Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-05-09

C5- Our neghbors Of the Snnburv Gazette,
having an itching desire to be esteemed the cham.
pions of the present State administration, have
assumed to themselves the special guardianship
of the Governor, and all connected with him by
the ties of Office. Whether they are thus actua.
ted by purely patriotic. or interested motives, we
leave for co, lecture The Gazette says we have
insnuated charges against the Governor, and a.
mong others, that he is an anti.tarif man, and
that we dare rot make the charge directly be.
cause we can't prove it. As the Gazette is so
extremely anxious to drag the Governor into e.
very controversy, in order that it may say
few words in his praise, we presume, we must
reply in order to avoid further misrepresenta
ton. We then say that we did not insinuafe
that the Governor was opposed to the tariff, but
charge him with the fact openly and directly,
and we do not see how any man of common dis.
| cernment come 10 any other conclusion. We
have long since been satisfied that the present ad
minstration is not whit more favorable TO the
tariff than the Gazette itself which, to say the
| least, could never keep itself above suspicion
Men are more properly judged by their acts than
| by their professions, and by this standard they
should be tried. And this is the proof we shall
adduce. Is it not, therefore, singular that near
y all the papers in the state connected with, and
! warmly in favor of the present administration,
! inc lnding the Governors own organ, the Harris.
! burg Reporter, opposed 10 the present tariff,
many of them open and avowcd enemies TO the
! tariff Among them We might pnumerate the
! Pennsylvania in the Fast the Bedford Gazette
! in the South, and the Wikesbarrc Farmer in the
! North, with host of minor satellites scattered
throughout the state. Besides the few anti-taritf
| men in the last Legislature, were, with scarcely
an exception, the particular pets of the admins
tration.
The Gazette says that it is quite recently that
we have become a convert to the one term prln.
ciple We have cautioned the editor heretofore
uot to make charges without some kind of proof
to sustain him Those VINO have read the Anne
rican know that we have always advocated that
principle, as our files will show. The editor
has therefore asserted what was not the fact in
| lcnllOHdHy OF ne ipi'o"
ing editorial extract, in publishing Mr., Polk:
letter of acceptance, in the American Of the CIT
July, lS4I, is of itself sufficient relutation, i
any were necessary:
"Nr POlks letter contains ono principal tina
is important to the purity OF our elections, an'
which wr are pleased to sre thus explIcltely II
vowed by him.--lt is that he wW rot be can
didate for re election. We nave long been con
WINGED that the one term principal Is the only
true one il is to much too expect any man Il
be perfectly honest and lndcpe ndant IN the ad
minis,ralion OF his duties, when his hopes ot
reelection are to be Influenced by the pcrtor
nance of those duties. Mr.. palk has done tn,
democracy great service, IN thus at the out
set establishing this vital principle as part o
his political creed
The Gazette is informed that we have neve
asked the Governor, or any one connected wit
him in office for a continuance of Office for our
selves nor will any one connected with the &c
vernon say so. But this is not the point at ISSUE
and we again ask the Gazette not 10 beat abou
the bush, by screening itself behind the Cover
nor, but to come out maniuly, and defend Nj
Foster and his conduct without further preyar
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