Democratic banner., 1845-11-01
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SATURDAY, NOy. /. 1845.,
TIE TARIFF AND THE JOUR
NAL.

ONA $500
terrible snarl. Not content with
the usual weapons of warfare in such
cases. reason and logic, they conde>
scend to lecture us at a round rate
about our singh flown eulogies" end
around assertionS,' and then as If 10
give in example the lie direct TO their
precepts. they send forth TO the world
an article sail sound and fury a.
bounding in nothing saw round as
serlions unsupported by one single
iota of proof.
We do not object 10 advice where
we receive it gratis, but "brother
pluck the beam from thine own eye
we hope for Improvement, we
shall see the day when in our style
we shall be as pure and chaste and
as strictly logical as our brother
Quill OF the Journal.
They tell US they have not been
Inconsistent, and prone it by the as
s%artion that there are three classes
Of Democrats who oppose the tariff
upon different grounds. and growing
heroic under some mesmeric infU-
ence, we suppose, they round off their
defence by warning against '.the at
tacks Of open foes. as well as the IN
sidious wiles OF pretended friends"
Now we would know of these men
of "facts and figures what all this
has 10 do with their once having said
that the tariff was "to be sacrifice to
the vengeance OF party spirit" md
in a few sentences after exclaiming
that the Democrats scould not, if
they would, and would not. if they
could" repeal the tariff of 1842;"
with all due Difference we conceive
that there is a gross inconsistency
about these two assertions, which
they will find it difficult TO do away
with, even by "facts and figures"
Many questions are propounded to
US, too many to crowd into one ar
ticle, and we shall content ourselves
by replying TO them one at q time, at
our leisure. They call upon US to
make good the "broad and startling
assertion" that the tariff is unjust &
unequal in its operations upon all
classes. The thinking mind can con-
ceive Of nc proposition in the moral,
political or religious world so EASY
of demonstration as this; it is one Of
those self-evident facts about which
the rational mind would require no
evidence, ave that of the eye. For
instance. if our friends OF "facts and
figures" should place their hands in
a blazing fire they would hardly re-
quire proof from the bystanders that
it was the fire which caused the burn.
From the position Of the different
States they must necessarily depend
upon somewhat unlike for
the support Of their citizens; for in
stance, Massachusetts, relies upon
her manufactures and Georgia upon
her agriculture for the support of her
population. The Northern States
raise perhaps breadstuffs enough for
their population, besides shipping to
other States an immense amount of
manufactured articles which afford
them a large income The South
combining herself TO h~usbandry. is
compelled, by necessity, TO purchase
all manufactured articles in some
market. Upon those articles which
she is obliged TO have, an exorbitan.
tariff or tax has been laid, amounting
in some Instances, TO 100 or 40 per
cent. There can be no issue made
upon the point that the South pur>
chases, alone. those articles upon
which this tariff is laid and from
which the national revenue is raised.
The North manufacturing the arti-r
Giles itself, does not import them,
and can, consequently, pay no tariff
for the support Of government; on
the contrary, the South importing
nearly every article which her citi-
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