The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-07

ing 10 the matter-was ready, and was presented 10
Congress without a moments delay, Immediately
indeed, the very next day. after the message
Early in December, Mr.. Walker was called upon
by the Committee of Ways and Means to pre-
pare for their consideration, tariff bill. Withoa
loss of time he summoned around him the prils
cipal revenue officers of the country, and worked
at his task necessarily till the 9th Of February,
when he sent in the bill he had digested.
No man is more anxious-and no man can
DO more anxious-than Mr.. Walker to see
the tariff of 1912 abolished, and consti-
tutionaI tariff on the revenue principle substi-
tuted in its place. We arc authorized to state ex-
plieitly, that any such rumors in relation TO Mr..
Walker as are referred TO by the correspondent OF
the Post, are altogether and absolutely false. So
far from ever expressing or feeling willingness that
the tariff question should be delayed IN Congress,
Mr.. Walker has, upon all occasions, gone just as
far as his respect for Congress would permit him to
go in urging their prompt and decisive action.
For ourselves, we can only express in the most
emphatic manner our entire sympathy with the as
constituent and impotence manifested by the Post,
at the delay which Congress has permitted to take
place in relation TO this capital and vital dem
ocratic measure Of the tariff. We profess our
entire inability either to understand or to explain
this representation. We can throw no high
upon the question, as TO the cause Of this delay.
which the Post finds so obscure But we
can protest, and we do most emphatcally pro-
test, against such a state Of things. The coun-
try is becoming sick Of deferred hope" Tho safe
ty Of the democratic party demands imPerativsly
that Congress should now make up, by increased
energy, for the precious time which Il has lost We
appeal most earnestly to the democratic representa-
tives from every section Of the country to remain
inactive in this great matter no longer. We will
not belle 70 for moment that the idea be toera-
ted that Congress should this session and leave
its pledges unredeemed and its reform Of the tariff
unfinished. We know nothing, and we desire to
know nothing, of any oonclaves which have met in
consultation for such purpose. We do not believe
that democratic senator's, or democratic representa-
ves have taken any the slightest part in such meet
lngs. We repel, as a Islander upon our party, any
such imputation. We profess ourselves unable to
understand how the democratic members OF Con-
gress can face their constituents, If they
leave warrington oeiore hey nave uo"o 'he
work which the people had sent them here TO do,
in the thorough reform of an unjust and OPP
pressive taxation law. We exhort them most
earnestly, one and ALL to go forward in their work
to redeem their pledges Ito carry out their party
prnciples-to put down the wing sneess at their
procrastnation which are springing up all over the
country, and in so doing, to rescue their own party
from the dissensions which have heretofore in some
measure crippled its action, or at least impaired the
form of its action upon another great question Of the
day. The wings are gloatng over the spectacle Of
our fancied or real discontens. And il the democ-
rucy would remain triumphant in the country, it
must close up its ranks at once upon this great tariff
question; and move on at once in solid column to
the completion Of its work.