The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-09
POLITICAL.


your representatives for an important and interest
ing object that Of selecting candidates for your sup
port Tor the various State Offices TO be filed at the
approaching election, we follow an established and
approved custom, IN briefly addressing you upon
the prominent public questions of the day.
Perhaps no State convention, IN the last quarter
OF century, has assembled al more interesting
crisis or when greater number of political ques-
tons of primary importance call for the attention
and scrutiny of the freemen of the State. Our ma
tional affairs SINCE the coming in of the present gen
eral administration, have possessed a peculiar and
peryading interest. The foreign relations of the
country have presented questions Of great difficulty
and grave interest; and yet we think we have a
right 10 say that every republican in the country,
and especially 10 this State, will find frequent causes
for grstuation in review Of the disposition OF
those questions, and Of the measures adopted by
Congress to carry out the declared principles Of the
democratic party. H.....
THE OREGON QUESTION.
Among the most prominent of these measures is
the settlement Of the Oregon question From the
highly commercial character of the State, il a
matter OF deep concern that this question should be
settled without interruption Of our amcabe Tela-
tons with Grea, Britain. At the same time, we
believe there no considerable number Of our cit
IZens, OF any denomination, who would Dot have
preferred that however disastrous II should prove
10 their peeunlsry interests, TO an arrangement on
any other than honorable terms Although the di-
vision which has been made Of the territory in dis
puie may not meet the views Of all in respect To
tite Great Britain has, by that DIVISION surrender
cd her ptUIensions to all which we have ever claim
ell IN any protocol Of the official inteTcommunIca-
tons OF nego tators with hers aud she has re-
eognlsod right a much larger portion than she
ever before consented 10 yield 10 US. careful re-
view OF the negotiations between the two countries
will, We believe, conclusiyely show that in the
TaRgement which has been made, there has been no
sacrifice of national honor our part; and the in
terrsIs Of the country and OF humanity have been
promoted by the preservation of peace between tie
two countries which have made the greatest ad-
vances in civilization aud in practical freedom.
THE HpErEsDENr TREASURY.
In the establishment OF the independent treasury,
this Stale has not only direct interest IN common
with the other members of the conlederacy but the
democracy at the State has peculiar interest in Il
from the fact that Il recommended 10 Congress
by one Of our distinguished citizens while chIe ma.
gIgtrate Of the Union, period of the gredes del
Icacy IN our pecunlary and fiscal atalrs The banks
throughout the United States had suspended the pay
of spsce; they were unable to restore the pub
lac moneys deposited with them; and the govern
mCnt itsClf vas brought 10 the very verge OF nsO
vCucy. IL required not only high craftsmanship to
devise the best remedy for evils disastrous to the
bust ess Of the country and the credit Of the gov
eminent, but II required also patriotic disregard
of al SCI fsh considerations to bring forward meas
fui interests would naturally becume an instrument
Of opposition TO its author. These consequences
were foreseen by Mr. Van Buren,, and dlsre,arded
he believed our experiences had shown that the hs-
col transactions Of the government sh uld be dscon-
necled with oil banking institutions; that the revenue
system should not be made instrument for the
circulation of paper currency, and that these CD
iects could only be secured by collecting the public
dues and discharging the public obligations IN spe-
cei or, IN other words, that the government should
collect keep, and disburse its revenues in gold and
silver. This measure was adopted near the close of
his administration, but was repealed before it could
be fairly carried INTO practice. IL has been again
adopted by Congress- and thus this great democrat
&c ne ssure has secured second time the highest
legislative sanction. lfhonestly and firmly carried
cut, have doubt il will be under the author
lty OF the Chief Magistrate of the Union we are
confident that all the beneficial effects anticipated by
Its author will be secured; that the public credit will
be placed on firm basis; that the currency of the
country will he improved by freer use of the pre-
cious metals that the field of speculation will be
narrowed; that the honest industry Of the country
will lind more secure steady, and certain employ
ment; and that banking institutions being confined
TO their legitimate business, and freed from the
to overactlon inseparabe from large de-
posites of the public money, will in the end be more
profitable to their stockholders, and more beneficial
10 the community.
THE TARIFF.
One Of the most important and difficult questions |
which the administration has been called on TO settle
Is the tarif-lmporant from its connexon with a |
numerous and respectable portion of our citizens as
producers of manufactured articles and with the |
great body Of the community as consumers and
difficult from the inherent complexity of the SUBJ
Jet. 1t was not to be expected that any settlement
Of the question, which il was possible to make
would be satisfactory to all, that even majority
Of our people could be found to acquiesce in all the
ietals of any bill, however carefully framed In
he adjustment of so complex a question, it was
reasonable only to anticipate that as a whole, the
new system should be preferred to the one, which
t superseded, and that The wisdom of mere details
should be left to the test of experience. This anti
,ipation has, we believe, been fully realized by the
passage of the new tariff act. As substitute for
he act of 1912, it may be asserted without hazard,
hat 1t commands the appreciation of large ma.
orty OF the democracy of the State; and we trust
we do not err in anticipating rat those, who do not
approve of it in all its parts will he willing to leave
he correction of what they deem defects to future
egislauon, when the necessity of amendments shall
De clearly shown.
NO political question was more distinctly p~e sent-
ID to the people of this State, in 1874, than the
arff. There was, perhaps, no point on which the
democratic party was more united than the neces.
'ty OF amending the act of 1912. At the session
d Congress, which terminated IN June 1874 bill
prepared with great care, and, is understood, on
fuii comparison of opinion with distinguished
nouIoes vi Dotn houses, was Introduced by Mr.,
Mckay, of North Carolina. 1t was known as Nc.
sblll, and it was freely canvassed before the
people as substitute proposed by the democratic
'afiy Tor the act of 1912. The election of Pres
dent OF the United States turned, in some degree,
m these discussions and issues and it is not going
90 lar 10 say, that the democracy of this State was
,iedged to modification of the tariff though we
10 not assert that the pledge extended to the odop-
ION OF any particular ysysten in all its details, as
ubst'iute for the tariff act then in force II is
owever, indsputabe that the proposition most dis
nctly presented to the people of this State IA a
ubsttute for the act Of I642, was Mr.. McKay's
AL OF 1874; and we believe that in some of the
districts that the BILL and the accom-.
aoying report were circulated by the wing party
'r The purpose Of showing what the democratic j
arty designed TO do, if successful in the contest
hen approaching. II
Under these circumstances, il would, perhaps,
ave been more satisfactory to the democracy ofthis
tate II MIR. McKay's bill Of 1914 had been adopted
the late session Of Congress. And yet, when we !
ompare the details Of that bill with the act recently
assed, we shall find the anaogies so strong in re-