may--can make more, indeed, out of their
cash in troublesome or unsettled times than
they could in a period Of peace and pros
perity- What we hook at-what alone we
care tor--is the effect the tariff has upon
American labor in every branch; from the
man VINO works daily in the broiIing sun, to
him who daily lends the engine; from the
child in the family TO the head of that fami-
Iy; and if it did not sustain, encourage and
elevate that obor-if itsend and effect, were
not to impsr independence, and secure
competence to The hard hand of toll, in ev-
cry condition Of life we would say, let it go.
Bat it does all this, The capitalists may
thrive under it, so may the rich manuiactu-
rer; and if they do, we rejoice at it; but bet
ter than all this, poor men get ioothold, in
this hard world Of ours through its nstu-
mentality, and amid dust and heat and
sweat find an opportunity to rise--to gath
er means of comfort Tor their domestic
hearlhs-to educate the loved ones there
and to teach them better than they had been
taught, the real blessings Of an indepen-
dent, virtuous freedom. And we defend
the tariff as the Whig party, and small
portion of oul opponents defend it, because
this, and nothing more or less, is the aim
and result Of it as now estabIished-be
cause in truth it does sustain, encourage,
and elevate American labor, and gave life
and vigor and increased intelligence there
by to American enterprise, in all its vari-
Gus branches of exertion.
Butthis hostility, though deepa and strong,
is narrow in its channel and limited in its
influence, The chief reason after all why
the tariff of I842 must be repealed is po.
Rical one. Tho ultra clique of the south
demand it, they tell Mr.. Polk explicitly that
they will not support him unless this be
done; and holding thatsupport to be vital,
the word has gone forth that it must be de-
stroyed. We know there are free trade
men in the free States who go openly for
this repeaG they are consistent, and we find
10 fault with their opposition, simply be.
cause they act upon THEN convictonsI we
know, too, as we have said, that another
small portion are carried away by prejudice
and hate; but the main ground of the exis-
ting opposition to it is made by office.hod-
ers or ohfce-seekers-men who desire to
hold on to station, or to get il. The peo.
pie, as a whole, want no change. tits not
for their interest to have any change. And
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